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Artist: VIOLENT DIVA
Album: Six Violent Mornings
Year: 2007
Another band from Italy for a change (logging out of
sarcasm mode) – Violent Diva is a duo from Bologna, who
says to be an active band for two years before the
release of this very promo. The promo comes with a press
sheet written in bad English (Italenglish?), but
fortunately it’s quite informative. ‘Six Violent
Mornings’ is described as ‘sonic experimentations with
throbbing beats of clear techno/EBM origin, joined with
melodic and harmonic searches of various extraction,
flowing back to the same conclusion; a defined and
original musical structure.’ Quite some big (read:
vague) words for a seven track (and its called ‘Six
Violent Mornings’ indeed… a miscount?) debut promo, and
I’m normally not that fond on descriptions like these.
But hey, you can’t judge a book on what the author says
about it too, so lets have a listen to the promo now and
judge afterwards.
‘White Dress’ is the first track of the album. Musically
it has some touches of fellow Italian bands Syrian and
XP8, but the Sisters of Mercy likely vocals suddenly
give the track a different direction. It’s an easy
listening EBM track, danceable with a dark attitude.
‘Electro Suicide’ is a bit more electro orientated, with
bashing programming works that creates the perfect rhytm
for a dance massacre. This track was also featured on
the IBM Vol 2 compilation a while ago, and the people
who thought that track rocked should really listen to
this improved version too. Plus, a catchy chorus to sing
a long with while you’re dancing! Next up comes a Duran
Duran cover. ‘Wild Boys’ is a pretty weird choice if you
ask me, but it turned out to be a perfect cover. The
vocal style is the opposite of the original track, and
also the music style comes quite close to that, but
Violent Diva managed to keep enough elements of the
original track in their cover version to keep it
recogniseable, without losing their own style because it
truely sounds like one of their own tracks. Impressive!
‘Headfucker (The Noise Inside The Head)’ comes up next.
It contains a marching beat, more softer vocals and cool
electronic parts. People who know (and like) ‘What The
Fuck Is Wrong With You’ by Combichrist might also
appreciate this track, because globally it comes quite
close to that one. ‘TV Shows’ opens with some Nintendo
likely sounds (?), followed by sampled vocals like Cher
(?). Does the track gets normal too? Yes, it does,
fortunately. It’s an easy listening EBM/future pop
likely track, with some weird experimental parts hidden
here and there. ‘Flammable’ is again more danceable and
powerful. It’s a cool and dark mix of electro with
techno, and the wellknown gothic influences. Songs like
these can make a dancefloor explode within no time.
‘Neverending Nightmare’ is the final track, and one that
definitely surprises me to say the least. Orchestral
parts are mixed with some old school EBM touches and
some modern gothic (metal) influences. A song that’s
total different from the other tracks on the album, but
definitely not in a bad way, because the band shows
their talents to write these kind of stuff very clearly.
The pure metal fans reading this review might be
wondering why I haven’t mentioned the metal guitar parts
in the songs. Well, the answer is very clearly: because
there aren’t any. Then why review it? Because we review
everything that has been sent to us, and besides that
you can clearly hear some metal influences in the song
structures (not too complex – straight to the point – no
compromises). Furthermore, I didn’t want to let this one
go away unnoticed, because that would be rather unworthy
for something with this quality. Good thing I didn’t
judge on the promo after the press sheet already,
because then I would have missed this all. If you are
ready for the next battle then fasten your seatbelts
quickly, because this is good stuff!
Vote: 80 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. White Dress
02. Electro Suicide
03. Wild Boys (Duran
Duran Cover)
04. Headfucker (The
Noise Inside The Head)
05. TV Shows
06. Flammable
07. Neverending
Nightmare |
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