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Artist: VIOLENT WORK
OF ART
Album: Automated Species
Year: 2007
Sweden is known by me for its great metal band.
Regurgitate, Sayyadina, Retaillation, General Surgery,
Splitter, Driller Killer, Disfear, Skitsystem,
FromTheAshes... all of them are gold when it comes to my
music taste. The smart and picky people among the
readers of this review might start wondering now. “Hey,
why is none of the bands you mentioned mentioned on this
very website then?!?” Well, the answer is quite simple:
none of these are industrial metal bands. To be honest,
I know very few industrial metal bands from Sweden (Pain
is quite famous, but the others are mostly underground –
too underground to be known by a Dutch reviewer). But,
lately one of those bands managed to find us! Violent
Work of Art is a Swedish (no shit!) band who are already
out there for quite some years (since 1994)! Their
“Automatic Species” album is their latest album,
released in 2007.
‘As The Sky Comes Falling Down’ is the first track of
the album. Its a modern industrial metal track with some
HC/metalcore vocal lines and very wicked programming. ‘A
Sad Creation’ follows. This track contains blasting drum
parts, powerful guitarwork and a chorus with excellent
clean vocals. Again clearly influenced by the more
‘modern’ genres. ‘Deranged’ has more a heavy guitarsound.
The mixed clean/growl vocal parts and the sampling
remind me a little bit to a French band called Hypnosis
(which is a compliment, yes). ‘Stains’ has very wicked
sampling and catchy, powerful guitar parts. The
programming parts are very hyperactive and bashing.
‘Silence is the Enemy’ is a track that fits the title in
a good way. Drumparts that sound like a well-oiled
machine, some surprisingly wicked lead guitar parts and
a catchy vocal line = gold! ‘Scars’ is very industrial
based, but don’t look surprised when you hear some small
touches of bands like Disturbed here and there too.
‘Requiem (for myself)’ has a gothic start, but what
follows is some kind of emo-ish track with nice sampling
on the background. The emo-ish thing makes this my least
favourite track on the album. Maybe its timing, but the
next one turns out to be my favourite track on the
album. ‘Misery Loves You’ contains some cool sampling, a
dark atmosphere and is, although a pretty agressive
chorus, quite easy listening. The guitars are very
powerful used on this track. ‘Lord of Flies’ contains
mainly EBM-ish programming, Rammstein likely guitar work
and the HC influences that are hearable all over the
record. Maybe one of the more “sensitive” tracks. The
last track is called ‘Scarecrow’. This track is very
industrial based, and contains a good mix of clean and
brutal vocal parts.
Although I am not that much of a fan of hardcore and
metalcore, I must admit that those influences combined
with industrial metal is a lethal one. For people who
thinks KMFDM could be a little more brutal, but on the
other hand think that bands like Zuul FX are a bit ‘too
much’... try some art in stead. And don’t deny the
violent one!
Vote: 91 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. As The Sky Comes
Falling Down
02. A Sad Creation
03. Deranged
04. Stains
05. Silence is the Enemy
06. Scars
07. Requiem (for myself)
08. Misery Loves You
09. Lord of Flies
10. Scarecrow 2006 |
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