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Artist: RAISM
Album: Aesthetic Terrorism
Year: 1997
Many of you will probably have something like: “Raism?
WTF is Raism?”. When I say that Raism is ex-Diabolos
Rising probably not many of you will know what/who/where
I am talking about. Well, a short introduction then.
Raism exists of Mika Luttinen (Impaled Nazarene and
more) on vocals and George Zaharopoulos (Necromantia and
more) on guitars and sampling stuff. While Diabolos
Rising was some kickass industrial black metal, these
guys decided to leave the black metal behind and
concentrate more and more on electro and techno, with a
little touch of the metal side added. Aesthetic
Terrorism is one of the two albums released by this band
on Kron-H, which is a sub division of Osmose Productions.
First of all, I think this album will fit more the EBM/gothic
fans than the industrial metal fans. The techno beats
are thrown into your ears with some hyperactive vocals,
most of the time accompanied by a not too loud
distortion guitar. But techno beats is not the only
point of view on industrial of these guys. ‘G.-
Carnivorous Commercial Version’ has a big (and loud)
touch of the hardstyle world, while ‘Survival Of The
Fittest Scum’ can be stuffed in the category dance metal
(Unk!, Reel and more). ‘S.O.T.F.S.- Destructive Club
Version’ sounds almost like happy hardcore, while
‘Politically Incorrect (Non P.C.)’ even reminds me to
the Red Hot Chili Peppers in a way! Indeed an album with
lots of variation, but to call it convincing? No,
unfortunately not. The guitar sound is too soft to make
the guitar powerful, and the majority of the songs sound
a little flat. To be honest, I don’t think there is much
more to say about this record. An own style? Yes.
Variation? Yes. Good and convincing? Not enough. A pity,
because the talent is definitely there.
Vote: 60 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Survival of the
fittest scum
02. S.O.T.F.S. -
Destructive club version
03. Aesthetic terrorism
04. A.T. - Distorted
reality cyberspace
version
05. Gluttony
06. G. - Carnivorous
commercial version
07. Negative
08. Hate you
09. Politically
incorrect (non P.C.)
10. P.I. - Goverment
approved explicit
version
11. Nexus
12. N. - Multiple
personality psychoid
version |
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