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Artist: AIMA
Album: Aima
Year: 2006
Aima. What? Aima. Aima? Yes, Aima. Never heard of them?
Well, don’t worry... you haven’t missed anything so far,
because I haven’t heard of them as well. Until now that
is. Since they were kind enough to send me their
promotional material, I have heard of them from now on.
Some basic facts about them, taken from their biography:
the band is based in Rome, Italy (yes... Italy again)
and exists of five people. They say to bring the worlds
of metal, rock, electro and industrial together into a
brand new style which they wish to call ‘oddrock’
themselves. This self-titled promo CD is the first
release by this band.
The title of the first track, ‘Allyouneedislove’, gives
you the impression of an emo band, but luckly the music
decide otherwise. Dark gothic rock parts are followed up
by agressive Machine Head sounding guitars and Lacuna
Coil likely clean vocals. The growling of the female
vocalist sounds surprisingly decent and confirms the
(post-)hardcore influences that were a little hearable
in the music as well. ‘Bushido’ continue to build on
this basics, although there are some industrial
influences added in this track. A little eyewink to the
work done by bands like Tool and Fear Factory are
hearable here and there, and the intermezzo even has
some kind of doomy attitude. ‘Escargot’, which is French
for snail, is the next track. This is probably the most
extravagant track of the record, swapping from hardcore
metal stuff straight to industrial parts and vice versa.
A pity the lyrics are unfindable, because I am rather
curious what some chaps from Rome have to say about
snails! ‘Asskick’ is the next track of the promo. It has
again the Machine Head likely guitar riffs and sound,
although the song has strange industrial parts too with
music that almost sound like the music people from the
African jungle make too. Extravagant track again,
although it is easy listening stuff too. ‘No Ghost In No
Shell’ brings you back to the gothic influences of Aima
again. Touches of Anne Clark, Lacuna Coil and various
female fronted EBM bands are the basics of this song,
and some good guitar work here and there sounds like a
light in the dark. ‘Prototypes’ is the final track This
is the longest and as well the most chaotic track of the
release. Hysteric drumwork and industrial guitar riffs
are followed up with cold gothic rock parts and even
some live part mixed into this song.
Afterwards, I realized again that everything comes to an
end. The promo has ended, and after my final conclusion
which will follow now this review has ended too. If you
are into easy listening stuff with weird parts, Aima
might become a nice band for your collection, and in my
opinion Aima makes decent stuff but, until now, nothing
more than that. The potential to get better is there
though!
Vote: 70 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Allyouneedislove
02. Bushido
03. Escargot
04. Asskick
05. No Ghost In No Shell
06. Prototypes |
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