Droid Sector Decay – In Suffering We Dwell (CD Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, cross-over.
Background/Info: Droid Sector Decay featuring members from Greece and the USA have been active since 2009 and have now unleashed their fifth full length album. They claim to be inspired by metal- and industrial music.
Content: There where previous albums of the band were mainly inspired by industrial music, but also featuring elements of EBM, this work is a pure crossover between industrial- and metal music. It’s not really surprising they say to be inspired by bands such as Fear Factory, Slayer, Type’O Negative, Paradise Lost and co. The songs are carried by solid guitar riffs and driven by furious rhythms. The deep growls are perfectly matching with this type of music, which has been achieved with electronic arrangements.
+ + + : Droid Sector Decay aren’t exactly repeating themselves, but merging their industrial basis with metal music. So they in a way have reinvented their sound and that’s always a challenge I personally appreciate. This is a dark and unpolished music format reminding me of great crossover releases from the 90s.
– – – : It sometimes sound as both main influences aren’t totally compatible creating a kind of chaos. There’s less diversity in the songs and unfortunately no real climax.
Conclusion: While I often thought Droid Sector Decay could do better they didn’t exactly fulfill my expectations. There’s nothing wrong with this new sonic path, but it still has to be refined.
Best songs: “The Abhorrent Serenade Of Metempsychosis”.
Rate: (6).
Artist: www.facebook.com/DroidSectorDecayofficial
Label: www.facebook.com/UndergroundIndustrialRecordsofficial
About Droid Sector Decay
Droid Sector Decay was formed in April 2009 as a one-man project blending dark electro and industrial sounds, starting with the independent release “Spread The Virus… Western Decay”. A second album, “There Is No Light Over Devil’s Land”, followed in September 2011 and brought in a second member, Aubrey, while Betty Koster (Phantasm Nocturnes) joined as a third member in October 2014. The band continued on Underground Industrial Records with the EPs “National Union Of World Murder” and “Posesion Satanica” (both 2018) and the EP “Where The Body Decays & The Soul Suffers” (2018) ahead of “In Suffering We Dwell”, and later released the retrospective compilation “Decayde Of Industrial 2009-2019” and the EP “Digital Violence” in 2021, followed by the album “Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied” in 2024.
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