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ROCKSOUND
REVIEW april 1999
`Undefined` ( music for nations )
The Soundisciples are the next big thing. Oh yes . . . In a collision
between Fear Factory, the Prodigy, FLA, and God knows how many other
artists, the Soundisciples have taken the best bits of contemporary
alternative music ranging from Drum `n` Bass to speed metal and
sculptured something entirely of their own. It even includes Portishead`s
Beth Gibbons as a guest vocalist ! Opening songs `Jesus biting Nails`
and `Let it rain` are fearsome aggro-industrial dance anthems, pulsating
break-beats duelling with savage riffing. `Withdraw from life` is
electro-doom metal, whilst the introduction `Isolation` and the
deeply ambiguous `Heroin` are darkley organic textures. That's not
to say that Soundisciples don`t have their own identity as everything
here sounds like the work of one unified band. Undifined is totally
engaging, and should be a benchmark for alternative music at the
end of the millennium.
( Alex Whitehead )
METAL HAMMER
REVIEW march 1999
`Undefined` is one of the most intense
records you`ll hear this spring. What`s crucial here is that nothing
is sacrificed: each musical idea is pursued to extremity, each genre
played with and used is found in it`s purest hardest-core state.
Opener `Isolation` cruises on pulsating electro, `Let it Rain` digs
up some hellish Gabba and `Downcide` is a high-rolling, full-on
tech step assault. Throughout, layered chrome textured riffs get
warped and shredded over the rhythmic chassis: on `Cyberotica` they`re
slammed together in one ass-quaking fix, and on the stunning `Never
or Forever` it`s like Junkie XL or the Prodigy taken even further
onto bass-heavy, dubbed out depths. By the time `Whore of Babylon`
winds things up in an orgy of fizzing, shorted out bleeps and grinding
funk you know that Soundisciples aren`t just a band to watch in
99 - they`re a conceptual firestorm that could and should squeeze
out this kind of greatness for some time yet. The start of something
terrifying. Get scarred shitless.
( Neil Kulkani )
KERRANG
INTERVIEW EXTRACT march 99
`With Pitchshifter bridging the gap between
metal and techno, a whole new generation of noise terrorists have
been inspired to take the resultant sonic hybrid to ever more extreme
levels. Bristol`s Soundisciples are helping to lead the charge.
The bands `Undefined` LP, is already one of the best debut albums
of the year: a dank gloomy take on electronic heaviness wherein
alternate layers of techno-fied beats and gothic ambience bolster
unrelentingly grinding guitars.`
TOWER RECORDS
New Brit entries SOUNDISCIPLES have constructed
one of the most impressive debut albums in a while with Undefined
(Peaceville/Music For Nations)****. Dance beats lock horns with
big guitars and aggressive vocals, with supremely satisfying results
on high-energy outings like 'Jesus Biting Nails' and 'Russian Roulette',
while epics like the cyber-Zeppelin 'Chaos In Motion' and 'Heroin'
prove that Soundisciples have more than one string to their bow.
Their grasp of gothic drama and songwriting suggests they will go
far.
Jason Arnopp
THE BURBS - British Underground Rock Band Directory
www.burbs.org.uk
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