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Artist: LAHO
Album: Escape From The Dying Star
Year: 2009
Some people might remember this Finnish one man project from the review of the 'The Other Side' EP I did not too long ago. For the ones who didn't - and are too lazy to check it out right now, Laho was born as a one man project in 2006 and immidiately started releasing stuff. 'The Other Side' came out in 2007, and was already the second demo. This brand new release, 'Escape From The Dying Star', can therefore be the debut full-lenght. Musically Laho mixes industrial and electro with accessable touches of modern metal.
After the electronic based / clean guitars infected intro, the album starts with the title track. It opens with light trance / future pop tunes and gets more powerful when the strong riffing enters the room. Overall it's a very danceable track, that's quite accessable for both the electro and the metal world. 'Program' is a more heavy sounding track. It's build on wicked programming, strong recogniseable riffing and wellplaced electronic sampling - making it overall a little less danceable but therefore more powerful. 'Dead End' follows. Its a heavy industrial metal track, build on a spine of brutal drumming and riffing - nicely covered with a blanket of electronic samples and industrial (and little orchestral) keylines. 'Skeptik' is a bit more atmospheric, with bashing programming, innovative riffing and haunting samples. It moves from heavy outbursts to more gentle, bass-based (if that's even a word !) parts without any nonsense. 'The Gathering' opens with heavy industrial bashing. Step by step and very slowly, it transforms into an electro metal track with influences from synth pop to ambient and from future pop to progressive rock. 'Empty' opens with one and a half minutes of light and atmospheric ambient tunes, to get followed by an experimental electronic passage - blessed with a wicked rhytm. Then when the riffing kicks in, the song transforms into a gentle electro metal track with exceptional keylines and recogniseable drumming. 'End Of Another World' consists of bashing and noisy industrial sound, slowly swapping to gentle electronic based parts and an experimental attitude. 'Dance' opens with small fragments of drum'n'bass, to get followed by an accessable electro metal track. It includes recogniseable keylines, strong riffing and wicked drumwork contributing to this suggestive songtitle. The release ends with Technomancer's remix of the title track 'Escape From The Dying Star'. It's a cool remix, blessed with an EBM beat and exposing good use of the original keylines and riffing.
Despite the fact that fully instrumental albums often manage to bore me, 'Escape From The Dying Star' managed to leave an excellent impression on me. The album includes enough different influences and variation to keep it all exciting to listen to, and tracks such as 'Escape From The Dying Star', 'Dead End' and 'Dance' makes you want to press the "repeat" button over and over again. And the best thing of all, when we look at these credit crunch reigned era - it's all for free! Follow the instructions on the official site and get your own lethal infection. I honestly can't see any industrial metal fan not liking this.
Vote: 90 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. The Countdown (Intro)
2. Escape From The Dying Star
3. Program
4. Dead End
5. Skeptik
6. The Gathering
7. Empty
8. End Of Another World
9. Dance
10. Escape From The Dying Star (Technomancer Remix)
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