{"id":103256,"date":"2024-05-10T00:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-09T23:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/?p=103256"},"modified":"2024-05-23T13:33:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-23T12:33:27","slug":"album-review-kill-ii-this-variant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.metalforcesmagazine.com\/site\/album-review-kill-ii-this-variant\/","title":{"rendered":"KILL II THIS – Variant (2024) | Album \/ EP Reviews @ Metal Forces Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"

KILL II THIS
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\nRevolver (2024)<\/span>
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It seems a long, long time ago that I was first introduced to UK experimental metalheads Kill II This. In fact, it was the bands 1998 opus Deviate<\/em> which really got me hooked and a few live shows after. The band were a four piece at the time and a very interesting one at that with their mix of industrial tinged groove rock which featured cool samples, female vocal injections and a general diverse sound that nodded towards Fear Factory. Sadly, like a lot of bands, line-up changes and a complete overhaul of sound seem to have hindered Kill II This who since reforming in 2014 have become downright bland.<\/p>\n

Variant<\/em> is the fifth full-length studio outing from the band, and the first since 2003\u2019s Mass. [Down.]-Sin (Drone.)<\/em>. Simon Gordon of Hellfighter is now the frontman and his style could easily fit into that soulless nu-metal as the rest of the combo \u2013 consisting of founding members Mark Mynett (guitar), Pete Stone (bass) and Jeff Singer (drums) \u2013 churn out equally colourless tirades that are as common as muck, sadly.<\/p>\n

\u2018Less Human\u2019 seems devoid of weight as the posse opts for such a clinical production. Hints of Machine Head at their most tame spring to mind. \u2018SleeperCell\u2019 has a thrashiness to its approach, but there is little variety as the mundane theme takes us through Gordon\u2019s cold tone which is either generic modern thrash scowl or nu-metal croon.<\/p>\n

Sure, I\u2019ll be chastised for such criticism, especially for wanting Kill II This to resemble what I originally loved them for, but the likes of \u2018ComaKarma\u2019, the awful \u2018Fugues Of Amnesia\u2019 and slow builder \u2018Prosthetic Gravity\u2019 are so sanitised that for the duration I picture myself in an empty white room with a migraine tortured by those generic vocals.<\/p>\n

Tedious, achromatic and as uneventful and bereft as the original nu-metal invasion, the return of Kill II This numbs my brain.<\/p>\n

Neil Arnold<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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