Artist: Contrarian 
Title: To Perceive Is To Suffer
Label: Willowtip Records
Cat #: WT148
Release Year: 2017
Duration: Album
Format: CD 
Packaging Type: Jewel Case

To Perceive Is To Suffer is the second album from the US progressive death metal band contrarian.

Rooted in early 90’s progressive death metal, but with an unrelenting forward-thinking approach.

Spearheaded by guitar player and tech death mastermind Jim Tasikas, alongside George Kollias (Nile) simultaneously handling drum and vocal duties, Contrarian is not a super group, but a unit of like-minded musicians that coincidentally converged on a vision of what a metal band should sound like.

Organic sounding, yet agressive and melodically complex, ‘To Perceive Is To Suffer’ is packed to the gills with Schuldinerian-style riffage and atmospheric variations that will provide a wholly enticing listen to all those willing to take in its eccentricity.

Recommended if you like: Death, Necrophagist, Obscura, Spawn of Possession, Nile, The Faceless, Decapitated, Archspire, Suffocation, Cryptopsy, Origin, Beyond Creation, Atheist, Cynic

Track Listing:
1.To Perceive Is To Suffer
2.Reunion At Gramos
3.Memory Eternal
4.Dreams At Slumber
5.Transcend The Mundane
6.Purpose Seeker
7.At Fate's Hands
8.Ripped From The Void
9.The Utopian