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Artist: XE-NONE
Album: Angels (Single)
Year: 2007
Xe-NONE from Russia was one of the very first featured
bands on Industrialized Metal. They were also one of the
first bands that were reviewed, and they were the very
first band who got interviewed on the page too. I’ve
always followed this band with a closer eye since then,
because their ‘blood rave cyber metal’ has always sound
like Heaven in my ears. Nowadays, they present us a
brand new single called ‘Angels’. It consists out of
three tracks, of which two have a quite recogniseable
title already (preverious releases? Yes.).
‘Angels’ is the first track of this three-track single.
It opens with the wellknown Eurodance attitute (great
synthlines!) and turns into a brutal dance metal track
when the guitars are added. The brutal male screams and
gentle female vocals are added on recogniseable parts,
and the powerful drumparts give this track both a brutal
metal and a danceable attitude. Both ‘Digital Fucker AD’
and ‘Slave On_Line’ are new versions of the tracks that
originally appeared on the very first EP. ‘Digital
Fucker AD’ has had quite some transformation. In fact,
it’s hard to recognise the original track (besides the
vocal lines)! Its a midtempo danceable track with more
metal than Eurodance influences, with various vocal
styles (melodic, brutal, powerful). The transformation
clearly turned it into a better track. ‘Slave On_Line’
sounds more cyberish than the original track. This
always was a track of which I hoped to hear with a
better production, and my prayings were heard. This
track also had some transformation but less extreme than
the preverious. The whole track is extremely powerful,
and shows the true talents of this band with ease.
Compared to the latest two releases, this single EP is
blessed with a better production. More and more little
details in the sampling are hearable, and the songs
sound more harmonized. Fans of this Russian band will be
forced into more sleepless nights after this single.
Because it sucks? No, because they’ll be forced to keep
on dancing night after night after night!
Vote: 94 / 100
Review by: Gerardo