Xenturion Prime – Prisma (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: “Prisma” is already the fourth full length album released by the members of ex-Code 64. Bjørn Marius Borg and Hasse Mattsson brings use eleven new songs.
The album is their third under the Xenturion Prime name, after “Mecha Rising” in 2014 and “Humanity Plus” in 2017.
Content: Xenturion Prime takes off with an overwhelming intro which is directly followed by cool Electro-Pop songs carried by elevating choruses. One of the softer songs features female guest vocals. Next comes a harder cut carried by a solid EBM bass line while the chorus remains Pop-like. The album sounds varied, switching ‘power-pop’ together with happy sounding tunes.
+ + + : Xenturion Prime always brings entertaining Electro-Pop with some extra power and/or EBM on top. The band still has something apart from the rest which makes their originality and strength. The global production has been improved from album to album but especially the uplifting effect from the choruses is a noticeable evolution. My favorite song however appears to be the most unique from the album. “Renegade” has a strong EBM connotation although still Pop driven.
– – – : The initial magic of the band is a bit gone although Xenturion Prime remains an interesting listening. The song with the female vocals is one of the single pieces which couldn’t convince me.
Conclusion: Intelligent and efficient Electro-Pop!
Best songs: “Renegade”, “Embers”, “Memory Lanes”, “Shades Of Light”.
Rate: 8.
Artist: www.facebook.com/xenturionprime
Label: www.progress-productions.com / www.facebook.com/progresspro Read the news on ‘Prisma’.
About Xenturion Prime
Xenturion Prime is a Swedish and Norwegian electropop and futurepop act that emerged in 2013 from the dissolution of the Swedish band Code 64. The line-up behind “Prisma” is Bjørn Marius Borg and Hans-Olof ‘Hasse’ Mattsson, and the band records for Progress Productions.
The debut album “Mecha Rising” appeared in 2014 and “Humanity Plus” in 2017. Side-Line published a ‘Click Interview’ with Xenturion Prime in February 2018. Five years after “Humanity Plus”, “Prisma” followed in 2022.
The remix album “Prisma Refracted” arrived on April 12, 2024, with a CD edition limited to 300 copies and reworkings by Valhall, Lights A.M, Vanguard, Midnight Resistance, Karin My, Technomancer, Tianzi, Bariuz, Mars TV and Cosmoplex. By 2025 the act had grown to a trio with Erlend Eilertsen of Essence Of Mind, and Progress Productions issued the single “Leviathan Alpha”, backed by “VHS” and a cover of the Kansas song “Dust In The Wind”.
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