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Reviewed
by: Darklight
This release sounds like something that would have come out in the early
to mid ‘90s. Even the artwork for this album looks old school industrial.
Basically, what is delivered here are straight forward mid-tempo dark
electro-industrial tracks featuring basic electronic programming, repetitive
drum beats, haunting gothic soundscapes and extremely distorted male
vocals. Each song also includes samples taken from the movie The
Matrix.
This is unoriginal and uninspired music without anything new included. While
this CD might have been considered something good several years ago, now
it’s simply average at best.
There are elements of Allied Vision,
Grendel, Hocico
and Suicide Commando in
this music, but nothing here ever sounds as good as what those bands
produce.
While the music manages to be interesting at times, especially for the
instrumentals, the vocals are simple distorted yelling that don’t attempt
to sing ever. Even when I listen closely and try to make out what the
lyrics are, I can’t as the words are too mangled.
The main problem I have with this CD is that all of the songs basically
sound the same. There’s no variety here. Once you’ve heard one song, you’ve
basically heard the entire album.
I feel this band does have the skill to make some really great music, they
just need to mature a bit more. I would only recommend this to those of you
who can’t get enough of old school european dark electro-industrial music.
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