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Artist: PAVOR NOCTURNUS
Album: Diazepam
Year: 2008
Pavor Nocturnus is another band hailing from the capital of Italy. Formed in 2005 by members who had played in many different bands, they decided to answer their urges to create a band influenced by Red Harvest, Fear Factory and Arcturus - giving space for modern riffing and modern electro without fading away from any borders. After a bunch of line up changes and a demo release in 2007, 2008 brings us a four-track promo called 'Diazepam'.
'Anioreth' is the opening song of this four-track EP. It's an experimental electro metal track, including wicked sampling, spastic programming (now and then even close to breakbeat!) and diverse vocal lines going from clean parts to death metal grunting and raw hardcore screaming. The riffing fits the tune excellently. 'I Exist' has a dark electro/cyberpunk opening. Afterwards, the track transforms into an experimental cyber metal track. The keylines are recogniseable, the riffing very powerful and the vocal lines fit the song excellently. Although the programming is pretty midtempo overall, it contains some uptempo and more experimental parts too. 'Broken Line' is the most accessable track on the release. It's very (dark) electro driven, with little touches of future pop and ambient, and midtempo programming. The vocal lines are recogniseable, here and there maybe even a bit desperate, which fit the track excellently. It consists as well of a bunch of wicked samples who are begging for you to discover. With 'Morning Never Came' we're already reaching the final track of the release. It's a very experimental song (touches of industrial black metal, ambient and even a little wave), with diverse vocal lines, dark noisy electronic intermezzo's, cold keylines and very powerful programming and riffing. In the end, this track turned out to be my personal favorite on the release, as well because of the surprisingly keyboard driven outro.
It's always a bit hard to judge a full band on three- or four-track promos, but Pavor Nocturnus leaves no room for different interpretations. Despite their experimental approaches, they manage to blend different genres into the music like different kind of vegetables on a vegetarian pizza. The vocal lines are diverse (both the clean vocals as the more rawer vocals - even the grunts are included - are of excellent quality), and the wicked programming is an essential and extravagant part of all the tracks. People who enjoyed Herrschaft's latest release - 'Tesla' - will definitely enjoy this stuff as well. Definitely worth a chance, it will not be a waste of your time.
Vote: 92 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Anioreth
2. I Exist
3. Broken Line
4. Morning Never Came
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