Pestilence - Spheres (1993)

   The changes in the main scene that foretold that death metal was out of date, didn't avoid Pestilence either. Similar to plenty of other oldies, they've also turned to a more progressive direction.
   "Testimony of the Ancients" was also like a turning point, since the unnecessary intros before every song turned the main view lighter than it was usual in death metal. But "Spheres" was an interesting jazz fusion experiment that made the album unique not only in the band's discography, but in general in the main metal scene. Instead of the usual distorted sound the experimentings on guithar synthesizer took the main lead, and that resulted interesting space rock effects. The suffocating vocal style that was usual from the band (in this formation performed by Patrick Mameli) is like echoing from the distance of some grotesque hallucination, and this effect fits perfectly to the jazz fusioned space travel. When the absurd becomes reality and what was reality before turns more irrational compared to the deformations that happened in the meantime. Pestilence still sounded aggressive, and even though progression lightened the main impression, the album still more counts extreme than trend following, because of it's weird approach. "Spheres" was one of the few well made experiments, but didn't seem enough for a new start, because soon the band had to split-up.