The album starts off with ‘Nihil’ right away showing the strengths of the band which lie in a dense contexture of hard riffs and synth melodies subjacent to a sonorous voice. ‘Betrayal’ starts like a synth club track but gains a lot of dynamic and momentum as the industrial guitars push through. The vocals on this one are more like a contemptuous, evil rant harmonizing very well with the aggressive nature the track has. Not that fast but therefore extremely powerful is the industrial rock breaker ‘Like Ashes on a waste land’. Where the vocals move from one extreme into another; one time they’re nicely clean and melodic and then like from the deepest corridors of hell a kind of Black Metal grunt. A remarkable change comes with ‘Solitude Fear’ which could be a clean synth/future pop track as well in its beginnings. Soft drifts of synth melodies and an electronic beat alongside a very cushy voice but then the guitar and natural drums arise to remind us that NEON SYNTHESIS still is an industrial rock band. The track has something timeless!

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