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The problem with this CD is that it literally oozes blood, not human blood, machine blood, industrial blood (so grab a towel).
Is this a CD made by four humans? It wouldn't seem so.
Behind the microphone, we find Attila Csihar, the Hungarian-origin singer otherwise known for having "emitted beastly screams" on the most famous and cult CD in the entire history of black metal: De Misteriis Dom Sathanas by Mayhem. If his delirium due to stomachache or other reasons was definitely out of place and, put simply, unlistenable, here his screaming reaches truly elevated heights (he must have discovered the benefits of digestives...), giving the album of these Italians a truly "industrial" touch.
It starts at a very high speed with the title track featuring sharp guitar riffs, and the drum machine, programmed by bassist Malfeitor Fabban, the real industrial mind of the group, blazing away in pure black metal style. A small note on the samples, also by Fabban, industrially suggestive and uniquely dark.
The tracks flow quickly, alternating moments of intense industrial black metal with purely instrumental tracks like Faustian Spirit of the Earth, arriving at the two best tracks on the album. The seventh, Digital Coat Masque, with its harpsichord interlude (the contrast between the sweetness of the instrument and the industrial samples in the background is stunning) and the eighth, The Triumph, perhaps the most "commercial" (the central break with the solo is spine-chilling).
A CD that mixes 80s thrash/black metal with a good dose of melody or symphony (see Black Hole Spell, almost reminiscent of Dimmu Borgir), moments of hypnotic trance, and the darkest industrial sound.
Worth noting is the presence of Nattefrost from Carpathian Forest as a guest singer. Worth a try.
Tracklist Lyrics and Samples
02 With No Human Intervention (06:19)
Imagine the godlike devil
Representing the thesis
Repress, redress and reform
Still together uniform
A new order of things is born
Culminating in an antithesis
Wish for a moribund equanimity
Released from earthly emancipation
Vivit et non vivit <i>[he lives and he lives not]</i>
No truthfulness, no nothing
It could never spare your life anyway
Give me symbolical antidote, refresh the blood
Daemon impetus, aria of a silent dream
Time and being, rendez-vous the flood
History bears witness of doctrinal screams
Semigod; for all what it's worth
Values; no pity, no f**king liability
Demigod; heading towards north
Morals; always behold the ambiguity
Honour the siege by he
Who's going to judge the living
And the dead and the world by fire
Antagonism, join the precepts of violence
Presence of flesh, of all that I gave you
Rotten to the core
Would you ever ask for more?
Vivit et non vivit <i>[he lives and he lives not]</i>
With no human intervention
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By Insect_Reject
With No Human Intervention is a Pandora's box full of poisons and anger towards all the worst that human beings are.
A cybernetic, alienating, machine-born, unstoppable violence that pierces our limbs with firepower.
