Coprofago - Unorthodox Creative Criteria (2005)

A long time ago, I got some mp3's from Coprofago's 1997 release Images of Despair. It was moderately technical thrash, reminding me a little of bands like Red Tide, and although it wasn't great, it showed some potential. Unfortunately, that potential is now gone, as the first half of this album is pure Meshuggah worship and the second half is aimless, meandering jazz fusion. I can't figure out what they were trying to do here. Instead of merging jazz with metal as Cynic did over a decade ago, they just tried to clone Meshuggah and staple a jazz fusion album to the end of it. They're undeniably good musicians, but like Tandjent, they waste their time ripping off another band's style. I have no desire to listen to any of these songs again -- I've heard it all before. What a shame.

Their MySpace page has a few tracks from each half of this album.