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Artist: NOESIS
Album: When All Colours Are Dead
Year: 2006
The Spanish industrial metal scene is rising. Bands like
Blood, Code Name and Krell already came to my attention,
and today another Spanish product fell on my doormat,
and we’re not talking about paella. Noesis comes from
Santander, which lays in the north of Spain. This band
saw the light late 2004, when some people who played in
different bands got together to give birth to a new
project with gothic, electro, synth pop and metal
influences. After some live shows, the band got to get
more known because of the release of a festival DVD
which included three Noesis tracks. 2006 brought these
guys back into the office to record their debut album
“When All Colours Are Dead”. This album was recieved
good by Spanish press and audience, and after they won a
regional battle (best Cantabrian band) they decided to
spread their stuff further and further, resulting in (amongst
others) a review on the Industrial Metal Webzine. “When
All Colours Are Dead” contains eleven tracks and bonus
videos and is released as a digipack.
‘Should I...’ is a decently build track with a catchy,
powerful guitarriff. The synths and the vocals are very
well used on this track. The wicked sampling on the
background is the difference between a modern metal song
and a unique industrial metal track. ‘Monochromatic
Neuronal Intuition’ has the longest tracktitle of the
album. Despite this, the track is everything but long-winded.
The song contains powerful drumming and a strong
guitarriff, ending in quite a sensitive chorus where the
vocals and the keys take control. The couplets have a
catchy vocal line, which is always a good thing of
course. ‘Lost in Quasars’ contains an EBM sounding intro,
which is roughly brought to an end by a powerful metal
part. The song has Rammstein likely guitarriffs,
powerful drumming and some surprisingly fresh industrial
intermezzo and an excellent guitar solo. The fact that
Noesis knows the meaning of the word “timing” is proved
by the next track, ‘Stranged’. This is an outstanding
gothic metal track with fabulous vocal works, and shows
a side of the band which I’d suspect already but which
wasn’t etalaged until now. The intermezzo contains of
accoustic guitarwork and very cold keyworks. ‘Awakened
of the Storm’ is the next one. This track has a touch of
the old school in the beginning, but floods over in an
easy listening industrial metal track which is very
decently build. ‘Mechanical Mayhem’ is an instrumental
track, which floods over in ‘Inside of Pain’. This
happens to be my favourite track. It contains excellent
key and sampling works, a very strong drumbeat and
killer vocals. The guitar riff is the so-called
finishing touch, because it gives the song a certain
atmosphere. ‘Sea of Sand’ contains a cold atmosphere (due
to the keyworks most of all) and thrashy guitarwork.
‘Spawned by the Ice of Centuries’ can be filed under the
same comments as ‘Stranged’, which means a more
sensitive track with excellent instrumental and vocal
works. ‘Towards a Cosmic Theology’ is the longest and
probably most powerful track of the album. The drums
could fit in an EBM track with ease, while the guitars
sound very distorted and powerful. The keyworks is a big
wink to their synth pop influences. ‘Extraño’ is a nice
bonus track which is the Spanish version of the song ‘Stranged’.
In the end it seems hard to find weaker points on this
one. The English pronounciation is accepteable, there is
variation enough and all instruments are played with
devotion (with no exception for the vocal lines), so I
think I’ll just keep this short. Fans of bands like
Ewigkeit, Golden Age, and modern gothic rock/metal will
agree with me on this: you can’t deny quality!
Vote: 97 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Should I...
02. Monochromatic
Neuronal Intuition
03. Lost in Quasars
04. Stranged
05. Awakened of the
Storm
06. Mechanical Mayhem
07. Inside of Pain
08. Sea of Sand
09. Spawned by the Ice
of Centuries
10. Towards a Cosmic
Theology
11. Extraño |
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