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Artist: HERRSCHAFT
Album: Tesla
Year: 2008
Herrschaft is a French electro (black) metal band hailing from the capital of France. This band was born late 2004 as a three-piece, which quickly released a first EP called 'Architects Of The Humanicide'. This EP already had an excellent review on our webpage, which I ended with the following phrase: "I can’t wait to hear a full lenght of these guys, because the 22 minutes of this EP are a bit short". Two years, and a little line up change later - the full-lenght has been released upon mankind. 'Tesla' consists of 11 tracks, and doubles the time lenght of the debut EP. The album is released by the well-respected Code 666 label, which we know from past releases of Aborym a.o.
The release kicks off with 'Valliant'. The track includes wicked sampling, bashing drums and innovative guitarwork. It's an accessable midtempo song, which is excellent to bring you in the mood for more. 'Human Soul' is more electronic based. It's driven on powerful EBM likely synthlines and wicked drumwork, while added recogniseable vocal lines and powerful riffing. 'The Grand Architects' is more atmospheric. It has a gentle future pop synthline, easy going though powerful drumming and vocal lines that switch from harmonized ones to evil metal ones. 'Under Perfect Control' comes up next. It's again a more atmospheric song, with modern sampling and dark vocal lines and riffing. 'The Defenders' is a short and straight to the point electro black metal song, with more symphonic parts switching to more brutal parts. The track overall is blessed with very wicked drumming. The title track, 'Tesla', has more experimental keylines and sampling. It also contains midtempo drumming, straight to the point riffing and recogniseable vocal lines, which makes it a quite accessable track. 'Nemesis' is a very gentle track, build on a protounding bassline, with an outgoing chorus. It's clearly the track with the most wave influences on the album. 'I am the One' is again more midtempo, with great electronic sampling and heavy, black metal influenced riffing. The powerful drumming and the strong vocal lines fit the song excellently. 'Chaostructure' is a nice mixture of electro black metal and symphonic black metal, with powerful electrified parts switching to more symphonic ones. Again, the track includes very wicked drumming. 'Apocalypse Child' is a nice midtempo track with future pop keylines, experimental guitar work and, surprisingly, the first clean vocal lines on the record - which might sound weird in the beginning, but it fits the song with ease. The release ends with the longest track on the release, called 'Vortex'. It's an accessable track, with doomy influences and recogniseable vocal lines - a good end of this release.
When you compare this full-lenght with the 'Architects Of The Humanicide' EP, you can clearly spot a few differences. Where the old stuff was mainly black metal based, this full-lenght gives you lots of elements out of wide genres such as future pop, EBM, wave and even a little ambient. As well, the more hyperactive and spastic song structure has basically dissapeared. Still (some of) the songs are quite experimental, but the band shows a great progression when it comes to matureness. 'Tesla' turned out to fulfil the high expectations I had up front with ease. It shows great song structures, excellent variation, experimental passages and very wicked sampling and drumming all over the record, which should make any electro metal fan drool.
Vote: 97 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Valliant
2. Human Soul
3. The Grand Architects
4. Under Perfect Control
5. The Defenders
6. Tesla
7. Nemesis
8. I am the One
9. Chaostructure
10. Apocalypse Child
11. Vortex
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