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RECENSIONE DI INDUSTRIALIZED METAL (
HOLLAND ) What is it with Italian underground bands and major delays? The T3chn0ph0b1a EP was delayed almost a year, while the Neon Synthesis album was delayed about ten months. Another release to add to this particular group is the Deja-Vu album of Turin formation No Forgiveness. First it should come out in February 2006, then some days before their Dutch mini-tour (organized by IndustrializedMetal.tk – and they showed me that their live performance is as killer as their music!) but in the end the release date is set to 6-6-2006 (666 – how original hehehe). The album is filled with preverious released tracks re-recorded and mastered plus one new track and two covers, and with this latest weapon they will enter the war in search for a record label.
No Forgiveness says to make insane industrial gothic. A nice description, but a non complex peasant (no offence to you farmers) will have no idea what he should expect. A little description then: No Forgiveness combines pounding drum machine work with dark, heavy metal based distortion guitars and great melodic synths. Very different vocals are used by singer Holy Smoke, who is able to do raw screams but loves to use different pitched vocals too. This all together results in a powerful and atmospheric mix of the good parts of gothic and metal. ‘Hate Gate’ is the first song of the Deja-Vu album, which is the only preveriously unreleased track. Compared with the raw mix that was downloadable, they took a big step forward on the key work and the vocal mixing. Hate Gate is a little bit catchy too, which always is important for an opening track. Some of you may be a bit surprised when they hear the electro intermezzo after the gunshots, but don’t worry, just let it go with the flow. An excellent track! ‘Insane’ was preveriously released on the Masquerade EP (review elswehere on this website). This is maybe the song with the best guitar riff of the album. Compared with the preverious version, this one is ten times more powerful. And, there is some crazy sampling added which makes this song even more special! ‘Aves’ was released on the ‘Obscure Shining’ demo, and an EBM remix of it is to be found on ‘Masquerade’. The intro used on live gigs appears over here, and after the building up insanity breaks loose. Raw guitarwork and raw screams go through the bones, and the atmospheric sampling gives you the feeling of beeing haunted in the night. ‘Tears of God’ is more 80’s based. Think of a more insane version of Nine Inch Nails mixed with the particular No Forgiveness sound. Preveriously released on ‘Obscure Shining’, but this time with a more killer sound! ‘Another666’ is also off that demo, and I think this is the song with the major change. The chorus is (beautifully) sang by a girl, which gave a little weird impression live, but sounds like a great invention on CD. Powerful guitar riffs are mixed with cold sampling through the whole song. ‘Give Me A Scream’, preveriously released on Masquerade, always was one of my favourite songs of this band. The guitarwork is absolutely amazing, and now they transformed this song into a more controversial one it even sounds better. Give me a scream... YEAH!!! ‘Fucking Good’ is maybe the most metal song of the album. Fast guitar work and some blasting drums mark this song, with the typical raw screams of Holy Smoke for the nice flavour. The intermezzo might sound a little weird when you listen to it the first time, but after a while you’ll get the point of this too! Next up is a cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘Enjoy The Silence’. Since many many many bands have covered this song already, there is lots of material to compare it with. And I must say, No Forgiveness did a more than excellent job! They managed to mix their own sound into the original with ease. The song still sounds like the Depeche Mode song in a way, but most of all it sounds like a No Forgiveness song and that is what makes it a good cover. Track also appears on the Italian Depeche Mode tribute CD! Next song is another cover. ‘Here Comes The Rain Again’, originally performed by the Eurythmics, is a more emotional song. It shows a total different side of the band, compared with all the insanity in the preverious tracks. Easy listening, relaxing stuff, and well performed! ‘Masquerade’, originally to be found on the EP with the same name, is the first song on their live shows but the last song of this album. Constructed to open the door slowly, but when it has been opened the most dark world you can imagine lays in front of your eyes. Excellent dark sampling and whispering vocals mark this song, but don’t be afraid. Just wear your mask and join the masquerade! In the end, I dare to say that this was definitely worth the wait. Although, there is one small point of critic. Some of the songs (Masquerade, Insane, Give Me A Scream...) are constructed exactly the same way. Each song has its own identity though, but the intros and the ends of these songs are rather familiar. Maybe they should experiment a little more with some different ways to build these things. Anyway, it’s pretty hard to call this “complaining” after you have heard this excellent release. An album filled with outstanding tracks combined out of the best of the gothic/industrial and the metal worlds. This album has a major chance to become album of the year 2006, and we are only halfway that year now!Let’s hope to see this band on a big festival next summer, so they will be one more step closer to world domination and annihilation! Oh and last thing to mention: there is some nice bonus added to this album too: some excellent remixes of various wellknown and underground industrial acts!
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REVIEW BY INDUSTRIAL MAFIA PROMOTIONS (
USA ) From the darkest reaches of Italy, comes “Déjŕ-Vu”, the junior release of Torino based No Forgiveness. Albeit some delays, this long awaited was finally released on 6/6/06 in speculation of the eternal damnation and superstition of the date. Weighing in at 78 minutes, this release includes 10 original tracks, and 8 remixes crafted by Mental Siege, Golem 101, and Blank to name a few.
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REVIEW BY NOIZZ WEBZINE (
SPAIN ) Una singular banda italiana llamada NO FORGIVENESS y que en la portada de este ‘Deja-Vu’ ya dejan muy claro el camino por el que discurren sus composiciones: ‘Insane Industrial Gothic’ es lo que reza la leyenda de la portada. Y no les falta razón, en este extenso trabajo (incluye 18 cortes entre remezclas, versiones y algún tema inédito) hay un poco de locura, oscuridad y atmósferas Gothic, mucho sonido Industrial y algunos golpes Metal. Y no sólo es un disco muy extenso, además es muy completo a nivel musical dentro de los parámetros antes mencionados. Temas rabiosos y enloquecidos, otros más cercanos a los sonidos de club (oscuro por supuesto), algunos más fríos y mecánicos,... y como curiosidad un par de versiones de clásicos: ‘Enjoy The Silence’ de Depeche Mode y ‘Here Comes The Rain Again’ de Eurythmics, las cuales resultan bastante curiosas. En los temas de cosecha propia se recrean en las obsesiones, la locura, el odio, los paraísos perdidos,... lo cual se deja ver ya en sus títulos: ‘Insane’, ‘Hate Gate’, ‘Another 666’, ‘Immaculate Bitch’, ‘Tears of God’,... En cuanto a la producción, se podría haber hecho mejor y sacar mucho más partido a los temas, pero no suena mal. Por otro lado, en el tema de la imagen la banda se lo trabaja bastante, con un Artwork de “horror post-moderno” muy conseguido y una estética Industrial-Oscura característica de este tipo de bandas y que va muy acorde con el tipo de música que practican. En resumen, un disco muy recomendable para quienes gusten del tema Industrial o de los sonidos más mecánicos del Gothic.
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REVIEW BY ONTHEROAD (
ITALY )
Preciso che non sono affatto un estimatore dell'Industrial/EBM ma devo ammettere che questo "Dejavu" si lascia ascoltare piacevolemente. I No Forgivness sono bravi e sanno quello che fanno, il loro sound nn ha nulla da invidare ai grandi del genere,un incrocio tra Deathstars e Marilyn Manson che ai nostri esce bene. Come giŕ detto non impazzisco per sintetizzatori e chitarrine sature ma non posso fare altro che ammettere che questi ragazzi hanno talento e sanno decisamente il fatto loro e queste 10 tracce lo dimostrano. Anche gli 8 remix presenti sul Cd sono di ottima fattura pur non distaccandosi completamente dal loro standard stilistico. Hate Gate e Masquerade sono le mie preferite e le piů rappresentative, mettendo in chiaro il sound dei No Forgivness, ma unica pecca del cd, a mio parere, č la Cover di Enjoy the Silence, non ne posso piů di quella canzone ormai troppo coverizzata. Detto questo auguro al gruppo di continuare per la loro strada, cercando magari di trovare soluzioni un pň piů personali e meno debitrici ai gruppi ai quali fanno riferimento. Tutto sommato un buon lavoro che coloro che seguono il genere dovrebbero apprezzare
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REVIEW BY METALIRIUM (
SLOVAKIA ) Na vydanie tohto CD cakali fanúšikovia talianskych insane gotákov No Forgiveness dost dlho. Avízovaný dátum bol totiž stanovený na niekedy medzi jesenou až zimou 2005, CD však uzrelo svetlo až v den Omena, teda 6.6.06. Zaujímavostou je, že na albume „DejaVu“ sa nachádza len jeden nový song, zvyšok sú songy prerobené z prvých dvoch albumov „Obscure Shining“ a „Masqeruade“ (recenzia sa nachádza na serveri METALIRIUM), preto aj spomínany názov albumu, ciže nieco, co sa už raz stalo. Zvyšok ešte tvoria dve cover verzie – jedná je od skupiny Depeche Mode „Here Comes The Rain Again“ (ktorú mimochodom scoverovali aj iní Taliani, Lacuna Coil, avšak tá verzii od No Forgiveness nesiaha ani po prach pod nohami) a druhá je od Eurythmics „Here Comes The Rain Again“, a remixy songov od umelcov známych, ale aj neznámych. Z tých známych treba spomenút Golem 101, Mental Siege, ci Son of Noise. Vydaniu albumu predchádzali aj personálne zmeny – z pôvodnej zostavy ostali už len traja hudobníci – spevák Holy Smoke, gitarista Celesh a basák Desy. Bicie a klávesy si vzali na starost Holy Smoke a Celesh cez pocítacové programy.
Osobu, ktorá mala možnost pocut predchádzajúce albumy, prekvapí radikálna zmena songov. Okrem velmi cistého a kvalitného zvuku sú agresívnejšie a viac v nich vystupuje gitara, klávesy sú posunuté mierne do pozadia. To vytvára úplne inú atmosféru, ako na predchádzajúcich albumoch, kde všetko znelo synteticky a klávesy mali hlavné slovo. Ci to je už na škodu alebo na úžitok je na každom posluchácovi osobitne. Podla mna je to však velmi dobrý tah a urcite pritiahne nových fanúšikov, ktorí majú radšej tvrdší útok na ich ušné bubienky. Tomu zodpovedá aj výber songov – nenájdete tu žiadne balady, len tie najtvrdšie songy z oboch albumov. Na menšie vyváženie tvrdosti si skupina vybrala už spomínane 2 covery, plus v songu „Another 666“ využila ženské vokály. Vybrat najlepší song je tažké, až nemožné, pretože každý jeden je skvelý. Trochu ma však zarazilo, že na CD bol umiestnený remix songu Aves, ktorý sa už objavil na predchádzajúcom albume. Miesto neho boli hodit nejaký nový naviac.
Co teda napísat na zhrnutie tohto albumu. Hoci skupina prerobila songy zo svojich predošlých albumov, je jasne pocut ich hudobný vývin a nám sa len ostáva tešit, co na nás títo mentálni pacienti vybalia najbližšie. Tento album je skvelý tah na prilákanie nových fanúšikov a aj na to, aby si kúpili aj staré albumy. No a samozrejme je to skvelý tah aj na tých skalných bláznov, aby dostali svoju dávku šialenstva, po ktorej tak túžia.
REVIEW BY SYNTHETIC DAWN (
USA ) No Forgiveness has a good impression in the industrial gothic rock scene, with their new full length album “Deja-Vu”. This whole album is very intense, with an unreleased track from “Masquerade”. This band has mixed a drum machine, with an electric guitar, with Industrial R’n’R. You’ll find many tracks, which have been remastered from their old releases “Masquerade” and “Obscure Shining”.
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