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Artist: TECHNY-CALL X
Album: Evolution
Year: 2009
French industrial metallers Techny-Call X already managed to conquer my soul with their four-track demo release 'Start The Process' (2006). Their accessable mix of wellknown bands such as Samael and Rammstein didn't show any weak spots, and was begging for a full-lenght release. Beeing signed to Das Ich's label Danse Macabre Records, Techny-Call X finally brings the full-lenght that I was craving for. 'Evolution' is the given name, blessed with 12 tracks (including the 'Start The Process' songs) and a professional production.
The album opens with the ambient influenced intro 'Revolution', to be followed by 'Disconnected'. This track, which shows some small differences with the version featured on F**k Em All - Volume 2, is a welldriven industrial metal track with strong riffing, powerful drumming and mechanized sampling. 'Slavery' opens with mechanized sounds, to be followed by a bashing industrial metal track. This track, built on the excellent drumming, switches almost naturally from the metal parts to the dark electronic parts, and the straight to the point riffing and vocal lines fit the song excellently. 'Delivrance' comes up next. Knowing this song from the 'Start The Process' demo already, I was delighted to hear it with a much better production. It's a more electronic based track, with wellplaced riffing and sampling, recogniseable vocal lines, and an outspoken chorus. 'Erasing', also a track originally featured on the 'Start The Process' demo, follows. It opens with dark electro tunes, to be followed by excellent industrial metal riffing and sampling, and powerful drumming. The couplets are accompanied by bashing drumming and subtile electronic sampling works, while the chorusses are very outgoing and heavy. It's one of the more accessable tracks for the people who are more into the industrial side of industrial metal. 'Start The Process' (the title track of the preverious demo) is a gentle midtempo track, with ambient influenced sampling and no nonsense riffing and drumming. The song is mostly built on its bashing drumworks and cold, atmospheric sampling - which gives it an industrial attitude. 'Binary State' opens with some dark future pop tunes, to be followed by a downtempo electro metal track. It sails away on the excellent cold keylines and the primitive though mechanized and controlling guitar riffs. 'Mechanization' is an instrumental, machinery sounding intermezzo - to be followed by 'Critical Data'. After the powerful uptempo opening, the track continues on a more midtempo level without losing power. The track is very metal based but includes some slightly added electronic works. The switching from the more atmospheric midtempo parts to the heavy uptempo parts takes place without any problem. 'Control' surprisingly turns, after the EBM influenced intro, into the most heavy and brutal track of the records. It consists heavy powerful drumming, spastic straight to the point sampling spreaded all over the track and killer riffing and vocal lines. Definitely the most metal based track of the release. Next up comes the title track of the release, called 'Evolution'. It's again a more accessable track, with some wicked guitarwork and strong, bashing drumworks. The gentle electronic sampling fits the song excellently. 'Unload' is already the final track of the release. It's an instrumental outro, mostly keybased, with some gentle electronic sampling and drumming.
Techny-Call X is a perfect example that you don't need any weird complexities in your music to deliver a quality release. As well, all the songs are straight to the point and without any unnecissary nonsense. Only three songs are above 4 minutes long (so 9 tracks are shorter than 4 minutes), which makes the album sound like a typhoon of industrial madness. As well the mix of future pop and EBM sampling within the more traditional industrial metal influences this band has (such as Samael and Rammstein) turns out to be a real hit, and makes it more accessable to fans of the electronic side. Overall, the album shows no weak points, a certain essential degree of variation and excellent songwriting skills. Mix this with the excellent production, and you got a full frontal eargasm.
It's beyond any doubt that Techny-Call X delivers a masterpiece with 'Evolution', which is an open sollicitation to the title 'Album of the Year 2009' on our zine already, and was bombed straight inbetween my personal all-time favorite industrial metal releases from out of nothing. It's an essential release for any reader of this webzine and any industrial metal fan as well - and even if you're more into the traditional metal or the bashing electro stuff, you can give this band a chance without the risk of a dissapointment.
Vote: 100 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Revolution
2. Disconnected
3. Slavery
4. Delivrance
5. Erasing
6. Start The Process
7. Binary State
8. Mechanization
9. Critical Data
10. Control
11. Evolution
12. Unload
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