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Artist: NANOCHRIST
Album: Dead Fiction
Year: 2009
Nanochrist was born in 1998 in Toronto, Canada as a five piece electro metal band. Taking influences from bands such as Nine Inch Nails, KMFDM and Fear Factory time has taken the band through four album releases before the release of this 'Dead Fiction' CD. According to the biography of this currently quartet, this album "moves away from the dissonance and longer, prog-ish compositions of their earlier albums, evolving into shorter, more concise and digestable songs, without losing any of the complexity, heaviness, and intensity that defines the Nanochrist sound."
The release opens with the title track - 'Dead Fiction'. It's a powerful midtempo track containing Machine Head likely vocals and vocal lines, powerful riffing and tight drumming. The industrial intermezzo is essentially wellplaced. 'ADSR' is a bashing track following walking that path. It consists of diverse drumming, wellplaced sampling and a powerful midtempo attitude accompanied by tight riffing and vocal works. 'Suffersystem 666' is a brutal mix of modern metal and cyber metal, coming with an accessable attitude. It includes diverse vocal lines, powerful though gentle sounding double bass drumming and wellfitting guitar work. The keylines all over the song give it a certain atmosphere. 'The Accidental Masochist' is again a bit more midtempo based, coming with what is probably the best riff of the release (hidden in the chorus) and subtile electro and industrial elements through the sampling and keylines. One of the most accessable tracks on the release. 'Chaos Mirror' is my personal favorite track on this release, providing a powerful though accessible and pretty catchy mix of cyber metal and wave, absorbing both old school and modern influences. It contains straight forward riffing and ditto drumming and diverse vocal lines matching excellently with the samples. 'Balance Unlimited' moves you from wave passages to outbursting industrial metal chorusses and parts. Overall the song has a modern and powerful attitude. 'Exoskeleton' is one of the more brutal songs, mixing cyber metal with electro / darkwave elements. The result is a bashing and trashing industrial metal track. 'Chronodermis' mixes darkwave and electro with old school gothic influences and sensitive vocal lines, to ultimately lead into outbursts on the chorusses. The song structure makes it sound slightly different than the rest of this album. 'Hypersleep' is again more brutal and uptempo, coming with touches of electro metal and cyberpunk. It mixes wicked drumming with tight straight to the point riffing, experimental sampling and wellfitting diverse vocal lines. 'Are You Kidding Me!' is a modern electro metal track coming with excellent sampling, powerful drumming and ditto riffing melted together excellently by the harsh vocal lines. The song also hides elements of darkwave and ambient. To me 'Purge' sounds like a balanced mix of Marilyn Manson (couplets) and Machine Head (choruses) - coming with modern sampling and keylines accompanied by diverse drumming and riffing. The surprisingly cool sounding guitar solo is also worth mentioning. 'Dust' is a bit more experimental - coming with elements from breakcore and cyber metal blended together well with the electro metal attitude that lays all over the entire album. One of the songs you immidiately start nodding your head on. The release ends with 'Racecar Racecar'. It's blessed with a bashing rhytm, strong riffing and diverse vocal lines and samples.
With 'Dead Fiction', Nanochrist delivers a very very very decent album that will apply to a lot of people reading this actual review on this webzine. Fans of the modern uptempo tunes of bands like MXD, MDM and newer MortIIs who have never found the missing link between those bands and more old school stuff like Nine Inch Nails, Swamp Terrorists and even Prong - don't look any further.
Vote: 91 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Dead Fiction
2. ADSR
3. Suffersystem 666
4. The Accidental Masochist
5. Chaos Mirror
6. Balance Unlimited
7. Exoskeleton
8. Chronodermis
9. Hypersleep
10. Are You Kidding Me!
11. Purge
12. Dust
13. Racecar Racecar
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