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While Wynjara may be relatively new to the death metal scene, its members have been in other more widely known bands such as Divine Empire and Malevolent Creation. Human Plague is the second album from this band and by the sound of it, more thought and effort into making actual songs should have been involved in making this album.
One of the difficulties in reviewing death metal albums is that too often, the majority of the albums in this genre offer very little in the way of new ideas. Wynjara does not suffer form this problem, but there seems to be not enough space for it to show. On tracks such as Shallow and Little Man, the songs are catchier than what is typically expected of a death metal song. The track I Am trudges along, again defying some of the logistics of what death metal is in its usual form. Any hints to its death metal roots lie in the tracks Laughing as They Die and Feast of Fools, which are reminiscent of the members’ other projects. The primary problem is that none of these ideas are abundant enough to get a good idea of where the band wants to go with their sound. The culprit in this problem lies in the fact that there are five instrumentals. Regardless of genre, this is way too many instrumentals to have on an album unless a band is trying to imitate Dream Theater. In the case of Human Plague, the instrumentals do nothing but drag the pace down to a slow crawl with two of the instrumentals following one another. Because of this, the listener never really gets into a set rhythm and in some cases, may get impatient waiting for the pace to pick up once again. Wynjara is unquestionably a band that could go places in the death metal scene. However, with efforts such as Human Plague, where it goes could be into the scrap heap. Human Plague seems to be a better fit as an EP instead of a full-length album. The excessive number of instrumentals will do nothing to win Wynjara any new fans nor will do anything except cure someone’s insomnia. I thought I’d never say this, but I’ll take any Six Feet Under album over this boring effort. | |
