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Artist: DIGIMORTAL
Album: Singles 2006
Year: 2006
When you hear the name ‘Digimortal’, most of you people
must be thinking of the album Fear Factory released some
time ago. Well people, for you I have a nice surprise.
Hailing from Russia comes a brand new cyber metal band
with this very same name. And people who fear another
Fear Factory clone will be made silent from the first
tunes until the end of their lives! To spread their name,
they have released some websingles in 2006 and for
reviewers these singles are placed on their first promo,
simply called ‘Singles 2006’.
This promo kicks off with an intro. Not much to say
about this intro, except that it sounds very atmospheric
and industrial metal based. ‘Ya Vash Vrag’ (which means
I am your Enemy) is the first real track. The first
thing that is displayed by this song is that this band
is not afraid to throw a heavy guitar sound into their
music. This fact, mixed with the wicked sampling in the
first 35 seconds of this song, gives this song a very
powerful attitude. Take the riffs of bands like
Meshuggah, Dagoba and even a little touch of the Samael
world and you will get the idea. The sampling returns
into the chorus and some other times too, which gives
this song a spacey attitude (think of the thing
T3CHN0PH0B1A is doing with some succes the last years).
The vocals are laying inbetween clean and raw stuff,
with some little tops at both sides. Killer track to say
the least! ‘Belka i Strelka’ (try to let your kids say
this as fast as possible ten times in a row when you are
traveling by car and you are stuck in traffic – they
will definitely stop crying for some time) is a song
about the first Russian dog in space. I expected some
more of the wicked cyber stuff, but the track title
fooled me terribly on this one. The guitar riffs are
flying from metalcore to industrial death metal stuff,
and don’t look weird if you hear a little touch of
Malmonde and Rammstein in other parts of the song. The
track is decently build (just like the preverious one by
the way) and gets pretty easy listening the more you
listen to it. There is some crazy guitarwork in the
first minute of this song which is worth mentioning too,
just like the robotic sampling which has bashed its way
all over the song. ‘Tibet (Demo)’ has a more raw
sounding, probably the reason why they added the ‘demo’
word to this one. It shows a different, more atmospheric
side of this band, experimenting with some romantic EBM
stuff and HC guitar sounds. It’s refreshing to hear that
a young band like Digimortal dares to show a different
side, specially when it is a quality song like this one.
This band definitely has good song writing skills. After
this promo and the websingles, they are starting to work
on their debut album which I definitely would love to
hear. Because, like Ali G said while he was testing the
weed harvest at the end of his movie: “This... is good
shit!”
Vote: 85 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Terra Matrix (Intro)
02. I'm Your Enemy! (Ya
Vash Vrag!)
03. Belka i Strelka
04. Tibet (Demo)
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