DV8R – IO (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: This year, American formation DV8R returned with “IO”. It rather looks like a mini-album instead of a true full length, the work featuring six new songs plus four remixes. “IO” was released three years after the debut full-length “Zero Hour”.
Content: “IO” stands for dynamic, hard and elaborated EBM. But it moves further than simply ‘classical’ EBM; it’s an elaborated production, which more than once reminds me of the genius of sound guru Seb Kommor.
The remixes were made by Siva Six, Funker Vogt, ES23 and Grendel.
+ + + : This is what I should call ‘progressive EBM’! It sounds like music for the ‘new’ generation of EBM freaks; a hard and sophisticated production with great sound treatments and impressive manipulations. “Nemesis” and “Beat Alive” both illustrate the potential of the formation, but still their impressive writing skills. A few other tracks have been refined with Electro-Pop arrangements, which mainly emerge during the choruses. The list of remixes is also impressive and I especially recommend the great job accomplished by Siva Six remixing “Nemesis” and Grendel remixing “Anatomy Omega”.
– – – : I can’t find noticeable minus parts here.
Conclusion: DV8R is not like most EBM formations, which simply reproduce the codes, but this band stands for great and alluring modernism!
Best songs: “Nemesis”, “Beat Alive”, “Output”, “Nemesis – Siva Six Remix”, “Anatomy Omega – Grendel Remix”.
Rate: 9.
Artist: www.dv8r.net / www.facebook.com/DV8RBAND
Label: www.infacted-recordings.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Infacted-Recordings/124099254321690
About DV8R
DV8R is an American EBM band. Discogs lists the line-up as Matt Sharifi, Corey Wittenborn and Kevin Preston, and documents two albums under the name: the debut "Zero Hour" in 2018 and "I/O" in 2021, the latter styled "IO" by the band and their label.
"IO" was released by Infacted Recordings in 2021 on CD and in digital formats, and collects six new tracks plus four remixes contributed by Siva Six, Funker Vogt, ES23 and Grendel. Side-Line has not covered the band elsewhere, so the review above is the site’s only entry on the album.
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