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'Skycontact' is Phlebotomized’s sophomore effort which retains little to nothing from their
previous LP 'Immense, intense, suspense'. 'Skycontact' is one of those polarizing albums
that usually shuns old fans away from a band’s later work due to its radical escape from
familiar playing grounds, and more often than not a completely disparity in the collective’s
approach to songwriting. Only three years separate this release from the band’s debut album
but the differences are perfectly evident.
Brutality has drastically decreased (if we consider 'Immense, Intense, Suspense' brutal)
although heavy, dense and muddy guitar riffs are still present as growled vocals do. But this
time emphasis is put on melodies and mood, as the ever present keyboard or the presence
of clean vocals indicate.
This clearly isn’t your typical album by any stretch of imagination, as you’ll witness the band
rapidly changing from upbeat rocking grooves into quasi-ambient psychedelia, intermixed
with a forlorn death metal riff here and there. Yes, death metal still exists in this album,
although it’s the different influences that make it special.
The album’s genre is quite difficult to define because of its heterogeneous composition. In a
way this album verges a bit on Edge Of Sanity’s mid-nineties work and this influence is
best witnessed in the four part suite that closes the album.