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Title: Tiempos De Furia
Artist: Hocico
Genre: Dark Electro
Release Date: 1st October 2010
Label: Out of Line



Album Review

Once again the Mexican duo composing of Erk Aicrag and Racso Agroyam has retreated to the dark rooms of their studio to create a set of new tracks for their newest album ‘Tiempos De Furia’ (Times Of Fury). The single ‘Dog Eat Dog’ heralded the full-length with a typical HOCICO dance track and another, if a slower one, opens the album with ‘I Want To Go To Hell’ having vocals as distorted as ever and thick layers that are being pushed to the background this time. ‘Where Words Fail, Hate Speaks’ is what you’d consider to be a kick-ass opener for one of the duo’s live shows; fast-paced and hard-pounding it would make the crowd sweat. But it’s nothing we wouldn’t have heard already in various incarnations on a plethora of HOCICO albums. Also the next one ‘Flash To Lacerate’ lacks any innovation, bluntly put, but the track really grabs you and that’s what’s making that lack almost up. Something I never really understood was why the guys wouldn’t create much more of those intense, down-tempo tracks like ‘Lost Fate’.

Particularly those tracks are stunning and show they can do much more than producing club tracks for a crowd that doesn’t seem to mind what they’re being fed with lacks any progression. The title track is a pounding inferno build on fury that in its relentlessness reminds strongly of ‘Bloodshed’ off the ‘Signos De Aberracion’ album. ‘Not Human’ combines chiming keys with a heavy mid-tempo beat before ‘Altered States’ gears up to deliver a hard floor monster. A little, playful instrumental named ‘Los Espejos Rotos’ wraps up the record. It seems that at a certain point HOCICO have stopped developing their style any further. Maybe because they realized they didn’t need to in order to fill any club, so they’re mainly just refining while the base ever remains the same and that’s a real pity. Nevertheless, the album is above average.


Tracklist

01. I Want To Go To Hell - 4:41
02. Where Words Fail, Hate Speaks - 4:26
03. Flesh To Lacerate - 4:59
04. Dog Eat Dog - 4:59
05. Hey... It's Me - 3:28
06. Bite Me! - 5:29
07. Lost Fate - 4:37
08. Kiss Of The Apocalypse - 3:48
09. Twist De Thorn - 4:57
10. Tiempos De Furia - 4:35
11. Not Human - 4:22
12. Altered States - 5:20
13. Los Espejos Rotos - 2:19


Line-Up

Erk Aicrag - Vocals
Racso Agroyam - Music


Website

Hhtp://www.hocico.com / http://www.myspace.com/hocico


Cover Picture




Rating


Music: 6
Sound: 7
Extras: -
Total: 6.5 / 10


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