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Artist: PSIONIC
Album: Manifest
Year: 2005
When a band says to be highly influenced by The Kovenant
and even has the same webmaster on their webpage (who
also created their logo by the way), the label of
‘Kovenant-clone’ seems logical. The band I am currently
talking about is American band Psionic. After their
debut album ‘Nu-Tech Cyber Sorcery’ they released the
follow-up ‘Manifest’ in 2002. Since I am not known with
the preverious work, there is not much material to
compare, so I’ll just have a look on what we have here.
And look, track 4 and 5 are originally to be found on
the debut full lenght anyway!
The ‘Manifest’ release turns out to be an easy listening
one. Take a bit of The Kovenant, mix it with a little
KMFDM and a little touch of Fear Facoty for the flavour
and you will get the idea. Sounds like a good mix huh?
Well, reading this now again it sounds like a great mix
for me too. But, reality is hard. The songs are
musically well build, but the results are not convincing
at all. ‘Ground Zero’ is one of the most flat openers I
have ever heard, and the longer this release takes the
more boring it gets. The vocals miss a lot of depth, and
the guitars sound even a bit unfitting at some parts.
The only song I like on this record is ‘Grey Race’, a
more symphonic and less cyber song, where the keys
manage to make the song sound better than the others.
But anyway, in the end I would not spend my money on
this one. This has been done over a thousand times
already, and 95% of the time it has been done way
better.
Vote: 45 / 100
Review by: Mark |
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01. Ground Zero
02. Grey Race
03. Manifest
04. Deleted Souls
05. The Demon Energy
Cube
06. The Digital Vortex
07. Machine Enhanced
Sorcery |
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