Havoc Unit - H.I.V.+

I get that one might just want to label Havoc Unit industrial and leave it at that. But one can not forget the intense anti-Christian agenda of H.I.VX via that last minute and a half or so of track # 3, “When Snuff Is No Longer Enough.” In this track, the metal and black metal vocals have carried through the entire song over the pounding digital-drum style as programmed into a machine. But at the end, a voice comes on by itself and says that it condemns Christianity as the entity that has turned all goodness into evil and zapped all true will from the human heart. The voicing plays on a digital tape that is edited and distorted on a computer while it sounds like the source code for the voice is taken apart into digitized bits and pieces. The effect is very much not human, it is a computer. And the effect us very much not Christian, it expresses contempt of that belief. And of course, anti-Christianity is mostly expressed with such explicitness by black metalers and some death metalers. Havoc Unit expresses itself the same way but with an industrial and electronica edge. This is why I say it has evolved into post-black metal, because black metal is almost always low-fi production value, humans playing drums and guitars, and deliberate constant speed. Havoc Unit’s drums are partly electronic (industrial), the vocals are filtered through some kind of program or effect, and then there are the tape manipulation sounds that erupt all over the CD, for example where I already mentioned but also at the end of the track called “Kyrie Eleison.” Yet, they still profess an anti-Christian ideology and this is why I still label them as basically a black metal band moving into a new direction with their aesthetic. All the elements come together in H.I.V+ and create a brutal metal album that will rally fans from all over together. Havoc Unit has done the thing that Ministry always tried (I think) to do. They have made a very heavy metal album that ties the ideology of the anti-life into the sound itself by actually annihilating life itself through its very sound media. H.I.V+ is a powerful record as a result.