Devilsight - "Luna" album review

Latin America seems to be the endless source of good dark electro music. Even if we think only about Mexico such bands as Hocico, C_Lekttor or Amduscia are only the beginning of a very long list. The immense multitude of projects, which are devoted to the the path of oldschool and agressive sounds is sometimes hard to embrace. It takes time to dog trough this vast ocean of music, but this effort pays off. On latest Halotan Sampler we included a few of great bands hailing from Mexico, and one of them was Devilsight. Since the project released a debut album entitled “Luna” via Hungarian label Advoxya it’s a good opportunity to write something more about Devlisight

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Opening track of the album, “Siente” is already known to evryone who listened to Halotan sampler. This song is rather representative for the whole record – fast, floor-oriented, with distorted vocals – yet it’s catchy, and it’s lead synths create an athmosphere that could be described as… melancholic, and it all fits perfectly. “Del cartel” and “La ceguera” – the second and third tracks on the album – folow that path, but are even more agressive. “Extraños en la Oscuridad”, which comes after those three is one of my fauvorite songs on the album. A little bit slower tempo, pounding bass and militaristuc samples (which may recall a little bit Grendel’s “Soilbleed”) make this song a perfect dark electro march.

In “Necessary words” lead singer, Stan, shows that he is opened fore some other forms of articulations than distortion pushed to maximum, and Baltazar (responsable for music) delivers some atmosperical breaks in the wall of noise.

The title track, “Luna” continues this path, adding some interesting mid-tempo dubstep-pike rythms (however without wobbling bass) and great lead synths which recall a little bit some sort of haunted female voice. Those experiments go even further in instrumental dance strack “Christus”, that is one of the most interesting dark electro instrumental which I’ve heard since some time.

The album consists of 10 well-crafted dark electro tracks (+ interesting remix done by Stahlnebel & Black Selket). No revolution here, just pure aggrotech, but it's done very well.

The last few songs on the album keep the high quality of songwriting. I enjoyed especially heavy basslines of apocaliptic “Todo esta más cerca” and dense and dark ambiance of the closing track “Amante del Demonio”.

Lets summarize: the album consists of 10 well-crafted dark electro tracks (+ interesting remix done by Stahlnebel & Black Selket). No revolution here, just pure aggrotech, but it’s done very well. Although there are some influecnes of new electronic trends, the majority of music that you will hear on “Luna” stays faithful to the golden times of the genre (second half of the 90s).

Most of the songs are sung in Spanish which in my opinion is a very good decision, since it adds some originaility to the album. And speaking about originality one thing is sure – you cannot mistake Devilsight with any of the german dark electro acts. The Mexicans are composing their tunes smoothly, and while listening to “Luna” you don’t have an impression of listening of programmed sound cubes, but you fell some coherency and fluidity in this stuff. Don’t hesitate and listen or buy this great album from their bandcamp or Advoxya shop.

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