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Reviewed
by: Darklight
Biopsy is the side-project of Aghast View
members Guilherme Pires and Fabricio Viscardi. The songs offered on
this CD sound like a mix of Aghast View, Psychopomps
and Swamp Terrorists with a dash of Delerium
thrown in for good measure. Basically, this album goes all over the
place never really sticking with one style, and that’s part of its appeal.
The first half of the album is extremely loud, heavy and aggressive
with songs that feature haywire electronics, slamming beats, manic sampling,
chugging guitar riffs and deep shouted distorted male vocals. The songs
almost sound like industrial metal, but include so many twists and turns
that it’s obvious that this isn’t typical headbanger music. Everything
is constructed rather experimentally with various tempos and moods coming
and going constantly.
After the first half of the album ends, it starts delivering a few EBM
songs without guitars as well as some tribal instrumentals that sound
similar to Delerium. The end of the disc features remixes and more instrumentals.
With fifteen tracks you get a lot of music on this CD. But there’s a
good chance that it won’t all appeal to you. There’s quite a lot of
heavy guitar used in most of the songs that most likely won‘t appeal
to electro purists. There are also quite a few mid-tempo enchanting
instrumentals that electro-industrial/EBM fans might dislike. You have
to really appreciate a wide spectrum of different electronic musical
styles to fully enjoy this entire recording.
I admit that I didn’t know what to think of this album at first as lounge,
reggae and drum ‘n’ bass was combined with guitar heavy industrial.
It all sounded a bit too strange for me and I wasn’t quite sure if I
liked it or not. But as I listened to it more I started to really enjoy
its diversity. While I might not like a lot of the elements included
here on their own, I do like them when they’re mixed together into one
sound as they are here. While the first couple of listens might take
a while to digest, I think that you’ll be reaching for this album often
after you get use to it because it’s definitely something different.
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