Hocico - Signo de Aberracion
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Free Music Review: My second best Hocico album
Hit: 5 Stars
Not a critic what so ever. Hocico is one of few darkelector bands i like. This is their second best album in my opinion. Its hard to say which album comes before the other when it comes to Hocicos music. All the songs are very nice songs to just bang and dance to. Play them loud!!. Hocico was made to be played Loud or else it just doesnt work as well. Free Music Review: Easily one of the best
Hit: 5 Stars
Hocico is one of the best electro-industrial bands to ever make music. It's raw, harsh, thunderous, ripping, edgy, wicked, haunting, complex...all good things about industrial music.
This CD is a great introduction to the band. Their music is more polished and dance-oriented further along in their discography, and they continue their awesome dark-classical themed pieces throughout.
If you like this kind of music they are great at it.
Free Music Review: A musical horror film!
Hit: 4 Stars
This is one of the most atmospheric electro-industrial releases in a long time. Where many groups just bash you over the head with a distorted drum machine, Hocico work with deep, dark atmospheres that scare the hell out of you before assaulting your ears with industrialized synths, pulverizing beats and a voice straight out of cyber-hell.
As Hocico take you through a world of demented horror (this being Mexico City) you can only gasp in terror as you are both scared witless and dance maniacally. Yes, this CD is exhilarating to dance to, especially "Forgotten Tears" and "Untold Blasphemies," the album's highlights.
Where this album falls down is in how all of the other danceable tracks are pretty over-the-top and just follow the viscious-screaming-and-distorted-snare-drum trick that is overused. Further, there are too few dance songs here, almost half of the songs are dark instrumentals that, although are brilliantly atmospheric, are not very 'charge-you-up' type.
Either way, this CD is very good and one of the more emotional electroindustrial releases.
Free Music Review: Marilina Mansona
Hit: 3 Stars
You might not have heard of Hocico, but over twenty-five million others have. Feeling a little out of the loop about Latin America's biggest electro-industrial band? Two cousins, Erk Aircrag and Rasco Agroyam, formed Hocico (which translates to "trap") nine years ago mixing Hellraiser vocals, dancefloor beats, and the occasional political lyric. "Instincts Of Perversion" sounds like Marilyn Manson (who they commonly open for) filtered through Sasha & Digweed; they've also had the privilege of sharing a stage with Germany's Rammstein. "Child's Eternity" could be some perverse John Williams' Darth Vader march and "En Otro Lado" sounds like a variation on the X-Files theme. It's only a matter of time before David Fincher or Joel Schumacher pick up on these guys and use them as background music for some death-fetish thriller. The irony in their songs is that without the vocals, much of their music would sound at home on any club floor rather than just with the dressed-in-black crowd. Hocico do the beats nicely and get my feet tapping, and the occasional political song is nice ("Forgotten Tears" and "Wounds"), but the industrial slant turns me off.Free Music Review: When I Look For Answers I Realize We're Forgotten Tears
Hit: 5 Stars
For some time now, I've been partial to the aggressive themes that have become streamline in the EBM sectors haunting dancefloors outside of glossy photographs and watered down metaphors of what our youth are listening to, drinking in all they have to offer. That is because these sounds, they are where the messages of angst in a society of premanufacturing are hiding, circulating just outside of what mainstreamed radio is willing to sell their viewers. They are the places where messages seethe and quote passages on what the purpose to all of this is, where the passion is in the pointlessness, asking not what you can do for your country but what your country did to you. It is where the hatred is, where the violence is, speaking with tongues that aren't carved out of magazine clippings and billboard advertisement.
And that is where, quite by accident, Signos de Aberricion, a voice outside the normal wilderness of sound, found me.
While touting other releases outside of Metropolis records, Signos De Aberracion was my first taste of Hocico and it is their most refined effort to date. And what a release it was, too, taking me back to moments when the distortion of voices drove beat after seething beat into a person until you could almost taste the anger seeping through the speakers.
It felt - good.
So, how would I describe this album?
Well, I'd say it is a mesh of hauntingly harsh electronics assailing its listener with vocal stylings that piece together sounds remnant of something Cradle of Filth would do, only mixed with an Informatik or a Wumpscut. Here, a voice that could be classified as another instrument in the expression of anger plays, its reasoning distorted and yet clear, as it remarks one of the many subjects plaguing this industrial complex - violence. As it remarks, it speaks of pain and wanting to be outside of it, commenting on childhood infractions, playpens of brutality, and the monsters that we, as human beings, oftentimes are.
In all but a couple of instrumental pieces, it keeps the attention with heavily flowing BPM counts, reminding one that hatred and rage, it can come in a package that we can all move to.
Don't let the titles fool you. Despite not being in English, the lyrical content is, translating to those who have, by way of translation, drawn borders in the sand. So, if you enjoy the taste of EBM melodies with your daily dose of reality, then I would send you looking in this direction. This is because there is something being offered here that reminds me of many of the bands that appeared in the late 90s up until the present, and the lot being cast seethes. Personally, I find seething to be a healthy way of functioning in today's overcrowded, overpopulated, overindulgent world and would recommend it to anyone looking for a few minutes of escapism.
Still, don't take my word for it. To sample it, simply listen to tracks provided herein or go to Metropolis.
For fans of this release or for someone who tastes and wants something more, Disidencia Inquebrante is coming in August 2003 and sounds promising as well.
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