ZAVOD - Industrial City
Well, we looked forward to! Swedish band ZAVOD decided to release their filled with good music and warmly adopted by fans and reviewers Industrial City on a decent album. Without a digital impoverishment of sound – a proper, long playing studio record. Let's look at it again.
First strike - Da ili njet - introduces us to the climate, that will consistently lead up until last track. Strong drums, meaty guitars, a lot of electronic layers... so and language of our eastern neighbors is extremely pleasant to the ear. Konstantin Smirnov, a Russian-born, smuggles well a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, including both musical and text layer. Friends with death does not break away from the scheme, alike the vast majority of the proposals contained on the album.
However, a track from which the record took its name, Industrial City, is somewhat different. Vocal style is still the same as the others, but this time in musical layer we get interesting lyrical inserts. Obviously lyrical in its heavy, apocalyptic way... That, however, discharge the voltage and it is a good change. In addition, the song uses a very interesting metrorythmic solution - enriching the sound, without introducing chaos. It's definitely one of the best tracks on the album.
Then the climate comes back on rails, of a hard, but fast, sometimes even based on punk rhythms - Inhale. In Into the night once again tempts with a gentle entry, to classical for themselves - treat with something less optimistic, enhanced with initially delicate, then arising electronic layer. It is similarly with the sixth proposition, Panzer. Musicians apparently do not like to surprise, but consistently stick to the chosen musical path.
Here falls to mention, repeat and emphasize, that the texts of ZAVOD band are also challenging and relevant. Nothing bemuses, and it's praiseworthy!
Pripyat is a single on contrary, and how it happens with singles, it is one of more mature songs on the album. Noteworthy is a quite skillfully constructed video, available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Ivgq4f47E, on the formation’s site. One might be tempted to say, that it is the essence of everything ZAVOD wanted to present and how it turned out for them.
Storm begins with an interesting, marching rhythm, interwoven by layers of electronics, before entering of - as you might guess - guitars and vocals. We have heard it somewhere already... Just alike Vanity Allstars and We rust. It is not surprising, but consequent. Who likes what.
There comes the main question: consistency or monotony? It's a matter of taste. The disc may delight fans of the genre, but bore those who have been waiting for something inventive, new, fresh. It is rather a proposition for those, who especially beloved the combination of classical, heavy guitars roars and subtly entangled electronics, that rather fosters the atmosphere, rather than dominate it (AKA industrial metal). Personally, however, I believe music should evolve, even within a single record, which on Industrial City can not be heard much... But if ZAVOD will continue on issuing such a rich sounding proposals, the evolution will not be long awaited.
Tracklist:
01. Da ili njet
02. Friends with death
03. Industrial city
04. Inhale
05. Into the night
06. Panzer
07. Pripyat
08. Spee
09. Storm
10. Vanity Allstars
11. We rust
First strike - Da ili njet - introduces us to the climate, that will consistently lead up until last track. Strong drums, meaty guitars, a lot of electronic layers... so and language of our eastern neighbors is extremely pleasant to the ear. Konstantin Smirnov, a Russian-born, smuggles well a post-apocalyptic atmosphere, including both musical and text layer. Friends with death does not break away from the scheme, alike the vast majority of the proposals contained on the album.
However, a track from which the record took its name, Industrial City, is somewhat different. Vocal style is still the same as the others, but this time in musical layer we get interesting lyrical inserts. Obviously lyrical in its heavy, apocalyptic way... That, however, discharge the voltage and it is a good change. In addition, the song uses a very interesting metrorythmic solution - enriching the sound, without introducing chaos. It's definitely one of the best tracks on the album.
Then the climate comes back on rails, of a hard, but fast, sometimes even based on punk rhythms - Inhale. In Into the night once again tempts with a gentle entry, to classical for themselves - treat with something less optimistic, enhanced with initially delicate, then arising electronic layer. It is similarly with the sixth proposition, Panzer. Musicians apparently do not like to surprise, but consistently stick to the chosen musical path.
Here falls to mention, repeat and emphasize, that the texts of ZAVOD band are also challenging and relevant. Nothing bemuses, and it's praiseworthy!
Pripyat is a single on contrary, and how it happens with singles, it is one of more mature songs on the album. Noteworthy is a quite skillfully constructed video, available at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5Ivgq4f47E, on the formation’s site. One might be tempted to say, that it is the essence of everything ZAVOD wanted to present and how it turned out for them.
Storm begins with an interesting, marching rhythm, interwoven by layers of electronics, before entering of - as you might guess - guitars and vocals. We have heard it somewhere already... Just alike Vanity Allstars and We rust. It is not surprising, but consequent. Who likes what.
There comes the main question: consistency or monotony? It's a matter of taste. The disc may delight fans of the genre, but bore those who have been waiting for something inventive, new, fresh. It is rather a proposition for those, who especially beloved the combination of classical, heavy guitars roars and subtly entangled electronics, that rather fosters the atmosphere, rather than dominate it (AKA industrial metal). Personally, however, I believe music should evolve, even within a single record, which on Industrial City can not be heard much... But if ZAVOD will continue on issuing such a rich sounding proposals, the evolution will not be long awaited.
Tracklist:
01. Da ili njet
02. Friends with death
03. Industrial city
04. Inhale
05. Into the night
06. Panzer
07. Pripyat
08. Spee
09. Storm
10. Vanity Allstars
11. We rust
