Still Life Moving FastRelatively removed from the increasingly fertile U. K. djent scene, but retaining flashes of its palm muted fury, the debut long player from the London based progressive metal unit formerly known as Empress wears its influences well, offering up an evocative, brutal, wily, and occasionally wistful set of post hardcore , art rock , and ambient pop fueled confections that fall somewhere between the cracks of a road well traveled by bands like Mastodon,