I've seen this band's name around for awhile but never checked em out until they were strongly recommended to me by one of our customers, and was surprised by just how insane this gang of French avant-death blasters turned out to be! ...As Everything Is A Tragedy came out a few years ago on Candlelight Records, but like some of the label's other signings from the French underground (Spektr, Overmars), this went largely overlooked by the extreme metal underground. A shame, because this is some of the most warped and mind-bending math-metal I've heard lately, a mixture of ultra-chaotic and insanely complex death metal and warp-speed avant-math-thrash filled with stop-on-a-dime time changes, crazed squiggly guitar leads, dense sheets of guitar noise, weird dissonant mutant-jazz guitar chords, even some surprising but well utilized melodic indie rock-like jangle. A lot of the descriptions of Comity's sound that I've read included comparisons to Dillenger Escape Plan, but that's not really what I'm hearing here; this sounds to me more like some emotionally wrought tech/prog-death infused with elements of post-hardcore and epic sludge, and often reminds me of a crazy mash up of Orthrelm, Obscura-era Gorguts, Dazzling Killmen, early Fantomas, Neurosis, Polvo, and the Gravity Records screamo sound. Sounds like an odd mix of sounds, but anyone into extreme math/grind has got to check this album out; the disc is made up of ninety-nine untitled tracks, each one a short chapter of what I guess is a single album-length piece, the tracks sometimes as short as ten seconds, or as along as several minutes, leaping from baffling arrangements of hyper fast angular shred and jagged math-death into breathtaking melodic vistas of layered guitar and soaring melody a la Mono and deathgrind whiplash, or warped crawling doom morphing into crushing death-metal infused metalcore stomp, then erupting into soaring dark indie rock melody or surging waves of tribal drums, all fronted by a singer whose voice shifts between deep death-metal growling and gut-wrenching gargling screams that sound truly fearsome. Then the final five minute track that ends the album takes it into a whole new direction with a hypnotic tribal dirge of pounding toms and gruff chanted vocals and chiming minor key guitars, that sounds a bit like Neurosis crossed with Fields Of The Nephilim! Pretty fucking incredible stuff. Comes with an eight-page full color booklet and the packaging features spot-varnish printing.