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PSYCLON NINE - INRI (METROPOLIS) |
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If ever there was electro with the attitude of black
metal, this is it. Fortunately, it lacks the
instrumental bombast of such violent music. Here, the
attack is in the lyrics and vocals, both of which I'll
address momentarily. Instrumentally you're facing a
blend of standard electro industrial with melodic but
dark songwriting and beats that dwell in a large
mid-range. There's a tad of distortion but its fairly
sleekly textured. However, there are guitars in places
and though not of the extreme metal intensity they do
(when coupled with the vocals ... which I'm getting
to) tend to call to mind heavy metal. It is ironic
though that at least once I was made to think of
electronically oriented pop from the 80s. But that
didn't last long. I was soon thrust back into the
electro world where wicked vox delivered their dark
message to me. While raspy vocals (told ya!) are
anything but uncommon in electro-industrial, it is a
bit strange for them to be this high pitched and
hissy; it may be this as much as anything that made me
think of black metal. But, of course, there are also
the, uh, irreverent lyrics, which summon sacrelige on
a par with many anti-Christian metal bands. Churning
with cynicism and hostile unbelief, written with a
sharply poetic pen, Psyclon Nine makes a strong point
that will require the open-minded to appreciate.
Fortunately for me I like shocking, iconoclastic
ideas, and the music ain't too shabby either. -- review by Kristofer Upjohn
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