Neglected Fields

Latvia’s self-proclaimed “finest techie death metal music group,” Neglected Areas may not have sufficient competition to greatly help substantiate this type of claim, however they are certainly adept plenty of at their art to, err…state it. Briefly selecting the name “Carrion” after developing in 1994, founding vocalist/guitarist Sergey and bassist Sergey (echo intentional) split up the music group before coming back as Neglected Areas in nov 1995, alongside guitarist Herman and drummer Karlis. This quartet documented 1998’s amazing Synthinity debut, that was released by English label Neat Information, and showcased a method bridging the stylistic range between your Byzantine loss of life/jazz of Atheist as well as the synth-enhanced space age group prog-death of Cynic. 2000’s Mephisto Lettonica adopted a similar method with equally amazing results, adding periodic commercial and choral nuances similar to Switzerland’s Samael, thanks to new synthesizer participant George. Neglected Areas went on a protracted hiatus on the next couple of years, but ultimately came back in 2006 making use of their third recording, the reliably inventive Splenetic, which noticed second guitarist Herman changed by another Sergey!