Iratus Vox Zine

An international project from Kyrgyzstan and Ukraine has recently released a full length album "Neuro". Musicians are obviously involved and influenced by current situation in Ukraine, while the music as well as lyrics describe diverse aspects of inner struggles and society. It must be underlined that lyrics overall feature multiple layers and is very well written. Draw my Soul involves a cooperation of a number of producers that has already gained some level recognition in the European underground scene. Musically the album can be placed on the edge of electronicore, industrial, rapcore and even metalcore. Indeed, electronic samples in the background create a distinctive mood, while guitars are very groovy. Vocalist of DMS make a good impression demonstrating good abilities in both reading the lyrics and singing. The production of drums may be improved in the future, providing more "live" and "bright" sound, as well as the combination of ideas that are so...

  The band 21st century Archetype might be described as an industrial/alternative band combining however a large variety of different styles like hip-hop / glitch-hop / neurohop and rapcore. This formation is active already since a pretty long time in the underground scene, and the latest release "True Progressor 2.0" is actually a remake of the album from 2016 that was largely positively accepted and features a wery well done music video for the song "Planet Patriot". So a listener might ask why the band should remake a such well accepted album? The answer would be: a change of stylistic direction. This record is heavier and more intensiv, it includes more guitar work and aggression, it is now less hip-hop influenced and much more alternative and even metal like. This change allows also to deliver the main message of this work about the nearest future where humans are just biorobots living senceless life in a digital world. True Progressor 2.0 is a great conceptual...