Search - Unter Null :: The Failure EPiphany

Bring on the progressive terror noize assault!

VoteForTheLeastWorst | Somewhere, US United States | 03/27/2006

(5 out of 5 stars)

"First let me say I am blown away by the intensity of the handicraft of this album. I've been craving some new very fresh flesh-ripping



ebm/industrial and I have found it! Erica's vocals are so very unpretentious and real, that I don't feel like I am being force fed generic



fuzz. This is seriously Industrial EBM taken to the next level beyond the happy synth-pop the style has largely flowed into. Unter Null has



definitely breathed some new life into a stagnant genre.



(Song Spoilers Below!)





Bloodlust - An intro track that is certainly one of my fav intros ever! It has the atmosphere of a fused industrial/black metal, the



desolation of machinery and electronics that we rivetheads so love, and the fast hyper ebm that gets you moving. It plays on what you thinks



going to happen and then wham!



Martyr - This track starts out with a familiar goth club ebm feel with drippings of trance but quickly takes off into this swirl of aggro



vocals overlayed against this intense track. The break around 2:50 is an unexpected welcome gesture before Erica brings it up again for the



ending.



Your Nightmare - Listening to this one can see why it became a club hit. Following in the tradition of the previous track "Martyr", Erica



brings together a fusion of a club trance anthem and hard-edged industrial ferocity. Very hypnotic and energetic! I can't wait to listen in



the car! Stomp stomp!



Feed the Lie - Woah! Time to switch our rivet gears! This song is excellent! If this song doesn't make you wanna stomp around, you're dead.



This song is worthy of a soundtrack on a sci-fi flick that's for sure. With some super precise white noise samples, the flanging vocoded



effect, and a speed-up trad stomp beat this surely should become a rivet anthem!



Destroy Me - This track is amazing. With the placement of the eerie soundscapes backdropping driving heated beats, I listen in awe as Erica



lays down her raspy sweet vocals. This is definitely a song you can stomp too!



The Failure Epiphany - This track goes back to the "Your Nightmare" style with again a trad stomp but with interesting interplay of her voice



on the offbeats. The progressive chords are a welcome bridge.



Sick F*ck - So far we've heard a lot of synth and processed samples but here now we have a more trad vocal sample reflecting on the track



name. Erica makes no hold on exactly what she's feeling in this song. 1:50 comes in up with the eerienees of creepy B horror movie organ



music. But not for long as Erica tears off into a vocal rampage of some sick f*ck who needs a beating apparently. Her voice is amazing,



sharp, and deadly. w00t!





Scilence - We start off in modern blade runner kind of synth harmony. But soon find ourselves in a very Wumpscut-inspired world. With heavy



distorted beats paired with the lofty synth and the repetitive hypnotic nature, Erica injects her own personal style taking a familiar form



and kickin it up a notch.





You Have Fallen From Grace - The first minute of this song is completely entrancing! Then without disturbing the beauty of the "gracefulness"



of the flow, Erica steps in with subtle but intense vocals. Here we can a hear a more personal human side reflected in the lyrics.



Stray - We start off with a gorgeous crystalline melody that breaks into an groovebox rhythm. The added asian-flavoured sound later is rather



teasing against this song that seems to restrain from breaking into full assault. Perhaps Erica needed a rest. "I only wish you dead."



The Hook - A homage to old school industrial synth floating in the background, this song also reflects a progressive trance influence. It is



more atmospheric and Erica's voice is barely if at all discernible. This should appeal to fans of more noize-based atmospheric music. Erica



suprises us around 2:40 with a sweeter processed version of her voice.





ZombieBoy - Woot! I love the interplay of strange chord progression! This song is more subdued than the rest but a good listen.



Desire - What stands out at first is the super high soprano synth voices amidst a simple dance beat, but it's the subtle distorted sounds



that make this instrumental piece quite good. This song is an appropriate ender."

"I can feel my soul rot."

Clarissa Bowen | Ontario, California USA | 11/26/2007

(4 out of 5 stars)

"After falling in love with Unter Null's SACRAMENT EP I knew I had to get her debut album, THE FAILURE EPIPHANY. Upon first impression I was a little disappointed by what I heard but the songs are really starting to grow on me now. They're just so melodic yet aggressively addictive...I can't get enough of them. I personally consider miss Erica Dunham to be the female equivalent to Combichrist and the definite Queen of Industrial right now (or what some are calling terror EBM).



If you like danceable music with an angsty edge full of violent bouts of spiteful revenge than Unter Null is your kind of gal. ("I only wish you dead.") My one complaint is that many of the songs sound too much alike and are hard to distinguish from the other, but standout tracks for me would have to be the infectious "Destroy Me", "Sick F*ck", "Scilence" and "Stray"."