Cease2Xist is the brainchild of Dayve Yates, an Industrial Musician from the UK.

Stating influences such as Grendel, Leather Strip, Atari Teenage Riot, Marilyn Manson and Skinny Puppy, Cease2Xist provides an aggressive but melodic approach to Industrial which should please hardcore industrial fans as well as offer an accessible route into the genre for the more casual listener.

Living By The Bullet is a powerful debut indeed, with very high production values evident from the outset, with every kick felt, every lead line well placed, and every vocal line managing to maintain its clarity despite a good dose of distortion.

The track that perhaps best encapsulates the feel of the EP is tellingly enough the title track "Living By The Bullet".
Featuring an unrelenting series of punchy bass lines, well positioned samples and a powerful vocal performance, this track runs the full gamut of EBM from heavy, to melodic, and back again.

The rest of this EP maintains this standard with more beat driven anthems that are destined for dance floors in the industrial scene.

The one criticism might be that there isn't much variation in the tracks in terms of style and impetus, but the EP is about the right length to ensure that this doesn't become a big problem.

In summary, Living By The Bullet is a very solid debut release, with a good mixture of power and melody that is sure to have something to offer most fans of Industrial or EBM, and with the EP currently available to download for free, there is little reason not to give it a chance.

Interesting, that a 'delicious' cover artwork featuring ripped open female bodies and an obvious doze of cannibalism doesn't get censored in the Metal music genre - and only in this genre. However, that isn't the point. The French madman Remzi Kellici has at least left nearly all elements, which made him known in the EBM/Electro-genre. Already his last DCD album released by the in hiatus remaining Arkansas-based label BLC Productions, 'Erection Body Mutilated' has shown straight into this new direction, so this new album doesn't surprise musically too much. Also the track list speaks for itself, or how would you rate titles like 'How To Become A Killer With A Granny Dress'? This isn't stuff for the faint-hearted listeners. Be it SKREW, 16 VOLT, CLAY PEOPLE, MINISTRY, they all can be taken as possible references for Remzi and his new music style. Additionally he has hired a real band and tours the world - therefore it makes quite sense to sign with the German label and mail-order service Twilight, as this should be able to take care for a better financially background. 'Symphony Of Decay' is a raging hurricane featuring assaulting guitar riffs, monstrous vocals and a straight rhythmical, mostly still with a drum-computer supported outfit. The still Industrial-related components in Remzi's latest work can be noticed with several voice samples mostly with drastically background indiscriminately thrown in - and, thanks God - with the very few tracks still relying on Electronica components ('Zodiac', 'Secret Graveyard in The Garden'). I guess it isn't a secret, that I would prefer a more balancing kind of production, which doesn't reduce the Electronica elements to a minimum - as I think, that Remzi has his talent into this kind too. However, I understand his motifs. Whole life is Rock 'n' Roll, isn't it?

One of the strongest point of the debut album by the German bouldering duo [de:ad:cibel], hiding the musical ids of Daniel Galda and Armin Kuester, could lie in the power of amusing different kind of listeners by preserving a certain stylistical unoiformity: amalgamated by appreciable EBM structures and deafening bass lines for the likes of Front Line Assembly or Funkervogt fan-base and considerably insisting on topics such as depression, religion and faith (I enjoyed some "marxist" remembrance in the lyrics of the song Jerusalem Syndrom whereas any builder of make-believe system on the basis of revealed religion acts like a pusher/seller: "...Verkauf ich euch mein Opium./Ein Konstruct aus Angst und Regeln/Die Warheit wind indoktriniert/Mit Richtig- oder Falsch-Befehlen/Die Herde grundlich selektiert" as well as the invitations on reflection on the real final aim of some religious doctrines in the song Human Product - "These lies are corridors of mundane power/to hold the might they built a watchtower/superstition was the fundament/they used it as an instrument"), ironic critics on consumerism (it's somehow funny the ideal breaking of the sacred trinity of the socio-economical system - buy, consume, die - hinting at the words of the humorous song Too tired to consume, making a long list on an enjoyable danceable psychotic electro movement of "prescribed" quinine for keep someone's finance healthy or for celebrating the scene...allelujah!) and its consequences on human relations (songs such as Architecture or B.I.I.D. arguably insists on the refusal of distorted way of considering feelings, mixed up with low-grade bodily functions) and even some conceptual statements (I enjoyed the neural connections activated by songs such as Heteronomy or One Of 47 - maybe the best song of this album -, forcing thoughts while moving dancin steps...), these lads could be even appreciated by a large range of listeners as they're able to satisfy classical dark-electro fans (One of 47, Architecture), cyber-goth or mindful techno addicts (Monster Train's ferocious march or the less rough grip of Selektionsfunktion and Geteert und gefedert should switch their hungry neurons on...), synth-pop or future-pop lovers (tracks such as the above-mentioned Heteronomy or Between My Headphones and even more "romantic" songs such as Nobody hurts like I do could be injected in their lower abdomen...), but I won't be surprised to see some reviews of Klondike on metal mags as well. Concerning the quality, Klondike ideally traces a reversed Gaussian route as I listened to more well-crafted works in the beginning and in the end of the record, being the highest peaks Jerusalm Syndrome (featuring some icy treatments on the harsch Daniel Galda's voice...) One of 47 and Geteert und gefedert. It's nice the idea of showing the dynamic range of each track! Even if they're not really newcomers of the scene if you just consider for instance that Daniel was keyboardist for Das Ich's live stages (...and it's not casual that sometimes you'll have the impression of listening an electrified version of Das Ich as well...), I could say it's really a brilliant debut!

'Egowhore' is Hoodooengine's debut album and Hoodooengine is self-described as being spawned by the twisted masterminds of Marz233, James Curcio and Johan Ess, also featuring the creative work of Scott Landes, (Mankind is Obsolete & Collide), Jeff Hartman and William Clark. What we have here is an industrial metal outfit that reminded me somewhat of early Electric Hellfire Club, and a bout a half-dozen other bands, including one I recently reviewed called Everything Goes Cold. Still, it is competently produced, especially for a D-I-Y project done mostly on a Macbook Pro.

On the musical side, a lot of work has been put into the production to keep it inventive, energetic and engaging. Guitar is very good, drum (programming I assume) is powerful, elaborate and effective, and the electronics are varied and well-used. Dialogue samples are kept to a minimum, which is a big plus in my book. The songwriting is okay (you're typical dystopian themes), although there weren't any obvious standout 'hits,' but that's not a major drawback for this kind of music. On the vocal side, things are a bit bland. The lead vocal sounds monotonous over time, and I found myself looking forward to the odd vocal interjections (that comes from other voices, I presume) that surfaced sporadically. One the plus side, the lyrics are intelligible (and generally intelligent), and although some processing is used on the vocals (including the occasional vocoder), it's not the usual overused distorted mess that so many bands in the electro-industrial metal genre seem to dote on. (If I had my druthers, I'd take intelligible over stark-raving raspy-distoro.)

Still, there is so much going on in 'Egowhore' you may not be paying a whole lot of attention to the vocals. The sheer power of some of the 9 tracks on this under 38 minute album is apt to blow you away, at least instrumentally. If you like bands like Die Krupps, Orgy, KMFDM, Electric Hellfire Club, etc., you might enjoy this. I do think Hoodooengine needs to step up their vocal game though. A vocalist with more power and presence would prove helpful; maybe even a female vocalist to add some contrast. They've got another release slated for early 2011. I'd be interested in checking out the band's progress on that one.

Nitro's been filled in the engines of this German music drivers and they look not so interested in directions...they look more interested in being on their way in top gear running over any possible stylistical path, which they cross without caring about pedestrians and pursuers possibility to eat their dust. They just grind eternal stones under their caterpillar musical wheels leaving behind their shoulders a world sinking like a torpedoed merchant vessel by retracing those uneven road surfaces, partially paved by other memorable German musicians such as T.Raumschmiere, rich of junctions and ramps going towards hip hop, industrial, punk, noise, funpunk, techno, rockabilly and many more musical languages, wisely mashed up in a somewhat brutal way. It has alreaby been emphasized by my collegue Maurizio in his previous review of this issue both the impressive way of playing live drum by Chris Imler (one of these two drivers!) being a recipe able to add a roughly guessed grip to D&D formula and their connection with other past notorious duos like Suicide and DAF (...and tracks like the unruly Back to L.A. or Wohin whose playful melody reminded to me the intrusive jingle scored in a Coke tv adverts, glueing - somewhat ironically - the ideal friendship between German and American, a stylistical alliance highlighted by the use of both English and German even in the witty lyrics). So that it's not my intention to be repetitive or make a track-by-track commentary of it, but I cannot avoid in reccomending this energetic pill to you... don't miss it out!