seven

after much anticipation over the years, "mmbo" finally, finally gets released and provides a nice new website as well. this release for the most part takes on the powerful dark electro/industrial directions the first release, "unburied," provided our ears with, but this time with some more aggro-danceable constructs. there are some new instrumentation and structural devices used throughout some tracks, but the feeling remains much in the same flavor as earlier work; very apocalyptic, driven, and menacing. so if you enjoyed oscar storm’s previous work, FLA (hard wired), hocico, or numb, you probably will enjoy direction of the release.

storm works with a variety of combustible overtones, thrashed hyper-digital progressions, dominant brute rhythms and deadly fierce vocals. "embodied screw" and "ghosts behind hate" charge up with scourges of toxic waves that bust into driving rhythms and severed digital vocals. the warm intensities within each track emit through dense dark string patches on tracks such as "confession of dementia."

while track seven, "symbolic schism" provides as one of my favorites with its introspective choir and pad harmonies on opening and interlude parts in contrast with the well-paced electro direction it takes on. others such as "back to ashes" provide very erratically assaulting percussion aspects and complex energetic electro arrangements that could prove forceful on the club floor. and closes with a very abysmal and distant track called "hidden."

overall, putting things in perspective of what strong bands represent the almost forgotten genre of dark electro/industrial; i would still have to say this is one of the best and most consistent bands to represent the style to this day.