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Artist: DAGOBA
Album: What Hell Is About
Year: 2006
The virus spread by Fear Factory has victims all over
Europe, but France looks like the worst part. Bands like
Zuul FX and Malmonde already conquered many souls all
over Europe with their industrial death metal, and now
major label Seasons of Mist signed one of the leading
bands from France in this genre: Dagoba. After the
release of their self titled debut album they became
wellknown all over Europe as result of both the tours
with Fear Factory and Samael, and after the release of
‘What Hell Is About’ they went on tour with In Flames
and Sepultura too. ‘What Hell Is About’ has been
released on February 20th 2006, and special guest on
this album is Simen Hestness, better known as ICS Vortex
(Dimmu Borgir, Arcturus, ex-Borknagar) who has done some
clean vocal parts on two of the tracks.
The new album is, compared with their self titled debut,
more mature. They deliver modern industrial death metal
with a bit of the hardcore and metalcore touch, and even
some symphonic parts here and there. All the songs are
decently build, and with the diversity of the vocals
Dagoba has definitely found an own style. ‘Die Tomorrow
(...What If You Should?)’ is a killer opener with a
little metalcore touch here and there, while ‘The Fall
of Men’ is more heavy sounding for example. There are a
few tracks I would like to have a special word on.
First, ‘The Man You're Not’. This is a song that has
reached a level of power that Fear Factory never managed
to create, which is damn sure a compliment.
Pre-chorusses are accompanied by keys, and the chorus is
catchy as Hell. Definitely one of the best songs of the
record, specially the intermezzo with the keys and the
machinery music is outstanding. ‘Morphine -The Apostle
of Your Last War’ is even more brutal, as I consider it
as the most brutal track of the record. Extreme
guitarwork and killer double bass bashing are hearable
all over the song, and mixed with the modern industrial
death metal vocals gives this song nothing to complain
about. I put it to you that no true industrial death
metal fan will dislike this song! ‘It's All About Time’
is, together with ‘The White Guy (Suicide)’, the track
with the guest vocalist in action. It’s the longest
track of the record, and built decently as usual. There
is not much to say about this song, except the guest
vocals of Vortex. In my opinion, they sound a little
weird and misplaced on an industrial death metal fact,
underlined by the fact that Dagoba’s vocalist is able to
do great clean vocals as well. Don’t get me wrong,
Vortex is an awesome vocalist, but I just don’t think
that his vocals really fit on music like this. Although,
its accompanied beautifully by the atmospheric keys.
In the end, I dare to say that Seasons of Mist signed
another killer industrial band after Aborym and Kill The
Thrill, and with this release Dagoba proves that they
are not a one day fly. Now just wait until the time the
machines will take over the world, because the
soundtrack has been made already.
Vote: 85 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. What Hell Is
About...
02. Die Tomorrow
(...What if you should?)
03. The Fall of Men
04. The Man Youre Not
05. Cancer
06. Its All About Time
07. The Things Apart
08. The Things Within
09. LivinDead
10. 042104
11. Morphine
12. The Apostle of Your
Last War
13. The White Guy
(Suicide) |
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