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Down" (in English)
Artist:
GOLDEN AGE
Album: Break Down
Some
virusses seem quite unstoppable when it comes to infecting, and one
of them is the industrial metal virus. Bands like Xe-None, Digimortal
and Vergeltung already proved that this virus managed to reach the dark
woods of Russia, and exactly over there we found ourselves a new and
rather promising band. Golden Age exists of three people who describe
their band as a “Russian synthetic metal band”. Luckly they managed
to throw some industrial influences in it too! The “Break Down” EP came
out in 2006, and exists out of four songs, one intro and a remix. After
the intro, the EP kicks off with the title track. The intro is very
industrial, and the song afterwards is very synth based. There is a
protounding bass riff all over the song, that drills inside your brain
from the first until the last hit. The intermezzo is very powerful,
and the industrialized guitarwork makes sure the power can be found
elsewhere in the song as well. ‘Golden Age’ features trance and techno
sampling mixed with dark metal objects and a catchy chorus. This song
can best be described as an emotional and industrialized mix between
gothic and heavy metal. With this song, the band shows a different face
of itself, which is definitely a good point. ‘A Phantom’ is a track
written in their native language. The song turned out to be quite an
atmospheric one, mixed with industrialized death metal guitarwork and
EBM likely synthwork. And although I can’t understand a fuck of the
lyrics, I must say that the vocal lines in the chorus get stuck in your
head quite easy. ‘Down Below’ is the next track. This one is again more
industrial based, and they prove again that nobody has to teach them
how to mix trance with metal. There’s even more, because this EP ends
with a remix version of ‘Down Below’ which is a cool bonus on this EP.
I would like to have some words about the vocals too. “Ghost”, the vocalist,
has a remarkably good pronnounciation of the English phrases (heard
them a lot worser from most of the Russian people) plus he really knows
how to use his voice the best way. Emotional and sentimental parts are
no problem at all, but on the other side he managed to sail on the more
brutal guitarriffs too. About this band’s style I can be short: I cannot
make up any band that sound like this band, and that’s quite exceptional
(specially for a young band like this). Bands like Pain, Neon Synthesis
and various more old school stuff (Alice Cooper, Sonata Arctica) come
in mind, but nobody has this special sound. Golden Age brought gold
to me with this EP, lets see if they can promote it to platinum with
their full lenght that will be out next year!
Vote: 95 / 100