The Polish prog metal project Chaos Over Cosmos started out as a power metal band, which had ambitious song structures and neoclassical form since its first release. Changing multiple vocalists while only keeping the original member instrumentalist Rafał Bowman, the band soon turned to a more brutalist interpretation of Necrophagist and Obscura's prog/tech death sound. There were minor detours on the way towards metalcore, ambient and drum-and-bass, but the main direction was clear. The galloping riffs were replaced by more abstract melodies, the upbeat drums turned into an unbudging wall of blastbeats, and the clean vocals went through different variations of harsh ones in screeches, rasps, or processed growls, depending on the current vocalist. Chaos Over Cosmos had already switched to this style by their second album, but with each following release, the overall sound became more consistent, without the tonal whiplash of tense and weirdly upbeat sections, leading to "The ...