Artist: ErilaZ
Title: First of the Vortices
Genre: Industrial / EBM / Electro
Release Date: 7th September 2012
Label: Danse Macabre
Album Review
ERILAZ started as a one-man side project of the Kuroshio Current guitarist in 2005. The band has now re-released ‘First Of The Vortices’ on Danse Macabre. ERILAZ - named after the front man of the band - clearly finds its inspiration in the wide realms of cyber metal music. The trio features 2 members of Kuroshio Current and the Finnish DJ Proteus. Aside of the metal inspiration the band also experiments with electronics. The opening ‘July Cries’ and ‘New World Disorder’ are both perfect matches between electronics and metal-like guitar parts. It reminds a little bit of electronic ambassadors like FLA and In Strict Confidence. The piece of music is foots upon detailed structures and with a solid metal taste on top.
The metal impact is more noticeable on the 2 last pieces. ‘Unknown Dark Horizons’ starts rather quiet, but evolve into a enraged and guitar driven eruption lead by vast vocals. The last song is a real surprising one for me and much more experimental than the other ones. It also sounds a bit chaotic while joining a pure d'n'b inspiration in the end. Two good tracks, two moderate tracks, which makes an average overall rating for ‘The First Of The vortices’. The Finns make things right in this debut, ‘July Cries’ and ‘New World Disorder’ sick only on thin vocals that will not quite fit into the powerful, brutal music. The formation could certainly established themselves well if they filed something more on this flaws. The official debut of ERILAZ is a promising debut that will be hopefully confirmed on a first album.
Tracklist
01. July Cries
02. New World Disorder
03. Unknown Dark Horizon
04. Horizons Lost To The Armageddon Sun
Line-up
ErilaZ - Music, live vocals
Live members: Proteus – Guitars and aQi - Synths
Website
www.erilaz.net
Cover Picture
Rating
Music: 6.5
Sound: 6.5
Extras: -
Total: 6.5 / 10
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