Heritech
Xenopathic Biocide

THE REVIEW

Overlooked by many, in Europe and Italy, HeritecH is an extremely promising reality emerging from the American underground, with this demo and their EP released in 2008 to their name.

Leading this ultra-project are Sokaris and Dodd; they may look like two ordinary guys, almost two nerds (!), but they are actually maniacs, psychopaths with robotic-industrial perversions, two sound manipulators, two prodigies of avant-garde music who enjoy disturbing and shocking the listener. Their musical proposal is a Harsh Industrial Metal, with influences from Black Metal and Avant-garde Metal, and more. The bubbling cauldron of Xenopathic Biocide emits an acrid post-apocalyptic odor, along with disturbing visions of destruction and desolation. Imagine waking up one day: the city is smoldering, the sky leaden gray, a large part of the world's population decimated, skyscrapers destroyed, no hope and the impervious machines control humanity filled, among gears and chips, with their own malice and intelligence; all against a backdrop of piercing screams of pain, and harsh noises of mechanical movements. This is "Xenopathic Biocide". It is the complete conversion of humans into machines, a human that loses its weaknesses and submits to the binary schemes of the computer era; emotions succumb poisoned by bleeps and software.

You might say: "damn Insect, all this sci-fi soap opera for a six-song demo!", well this demo, aside from all the interpretations driven by ego, is a great example of how music changes year after year, and with experimentation, elevated peaks can be reached that only those who try and experiment can understand. And so the song form is deconstructed, creating splinters like the unsettling "Osmotic Epidemic" or the gloomy "Digital Apocalypse". The guitars are muted and plastic, the vocals at the limit of robotic, and the electric rhythm section is handled by a very tight drum machine. How far can experimentation, musical and otherwise, go? HeritecH knows very well that there are no limits, and this disc is proof of that.

Recommended for those who love experimental and avant-garde music and also for those who want to venture into this musical genre for the first time, finding this record a good gateway to these sounds.