Review: The Scalar Process – Agnomysticism

Review by Sandre the Giant Released: 29th May 2026 French tech death metallers The Scalar Process have been very busy in the five years since their 2021 debut ‘Coagulative Matter’, honing and expanding their craft into new, vast horizons beyond this earth. Their new record, ‘Agnomysticism’, is out now through Transcending Obscurity and it seems to me that the band are ready to explode onto the conscious of every death metal fan out there. The cool, calm tones of opening track ‘Physical Conquest’ feels like a little bit of a misdirect before the technical death metal comes cascading down upon us like fiery rain. But there is a lot of grandiose melody swooning and swirling in the backdrop to ‘Agnomysticism’ that is highlighted by that sleek clean nature, and so to call it a misdirect is possibly unfair. It’s definitely unexpected in an album I expected to be relentless tech death, for sure. The Scalar Process are proving to be one of the genre’s more progressive and spacious bands,…