| CD REVIEW Children Of Technology |
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Band : Children Of Technology You now, I was given the promo download of this band's album, ehr...two months ago, and I'd downloaded it to my mp3-player over a month ago (anyone with a mind to critisize the fact that the review comes to you only now, had better check how many albums have passed through my hands since...I would tell you myself, if I hadn't lost count), so I was bound to come across it from times to times, right? Not having gotten much info with the download, I originally though I was dealing with a Scandinavian Crust Punks-gone-Thrash-via-Motörhead band (they play in a style which they themselves call “Motörcharged Speed Crust with a huge dose of mega-volt R'n'R Metal madness”...now ain't that a jolly mouthful?), but hey...as it turns out this is an Italian band from the town of Padova! I'm not sure when they formed, but I know that the guitarist was exchanged along the way, making the current line-up consisting of singer Deathlord Astwulf, female drummer Goddess of Hammering Chaos, bassist ThermoNuclear Thrashard (also a member of Minkions), and guitarist Splatterhead. 2008 would be the year of outcoming for C.O.T., starting with the The Day After demo. Soon after they released a DVD titled Rise Of The Nightriders, featuring the band's first two shows. Followed (in Oct/Nov of the same year) a limited edition (only 500 copies) of the The Road Warriors/ The Nightmare Of Existence 7-inch split EP with Cancer Spreading. In early 2009 the first guitarist splits, and C.O.T. contributed a new track to the 4-way 7-inch split EP Speed Punk Metal Crust (released on a limited rotation of 500 copies as a joined venture between the Agipunk and Terror From Hell labels, and also featuring Brazilian bands Nuclear Frost and Armagedom, and Italian band Minkions). In May (after working on the project for 6 months) 2009 the band sees the release of a split 7-inch with Japanese band G.A.T.E.S. issued in 3 different collectors versions (one each through Italian labels Metal Punk Death Squad and Record Boy/ Punk & Destroy, the third in Japan – each with different artwork and color of vinyl). August sees the release of a 2-track (songs recorded with the old guitarist) 12-inch EP titled Give Me Gasoline Or Give Me Death, issued as a joined venture through labels Terror From Hell and Iron Bonehead (the latter from Germany), and two more (old) songs are released on the Chaosmutant Hordes single soon after. Towards the end of 2009 the band toured throughout Italy for a month or so. The year 2010 is started with the announcement that the band has already recorded the 8 songs to be featured on their debut full-length album, and album which sees light of day on 12-inch vinyl (1,000 copies through Agipunk) and on music cassette (300 copies through Terror From Hell) in April of last. News of the band's signing to Hells Headbangers Records for release of the album on CD at the end of October cam in early August...which brings us full circle! To me personally, the music of this band has an instant attraction, as it combines the Thrashy elements from the Crust Punk scene (already high on my favourites lists) with Metal the way I remember from a couple of nice bands from the end of the '80s. Not surprisingly, the band's list of influences includes the likes of Motörhead, Warfare (UK), English Dogs, Anti-Cimex, Tank, Onslaught, Carnivore, Celtic Frost, Black Uniforms, Sacrilege (UK), Genöcide, Broken Bones, Venom, and Discharge! In fact, I can predict with an almost 100% certainty, that if any of the above bands has an attraction to you, you'll most certainly love what C.O.T. does as well! There's an added fake-adolescent touch to some of the songs with the addition of a Southfork Park reminiscent style singing in the backing vocals (most expressively on “Nuclear Armed Dogs” - the only track on the album to also include some sound samples - and thence extrapolated also to a lesser degree to the album title track and “No Man's Land”) , and the spirit of Black Sabbath dwells in a couple of riffs of “No Man's Land” and the opening of “Racing Through The Valley Of Death”. The only calmer passage on the album comes in the 1-minute opening passage of album closing song “Screams From the Earth”! I love this band, if only because they bring me back mentally to days of old from which I have so many good memories. At 48, I'm considered an old fucker by some (until they see me in the flesh, that is), but there's a lot of young dudes and dudettes into this kind of music, I tell ya! Check out some sound files at myspace.com/childrenoftechnology! 83/100 Tony. |