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Breach | Submerge

Years ago, I remember Lars Ulrich discussing the black album and how it was time for Metallica to move away from the mini-epics they had been doing for years and focus on a new path.

In my 17 year old mine, eight and nine minute songs were epics!

It had been years since Pink Floyd released anything progressive. King Crimson wasn't in my lexicon.

And Cetacean weren't even conceived yet.

Their latest offering, Breach | Submerge is a three track opus. The shortest of the three being around nine minutes.

Long songs have always been a favorite of mine, but overly long songs, well, it took Pink Floyd to really open me up to that, but I'm not the only on here who's in love with The Floyd.

Album Review: "Breach | Submerge" by Cetacean

Breach | Submerge

Famous metal historians, The Beastie Boys, once claimed during the song No Sleep Till Brooklyn, NEVER EVER FALSE METAL!

Since that line was uttered by the punk rockers turned rappers turned punk rockers turned punk rappers turned hipsters who didn't know what they were, there's been a seismic shift.

The rallying cry of Death To False Metal can be found on shirts, hats, and probably coffee mugs.

In the past I've spoken about the tribunal of heavy metal and it's still very much alive. In the past 25 years, Black Metal, Folk Metal, Pagan Metal, and whatever Steve'n'Seagulls are have all worked hard to change what metal is and what it can be.

Growing up listening to Black Sabbath, it was just a guitar, a bass, drums, and vocals. Then keyboards, later banjos, and whatever instruments they have in Finland. Recently a band from Canada was playing a French Horn....