Corroded Master – Afterbirth [2012; self-released]

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Hard EBM and electro-industrial trappings mark the six songs of this EP, with raspy grunts, hissing growls, steady hi-hat beats, chopped and repeated vocal samples, and layers of compressed keyboard waves hitting 4/4 base-lines.  Half of the tracks are remixes (two of them targeting the same song), which introduces a little variety to the proceedings, some of the breaks go off in interesting directions, and the rhythms are usually pretty good at keeping momentum rolling through the changes, but in the end (outside of the draggy malfunction groove of “Bodycount (Acid Trash remix)”), there’s just not a lot to help it stand out from the masses of similar industrial-tinged EBM.

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