Entheos – Time Will Take Us All
Release Date: 3rd March 2023
Label: Metal Blade Records
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Genre: Blackened Progressive Death Metal.
FFO: Lorna Shore, Fallujah, Obscura.
Review By: Andy Spoon
YouTube marvel Chaney Crabb fires up audiences online with her vocal covers and metal content, but many viewers have been ardently waiting for Entheos’ next big release, Time Will Take Us All absolutely does not disappoint with the duo’s most crushing and enjoyable release to date. The blackened deathcore outfit is poised to make waves in the community in 2023 with the 9-track LP, set to be released on March 3rd.
If you’ve spent any time on YouTube searching for metal videos, new releases, podcasts, and reaction videos, Chaney Crabb is someone you’ve probably seen before. She’s one of many. YouTubers whose bands are releasing some pretty serious material to back up their chops. A few other examples are the vocalists from Kardashev as well as Tallah, bands whose releases are gaining big traction off the individual channels, especially in 2022. The band’s enetheosOFFICIAL account often features Chaney and bandmate Navene Koperweis covering metal tracks, producing original content, such as a metal version of a popular Christmas hymn, general fun all around.
I had expectations that the album was going to be somewhat “campy” and perhaps even niche. As someone who absolutely loves the fact that more female metal artists are joining the scene, I have my reservations about some of the acts, which tend to lean hard into the fact that “our band has a girl” as a main selling point. It often detracts from the quality of the music. However, Chaney absolutely kills on Time Will Take Us All. Her vocal prowess is relatively unmatched, save for a few vocalists. Having the extremely-wide range that she does allow her to meet mid-range vocals with the high-pitched, gurgly screeches that are popularized by Dani Filth and especially Travis Ryan.
One of the things that made the album special for me was the fact that each track on the album rolled directly into the next. When I was listening, originally, I was using a media player which stops each track at the end. It felt that every time a song ended, the track was immediately going to start another one; and when the track stopped abruptly, I was totally thrown for a loop. I think that this is a great way to keep audiences hungry for more music.
One of my favorite non-metal bands, Manchester Orchestra, produced an album called Mean Everything To Nothing, an album where each track spilled into the next. The idea behind that (given in an interview) was that the band didn’t want anyone to stop and take a beat before the next track began. It created an environment that made the album, itself, the item which was presented to the listener, not just one track or another. Entheos has managed the exact same thing with Time Will Take Us All, at least in my opinion. Even if they never intended that, I feel like Time Will Take Us All is structured the same way. In fact, I think that if you put the album on shuffle, you’d be sort of lost. That is a compliment of the highest order, at least from me.
Crabb has described some of her targets with the production as a vast mixture of notable parts within a song that she determined to be dynamic and “interesting”, rather than merely allowing one or two parts of the track to be “the interesting part”. Time Will Take Us All is an absolute masterclass in vocal variation, bringing credence to her intent to never leave a single part of a track in some sort of “basic” form, which really shows across the entire album. There are just so-many distinct blends of technique, high pitch and low, and a few moments of clean vocals to enjoy and analyze.
One of my absolute favorite elements of the album was the bass guitar, reminiscent of Ryan Martinie’s slap/pluck style that injects rhythmic flair to each track, giving hints of L.D.50 as an “easter egg” for fans of the bass and a highly-stylized master of the art. Perhaps my opinion on that is debatable, but I hear it without trying on certain albums as a result of my Mudvayne fandom growing up. I think that it brings a crazy amount of life to a track, so cheers to bassist Evan Brewer, who has pushed that idea into overdrive alongside the heavy 7 or 8-string guitar growls from Navene. The best example of it is featured on “The Sinking Sun”, a track I’ve played on repeat, just for the bass guitar.
Overall, Time Will Take Us All is a very-good album that features a duo of dynamically-matched artists in their true best form. Time Will Take Us All is a vocal rollercoaster, never giving the audience a chance to stop and think about what they just heard, proving that Entheos is absolutely going to have a massive year with this release. 
(4 / 5)
