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Artist: SYBREED
Album: Slave Design
Year: 2004
I don’t know many industrial metal bands from
Switzerland. Unfortunately, because the ones I know
managed to blow my mind away in their own way (search
for reviews of Deep Metal Mechanic and MXD on this page
if you became curious now). Lately, another Swiss band
reached my ears. They say to have wide influences (Zeromancer,
Meshuggah, Soilwork and Front Line Assembly to name a
few) and to make music based on their daily lifes in
Geneva, Switzerland. Will life over there be like a
sweet summer wind, or more like a blasting hurricane?
After I listened to their debut album, Slave Design, I
dare to say that it is definitely the last option!
Because, Sybreed stands for no compromises! Industrial
death metal, electro, metalcore and thrash metal are
thrown into a blender, mixed with 1000 rpm and unleashed
after about a year. The result is this debut album.
Links to bands like Dagoba, Malmonde, Zuul FX and (old)
Fear Factory are quite easely made after this, but I
dare to say that Sybreed has a touch of the different
kind. The first track, ‘Bioactive’, is already a great (and
agressive!) example. This song features perfect
industrial death metal drumming, machinery sounding
guitarriffs, electro loops and a mixture of raw and deep
vocals. The fact that this song is the longest one (six
minutes and seventeen seconds) of this album clearly
doesn’t make this song a boring one. Songs of this kind
can break walls that are build inbetween the band and
the audience at live gigs, so people can go crazy at the
first song already! Other songs of this kind are
‘Synthetic Breed’, ‘Machine Gun Messiah’ and ‘Static
Currents’, which are... all to be found on this album!
Sybreed has a different face too though. ‘Decoy’ is
clearly Fear Factory influenced, while ‘Next Day Will
Never Come’ even has a little bit of the emo(core) touch.
‘Take The Red Pill’ combines these two influences with
ease, while ‘Critical Mass’ comes closer to a rock song
than an industrial metal song! In the end, this album
turned out to be a surprisingly good and variative one,
and I have to say that I enjoyed every second of it.
Fans of the bands I already mentioned will definitely
have to check this Swiss band out, else I will tell
their parents to not feed them any chocolate bars in the
future! And yes, that is a promise.
Vote: 90 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Bioactive
02. ReEvolution
03. Decoy
04. Synthetic Breed
05. Next Day Will Never
Come
06. Machine Gun Messiah
07. Take The Red Pill
08. Rusted
09. Static Currents
10. Critical Mass
11. ReEvolution (Syntax
Airplay Edit)
12. Decoy (Radio Slave
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