Siva Six – DeathCult (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “DeathCult” is the fifth album by the Greek formation Siva Six. The title of the work is an indication about the inspiration behind this work; death!
Content: Is there a darker theme for a Dark-Electro band than death? “DeathCult” takes off with the previously released single “Ghost Dance” revealing an extreme dark and tormented sound with enraged vocals on top. The song is fully representative for the rest of the work. The songs are characterized by hopping rhythms and sequences, raging choruses with dark strings on top while some epic arrangements now and then inject an extra dramatic touch to the production. Among the tracklist you’ll also notice a few, short intermezzos.
+ + + : Siva Six returns with an inspired and accomplished production; Dark-Electronic music in its purest form. The band isn’t reinventing the music genre, but they have something apart, which is mainly accentuated by the hopping cadence running through the songs. The cold leads only accentuate the icy aspect of the songs. It’s a powerful production characterized by some pretty cool dance cuts like the already mentioned “Ghost Dance”, but I personally prefer “Psychopath” featuring a simple, but efficient female sampling. Another attention grabber is “Fight The Machine” while I also recommend “Lily Dale”.
– – – : I’ve never been a huge fan of short intermezzo tracks so these cuts are perfectly presented.
Conclusion: Siva Six returns with a well-crafted and mature production, which will for sure appeal to all lovers of Dark-Electronic music.
Best songs: “Psychopath”, “Fight The Machine”, “Lily Dale”, “Ghost Dance”, “Alpha”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.sivasix.gr / www.facebook.com/sivasix
Label: www.alfa-matrix.com / www.facebook.com/Alfa.Matrix Read the news on ‘DeathCult’.
About Siva Six
Siva Six is a dark electro and industrial act that started in Athens, Greece. The project grew out of the band Wintermute, formed in 1997 around vocalist Z (Georgios Tamvakologos) with keyboardists Evi and Noid. Wintermute issued two demo CDs and contributed a cover of The Cure’s “Pornography” to the tribute compilation “15 Imaginary Songs – A Tribute To The Cure”. After Evi left, Z and Noid continued and re-emerged in the 2000s under the name Siva Six.
The debut album “Rise New Flesh” appeared in 2005 on the Italian label Decadance Records, followed by “Black Will” in 2006. The double-disc remix edition “Rise New Flesh (Flesh and Will Resurrected)” followed in 2008 with reworks by Dope Stars Inc., Noisuf-X, Dark Soho, Soman, Aes Dana and Alien Vampires.
In 2010 the band signed to the Belgian label Alfa Matrix. The third album “The Twin Moons” was issued in 2011 and extended through the remix editions “ZERA (The Twin Moons / Japanese Edition Remixes)” and “Alfa & Omega (The Twin Moons / European Edition Remixes)”, with remix work by Metroland, Killus and Christian Cambas. The “Superstition” EP followed in 2013 and the fourth album “Dawn of Days” in 2016.
The digital remix album “nyx” arrived in 2018. In 2021 the band released the single “Ghost Dance”, followed on 19 November 2021 by the fifth studio album “DeathCult”, which holds twelve tracks including “The Cult”, “Club Macabre”, “Alpha”, “Omega” and “…December”. Videos for “Club Macabre” and “Superstition” extended that cycle, and the EP “Fight the Machine” followed on Alfa Matrix in 2023.
The line-up moved from the original Wintermute formation to a long duo phase with Z and U-Ri / Herr Khaos, and now consists of Z on vocals and Yuri Blavatsky on keyboards, working from Leipzig, Germany. In January 2026 the project marked two decades of activity with the 20 year anniversary video.
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