| Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst | |
| Type: | studio |
| Artist: | Mentallo & The Fixer |
| Cover: | Mentallo & The Fixer - Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst.jpg |
| Length: | 73:32 |
| Label: | Alfa Matrix |
| Producer: | Gary Dassing |
| Prev Title: | Commandments for the Molecular Age |
| Prev Year: | 2006 |
| Next Title: | A Collection of Rare, Unreleased & Remastered |
| Next Year: | 2012 |
Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst is the eighth studio album by Mentallo & The Fixer, released on January 19, 2007 by Alfa Matrix.[1] [2]
Marc Tater of Chain D.L.K. awarded Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst four out of five stars and praised the album for "presenting the very own multi-layered and complex style Gary likes to create and is known for."[3] Release Magazine gave the album eight out of ten, called the band "the sound of things to come" and said "oscillations run wildly through aural fields littered with rich textures and arrpegiations which begin and end in chaotically irrational patterns."[4] I Die:You Die found the album to be a "mixed success", criticizing it's incoherence while saying "it's never boring certainly, and has some truly fantastic passages."[5] Industrial Reviews gave the album three stars out of five and praised the dense complexity of the writing but noted that the melodic verve that former member Dwayne Dassing brought to the band's compositions is missing from the album.[6] Terrorverlag commended the psychedelic and brutal composition structures and commented that the band rarely becomes dull.[7]
Adapted from the Enlightenment Through a Chemical Catalyst liner notes.[8]
Mentallo & The Fixer
Additional performers
Production and design
| Region | Date | Label | Format | Catalog |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium | 2007 | Alfa Matrix | CD, DL | am1076cd |
| AM-2076-DCD | ||||
| 2014 | DL |
Enlightenment Through A Chemical Catalyst ]
. Chain D.L.K. . Musik & Media . January 8, 2007 . August 24, 2020.