Cybergore

I Heard this album a few years back and even though i Have Not enjoyed it, i was surprised to see the amount of hate toward this album, calling it the worst Avulsed album ever. When i First heard the songs, I instantly realized what they were trying to make.

Let’s first check the title and Cover, shall we. On the Front you see some Unknown Virus Which is rapidly progressing, a Toxic Green Filter which suggests that it’s a dangerous virus and album name “Cybergore” using 90’s Futuristic Font. First you will think that it’s a death metal focusing on diseases, genetic science and the Dark side of technology. Looks interesting, right? These Sort of ideas were pretty popular in the 90s, when Zombies, Viruses, Cyberpunk and Extremely Gory Video games were becoming mainstream.

When you listen to the first few tracks, you hear these distorted guitar and bass loops, Drum machines, some guttural vocals and Horror/Erotic FX’s. Avulsed really tried to create a Futuristic Death metal by using Virtual Instruments and Drum and bass Song Structure. Dunno about you but listening to this album I've instantly remembered the 90’s Gore Movies and Anime, which Often had Dark Sci fi and Bizarre Erotic Scenes. The Futuristic Machines, Robots and Spaceships Covered in Human flash, Mutilation and Rape scenes accompanied with Cheesy Plots, it’s just easy and fun to watch, just like B-movies. So Yeah, This Album definitely carries the Aura of an Era, When Sci fi was more Cyberpunk and had a lot of Taboo Topics around it.

I can also understand the hatred, as this album is not perfect and is a very rough mix between 2 truly different styles of music, which is also why it’s fun to listen to. it’s cheesy and doesn’t really take itself too seriously, with a song name “Addicted to red bull” you definitely should think that the musicians were just fucking around.

I must also admit that this album is one of the early pioneers of modern Cybergrind, as it definitely has those elements that would define the modern Internet Genre.
If you wanna Dive into this Bizarre album, just go and Consume some 80s and 90s Underground Media, like: Genocyber, Bio Hunter, Total Recall, Lifeforces, possession (1981), Sex Files Alien Erotica, Galaxy of Terror, Altered Carbon,

I'm not sure what the fuck were Avulsed thinking about when they recorded this album. I don't even think they really wanted to release such a piece of garbage. What kind of people is supposed to like this anyway?

Techno is not my cup of tea at all, but I can appreciate some quality drum'n'bass and electronic stuff though. But this is horrible and boring. It's not techno/electronic death metal, which I think it must have been their aim by recording and releasing this. It's kind of a mix of Avulsed's 1st album tracks with mostly drum'n'bass rhythms. At times, it sounds like an awful version of Prodigy, while the rest of the album sounds like a mad monkey on MDMA mixing the same rhythmical patterns and odd sounds with some heavy death metal guitars (indeed pretty heavier than the original) and Dave Rotten's growls scattered here and there.

They try some punning with all the song titles, but it's not even funny. Where's the fun on a title like "Powdered Fish"? Some of these 'jokes' are intented for a spanish crowd... "Gorroneality", "Pastivoracity" or "Petisuis Lobotomy", but being spanish, I don't find the joke anywhere in this album. Well, "Pastivoracity" could at least be slightly funny though ('Pasti' is spanish slang for pills in a rave context, so it's kind of 'Voracity for Pills').

I only find a word (in spanish) to describe this. And it's 'zapatilla', which is also spanish slang for some nonsense sped-up techno shit, usually played at teen raves where everyone's high on MDMA and cocaine ("Pastivoracity" is a perfecto example of this zapatilla-style techno).

Only the last track "Emixnence in Popurrence" is true death metal, being a mix of the actual tracks of their debut album, although the mix sounds repetitive yet powerful (it's death metal with the original instrumentation). Only for this I give this album a 5%, being the rest shameful, boring, cacophonous and not worthy of wasting 50 minutes of your time, as long as there're tons of much better albums to listen to.

Well, here's an album that probably is one of the worst tries in whole metal history. I don't know why and how Avulsed accepted this album to be published. But as a die hard Avulsed fan, i'm just embaressed how such a work they'd create (or make someone create it). Techno & Death Metal fusion? No way! I'm also an electronic music listener and bought this album in such an enthusiasm thinking that it must be bringing a different new sound to the Death Metal scene; but hell it's a load of Fruity Loops crap, seems to be made by a easy-listening/house music kiddy who had no idea of what he did.

The album is not original nor enjoyable in any fuckin' way. It sounds like if it's an unsuccessful computer program that randomly mixes the tracks sauced with boring disco beats. Man, that's just ridiculous!

If you really want a "technodeath" fusion, try Strapping Young Lad, The Berzerker or Fuck I'm Dead. Or there are lots of Speedcore and Cybergoregrind stuff out there, if you want an extreme sounding electronic/industrial music. But no, this is absolutely not a succesful hybrid, it's just repeating gurgles of Dave Rotten again and again in a hypnotizingly boring way.

By the way, the 3 points are for somewhat funny titles that enjoyed me for a minute before inserting it inside the player that initiates the 50 minutes of torture.