Band: Mors Cordis
Title: Injection
Label: Twilight Records
Distribution: Bertus / Twilight / PHD
Release date: July 29th 2011
Review: CD

Berlin’s Mors Cordis were formed more than a decade ago, yet the band always took its time before recording and releasing official material. A first album, Injection, saw the light in 2001, the second one, called Das Prinzip, in 2006, and now, again five years later on, Mors Cordis and German label Twilight Vertrieb release the third studio recording, which lasts for forty four minutes.
The quintet (Torsten Pfundt-v, k; Eddie Volkmar-g; Michael Pauli-b; Thomas Mielke-g; and Lucas Zacharias-d) evolved into an own style, taking its influences from different (Extreme) Metal genres, and Industrial / Power-Electronics, with lyrics in both German and English. The album opens with the title song, thick and grooving, modern and technical. It’s a mid-tempo song with various vocal contributions, some breaks and changes in time-signature, and at the same time a rather complex yet catchy drive. The next track, Emptiness, is an electronic-based track, deeply injecting Die Krupps or Front Line Assembly (some will mention Rammstein, I guess) into a fundament of modern and melodic Groove / Death Metal. Big Brother comes with a thrashing approach, slightly playful and feverish and permeated with samples. Break You stands for an electronized form of Metalcore-ish Modern Groove metal. And I guess you get the picture…
I’m afraid Injection is, despite some good ideas, too infantile to convince. A pity, a shame, a disappointment…

55/100

Ivan Tibos.