Derma-Tek - Corpus Technological
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Artist: Derma-TekEdition: Music CD
CD Release Date: 2006-11-14
Music Label: Dsbp
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Free Music Review: Bought it for the cover art, music was ok, could barely decipher singer's voice.
Hit: 3 Stars
Pretentious, nothing like the cover-art "theme".
1:05 into "lost cause" sequence flourishes overused for affect.
I gave it 3 stars because I can't de-cipher the singing or the lyrics because Derma-tek insists on sounding like a muted Skinny Puppy or a Velvet Acid Christ clone.
If it was a muted theme that was screamed or certain word emphasis, I'd probably have cut them a break on another star, but I like hooks and I
hear little emphasis on minimal or strong hooks.
The lyrics themselves, are fine, but confusing either on purpose or by sheer accident at times with 2 references to the 3K, 9/11 dead and one of those references juxtaposed with the 6 million presumably of the Jewish holocaust that frames innocent slaughter.
I think they might want to exploit the time-shifter/traveler theme like the cover art depicts, (my opinion) focus on the inherent self-doubt surrounding the genre of time travel even in the slightest degree, parallel universes, wasted billions needed to construct a working monolithic structure needed for a time/event shifting machine...
Derma-tek might try clearing up the vocals, adding some reverb or delay to offset the garbled whispered vocals, it's almost like, why bother having lyrics if you have to strain so hard to hear or comprehend them?
I wonder why the singer (Joe Cains) decided that the lyrics needed to be buried under so many layers of over-dub or whatever, the lyrics writer(Miranda St. Croix) from the inlay photo is super-fine (and I'm sure she knows it), but why let Joe bury her words?
I suppose minimalism on vocals is an underutilized theme, but it weakens the underlying agnostic praxis inherent in some of the song lyrics or is he mad at Miranda for forcing him to sing lyrics he personally disagrees with?
The Predator samples on "mauled" gave a good atmosphere, but appeared to
waver throughout the song, a good build-up, then a weak let-down when they decided not to make that song stand out by making the words stand out as well, otherwise, it seemed like a lot of effort to put out what seems like a shy understated demo effort, except for "mauled" the entire album theme didn't seem to match the cover art thematically.
To gain a 5 star rating requires an album like Front Line Assembly's "Implode", this album has great theme art and even better music on the disc itself, 10 tracks as well and even with the vocal delay processor, I can clearly decipher the words and they accentuate the song, not detract away from the song/album theme.
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