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Artist: CONTECHED
Album: Criminal Industry
Year: 2008
It's always a pleasure for me to be hearing about new
upcoming projects or bands from my area. Conteched is a
brand new project hailing from the capital of The
Netherlands, existing of Reel's guitar- and bassplayer
plus a so-called 'Skin Manager' and a 'Lyric Executive'.
When I surfed to their MySpace page to check their
influences, I saw a list that was way too big, so I
won't bore you with this. Conteched describes their
music as 'Corporate Metal' anyways, and none of the
bands that are among their influences list calls their
music like that. So, this three track promo called
'Criminal Industry' will be a worldwide first meeting to
this brand new self-proclaimed music style!
'Mr. Conman' opens with industrial sounds and melodic
guitarwork, but soon the attitude changes and a modern
and heavy track follows. It has very strong riffing,
gentle industrial intermezzos and bashing drumming. The
hardcore likely vocal works fit the music excellently,
as well the nicely added sampling within the (pre-)chorus.
'Predator' is a little bit more uptempo. It has strong
and recogniseable vocal lines, powerful drumming and
straight to the point riffing. The melodic intermezzo is
a bit of a contrast with the rest of the track, but it
doesn't sound weird in any way. 'War Paint' is maybe the
most easy listening and accessable track on this three-track
release. It has the more 'primitive' though very
effective riffing (like Rammstein used to do in their
better days), easy going drumming and recogniseable
vocal lines (even a little bit of a catchy chorus). The
industrial sampling that is spread all over the track
give the song a more lighter attitude, without losing
the power of the straight to the point riffing.
Although Conteched is still a very young band, and their
influences are clearly hearable, they don't exactly
sound like anything I've heard before. They have the
same heavy touch as more cyber bands like Malmonde and
DyNAbyte have, and the fact that two out of four
bandmembers are as well members of Reel can be found
back in little things such as the strong self-production
and sampling and song structure. Think about all of this
thrown in a blender, and you might get the idea of
Conteched. This first three track promo is a very
promising start for this foursome, and it seems like a
certainty that they will crush many more souls besides
just mine.
Vote: 90 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Mr. Conman
02. Predator
03. War Paint
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