‘This Is Dramacore’ marks an interesting continuation of Estonian songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Ott Evestus’s resolutely single minded industrial metal project, a lengthy, stylishly presented and finely tuned record that, though painfully bleak in tone, shows all the signs of a keen musical intelligence at work. Swathed in complex and eccentric orchestral arrangements, these twelve tracks are logistically astonishing, and it’s not difficult to see why the mixing process for this record in itself took nine months to complete.
Evestus are a band that you can appreciate on many levels. In absolute control of their image and the presentation of their releases, their baroque compositions are brought to life at live shows by a backing band that includes, among other things, four cellists, refusing to compromise to the expectations of the modern music world. ‘All The King’s Drugs’ , ‘Enemy’ , ‘Pikachu Warriors’ and the rest of the tracks that make up this album form a genuinely cohesive unit, Evestus’s vocals laced with bitter irony and malice while machinegun percussion and steel capped riffs power the band forward. As with much industrial metal the album could come across as too cold, too clinical for some tastes, and on certain tracks the playfully dark lyricism is (debatably) taken too far, particularly on ‘Drama Junkie,’ a song that could be read as a pretty humourless incitement of suicide; these points aside, ‘This Is Dramacore’ is one to check out.
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