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LIFE CRIED
BANISHED PSALMS
ALBUM NOITEKK RELEASE: JUNE 5, 2009 REVIEW: JULY 17, 2009


Life Cried is yet another example of the glut of Suicide Commando clones perpetuating the landscape these days. Track four of this their second album, "Bound In Hate", may as well be another version of "Comatose Delusion". Two brief instrumentals punctuate the torpor with predictable effect.

Vocally it's Hocico to the utmost being regurgitated. The lyrics one has to parse through the booklet to even decypher everything is so distorted and "angry". It would appear the over-saturation of terror EBM continues unabated with no end in sight.

The younger crowd ought to eat this up, as it has all the trademark sounds that have become not only staples for this kind of music but crutches with which to prop up the sagging corpse of EBM.

PETER MARKS