Ex-Delirium
Tremens kick off their digital career with a mini CD which proves to
be professional under every aspect, with the only exception of a venial
fault in the editing of the lyrics artwork; it deals with the apostrophe,
wrongly replaced by an 'I', but for fuck's sake! Nobody's perfect and
the rest of the artwork is great and strictly faithful to the concept,
based on topics such as mankind's alienation towards machines, mental
massification leading to a dehumanization of the flock, the lack of
a choice for those without a strong will and personality, mind control
and other issues beloved by George Orwell, David Icke and so on, of
absolute up-to-dateness.
Regarding the music, we have the opening track "1,000 Wolves",
starting in a very brutal way with extremely hollow vocals; the speed
keeps high until a majestic slow down in the trail of old Death metal
comes out to prepare us for 2 nifty melodic guitar solos. "Science"
blows your fucking brains off thanks to the double vocals (high and
low) and another memorable slowdown that made my neck and mane wave
unbridled like only the best 80's Death metal bands were able to cause
me to do. Just an arpeggio is the short "Delirium 1991",
while "...Inside Me" needs remembering by its catchy
bass lines, a tough deceleration and a dynamic riff following. I have
no doubts to appoint it as one of the highlights of "Cyber Human"
along with the opener.
A real plague on CD and a track destined to blaze the pit of the first
lines live is the title track: massive, contains a malignant riff and
a final attack in the purest style of brutal death metal old school,
in which the rhythmic section reinforces a couple of riffs of pure fucking
Thrash metal! Jeez! My mouth was drooling when I heard the tapping bass
lines hopping on such guitar lines I hadn't heard for so long a while,
so I replayed that song immediately.
This CD is already a proof of the members' capacities, so I think that
with the impending debut full length the songwriting will be even smoother.
I don't feel like commenting on the originality of the proposal too
long; let me just say my view, that is that everyone's free to set up
a band and it's pretty normal that the first CD of a band may remind
of some other bands' styles; why don't we just assume that everybody
has to begin somewhere and pay less attention to one's own influences?
Everybody has improving margins, and unless you REALLY copy a band,
I wouldn't feel ashamed to have similarities with the top Death metal
acts of 10/15 years ago.
Add that the songs reign supreme, that Fabio 'Med' generates skillful
axe solos, the recording far more than satisfying, and each one in the
5-piece up to their task, therefore I only hope that the new skinbeater
Thomas Lorenzi can cope with Giorgio, forced to leave the band after
the recording for personal matters. I never heard anything else from
Delirium X Tremens, so I can't compare this mini CD with their possible
previous demos, yet my thumbs can't be but up for these savage Venetian
fellows.
MARKUS GANZHERRLICH - 4/5/04
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