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Artist: NEXT WASTE
DIMENSION
Album: Rewire Reality
Year: 2007
Next Waste Dimension is a trio hailing from the north-east
of The Netherlands. Since I saw them quite some years
ago on the Metalbash festival (they only had one demo
out back then) I was (and still am) quite impressed of
their music and live show. With ease, they manage to mix
(melodic) death metal with dance and electronics, and
despite their talents they stayed one of The Netherlands’
best kept secret for quite some years. Finally, in 2007
a label opened their eyes (or should I say ears?) and
after three demos they got signed and the release of the
first full-lenght album became reality. ‘Rewire Reality’
consists of ten tracks (most of them are revamped tracks
from their past demos) and got released by Under Her
Black Wings in summer 2007.
‘Opaque’ has the honour to open this album. The first 35
seconds you think you’re listening to some future pop
song, but when the guitars and vocals are added there’s
no way back. Thrashy guitarriffs, powerful drumming and
the agressive yet understandable growling vocals of
Rikkert add a certain brutality to the track. The way
the keys/sampling give backing support on the pre-chorus
and the chorus is pretty impressive, and the metalish
outro is a nice and original ending for the track.
‘Zephyr’ contains more uptempo stuff, with brutal metal
parts swapped with gentle, key orientated parts. The
electronics sound more fresh than on the preverious
tracks, and the slower chorus fits the track
surprisingly well. ‘The Forgotten’ is the third track on
the album. Its a less industrial influenced track, which
is built on a solid melodic death metal spine. Its a
more atmospheric and easy listening song, which is
pretty nice for a change. ‘1st Encounter’ sounds like
synthpop for the first 1 minute and 20 seconds, but
afterwards it has been build up slowly to end in a
decent melodic (death) metal track. The fresh dance
intermezzo on this track shows that there is clearly no
lack of creativity in Next Waste Dimension. ‘Stamina’ is
the name given to the next track. It sounds surprisingly
happy and even a little danceable, without too much use
of electronics. The fast and brutal metal parts fit in
the song quite well, and doesn’t murder the track. Next
up comes ‘Distorted’. Again opening with some dance and
synth pop tunes, but transforming into a thrasher when
the metal suddenly enters the room. An atmospheric
chorus with some little bass solos might not be the
thing that surprises me the most, but the intermezzo
where they manage to mix gentle and dark electronic
stuff with heavy and brutal guitars. ‘Nervewrecker’ can
be placed in the same category as ‘Stamina’, with some
danceable drumworks swapped with metal parts, although
the metal parts are more present in this song. After 1
minute and 25 seconds the more happy dancetunes
transform into some atmopheric industrial metal track,
to transform back in a more happy state in the end, with
a thrashy outro. ‘Dead Soil’ is a melodic death metal
track, with slightly added electronics. When about 1/3
of the song passed away, the song gets more brutal
(death metal) to get gentle right after (electronic
intermezzo) and then to continue the brutal path, to end
in the more gentle vein of the track again. ‘I Am
Energy’ follows. This is a very original and modern
industrial metal track. A great mix between dance, metal
and electro is the best description of it. With ease,
the band floods from one genre to another, which results
in quite an... energetic track (yes indeed!). ‘Force Fed
Greed’ is the final track of the album, and the
(melodic) death metal with the industrial flavour still
remains as tasty as in the beginning. This track is a
gentle one, with the necissary dance tunes hidden
everywhere and nowhere. The outro is very beautiful
(wicked guitar riff), and that probably declares why
they picked this song as final song of the album.
When I give a closer ear to the production, I can only
be positive. While on the preverious demos
(unfortunately I am still missing the first one, but
I’ve heard the mp3s on the website) the keys are a
little too loud now and then, the metal parts really
come forward on this full lenght. Furthermore, most of
the sampling and the key lines are revamped and sound
way more darker than on the demos, which fits the music
better. As a lovely bonus, there’s also a nice video for
the song ‘Opaque’, where we can find some cool art done
by Jeroen (VJ) (who the people who have seen NWD live
will recognise because of the beamer stuff). This stuff
is pure quality that never gets boring, and the fact
that this CD comes in the weirders juwel case ever won’t
spoil the fun at all.
Vote: 98 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Opaque
02. Zephyr
03. The Forgotten
04. 1st Encounter
05. Stamina
06. Distorted
07. Nervewrecker
08. Dead Soil
09. I Am Energy
10. Force Fed Greed |
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