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Artist: HAVOC UNIT
Album: h.IV+ [Hoarse Industrial Viremia]
Year: 2007
“Finland’s ...And Oceans is dead, now rises the new age
of machines: the industrialized proclemation of Havoc
Unit. Havoc Unit is the new propaganda machine & the
audio-visual forum for artists to collaborate without
restrictions: a test challen where neurons communicate
via chemical and electrical synapses in order to spread
audio-virulence and bacteria.” As always, big words in
the promo packages. Now this time, there’s a difference.
...And Oceans is one of those bands that I always liked
(specially the A.M.G.O.D. album), so maybe there can be
hiding something interesting behind this name. A quick
look to their MySpace profile teaches me that their
official site is dead, and that more artists
collaborated on this record (namely And Then You Die,
Audio Parasite, No Xivic and Solefald). These artist
don’t ring a bell at all, so lets just review the
release and see what will come.
The first track is blessed with an Arabic title, of
which I will spare you the name of it. It contains
brutal drumwork, extreme vocals and perfect industrial
metal guitar riffs. Some electronic sampling and cold
keylines that are slightly added to the track give it a
little cyber attitude. ‘I.esus’ opens with a wellknown
sample. What follows is a chaotic, industrial death
metal likely track. It consists of very wicked and
powerful drumming, brutal guitarwork and chaotic vocal
lines. The ambient likely sampling takes care of some
machinery attitude. ‘Where Snuff Is No Longer Enough’
comes up next. It’s a decent midtempo track, with strong
guitars and very wicked sampling and keylines. It’s one
of the more accessable tracks of the release.
‘Gen.eration Gen.ocide’ is again more brutal, with some
very wicked guitarwork hidden in the chorus. Furthermore
it contains industrial death metal drumwork,
recogniseable vocal lines and a certain dose of chaos.
‘Viremia’ is a more atmospheric song, with touches of
ambient and electro. It contains a high dose of cold
keylines, less brutal though powerful drums and a very
heavy bassline. ‘Kyrie Eleison’ is again more chaotic.
It opens with very low and downtuned, even a little bit
doomy and melancholic stuff, to overflood in some
midtempo and chaotic parts with sampled vocal lines and
machinery sampling. ‘Nihil’ is an ambient likely
intermezzo, to be followed by ‘Man vs. Flesh’. It’s a
modern and chaotic industrial metal track, with crazy
drumming and guitarriffs. ‘Ignoratio Elenchi’
surprisingly opens with clean vocals. It’s even more
surprising that the clean vocals are all over the song.
It turns out to be a more atmospheric, midtempo and
accessable track with less brutal musical works though a
more heavy sound. ‘Kill All Nations’ is a more
electronic based track, with experimental sampling and
programming, dark and heavy guitarwork and strong
vocals. ‘Kristallnacht’ is a piano intermezzo (ending up
in ambient sounds), and ‘Klan Korps’ comes up next. It
contains black metal influenced drumming, powerful
guitarwork and recogniseable and strong vocal lines.
‘Rape Scene Act I’ is the final track of the album. It’s
again a pretty accessable song, with powerful midtempo
drumming and decent industrial metal guitarwork.
Although this album gives us over 53 minutes of music,
it has ended before you even realize. This album keeps
your ears blasting from the first until the last second
(great production!), with pretty much variation and very
less weaker points. Havoc Unit gave industrial metal
another kick against the butt, because it doesn’t have
to be brutal to be good, but it has to be good to be
brutal... and Havoc Unit is just insane.
Vote: 93 / 100
Reviewed by: Gerardo |
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01. First Track
02. I.esus [The Liturgy
of Inhumanity]
03. When Children Are No
Longer Enough [ C.oitus
O.rgasm C.atholic K.ids]
04. Generation Genocide
[Humanitarian
Vivisection]
05. Viremia [Regime
HIV+]
06. Kyrie Eleison
[Totalitarian
Libertarianism]
07. Nihil [Operation
Blitzkrieg]
08. Man vs. Flesh
[Structured Suicide]
09. Ignoratio Elenchi
[Reversed Genesis]
10. Kill All Nations
[The Manual of
Terrorism]
11. Kristallnacht [From
Revolution to
Reconstruction]
12. Klan Korps
[Volkssturm & Erregung]
13. Rape Scene Act I
[The Fine Art of Quality
Time] |
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