Genre/Influences: EBM.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: This project features American Mach Fox (Zwaremachine) and Irish D.Corri aka Zeven Odd Gods. They already recorded a few songs and delivered their debut-EP featuring three songs.

Content: The songs are driven by aggressive, EBM-minded, bass lines recovered with a dark mood. The vocals have been produced in a harsh way which is reinforcing the malefic sound expression.

+ + + : I already liked the work of Mach Fox inside Zwaremachine and I’m also convinced by this side-project. It’s more EBM driven but still pretty dark revealing well-crafted, sophisticated songs. There’s something to say about each single song. I even prefer “Dirty Noise” to the title song.

– – – : The songs maybe need a few adjusts, but this band is clearly ready to go further. 

Conclusion: “A Sickness” is a promising Dark-EBM debut.

Best Songs: “Dirty Noise”, “A Sickness”, “Hybrid Mind”.

Rate: 8.

Artist: www.facebook.com/machfoxband Read the news on ‘A Sickness’.

Listen to “A Sickness” below:

About Mach Fox & Zeven Odd Gods

Mach Fox & Zeven Odd Gods pairs American musician Mach FoX, the vocalist of Zwaremachine, with Irish musician D.Corri, who records as Zeven Odd Gods. The two first worked together on the “Ripping At The Fabric” EP, released via Zwaremachine in 2020.

Outside the duo, Mach FoX released the solo album “VideoLogico” through Phage Tapes in 2022 and has also paired with musician Maroco for the “Now Beginning” EP. “A Sickness” is the second EP Mach FoX and Zeven Odd Gods have produced together, continuing the same minimal-EBM-riff and electro-industrial approach as their first collaboration.

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The US based industrial/ebm band Zwaremachine has released a new video for “Zero Containment”. The track is taken from the “Conquest 3000” album. The video itself has footage from a recent live performance in the Netherlands and some behind the scenes footage from rehearsals.

You can watch it below.

In other news, “A Sickness” is a new EP by Mach FoX (vocalist of Zwaremachine) and the Irish musician Zeven Odd Gods AKA D.Corri. This is the second EP produced by this duo and they continue in the same driving style of minimal EBM riffs and maximum electro-industrialisms. The pair had previously worked together to produce the “Ripping At The Fabric” EP released by Zwaremachine in 2020.

Check out the new EP below.

Out as well now is the synthpop/synthwave 3-track EP “Now Beginning” from another collaboration did, this time with Maroco. The title track was released on January 6th as a free download and the EP has 2 additional songs added.

Check this one right here. Read the review of ‘A Sickness’.

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