Next Waste Dimension - Signal To Noise
'Signal To Noise' is the dance-influenced Death Metal effort, and the final release, of Next Waste Dimension. Despite their recent break up, the album still makes an impact on the Death Metal community in both a good and bad way. On the one hand, the merging of today's Pop craze with synth and bpm influenced backdrops against chugging, energetic Death n' Roll riffs may make for an interesting combination at first, but after a while repetitiveness can really take its toll. On the first few tracks of the albums, it all feels the same with the same chugging riffs, barking vocals, and mix of lengthy synth and jumping beats on a track like "Under Strain." Some similarities can be made to Project Hate- the current genre defying Industiral Death Metal group that is always breaking new ground with epic and industrial moments- but Next Waste Dimension feels very watered down compared to that. The group sometimes throws in clean vocals for a more catchy, Pop influence on top of the Death Metal such as on "Under Strain," but at the same time it feels very cliche. Even the Rammstein influenced "Radio Moscow" has more bite than this.
There are a few ambient 'noise/ industrial' tracks that make the music a bit harsher and darker as opposed to its rather 'happy' atmosphere. "Closure" tosses in samples of a woman ranting on a message left on a phone that certainly is a raw addition and suits the harsh vocals well, but it could have helped to toss out the harsh vocals altogether and just left it is a dark, recorded interlude. Other tracks like "Distrust" and "Streets Of Fire" use interludes of recorded voice samples and programming to add a heavier industrial effect, but sometimes they feel so faded out and random that they jar up the music as opposed to supporting it. "Streets Of Fire" does, however, use the samplings to great effect with just the guitars giving off short chugs so it is just them and the vocals, making a stronger impact on the listener all the way to the end. Still, after a while the same riff being heard over and over like a chiming bell, and with the vocal samples repeating itself can still wear a listener out and make he or she wish that more innovation and variety was used. 'Signal To Noise' is catchy and certainly driving in its rhythms, but at the same time very basic and not as epic and technical compared to many other artists out there.
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There are a few ambient 'noise/ industrial' tracks that make the music a bit harsher and darker as opposed to its rather 'happy' atmosphere. "Closure" tosses in samples of a woman ranting on a message left on a phone that certainly is a raw addition and suits the harsh vocals well, but it could have helped to toss out the harsh vocals altogether and just left it is a dark, recorded interlude. Other tracks like "Distrust" and "Streets Of Fire" use interludes of recorded voice samples and programming to add a heavier industrial effect, but sometimes they feel so faded out and random that they jar up the music as opposed to supporting it. "Streets Of Fire" does, however, use the samplings to great effect with just the guitars giving off short chugs so it is just them and the vocals, making a stronger impact on the listener all the way to the end. Still, after a while the same riff being heard over and over like a chiming bell, and with the vocal samples repeating itself can still wear a listener out and make he or she wish that more innovation and variety was used. 'Signal To Noise' is catchy and certainly driving in its rhythms, but at the same time very basic and not as epic and technical compared to many other artists out there.
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- Unspoken
- Ode To Revolution
- Under Strain
- Closure
- Deepwater Horizon
- Radio Moscow
- Sigma XI
- Distrust
- Streets On Fire
