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The
Requiem Reveries
is a three way split of technological extremes. First up is
Havoc Unit, the Finnish industrial heads of whom I had reviewed
h+IV; a full-length that truly did not engaged me enough
because I found it a bit too much on the standard industrial
metal side. There were traces of Sepultura on some of the guitar
work, which did not convinced me fully, but here Havoc Unit
(actually billed as Havok Unit with a K) actually presents us
its first song ever, which comes off as way more industrial, way
more extreme and corrosive and way more intense than the
material included in h+IV. “With Discipline Upon Mankind”
is IDM cross pollinated with high tech metal; a killer track of
sheer frenetism and relentless rapidness. With samples of some
sort of political propaganda on top and prominent programming as
icing this band seemed to have found a militaristic niche at
their start. Two remixes of the same song follow, and unless you
are really into modern industrial music with rock as an
afterthought I would not recommend either.
AndOceans was
the band that died in 2005 and during the process spawned Havoc
Unit, and their track included here (“”Yerushalayim Erez
Haqodes”) was their last ever. This is certainly more simplistic
and typical blackened metal. Not black metal per se, as in
Norwegian metal. No ghostly and necro shrieks, or silly
orchestrations on the side. On the contrary, AndOceans sound
quite beefy with big, simple guitars, inconspicuous keyboard
work, and long growling vocals. You can almost hear a more
industrial band fighting its way out of AndOceans, and the move
was certainly the correct move, as the sole track presented here
is quite lackluster. Tailing it, are two long remixes of
the song (I am not even going to try to type that title again),
and like I said above, unless you are really into modern
‘ambient’
music, with rock as an afterthought I would not recommend
either.
The last track
comes from The Sin:Decay, a side project from a member of both
AndOceans and Havok Unit, and you are going to have to pull out
the ghoulish make up and those huge boots you bought at your
local Hot Topic for this one. The Sin:Decay make the whole
gothic industrial metal thing quite melodically, and on their
way would like to put some vampire moves on you. At least that’s
what it sounds like to me, the vocals are quite vampiric, dude
sounds all deep and charming and has some rather generic guitars
backing him up, which I am guessing is quite alright for fans of
the type. I kind of pass, The Sin:Decay really do very little
for me.
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