Asseptic Room – Extinction Or Reawaken (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Cinematographic.
Format: Digital, 2CD.
Background/Info: Ten years after the band’s last album, Asseptic Room strikes back with their third full length. Carlos Ruiz –previously involved with Dioxyde, has been joined now by Mario González.
Content: This double album clearly has two sides. The main album features 15 songs, which are clearly driven by good-old Electronic standards. Several songs will definitely appeal for fans of :Wumpscut:. There’s a similar tormented sphere mixed with powerful sequences and overwhelming strings. The enraged vocals –mainly sung in Spanish, only accentuate the aggressive approach of Asseptic Room. The last 3 songs are remixes by Acylum, Hiotcan and Nano Infect.
The second album is something totally different. The atmosphere remains pretty dark and you easily recognize the Dark-Electro influence in the song writing, but this album is clearly meant as an imaginary Soundtrack. Most of the songs are instrumental edits –although you’ll notice spoken samplings and a few vocal lines. The songs are sometimes achieved with epic arrangements and constantly driven by rhythms.
+ + + : This work stands for the comeback of Asseptic Room. The first new full length in ten years sounds a bit like a new start and I can assure you the Spanish duo didn’t miss a step. I especially like the darkest and most tormented cuts of the work, which are easily reminding me of the glorious days of :Wumpscut:, but also of Acylum. It’s not of a coincidence Acylum has been asked for a remix and it definitely is one of the best songs of the album. I like the icy sound treatments this album has been made by.
The second disc is different, but Asseptic Room also reveals to have great skills to compose a Dark-Electronic soundtrack. Especially “Syndrome Of Decay” is an impressive piece of music for its epic arrangements; kind of In Slaughter Natives in a more Electronic way.
– – – : The tracklist of both albums could have been a bit shorter; all songs can’t convince me in the same way.
Conclusion: Asseptic Room strikes back with its best album to date: freaky Dark-Electronics for the dancefloors, but still to freak out alone at home.
Best songs: “Extinction Or Reawaken – Redemption”, “Insomnia – Acylum Remix”, “The Rise Of Doom”, “Extinction Or Reawaken” + “Syndrome Of Decay”, “The Destroyer Of Worlds”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/assepticroom.official
Label: www.advoxya-records.com / www.facebook.com/pages/Advoxya-Records/265765706059
About Asseptic Room
Asseptic Room is the project of Carlos Ruiz, who played in Dioxyde until 2004 before concentrating on his own material. Mario González joined him for this album.
The first album “Morbid Visions” appeared on DSBP Records in 2006, followed by “Visceralofobia” on Advoxya Records in 2011 and “Insane From Hell” in 2015. Self-released material followed, including “The Memory Of Silence” in 2018, the EP “Brutal Ira V.20” and “Introspective Passages. Strange Tracks: 2002 – 2005” in 2020, and “Famished Of Fear (Residual Mix)” in 2021.
“Extinction Or Reawaken” was issued as a double disc in 2021. The duo talked about the record in the Click Interview with Asseptic Room in March 2022, and continued with “Visceralofobia II (Twisted Tracks)” in 2023.
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