SINthetik Messiah – Xenocide (EP – SINthetik Messiah)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Aggrepo.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: SINthetik Messiah is driven by ‘Bug Gigabyte’. While an album is announced for later on this year “Xenocide” reveals three new tracks by this project.
Content: The songs are driven by solid, danceable, kicks while the sound is mixing Electronics and Industrial. Spoken samplings have been injected instead of real vocals.
+ + + : The main strength of this EP lays in the danceable approach. This is the perfect stuff to set dancefloors on fire. Both opening cuts are pretty cool and worthy of examination.
– – – : The sound formula is repetitive and predictable after a while.
Conclusion: Let’s keep an eye on SINthetik Messiah which clearly reveals a true potential.
Best songs: “The Inevitable Prophecy”, “Losing Hope For Man And God”.
Rate: 7.
Artist: www.facebook.com/SINthetikMessiahOfficial Read the news on ‘Xenocide’.
About SINthetik Messiah
SINthetik Messiah is an industrial-electronic project founded in 1996 by Bug Gigabyte, a Louisiana-based songwriter and sound designer. The name is a stylised version of “synthetic messiah”. The project mixes industrial, electro, EBM, drum and bass, dubstep, ambient and rock, with Nine Inch Nails, Counterstrike and Atari Teenage Riot cited as reference points.
Bug Gigabyte is the sole permanent member and handles programming, sampling, drums, keyboards, guitar and vocals. Guest contributors have included The Other LA on “In My Dreams” in 2020 and singer Cat Hall of Dissonance on the “Split Damage” EP, released on 13 April 2020.
The album discography opens with “Revelations of the Nintendo Generation, Vol. 1” on 12 July 2013 and “Vol. 2” on 13 October 2013, followed by the all-ambient “Ambient Noize” on 13 April 2021. Later releases include “Lies, Secrets, And Death” on 17 June 2024 and “Red Line” on 9 December 2024.
“Xenocide”, the three-track EP reviewed here, was issued via Bandcamp in early March 2022. Bug Gigabyte wrote and mixed the material and Joe Haze mastered it.
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