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The first blow is delivered by Beborn Beton with "Spawn", a good old-fashioned electronic Goth piece with moody baritone (My wife thought I was listening to some old Depeche Mode). Austrians Trylok and Croatians Injury unite under the common banner of Strategy to release "Guardian Angel", intertwining gruff phrases with sweet '80s-styled synth strands and determined beats. A deliciously dark industrial riff surges through
"Under" by Abuse, in an effectively enjoyable NIN impersonation.
Noxious Emotion's previously unreleased "FPMO", swirls together electronics both light and dark, topping them with distorted gutteral outbursts and dancey rhythms. In "Social Conditioning", frantic e-drumming pummels at Cybershadow's Gothsynth walls as aliencreature voices and hyperspacebird warbles battle throughout. Mmmmmonstrous!
Searing guitar chords and pained/painful vocalizations mark Canister's "Empty".
Bath's "Profane" (5:59) is lighter, sort of; scattershot percussion and oddly skewed female vocals mix with hazey digital effects in a nanotribal/ethereal nightmare soundtrack.
"Sylvia's Dream" by Ariel rages with guitar-fueled pyeotechnics, throbbing bass and neo-primitive beats. Fishtank No. 9 recommunicates the old Yaz tune, "Situation", rendering it all but unrecognizable through a filter of impressively foul machinations.
Deathline International closes on the loudest note, "Hoellen Paradise" (3:10), an angst-inferno culmination of electronic noise, beats and bad attitude.
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