Cynical Existence - Beholder
After the very straight and hammering Aggrotech debut-album "Come out and Play", Swedish artist Fredrik Croona shows with this new exclusive 6-track E.P that Cynical Existence is more than a dance floor hitting machine. "Beholder" indeed bridges the upbeat approach of the band with a stronger focus on atmospheres and vocal diversity. Songs like the lingering "Wake up Call" or the darker "Mardröm" (with Swedish lyrics!) will not deny it! Fans of the band will also enjoy the new frontal attack of power tracks like "The Mindless Filth" or yet the addictive "Hail to the King Baby"... A more than promising artistic evolution announcing a very exciting follow-up album “Erase, Evolve and Rebuild.
Founded on the 31st December 2011 Cynical Existence screamed their way into the world of dark Elektro and harsh EBM and never looked back! Slowly beginning to crawl and now two years on, up on their feet and responsible for feeding the entire population of EBM/Industrial freaks. This savagery comes at a price and that price is your soul as the music commands you every step of the way, you just have to give up control to Cynical Existence because they demand it and your body craves it! Plus Steve Alton is part of this band (who is now also with the awesome System:FX) so it was a foregone conclusion that this was going to be superb creation even before listening, and after listening you know you were right!
The Mindless-Filth
The degree of mega production on this track will certainly have people clambering for the dance floor. The forceful rhythms sit well and allow the body to move – and that is because it has no choice! How this band dream up their concepts and make something as perfect as this I do not know? but one thing is for sure it’s catchy and balances indulgent with supreme structures of melodic approach, shifting twitches and complex rhythmic sway.
Mardrom - Meaning Nightmare
Time to brush up on the Swedish! With amazing aesthetic qualities, hammering melodies and rasping vocals in Swedish this is one killer track and it simply implies that Cynical Existence are diverse and innovative in their field or it could just mean that they have a Swedish vocalist!
Hail To The King Baby
This track has a real obscure flavour, and the pumping little flurry of synth amid a thunderous constantly edgy beat is just exquisite. Pulsating with vibrancy it hypnotises the body into moving to its jerky and jagged little fluctuations with ease – “Get back to work you slackers!”
The Beginning Of The End
An empty knocking begins and then a nice distorted array of gut wrenching throbbing rhythms pummel through the speaker with a constant and mechanical ambiance. It will vocally throttle you with an impressive harshness. Rich in dark melody and adding in further pulsating beats that embellish the aural and literally leave you bathing in its high velocity sound.
Draining Me feat. Freaky Mind
Sampled voice and incidental sounds crack through the aural cavity like a sledgehammer. Beautiful swathes of melody just encapsulate you as you fall deeper into a rhythmic trance and you just won’t be able to resist its mouth-watering qualities – it will leave you salivating like a thirsty animal on a hot summer’s day! One fantastic track!
Wake Up Call
The music is dark, and mesmerising with a degree of deliberate ambiance, however, I am not keen on the vocal arrangement as it sounds like a bit of a dirge, although the creepy whispering really adds a nice touch to the combination, but I think overall this track lingers a little too long, I want to get back on the dance floor!
An absolutely amazing E.P with the exception of the final track. Although you cannot say the band haven’t shown some strong diversity in their music but it would have been nice to have finished on a high note and not a low one. However, there is an awful lot of punishing rhythms that give a pulsating tingle down the backbone, swathed in ambiance and melodic wash so it is certainly an E.P that will get a lot of plays whilst I work out my latest dance moves!
Founded on the 31st December 2011 Cynical Existence screamed their way into the world of dark Elektro and harsh EBM and never looked back! Slowly beginning to crawl and now two years on, up on their feet and responsible for feeding the entire population of EBM/Industrial freaks. This savagery comes at a price and that price is your soul as the music commands you every step of the way, you just have to give up control to Cynical Existence because they demand it and your body craves it! Plus Steve Alton is part of this band (who is now also with the awesome System:FX) so it was a foregone conclusion that this was going to be superb creation even before listening, and after listening you know you were right!
The Mindless-Filth
The degree of mega production on this track will certainly have people clambering for the dance floor. The forceful rhythms sit well and allow the body to move – and that is because it has no choice! How this band dream up their concepts and make something as perfect as this I do not know? but one thing is for sure it’s catchy and balances indulgent with supreme structures of melodic approach, shifting twitches and complex rhythmic sway.
Mardrom - Meaning Nightmare
Time to brush up on the Swedish! With amazing aesthetic qualities, hammering melodies and rasping vocals in Swedish this is one killer track and it simply implies that Cynical Existence are diverse and innovative in their field or it could just mean that they have a Swedish vocalist!
Hail To The King Baby
This track has a real obscure flavour, and the pumping little flurry of synth amid a thunderous constantly edgy beat is just exquisite. Pulsating with vibrancy it hypnotises the body into moving to its jerky and jagged little fluctuations with ease – “Get back to work you slackers!”
The Beginning Of The End
An empty knocking begins and then a nice distorted array of gut wrenching throbbing rhythms pummel through the speaker with a constant and mechanical ambiance. It will vocally throttle you with an impressive harshness. Rich in dark melody and adding in further pulsating beats that embellish the aural and literally leave you bathing in its high velocity sound.
Draining Me feat. Freaky Mind
Sampled voice and incidental sounds crack through the aural cavity like a sledgehammer. Beautiful swathes of melody just encapsulate you as you fall deeper into a rhythmic trance and you just won’t be able to resist its mouth-watering qualities – it will leave you salivating like a thirsty animal on a hot summer’s day! One fantastic track!
Wake Up Call
The music is dark, and mesmerising with a degree of deliberate ambiance, however, I am not keen on the vocal arrangement as it sounds like a bit of a dirge, although the creepy whispering really adds a nice touch to the combination, but I think overall this track lingers a little too long, I want to get back on the dance floor!
An absolutely amazing E.P with the exception of the final track. Although you cannot say the band haven’t shown some strong diversity in their music but it would have been nice to have finished on a high note and not a low one. However, there is an awful lot of punishing rhythms that give a pulsating tingle down the backbone, swathed in ambiance and melodic wash so it is certainly an E.P that will get a lot of plays whilst I work out my latest dance moves!
- The Mindless-Filth
- Mardrom
- Hail To The King Baby
- The Beginning Of The End
- Draining Me Feat. Freaky Mind
- Wake Up Call
Label: http://www.alfa-matrix.com
Reviewer: Pagan Hel
May 15, 2013
May 15, 2013
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