Nitro/Noise – NN: Echoes (Digital EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, industrial, dark-electro.
Background/Info: Canadian formation Nitro/Noise gained some recognition releasing a few EP’s and three albums on Deathwatch Asia and Digital World Audio. After a hiatus of a few years they now joined hands with major company Trisol to unleash this new EP featuring four songs.
Content: After a rather orchestral-sounding intro, Nitro/Noise reveal a merciless, heavy electro-industrial-metal sound. There’s a perfect twist between guitar and dark-electronics with enraged vocal parts on top. “Love Hate Love” and “I Won’t Back Down” both stands for powerful compositions announcing the return of this formation.
+ + + : I like EP’s featuring different songs and without any single remix. And the least I can say is that the songs blew me away. There’s such an overwhelming power emerging from the songs that you can’t remain unmoved. Nitro/Noise has found the right balance between menacing guitar riffs and icy electronics. The EP features two master cuts, but especially “Love Hate Love” is a brilliant piece of sonic madness.
– – – : The opening song, which is a kind of intro-cut is the single song that can’t totally convince although it creates a particular, freaky atmosphere.
Conclusion: I don’t want to compare Nitro/Noise with any other formation, but I can easily imagine this is the kind of EP that will appeal to Combichrist fans.
Best songs: “Love Hate Love”, “I Won’t Back Down”.
Rate: (8).
Artist: www.facebook.com/nitronoisemusic
Label: www.trisol.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Trisol-Music-Group/104166526285471
About Nitro/Noise
Nitro/Noise is a Canadian formation that released its debut album, “Total Nihilism”, in 2012, followed two years later by “No Cure For Apocalypse”, which came out alongside the band’s first European tour. “Censorsh!t – The Remixes” arrived in 2015, an eight-track companion EP gathering remixes from Zardonic, Dope Stars Inc., Faderhead, Rotersand, Raimon and Seraphim System, pressed on a limited vinyl edition with artwork by Estonian artist Darius Alas.
After a few quiet years, Nitro/Noise signed to Trisol for “NN: Echoes”.
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