Xotox – Forever (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Industrial.
Format: Digital.
Background/Info: Andreas Davids better known under the Industrial sound moniker Xotox strikes back with a new EP featuring five tracks. Xotox last year took us by surprise releasing the “Gestern”-album, which saw a noticeable evolution into Techno influences on top of the Industrial basis.
Content: “Forever” sounds as an extension to “Gestern” although the debut cuts are maybe more ‘classical’ Industrial cuts reminding the earlier sound of Davids. From a harsh industrial opening cut to a next track mixed with some Tribal elements we next get an intermezzo. A groovy Techno-Industrial track is coming up while the last piece is more into Experimentalism.
+ + + : “Forever” explores different sonic paths and an EP is the perfect format to this. Xotox creates an imaginary sonic bridge between the early Industrial years and the Techno-driven approach exposed at “Gestern”. I’m still in for the harsher side featured on “The Price We Pay For Happiness”, but I’m also addicted to the groovy, Techno-Industrial format of “Forever”.
– – – : I don’t really catch the need of an intermezzo on an EP, which already counts a restricted number of songs.
Conclusion: “Forever” brings the past and the present of Xotox together, but the most important thing is it remains hard and danceable stuff.
Best songs: “Forever (In Full Effect)”, “The Price We Pay For Happiness”.
Rate: (7½).
Artist: http://xotoxmusic.blogspot.com / www.facebook.com/xotoxmusic
Label: www.infacted-recordings.de / www.facebook.com/pages/Infacted-Recordings/124099254321690
About Xotox
Xotox is the Industrial project of German artist Andreas Davids. The act released the “Paleodisco” EP in 2019 and the “UFO” and “Sorgenkind” EPs in 2020, the same year as the album “Gestern” on Infacted Recordings, which introduced Techno influences on top of the project’s Industrial basis. The “Forever” EP followed in 2021. Xotox later released the album “Ich Bin Da / Ich Funktioniere” in 2023 and “Particles” in 2025.
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