Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: Scars Are Soulless is a project driven by Chip Calise. He has been involved with different projects (like Vigilante) and is busy with Scars Are Soulless for several years now. “Vendetta” was originally written in 2012, but didn’t get an official release until a deal was found with Insane Records. The songs have been mastered and released, “Vendetta” featuring nine tracks.

Content: From the very first notes you’ll hear the Dark-Electro inspiration emerging from the cold lead and harsh vocals. The album features aggressive sequences, a few Industrial sound treatments and some orchestral arrangements. The work reveals melodic passages and the alternation between harder- and slower songs. You’ll also notice a few instrumental edits featuring the excellent “Final Victory”.

+ + + : It’s a damned good thing “Vendetta” has been finally released. There are some excellent –and even potential hits featured here. The Dark-Electro style sounds rather ‘classical’, but the work is diversified. The previously mentioned “Final Victory” is a great piece of music; melodic and empowered by Industrial sound treatments. But I also have to mention the more orchestral sounding “Never Forgive, Never Forget”, which is also accomplished with Industrial noises. One more attention grabber is “Eyes Of The Deceiver”, which also is one of the most aggressive pieces from the work.

– – – : I’m less impressed by the softer side of the album. It’s however a pity the album only features 9 songs.

Conclusion: Scars Of Soulless is an interesting project, “Vendetta” clearly reveals a true potential, which I hope will incite the artist to release new songs.

Best songs: “Final Victory”, “Never Forgive, Never Forget”, “Eyes Of The Deceiver”, “A Past To Burn”.

Rate: (8).

Artist: www.facebook.com/ScarsAreSoulless

Label: http://insane-records.com / www.facebook.com/InsaneRecordsEU Read the news on ‘Vendetta’.

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The fine electro label Insane Records introduced a new member to its roster a while back, Chip Calise who is also the musician and founder of the American project Scars Are Soulless.

Insane Records is now releasing an LP from Scars Are Soulless, called “Vendetta”. Not that it is all that new as far as the recorded material is concerned as the album was supposed to be released 9 years ago, back in 2012!

9 years later “Vendetta” gets a well deserved release offering electro industrial mixed with harsh EBM spread over 9 tracks. You can listen to the release below.

Note that there is also a very limited CD release of just 100 copies available as a 6-panel digipak with Slipcase. You can order this CD version right now on Bandcamp.

To get an idea how the album sounds, check out the “Vendetta” album preview below. Read the review of ‘Vendetta’.

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