Formed in 2002 and featuring several past members tied to
various black metal scenes, Code has operated a bit
in the shadows as a hard-to-pigeonhole avant-garde extreme
metal project.
Albums such as the earlier Resplendent Grotesque
and their most recent Flyblown Prince showcase the band's
harsher, more extreme style, featuring a somewhat similar
dissonant black experimental style to
Dødheimsgard
with whom there was some shared membership.
Sandwiched between those two, though, lies 2015's Mut,
which is an entirely different animal, as black metal
(and, to a point, metal in general) is dropped in favor
of a murkier, moodier form of prog rock.
The phrase "never the same album twice" doesn't often
apply to bands, but it does seem accurate here.
