Pulse – Adjusting The Space (Album – NRT-Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Pulse is an Austrian formation, which this year their second full length album. There’s a hiatus of five years between the debut album “Extinction Level Event” and this new work.
Content: After an instrumental debut track, which reveals a mix of Electronic ideas, Pulse rapidly moves into their sound, which can be defined as ‘Neue Deutsche Härte’. This is a typical German sound dominated by Metal-driven guitar parts and Electronic arrangements. Some songs are clearly reminding Rammstein for the guitar power and electronic melodies. The work also features a few more instrumental cuts, now carried by psychedelic elements and then becoming pretty space and ambient-like. One of the last songs is a cover version of the famous “Major Tom” originally composed by Peter Schilling.
+ + + : This production reveals a band with a mature sound composition. The style is not innovating and in the purest tradition of German Electro-Metal music, but Pulse has for sure the potential to conquer this scene. Their best cuts are the ones reminding me of the sound formula of Rammstein; “We Won’t Come In Peace” and “New Elastic Freak”. There’s also something to say about the cover edit of “Major Tom”, which is for sure a great song to play live.
– – – : The main point with this album is that it sounds like many others in the genre. I’m missing a kind of proper sound DNA.
Conclusion: You can feel this album is an ambitious project, but is it enough to gain a wider recognition? Time will tell, but you better can keep an eye on Pulse.
Best songs: “We Won’t Come In Peace”, “Major Tom”, “New Elastic Freak”
Rate: (6½).
Artist: www.pulse-galaxy.com / www.facebook.com/pulseaustria
Label: www.nrt-records.com / www.facebook.com/nrtrecordsofficial
About Pulse
Pulse is an Austrian project founded by Nemesis, also known for his work as Astaroth, and completed on record by Inferus on guitars, Vidar on bass and Pulsar on drums. The band describes its style as Cyber Space Tech Metal, mixing cyberpunk and industrial metal with aggrotech elements.
“Adjusting The Space” was released on NRT-Records in 2020 as the group’s second full-length album, five years after the debut “Extinction Level Event”, and includes the tracks “New Elastic Freak” and “Adjusting The Space” alongside a cover of Peter Schilling’s “Major Tom”. No prior Side-Line coverage of Pulse has been found.
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