Hellectric's sound falls somewhere in the middle of Charon, Sentenced, Billy Idol, Type O Negative and The Cult. A strange mix, I hear you say, but it really does manage to work very well. The music is firmly rooted in the Gothic Rock scene, but Myke Hideous’ vocals seamlessly segue between Ian Astbury’s rawking (The Cult), Billy Idol’s sneer, and the deep, melancholic croon of J-P Leppäluoto (Charon).“Everything I Got” opens with a riff that even (the highly over-rated) Mastodon would be proud to call their own, so heavy and rumbling is it. The rest of the album is similarly heavy and groove-laden. All the songs have a high level of melody and catchiness, yet rather than pop-Goth - like HIM - they are much more like other Continental European Goth acts (the aforementioned Charon, for example), where the catchiness is created through slightly melancholy melodies.
The only two things that let this album down is the annoying woman bitching on “Sherimoon” (it sounds like an annoying Anime character giggling at the end… absolutely terrible!), and the rather dull, droning “Free Bird” (which is probably how Marilyn Manson would sound, were he to do a song completely stoned).
To further mix things up, “Bleed With Me” sounds like Godsmack’s more grungey moments, mixed with some of Orgy’s better songs (so, stuff from their first album, Candyass).
A very diverse, instantly likeable, highly recommended album!
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