Why is it that the scarier a band tries to make itself out to
\nbe, the more laughable they become?<\/p>\n
Take Kovenant, for example. These guys are supposed to be
\npersona non grata<\/i> in some areas of Europe, spreading
\nmessages of doom and gloom wrapped up in a merge of industrial and
\nblack metal.<\/p>\n
After listening to their latest offering
\nAnimatronics<\/i>, I’ve got only two words for Psy Coma and crew:<\/p>\n
Yeah, right<\/i>.<\/p>\n
This Norweigan trio – bassist\/vocalist Coma, guitarist Lex Icon
\nand drummer Von Blomberg – is barely recognizable due to the
\nlayering of metal madness and keyboard-laden weirdness that
\npopulates this disc. As for the lyrics – half the time I couldn’t
\nmake out a thing that Coma was singing.<\/p>\n
Wait – that’s not entirely true. One track on this disc – “New
\nWorld Order” – actually is quite listenable and enjoyable, and gave
\nme some hope that the bulk of
\nAnimatronic<\/i> would follow suit. Alas, this wasn’t to be.<\/p>\n
Tracks like “Sindrom,” “Jihad,” “In The Name Of The Future” and
\n“The Birth Of Tragedy” all are weighed down, in one part, by
\noverambition on the part of Kovenant. Somehow, I think that if the
\nband had stuck to one musical formula, be it industrial or black
\nmetal, then
\nAnimatronic<\/i> would have been a more solid album to listen to.
\nBut when you try to cover too many bases, you spread yourself too
\nthin, and something eventually has to give.<\/p>\n
And another thing, guys. You can drop the messages of the
\napocalypse, at least for the time being. After we got through the
\nmedia event known as Y2K, I think that most people are a little
\nmore wary about predictions that the world is going to turn into a
\ntoilet. Cripes, it’s almost at the point where if Jesus came back
\nto Earth, we’d be demanding to see some I.D. So I think we can
\ndispense with the futuristic-freakazoid mumbo-jumbo, at least for a
\nwhile, okay?<\/p>\n
\nAnimatronics<\/i> is supposed to be a disturbing portrait of the
\nfuture that we’re all headed towards. If this disc is a picture of
\nhow music will sound 20 years from now, I promise that I’ll be
\nrunning for the exits with my cyanide suicide pill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25242,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"artist":[6235],"rating":[5616],"class_list":["post-36447","review","type-review","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","artist-kovenant","rating-rating-d"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/review"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/review\/36447\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36447"},{"taxonomy":"artist","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/artist?post=36447"},{"taxonomy":"rating","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyvault.adishjain.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rating?post=36447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}