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Artist: DEADCELL
Album: The Massacre
Year: 2006
DeadCell from Eindhoven was one of the major surprises
of the Summer Darkness 2006 festival to me. This
industrial metal project of Marcus Bodine treated us on
a cool and refreshing live show, and the more important
thing, the music seemed excellent as well. By then, the
debut album was almost finished, and soon the CD release
came (October 19th). The debut album is called “The
Massacre”, it contains nine tracks and it comes with a
DVD inlay.
To describe the music will not be the most difficult
thing I have ever done. Take some EBM sampling, mix it
with a distortion guitar and clean vocals and voila:
there you have the music of DeadCell. Fortunately, this
CD offers you lots more than this description might
suggest. A song like ‘End of Honour’ is more metal based
and filled with fast beats, while ‘Hardliner’ is very
EBM based. On ‘Radio Silence’, ‘Zeitgeist’ and ‘Newborn
Sin’ the guitars are used to create a more powerful vibe
around the EBM sampling, while on ‘The Massacre’ the
sampling seems used as a spine to carry the guitars on.
Lyrically, DeadCell swims in the darker regions of this
world, here and there mixed with anti-American
propaganda. On ‘Communist Conspiracy’, which is actually
an intermezzo, and on ‘God Is American’ this anti U.S.A.
propaganda is exposed the best. I quote, from ‘God Is
American’: “Everyday God creates enemies of the state.
[...] I am American, understand. U.S.A., K.K.K.” Maybe
this reveals some punky influences in DeadCell too, but
fact is that they managed to expose their points quite
clear and straight to the... point, yes. Some other
thing I want to be said in this review is the good
English pronnounciation. While (commercial) Dutch
pop/rock-acts (for the insiders: think of Kane, Di-Rect,
etc.) have a terrible Dutch accent on their English,
Marcus manages to minimalize this, which is obiously a
good point. One of the many good points that is! Bands
that come in mind are Ministry, Rob Zombie, The CNK and
Vigilante, but DeadCell sounds damn original. With a
debut like this, it only seems a matter of time before
any label will pick DeadCell up. And my hint of today:
go watch a live show of them too, you will not be
dissapointed!
Vote: 96 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Radio Silence
02. Newborn Sin
03. Hardliner
04. Communist Conspiracy
05. End of Honour
06. God is American
07. SAEVIUS SX-11
08. The Massacre
09. Zeitgeist
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