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Artist: GOLDEN AGE
Album: Break Down
Year: 2006
Some virusses seem quite unstoppable when it comes to
infecting, and one of them is the industrial metal
virus. Bands like Xe-None, Digimortal and Vergeltung
already proved that this virus managed to reach the dark
woods of Russia, and exactly over there we found
ourselves a new and rather promising band. Golden Age
exists of three people who describe their band as a
“Russian synth metal band”. Luckly they managed to throw
some industrial influences in it too! The “Break Down”
EP came out in 2006, and exists out of four songs, one
intro and a remix.
After the intro, the EP kicks off with the title track.
The intro is very industrial, and the song afterwards is
very synth based. There is a protounding bass riff all
over the song, that drills inside your brain from the
first until the last hit. The intermezzo is very
powerful, and the industrialized guitarwork makes sure
the power can be found elsewhere in the song as well.
‘Golden Age’ features trance and techno sampling mixed
with dark metal objects and a catchy chorus. This song
can best be described as an emotional and industrialized
mix between gothic and heavy metal. With this song, the
band shows a different face of itself, which is
definitely a good point. ‘A Phantom’ is a track written
in their native language. The song turned out to be
quite an atmospheric one, mixed with industrialized
death metal guitarwork and EBM likely synthwork. And
although I can’t understand a fuck of the lyrics, I must
say that the vocal lines in the chorus get stuck in your
head quite easy. ‘Down Below’ is the next track. This
one is again more industrial based, and they prove again
that nobody has to teach them how to mix trance with
metal. There’s even more, because this EP ends with a
remix version of ‘Down Below’ which is a cool bonus on
this EP.
I would like to have some words about the vocals too.
“Ghost”, the vocalist, has a remarkably good
pronnounciation of the English phrases (heard them a lot
worser from most of the Russian people) plus he really
knows how to use his voice the best way. Emotional and
sentimental parts are no problem at all, but on the
other side he managed to sail on the more brutal
guitarriffs too. About this band’s style I can be short:
I cannot make up any band that sound like this band, and
that’s quite exceptional (specially for a young band
like this). Bands like Pain, Neon Synthesis and various
more old school stuff (Alice Cooper, Sonata Arctica)
come in mind, but nobody has this special sound. Golden
Age brought gold to me with this EP, lets see if they
can promote it to platinum with their full lenght that
will be out next year!
Vote: 95 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Intro
02. Break Down
03. Golden Age
04. A phantom
05. Down Below
06. Down Below (remix) |
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