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When I Look For Answers I Realize We're Forgotten Tears

TastyBabySyndrome | "Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Lit | 07/31/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"For some time now, I've been partial to the aggressive themes that have become streamline in the EBM sectors haunting dancefloors outside of glossy photographs and watered down metaphors of what our youth are listening to, drinking in all they have to offer. That is because these sounds, they are where the messages of angst in a society of premanufacturing are hiding, circulating just outside of what mainstreamed radio is willing to sell their viewers. They are the places where messages seethe and quote passages on what the purpose to all of this is, where the passion is in the pointlessness, asking not what you can do for your country but what your country did to you.
It is where the hatred is, where the violence is, speaking with tongues that aren't carved out of magazine clippings and billboard advertisement.
And that is where, quite by accident, Signos de Aberricion, a voice outside the normal wilderness of sound, found me. While touting other releases outside of Metropolis records, Signos De Aberracion was my first taste of Hocico and it is their most refined effort to date. And what a release it was, too, taking me back to moments when the distortion of voices drove beat after seething beat into a person until you could almost taste the anger seeping through the speakers.
It felt - good.
So, how would I describe this album?
Well, I'd say it is a mesh of hauntingly harsh electronics assailing its listener with vocal stylings that piece together sounds remnant of something Cradle of Filth would do, only mixed with an Informatik or a Wumpscut. Here, a voice that could be classified as another instrument in the expression of anger plays, its reasoning distorted and yet clear, as it remarks one of the many subjects plaguing this industrial complex - violence. As it remarks, it speaks of pain and wanting to be outside of it, commenting on childhood infractions, playpens of brutality, and the monsters that we, as human beings, oftentimes are.
In all but a couple of instrumental pieces, it keeps the attention with heavily flowing BPM counts, reminding one that hatred and rage, it can come in a package that we can all move to.Don't let the titles fool you. Despite not being in English, the lyrical content is, translating to those who have, by way of translation, drawn borders in the sand. So, if you enjoy the taste of EBM melodies with your daily dose of reality, then I would send you looking in this direction. This is because there is something being offered here that reminds me of many of the bands that appeared in the late 90s up until the present, and the lot being cast seethes. Personally, I find seething to be a healthy way of functioning in today's overcrowded, overpopulated, overindulgent world and would recommend it to anyone looking for a few minutes of escapism.
Still, don't take my word for it. To sample it, simply listen to tracks provided herein or go to Metropolis.
For fans of this release or for someone who tastes and wants something more, Disidencia Inquebrante is coming in August 2003 and sounds promising as well."

Easily one of the best

M. Cartwright | 01/20/2005

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Hocico is one of the best electro-industrial bands to ever make music. It's raw, harsh, thunderous, ripping, edgy, wicked, haunting, complex...all good things about industrial music.



This CD is a great introduction to the band. Their music is more polished and dance-oriented further along in their discography, and they continue their awesome dark-classical themed pieces throughout.



If you like this kind of music they are great at it."