WARKRIME
Get Loose
(No Way)

AMORPHIS
Silent Waters
(Nuclear Blast)

GODHEADSCOPE
A City Out of Sight
(God is Myth)

TUSK
The Resisting Dreamer
(Tortuga)

HYPNOS 69/MONKEY 3
Split
(Rock n Roll Radio)

GENOCIDE
Apocalyptic Visions 

(Van)

HAVOC UNIT
h.IV+

(Vendlus)

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Always been a bit of a skeptic when it comes down to industrial music. More so if it collides with metal and spews hybrids that usually mask borderline mediocre musicianship.  No fear here then.  Finland’s Havoc Unit certainly has the chops as it rises from the metallic ashes of black metal band …And Oceans, whose music progressively got less and less human and organic.  There is a long diatribe, (listed as ‘proclamation’ on the band’s Wikipedia page) but I would like to take this opportunity to simplify things for you; h.IV+ is pretty much your standard industrial metal album. Fortunately, it’s got some quasi killer tunes and the drums have this really low bottom that’s just the right dosage of organic to balance things out a bit. For a highly robotic sounding album anyway.

Matter of fact, that’s not the only organic element to the record. “I.esus” for instance, seems to have borrowed the guitars from Chaos A.D./Arise era Sepultura. All we need is the solos and Andreas Kisser will materialize right before your ears.  Albeit, those guitars must have been processed and reprocessed as to sound as if they were just shat by a computer.  This type of guitar work is present in other places, while clashing cymbals and drums with the precision of a Raymond Herrera multiplied by three. Havoc Unit gets help from renowned underground artists such as Solefald, Audio Parasite, And Then You Die and others. If that’s enough of an enticement, I say give this a chance. If you care very little about industrial metal, then h.IV+ won’t change your mind.  

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