REVIEWS

Review of our debut album taken from TWF magazine

"I seem to be getting alot of electronic music to review this issue. Not sure why that is, as I don't really like electronic stuff that much at all. In fact very few electronic bands interest me at all and it takes something more special than Icon of Assemblage Nation v3 to impress me.

Well Cybercide seem to have something a bit more impressive going on, as I can't seem to put this album down. Not bad for a genre I don't like.

So, what are they doing right then? Well they seem to have a lot more passion going on in their songs which really charges their songs and gives them a bit more energy and emotion. The vocals have clear passion and emotion while the music fizzles nicely above the driving beat. 'Searchlight' and 'Exocet' start the album at a nice pace which gets you into a dancing frenzy.

'Further' is a very good reflective song, its brighter and focuses around the lyrics alot more, which is another strong point for the band. They've got some good structured lyrics, "I'll leave it all behind somehow / if this is where my story ends then let it end right now"

'Isolate' takes the pace right down and creates a very atmospheric track with female vocals which help add to the mood. I think some of the beeping on this track is a bit sharp, as this overpowers the main track a bit.

'Redshift' cranks the tempo up marginally, but 'Underfire' really hits the target nicely. It seems a bit common for bands to put anti-War anthems on records these days, some work better than others and 'Underfire' works. It gallops along nicely before asking "Where is God in this?" and then running off again.

'Recoil' seems a bit tame in relation to all that's come before it which kind of relegates this as somewhat of an album filler. Its competent enough but doesn't threaten to over throw the other tracks.

The album ends with 'Faceless' which while is also lyrically strong still sits in the shadows with 'Recoil' compared to the rest of the album.

So overall this was a very pleasant surprise for me and given they've been testing their feet in the water on the live circuit this year I can only see brighter things for Cybercide in 2007

Nice one lads! .................................................................... (8)