VORTICE: THE SPANISH MESHUGGAH?

So claims reader “46andTool,” who insists that Barcelona’s (or, more accurately, “Barthelona’s”) Vortice “fucking destroy.”

Now…  I’ve said in the past that Meshuggah are just one of those bands that cannot be cloned. I always thinks bands that sound just like Meshuggah are ridiculous; they never pull it off, or really do anything other than make me wanna listen to Meshuggah. Of course I don’t mind if Meshuggah are an influence on your music, but… as a friend of mine likes to say, you have to think of your art as a Christmas tree: your influences can be the ornaments, but they can’t be the trunk. And Meshuggah are Vortice’s trunk – in fact, they’re Vortice’s entire fucking tree. Vortice don’t bring anything new to the formula. They just sound exactly like Meshuggah, except not as good, because no Meshuggah wanna-bes ever sound as good as the real thing.

Check out Vortice here and then feel free to disagree with me in the comments section. But I’m right.

-AR