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Artist: PLUTONIUM
Album: One Size Fits All
Year: 2007
At first sight, this might sound like a big cliché:
another young black metal band from Scandinavia,
screaming their lungs out in the name of everything
that’s evil and dark. Released by the label ‘Khaoz Star
Records’, which is of course so underground that only
their bands have heard of it, they’re ready to
indoctrinate humanity! ... Well, Swedish band Plutonium
might fit in this cliché at first sight, but after
listening to their stuff they became a pretty well
surprise to me. After their ‘Wind of Change’ demo in
2004, they released their debut album ‘One Size Fits All’
in 2007.
‘World Wide Vulture’ is the first track on this release.
It contains excellent programming, atmospheric and
powerful guitarwork and wellfitting vocal lines. The old
school touch is really hearable in this track, but the
programming is too varied to call it a “real” old school
track. ‘Motionless Torrent’ is mostly build on a
marching drumbeat and also contains surprisingly cool
sampled guitarparts. The raw and atmospheric attitude of
this track is well exposed by some melodical parts which
are hidden here and there. ‘Introducing The Dominance’
goes on with the marching drumbeat strategy. The doomy
guitarwork fits the song surprisingly well. It could fit
perfectly on any soundtrack of a war movie. ‘A Child
Called Shit (Two Minutes Hate)’ is an instrumental
intermezzo, and ‘The New Conciousness’ comes after. This
is a fast track with very cool guitarriffs (pay special
attention to the lead guitarist!) and ambient phases
here and there, which might come as a surprise in the
beginning but after you’re a bit used to it you’ll find
it pretty well placed. My favourite track of the album
for sure! ‘Where Dead Children Feed The Streets’ is
probably the most atmospheric track of the album, with
very dark guitarwork and cold programming works. Some of
the lead guitar parts give me thrills down my spine.
Next up is the title track of the album. This track
sounds like a cool mix between death metal and black
metal, with some flamboyant programming works. ‘Victory
Mansions’ is the final (and also the longest) track of
this release. It contains very atmospheric musical
works, and vocal lines which sound more like sermons if
you ask me.
One of the things that make this album better than ‘just
another black metal’ album is the fact that this band
doesn’t like to stick themselves onto just the (raw)
black metal genre. The downtuned parts on songs like
‘World Wide Vulture’, ‘Motionless Torrent’ and ‘One Size
Fits All’ are clearly death metal influenced, and some
of the programming on ‘Motionless Torrent’ and ‘The New
Conciousness’ have a wink of the industrial touch. And
not to mention ‘A Child Called Shit (Two Minutes Hate)’,
which is a total ambient track! Yes ladies and
gentleman, if you ask me this is a very promising debut
release by this band, and don’t look too surprised if
this band will become a bigger name in the future... at
least I won’t, because the potential is clearly here.
Vote: 85 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. World Wide Vulture
02. Motionless Torrent
03. Introducing The
Dominance
04. A Child Called Shit
(Two Minutes Hate)
05. The New Conciousness
06. Where Dead Children
Feed The Streets
07. One Size Fits All
08. Victory Mansions |
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