Reagent – Reagent (Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Metal & Electro, Industrial.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Filipp Makarenko is hailing from Ukraine and last year released the official debut album of Reagent. The album features ten songs plus five remixes.
Content: The self-titled debut album of this project is for sure one of the hardest –or should I say most Metal-driven productions I’ve ever heard on Advoxya Records. The sound is a perfect fusion between harsh Metal guitar play and Electronics. Some songs are clearly reminding me of Rammstein. Remixes have been accomplished by Code: Red Core, Nano Infect, CL-20 and Outpost11 while there’s one remix by Reagent as well.
+ + + : Reagent enlarges the sonic horizon of Advoxya Records and that’s a rather good thing. The record will also appeal for all lovers of Electro-Metal and Industrial music. The Russian vocals are somewhat particular, but it works. I like the powerful production and especially the songs where there’s a good balance between guitar and electronics. Among the remixes I heard a great contribution by Nano Infect.
– – – : The global approach of Reagent isn’t new at all and there are numerous bands dealing with this kind of Electro-Industrial/Metal sound. The Russian vocals make the songs less accessible than when sung in German, but if it works for bands like Rammstein and Oomph why not for Reagent?
Conclusion: We’re often used to hearing these kinds of bands in Germany and the USA so it’s cool to discover some underground music from Ukraine.
Best songs: “Чужой”, “Одержимость”, “Чужой – Nano Infect Remix”.
Rate: (7).
Artist: www.facebook.com/Fil1810
Label: www.advoxya-records.com / www.facebook.com/pages/Advoxya-Records/265765706059
About Reagent
Reagent is the electro-industrial project of Filipp Makarenko from Ukraine, credited as the sole member on the Advoxya Bandcamp page; Discogs describes the act as an industrial metal duo but lists no members. In his Bandcamp statement Makarenko wrote that the project differed completely from what he had done in the previous twelve years and took about six years to realise. The lyrics are sung in Russian.
The self-titled debut was released by Advoxya Records on 20 July 2020 on CD in a digiwallet and as a download. The fifteen tracks are ten songs, “Лишь Твоя Кровь”, “Разрушь Свой Страх”, “Чужой”, “Тотем”, “Новое Время”, “Отшельник”, “Одержимость”, “Алхимия Войны”, “От Имени Бога” and “Искра”, followed by remixes of “Тотем” by Code: Red Core, “Чужой” by Nano Infect and “Лишь Твоя Кровь” by CL-20, Chem and Outpost11. The Bandcamp and Discogs tracklists credit the fourteenth track to Chem rather than to Reagent. The Bandcamp page prints Latin transliterations next to the Cyrillic titles.
Discogs also lists a self-released digital EP “Remixed” (2020), the four-track EP “Monolith” (2023), Reagent appearances on ElektroTerapi singles in 2024 and a remix on the ElektroTerapi compilation “Dialogue (Remixes)” (ScentAir Records, 2025). The debut album is the project’s only Side-Line review to date.
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