seven

Coming to realization of this band's existence through Inception Records signing, I discovered a new and promising artist to enter the industrial/electro scene. This one-man project, originally called DNA, shows potential to be a positive force in the electro genre for late 2000, early 2001.

Charles Rehill introduces himself with five tracks that carry on flavors of such bands as Decoded Feedback, Covenant, A23, and even a little VNV Nation. The cd is opened with driving electro-trance structures, bright melodic strings that pace nicely with clean harmonic vocal stylings on "Absence." Nice track for the club-floor! The second track, "Strain", continues on the pace of the first with more electro-trance movements and clean vocals. My Decoded Feedback & Covenant reference lies heavily with the first two tracks due to their chord progressions. "Martyr" moves into a slower pace with more emphasis on nice, clean, & emotionally layered vocals working with a VNV-like sadness and depressing melodic string elements. One of the strongest tracks, "regret (epsilon mix)", pushes the pace up a little into an array of emotionally contrasted vocal stylings and piano elements that I hope to hear more in future. The last track, "Tundra" ends with an electro-ballad similar to earlier Project Pitchfork.

Proving to be a possible new solid force in industrial/electro scene, this is definitely one artist to watch out for in the near future.