2011

Well, it’s been quite the time since I last listened to a decent synth - pop band reminiscent of the good/old 80s. Thankfully, gentlemen Alexander Braun and Manfred Thomaser have meant to take care of it, making up for the musical vacuum. The essence is: the duo has carefully harked at this era they live in, adapting their very sound.

Let's start backwards:Ant-Zen is in my opinion one of the finest labels out there. Each of their releases is carefully selected and all possible details(layouts,packaging) are tremendously well designed, almost touching perfection, I could say. It would not be an exaggeration to state that since its conception, Ant-Zen has turned out to be one of the leading labels in the fields of industrial culture and its subdivisions, may them be ambient, rhythmic noise or even power electronics.

This is Quimera Music’s next musical step after “Love and Madness” - a release I haven’t listened to myself, it has been reviewed though by SubX’s Lucy + Purplekittie.  Shortly after the after the debut, a song off the album has been part of movie “Somewhere in Between”‘s soundtrack. 

In Viro are a band coming from Germany,whose name,I have to admit,was not familiar to me,before writing this review. Something not that strange perhaps, since this is their debut release!
The title,which could be translated as Obey!Feel!Believe! is very clever,giving us an insight of what is to be found within this cd:the dominant style here is a crossover between electro and metal,not so far away from the Neue Deutsche Harte movement.As one can easily understand,In Viro bear a strong resemblance to the leading figures of this movement,who are no others than Rammstein.