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Artist: HYPNOSIS
Album: The Synthetic Light Of Hope
Year: 2009
The one and only 'Hybrid Death Metal' band from France returns with a brand new album. Hypnosis plays death metal with an electronic and avantgarde approach since its birth in 1993. After my first introduction with this band, namely the 2006 release 'Seeds of Fate', I was already grabbed by their enthausiasm and experimentalism. Therefore, the news of the worldwide release of this 'The Synthetic Light Of Hope' release sounded like (hybrid death metal) music to my ears. This brand new album has been mastered at Mailmen Studio (The Netherlands) and contains nine tracks.
The release opens with 'Blood Tears'. It's an old school sounding track with bashing drums and tight riffing, matching perfectly with the brutal vocal lines and essentially wellplaced samples and keylines. 'The Day We Failed' is a grooving industrial death metal track filled with brutality and roughness without losing touch with accessibility. It includes powerful midtempo drumming, wave sampling and diverse vocal lines and riffing. 'Into Trouble Waters' excellently mixes modern riffing and diverse vocal approaches with the power of death metal and electro sampling. Overall the track comes with an undeniable dark atmosphere, giving the track another powerboost. The title track 'The Synthetic Light Of Hope' opens with surprisingly oriental vocal samples, to be followed by an intense death metal track featuring an old school song structure and a modern approach on the keylines. Despite the fact that the keylines are spread all over the song, it never kills the power of the riffing. 'Wasted Land' is a short intermezzo mixing wave with tight metal riffing, to be followed by 'An Ordinary Day'. This turns out to be my favorite track on the release, sailing from brutal death metal parts to melodic synth-lead passages and diverse vocal lines. Overall the song is, despite the many blastbeats, pretty accessable and even catchy. 'My Deepest Solitude' is probably the most experimental track, mixing powerful midtempo death metal with touches of (dark)wave, electro, EBM and even a little bit of breakbeat. The synths cause a haunting sound all over the track, which gives it even a little cyberish approach. 'Dead Is The Sun' brings us back to more old school tunes, with powerful midtempo drumming and small touches of black and thrash metal. The subtile placed samples match perfectly with the tight riffing and growling vocal lines. The release ends with the track 'Kill Me When I Dream'. It's an excellent piece of wave death metal, coming with diverse riffing and essential keylines synchronising perfectly with the diversity within the vocals.
Call it old school death metal, call it classic death metal, call it industrial death metal, call it cyber death metal, call it wave death metal, call it hybrid death metal - fact is that I'm totally digging this release. Hypnosis shows an excellent example of how Fear Factory could have sounded if they decided to get more brutal after their mighty Demanufacture release in stead of producing weaker and weaker records. Go check this album if you consider yourself brutal and open minded enough, and if you don't better change that attitude because you don't want to miss this essential CD in your collection!
Vote: 94 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Blood Tears
2. The Day We Failed
3. Into Trouble Waters
4. The Synthetic Light Of Hope
5. Wasted Land
6. An Ordinary Day
7. My Deepest Solitude
8. Dead Is The Sun
9. Kill Me When I Dream
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