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Artist: ELKTRONIK SCIETY
Album: Industrial Cadaverous Demos
Year: 2008
There are some excellent (new) bands coming from France lately - such as Malmonde, Dagoba, Punish Yourself and Zuul FX. Therefore, I'm not surprised when it turns out that a new cool band - named Elktronik Sciety - is hailing from that same country as well. This four-piece exists since 2003, and was on hold from 2005 to 2006. After releasing their debut 'Archetypal Influence' in 2003, the band released the follow-up 'Industrial Cadaverous Demos' in 2008. It contains 10 tracks plus two bonus remixes.
After the intro ('Damaged Brains'), the album continues with 'Brain Factory'. It's a modern and accessable track, featuring midtempo drumming, recogniseable vocal lines and distorted riffing. 'Chainsaw' continues to walk that very same path. It includes snoaring guitars, wellplaced keylines and sampling and a sing-a-long chorus. 'Machines' is an ambient intermezzo, followed by 'Third Degree Burn'. It opens with dark electronic sound, to be followed by modern industrial metal. This track includes a very driven guitar solo as well. The first thing I noticed on 'Addict' was the very heavy bassline and the bashing drumwork. This song as well includes a powerful, uptempo chorus with insane keylines, and some tight riffing. 'Dictators' is a pretty theathrical song, with driven vocal lines and ditto lyrics and accessable music works. Despite the title and the lyrics, it has mostly a dark atmosphere. 'The Preacher's Influence' comes up next. It's a very accessable, guitar driven track with sing-a-long vocal lines and strong, powerful drumming. 'Insane' is a decent old school track, with atmospheric riffing and sampling and wellfitting drumwork and vocal lines. 'Mass of Torments' is a dark, horror movie influenced outro, which get followed by two bonus remixes. The noise remix for 'Third Degree Burn' is indeed pretty noisy and very chaotic, while the psychopathic murderer mix of 'Brain Factory' turns out to be a bit more experimental than the original one. Nice bonusses!
With 'Industrial Cadaverous Demos', Elktronik Sciety brings you back to Rob ZOmbie's 'Hellbilly Deluxe' area - with a little more of a theatrical touch. All the songs are decently build, very accessable (even radio friendly if they had a better production!) and would fit on the soundtrack for any Halloween-likely horror movie. Fans of Marilyn Manson, Nine Inch Nails and Murderdolls will probably dig this stuff as well. I think with the right promotion and a better production, this band and it's style might be able to become as popular as the preverious mentioned bands.
Vote: 90 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Damaged Brains (Intro)
2. Brain Factory
3. Chainsaw
4. Machines (Sounds)
5. Third Degree Burn
6. Addict
7. Dictators
8. The Preacher's Influence
9. Insane
10. Mass of Torments (Outro)
11. Third Degree Burn (Noise Remix)
12. Brain Factory (Psychopathic Murderer Mix)
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