My Love Kills – Silent Scream (EP – My Love Kills)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: V.V. Arkames (Ad Inferna) and Fredrik Sigeback (Erotic Elk) is a rather unexpected duo, but I’ve to say their debut album “Glitch” released last year was a promising work. They’ve a new album out now entitled “Imitatio Dei” while this self-released EP features three previously unreleased songs plus alternative edits from a song from their debut work and another from the new album.
Content: Some parts of this work and especially the debut track, which is the “EP Version” of “Silent Scream” sounds pretty EBM driven while the chorus is more polished and pop-inspired. But the essence of the work might be considered as electro-pop like. But it’s an evil format, which is probably due to the input of Ad Inferna. “Alone” is a song taken from the new album and featured at the EP as “Beat Version”. This song reminds me a bit of Evils Toy. The previously unreleased songs are more evasive, sometimes making me think to a kind of intermezzos.
+ + + : My Love Kills confirms great writing skills, but it’s not only about a cool composition. The style of this duo is transposing electro-pop into a rough format and that’s something I really like. The aforementioned songs “Silent Scream” and “Alone”, both are very efficient cuts. Among the new songs I especially recommend listening to “Epilogue”, which also has this evil pop sound. I also like the darker atmosphere recovering some tracks and, which totally matches with the somewhat ghost-like vocals’ production.
– – – : The previously unreleased songs don’t really add a bonus. They’re exclusive ones, which is cool for an EP, but rather sounds as ‘fillers’.
Conclusion: I should say that “Silent Scream” confirms the potential of My Love Kills; this band deals with a rather creative electro-pop approach.
Best songs: “Silent Scream – EP Version”, “Alone – Beat Version”, “Epilogue”.
Rate: (7½).
Artist: www.facebook.com/pg/Mylovekills
About My Love Kills
My Love Kills pairs Swedish musician Fredrik Sigeback, also of Erotic Elk, with French vocalist Vicomte Vampyre Arkames of Ad Inferna. The duo formed after Arkames contacted Sigeback for a remix, and released the debut album “Glitch” in 2019. Their second album, “Imitatio Dei”, followed in 2020 on ScentAir Records, the same year as the “Silent Scream” EP reviewed here; the pair discussed both records in a Side-Line Click Interview. My Love Kills went on to release “To A World Of Gods And Monsters” in 2022 and “Mors Nobis” in 2025.
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