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Artist: BIOCONFLICT
Album: Infighting
Year: 2004
Bioconflict is an industrial metal threesome hailing
from France. Born in 2002, this band says to be
influenced by Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, Ministry,
Godflesh and Fear Factory. According to their biography,
we can expect a rough mix of death metal, EBM and
industrial metal/rock. When I gave their ‘Infighting’ EP
a quick listen, it turned out that this band could be
thrown in the cyberpunk genre with ease as well...
‘Green Powder Cloud’ kicks off with a bouncing beat and
a hyperactive guitar riff, which turns out to be a good
introduction for the track. It consists of very
experimental musical works (specially the programming),
strong distorted guitarparts and wicked FX sampling. It
sails from cold and silent intermezzo’s to hyperactive
and danceable parts, via a metal road and little punk
influenced vocals. ‘Median’ is more midtempo and
atmospheric. It consists of a futurepop/EBM likely beat,
powerful guitarwork and raw screaming vocal parts.
‘Blacksunrise’ (yes, it really is one word) opens with
noisy musical works, to be followed by a gentle bassline.
After, the track turns out to be a rather easy listening
one. The punk influences, hidden in the guitar and vocal
works, are swapped with gentle electronic sampling and
cold synthlines and easy going, danceable programming
works. The closer the song reached its end, the more
these elements are brought together which results in a
powerful though atmospheric ending. The title track of
the release, ‘Infighting’, kicks off with heavy
industrial sounds. What follows is a very cool old
school track (influenced by KMFDM and Ministry if you
ask me – but with a more modern approach). The
intermezzos take away the power of the guitars, but take
care of a little more atmosphere in stead, which turns
out to be an effective combination. ‘Bacteria’ sounds a
little different than the tracks before, with highly
present keylines and very experimental programming
works. The guitar work is decent but very simple.
Bands who mix punk with industrial metal are usually the
craziest around. Musically, Bioconflict really shows the
potential to be mentioned in the same line as Punish
Yourself and in common, but this EP sounds a little too
introvert. Maybe they should unleash their crazy ideas
more and more in the future. Although, not a bad release
at all. People who are into MXD, Haeckeflosse and
Undercover Slut should really put down their Big Macs
for a while to make some time to check out Bioconflict.
Vote: 75 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Green Powder Cloud
02. Median
03. Blacksunrise
04. Infighting
05. Bacteria |
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