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Artist: RUKIA
Album: Seishin Assault
Year: 2007
Rukia is a Polish band, who manages to mix J-rock with
industrial metal. They’re only existing for a very short
time, but they already managed to release a debut
release upon the Earth. ‘Seishin Assault’ is the given
name to it, which turns out to be a six track EP. When I
took a closer look at their website, I saw a rather
wellbuilt and professional page... any spoiler for the
music?
‘Yakusoku’ has the honour to open this debut release.
It’s a song with very dark key and synth lines, wicked
programming and decent guitarwork. The vocal works are
variative, from clean vocals to grim vocals and clean
screams. ‘Hana No Iro’ is a synthpop/EBM based
intermezzo, followed by ‘Miauw! Death Kitty’s Life’ (a
strange title indeed). It has again very dark and cold
synthlines, orchestral keyworks and variative vocal
works. The guitar solo thats on about 2/3 of the song is
surprisingly cool, as well the dark musical works
afterwards. Next up comes ‘Hatesong’. It’s a bit more
uptempo, without losing the original dark and wicked
attitude of the band. Again some wicked guitarsolo is
added on this track, as well as the crazy programming
and the diverse vocal works. The keylines are a little
future pop based, while the outro is as surprising as
cool. ‘November Apocalypse’ comes up next. It has a
chaotic opening, and what follows is a song that’s build
on an EBM beat and synthparts, pretty decently mixed
with J-rock and industrial metal. ‘See The Lights’ opens
with gentle EBM stuff. After comes an easy listening and
dark track, that still pounds on the EBM influences. The
guitarwork is very diverse, as well as the vocal parts.
Good words about this debut indeed, but also some points
of critic. In most tracks, the programming is mastered
too much to the back, which results in a big loss of
power in some parts. I don’t know if they did it on
purpose, if they did they should consider of doing it
otherwise, because I feel it could give the songs a more
powerful attitude. Furthermore, I’m not a big fan of the
clean vocals. The grim vocals are very cool, and so are
the lower clean vocals, but when there are some ‘clean
screams’ around the corner I jump off. Maybe some point
to work on for the vocalist. But in the end, definitely
not a bad release. Rukia has found an own style already
in my opinion, which is a big step ahead on other ‘new’
bands.
Vote: 75 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Yakusoku
02. Hana no iro
03. Miaow! Death kitty’s
life
04. Hatesong
05. November Apocalypse
06. See the lights |
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