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Artist: HEADPHONE KILLAZZ
Album: We Are Grown Not Born
Year: 2008
Another band from the cold areas of Russia. Headphone Killazz is a trio that says to play cybercore and got formed in 2006. After experimenting a while with breakcore and breakbeat beats, as well with strong riffing, they started the writing process for what would be their debut album. 'We Are Grown Not Born' was released in 2008 and consists of nine tracks plus a bonus remix song. Since the titles are all in Russian (besides very few exceptions) I'm going to refer to them as the first track, the second track, etc.
After the dark sounding ambient influenced intro, the album continues with the second track. It contains a powerful mix of breakcore and techno within the programming, decorated with experimental riffing, brutal vocal lines and wellfitting sampling. The track coming after is a diverse track moving from drum'n'bass rhytms to midtempo bashing beats and thrashy riffing. The electronic samples are wellplaced, and the dark brutal vocal lines give the song a big powerboost. The fourth song is a slowly trigging atmospheric track, showing off influences from out of the ambient and electro metal corner. The riffing passages are more powerful without losing any atmosphere. 'Middletro' is like the name already implies a middle intro, or just an intermezzo, mixing industrial, noise and ambient with drum'n'bass and breakcore rhytms, to be followed by 'TV'. This is my personal favorite track on the release, mixing hardcore and industrial metal with touches of breakbeat and noise blending it together in quite an accessible form. The straight forward riffing sounds like it comes straight out of a Rammstein song, and the nearly rappish vocals fit the fast beats perfectly. The track that comes after is already the seventh one. It's a brutal trasher consisting of jungle rhytms, subtile but essential riffing and wellfitting samples. It moves from cyber metal sounding passages to passages close to hardcore metal, with an overall industrial sound. The track that comes after follows walking that path, just a bit more experimental. It moves from industrial black metal passages to techno and breakbeat rhytms mixing perfectly with the dark riffing and diverse vocal lines. The release ends with an over six minutes ambient/industrial outro, to be followed by the DJ Gnev remix of the second track. He turned it into a bouncing drum'n'bass programmed track, a bit more accessable than the original one.
Headphone Killazz is definitely something you won't hear every day. Therefore it's hard to find bands to compare this with. Let's just say that if you dig weird experiments, be sure to find this one too. If you dig bands such as Atari Teenage Riot, Moshpit, BlitzKill and in common and you wouldn't mind less brutality and more dark atmospheres, your search ends here. Killer stuff!
Vote: 94 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Intro
2. Nebo
3. Kibernetika
4. Bluzhdashchie Ogni
5. Middletro
6. TV
7. Germetichnost'
8. Zloba Moego Dnya
9. Outro
10. Nebo (Remix By Dj Gnev)
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