2007/Self-produced
Please welcome that cheerful but worrying band from Colombia… They may be frightening but prove still kind enough to let you download their EP for free! (Go to their myspace page to get the link)
You don’t need to wait too long to realise you get to listen something different from the average metal band. As soon as the first seconds of the opening track –first seconds that remind me of the opening of the first Gojira –, a piano appears to bring us on a crazier ground. Big death riffs are mixed with cartoon-like ones as well as great breaks, possessed vocals (sometimes, I thought about Empalot), groovy solos and interesting bass parts. What else do you need ?
In the second track, styles like crossover and electro are used take us along new paths, symbolised by the appearance of new types of vocals, from the same mould as references like Faith No More. In any case, the whole EP is haunted by such bands as Mr Bungle, and the six songs are filled with details making the listening more than worthwhile. We also start to notice the sound is heavy and pleasant.
As for the remaining tracks, here’s what you will come across: keyboards parts similar to those you could hear during a paradoxical – but that word is not part of the band’s vocabulary – horror fairy-tale, crushing, bulldozer-like riffing (fast or not), loony vocals, hardcore parts, technical, syncopated attacks that wouldn’t be rejected by dreadful clowns like Cephalic Carnage, parodic ambiance parts potentially drawn from a bad soap, a chase à la Itchy and Scratchy, accompanied by an electro line, or even, last but not least, a final drum’n bass track, throning as a perfect ending for that deranged piece of work.
Experimento Aleph, you’ll have understood it, proves to be a very interesting discovery widely capable of surprising us again in a future that we’d wish near. How comforting to find out that madness knows no borders! One feels less lonely…
