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Artist: HYPNOSIS
Album: Seeds Of Fate
Year: 2006
When it comes to France and the metal scene, it has
always been pretty obvious. (Major) Labels look like
they are settled in every city, but when it comes to
bands there was one big black hole (with an exception
for Misanthrope that is). But fortunately, the last few
years new bands began to rise here too, and also in the
industrial metal scene. Bands like Malmonde, Dagoba,
Zuul FX and Jenx manage to mix death metal with
industrial quite well, and the band we have here now –Hypnosis–
can easely be added to these names too. This band, born
in 1993 but the real kick-off was in 1996, exists of
three members. They already released three albums before
this one on three different labels, and ‘Seeds of Fate’
is released on a different label again!
Musically, this band can easely be related to the French
bands I mentioned before, and some more known acts like
Fear Factory and DyNAbyte. There is some great
industrial drumming spreaded all over the record,
accompanied by some wicked mechanized guitarwork and
industrial, even a little bit ambient influenced
intermezzos. The growling vocals fit this music exactly,
and although the heavy metal influenced clean vocals
sound a bit strange and misplaced when you first listen
to this album, in the end this crazy wickedness turns
out to be something cool that gives this band a whole
different sound. ‘Genesis Of Destruction’, the first
track of this album, is a good example of what this own
sound thingie means when it is blasted through your
speakers. Some ultra-fast double bass drumming mixed
with quite a lot highhats and splashes are brought
together with blackened death likely guitarwork and
soft, clean vocalled intermezzos. It has been a smart
move of these guys to use this track as opener, because
it immidiately wakes you up and makes sure you pay total
attention. ‘Stone Cold Embrace’, the next track, has the
same elements, though quite a different outcome. Thrashy
guitarriffs here and there mixed with some modern death
metal parts, which remind me to Scarve here and there,
is the basis of this song. The drumming is formidable
again, which makes this track another one to remember.
But, some other tracks sound rate different too. ‘The
Room’ is more industrial based, while ‘Soul Mirror’ and
‘Erosion of Thoughts’ (this one has even a little bit of
the catchy touch in the clean vocal parts!) are more old
school and heavy metal based.
So, in the end this album tured out to be quite an
experimental one which (although the strange fact that
all songs are quite long, specially for industrial death
metal) never gets bored. The drumsound all over the
album is bouncing and kicking, and will challenge you to
stand rigid against it! Killer stuff!
Vote: 94 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Genesis Of
Destruction
02. Stone Cold Embrace
03. Soul Mirror
04. The Room
05. Erosion Of Thoughts
06. Altered Reality
07. Low Life Process
08. Glittering Words
09. Seeds Of Fate |
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