Metal with ADD, on amphetamines. Completely uncompromising, forward-looking, genre redefining metal.Below the screaming vocals can be heard some very good, clean harmonising (like a more angelic Anders Friden). Incendiary guitar licks and solos, catchy hooks galore and a musicianship unmatched by the majority of the music scene today, Zero Cipher are, along with Mendeed, great British hopes for metal!
Any description of this cornucopia of styles and boundary-defying noise could make it sound like any band from either the New Wave Of American Heavy Metal, or Metalcore. But, this has so much more going for it, that it would be folly to pass it up because you’ve heard “brutality and melody” blended together before. This is different, and far more superior!
They meld their infectious metal with beats and scratching, harking back to the days when One Minute Silence (R.I.P.) were still a force to be reckoned with. Yap – vocalist with One Minute Silence – guests on “My Statement Of Misintent”, but, rather disappointingly, this is the weakest song on the album. Bear in mind, ‘weakest’ is not the same as ‘weak’. The song’s still good, but he doesn’t sound as forceful or confident as he once did.
“It’s No Secret” is the album’s quieter number. It’s a single, if ever I heard one, with superb melodic vocals, great catchy music and it travels along at a fair clip, not once reducing the immediacy of the album at all.
Your parents will refer to this as noise. It’s guaranteed, but beyond the dissonant aural assault, Diary Of A Sadist is one of the most compelling albums to be released this year, if not decade (young as it still is).
Can something be beautifully insane? It can now.
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