Dementia Simplex: Prediction
- First Things
- Trauma
- Die Down
- Beast Within
- Eaten Alive
- Hell on Earth
- Tortured Animal
- Candlelight
- Cinderchild
- Xenophobia
- Mentally Disturbed
- Last Things
This album contains a very good mix of guitars and electronics. You can hear
the guitar throughout the tracks, but the electronics are very up-front as
well, and often the electronics are a more prominent element is many songs.
This band has been compared to Steril with more emphasis on the electronics,
which I think is applicable; in fact, the song 'Hell on Earth 'could easily fit
on a Steril album with is driving guitar and grainy shouted vocals. But the
band shows influences from other groups as well. The song 'Trauma 'has a very X
Marks the Pedwalk feeling to it, a large part of this is the vocals, with some
guitar added to the song. The tracks 'Xenophobia' & 'Tortured Animal' sound
like a more upbeat Skinny Puppy with 'Tortured Animal' including some nice bass
and some interesting accordion sounds into the song. While these influences are
not always obvious, it does give me the feeling that the still need to find
their own style. While the lyrical content is nothing new (anti-vivisection,
racism, apathy), the lyrics seem to contain more thought and intelligence than
a lot of the bands in this genre. They have a song that deals with Jeffery
Dahmer in a unique way. Rather than just labeling him as a sick person, the
song asks the question, what circumstances could lead a person to become so
mentally deranged? And the instrumental 'Mentally Disturbed' definitely gives
the impression of being inside the head of schizophrenic and watching their
warped scenes of reality.
(Kevin Congdon)
Dementia Simplex are:
Frank Feldt - keyboards, voice-recording
Throsten Fries - programming, keys, guitar, mix, recording, sampling
Sascha Hermann - lyrics, sampling, acoustic drums, electro-drums
Mario Nier - guitar
Thomas Reis - bass
Klaus Welsser - vocals, lyrics, keys, guitar, sampling
Contact:
Off Beat
Horster Strasse 27
45897 Gelsenkirchen-Buer
Germany
E-mail: none
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