Greeting Cybernauts!
Oh my it’s been a while since our last update and lots has been going on since the release of our album.
First of all it is with much regret to report that Andy (Guitars) is leaving the band. He has accepted a spot at a Conservatorium in Guildford, England and will be moving in September. We wish him all the best for his future. You will be missed!
We also have a hand full of shows lined up. The first being with the mighty Torture Squad (Brazil) and CiLiCe (Netherlands) in the Underground in Cologne on Thursday the 28th of August. This show will be your last chance to see Andy rock out on German soil for a while so make sure to all be there!
The next shows will be with Madé J in DNA in Brussels, Belgium on the 20th of September and will be the first time we’ve played over the boarder. We also have a show planned in Oberhausen with Hypno5e (France), Warfiled Within and Sabiendas in Helvete on the 3rd of October. This is german reunification day and a public holiday so you no reason why you shouldn’t be at the show!
Last but not least we’ve received the first review of “Transhuman”. We scored an 8 / 10! Read the original version here (in German). The review in English can be found at the end of this Blog.
Hope to see you all at some of the upcoming shows!
Leo
Deus.exe
rent a car bulgaria.. “DEUS.EXE - Transhuman
The band name may cause the reader / listener to hearken back memories of the fantastic PC game “Deus Ex” from 2000 - even the visual style is similar to the game’s sequel “Invisible Wars”. DEUS.EXE, however, is a young band from Cologne that, faithful to its name, is dedicated to Industrial Metal.
Clearly Fear Factory is a large influence here. The closing track from “Transhuman”, “Ctrl_Alt_Del_Kill” could have well been taken from “Obsolete”. However, “Transhuman” comes across as fresher and more modern, and last but not least more mature than the latest output of the LA Cyber Metalers. The focal point of “Transhuman” is not so much on the rhythmic level, it’s more on the driving, atmospheric passages. The basic sound is, nevertheless, based on Death Metal – and venturing every now and again into, if you could excuse the term, Metalcore terrain. What is striking is that the production is well suited to the music: Dark, sometimes dirty, yet the songs’ themes are optimally presented. It just goes to show that you don’t need a huge budget to sound respectable.
The persuasive power of the album lies mainly in its overall effect. All of the songs sit well with each other, a two-part concept song, namely “H+”, is likewise included. But also the individual songs are top notch. The opener “Disconnected” puts large segments of FEAR FACTORY’s discography in its place and offers just the right mixture of brutality and melody. Actually all of the songs do that, with some of them being played with the foot eased off the accelerator a bit to allow for some wonderful mid-tempo Sci-Fi “ballads”. The stunning clean singing hits all the right notes and fits like a foot in your ass, all the while perfectly set in scene with atmospheric samples and synthetic soundscapes.
The album’s only minor shortcoming is that most of the songs are relatively similarly constructed and that the melodies slightly resemble each other. On the one hand this can come across as boring, but on the other the album is thus more homogenous and compact. The band has found its own sound and has, through the quality of the songs, definitely earned its right to exist, if not taken over a resuscitating function in the stagnating Industrial Metal sector.
Even being “only” a self-produced album, the high class of the band must be recognised – hence the almost untypical score for an underground band. The album is available for purchase on the band’s homepage.
(Johannes.Schmuck / 11.08.2008)”
