Release Date 27.03.2026
Format CD/Digital
Genre Progressive/Avantgarde Metal
Country Norway
Ram-Zet blasted out of Norway back in 2000 with "Pure Therapy", dropping a bizarre mix of extreme metal onto the scene. They scored a Norwegian Grammy, wrecked stages at Inferno Festival, and kept writing strange music for twelve years. Albums like "Escape", "Intra", "Neutralized", and "Freaks In Wonderland" cemented their name in the weird metal underground. The crew then vanished for over a decade. Now they return with "Sapien". Sfinx and Zet resume vocal duties, Sareeta returns on violin, and Aazuu joins the circus on keyboards.
Fourteen years away is a long time, and "Sapien" crashes through the speakers with serious energy. The guitars crunch with heavy riffing, twisting around bizarre synth lines and crazy vocal trade-offs. Zet delivers harsh growls and regular singing alongside Sfinx and her sweeping melodies. You get a massive wall of sound crashing into weird, progressive passages. The band piles on the strangeness, mixing death metal aggression with bizarre musical hooks.
Songs like "Zerocane" and "Bozzadevil" throw wild riffs right into your face. Sareeta plays frantic violin over the heavy guitars. Küth batters the drum kit with intense blasts, shifting into strange time signatures on a dime. Lanius holds down the low end, keeping the bizarre structures anchored. The keyboards weave strange textures over the crushing guitars. The whole album sounds like a twisted carnival ride.
"Sapien" delivers a ton of killer moments. The weird, heavy sections totally rule. Occasionally, some tracks get lost in their own bizarre ideas. A few sections drag a bit long. Sometimes the sheer amount of sounds happening at once gets overwhelming. The band throws everything at the wall, and mostly, it works out great. A little trimming would make the assault even stronger. Even so, the crazed energy keeps the tracks rolling nicely.
Ram-Zet proves they still write totally bizarre, heavy music. Fans waiting fourteen years get a massive dose of weirdness. "Sapien" delivers massive riffs, strange melodies, and extreme metal aggression. The bizarre carnival of Norwegian metal is open for business again.
Score: 8.0
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