“It’s beyond my personal demons, and extremely honest,” says LaPlegua
of the fifth Combichrist album Making Monsters. With five albums,
thousands of shows, and four full months in Europe touring with
Rammstein (in front of hundreds of thousands of people), Combichrist has
become a purely visceral creature, driven by instinct and emotion;
stripped of all pretension. Its urgency - most evident in the raw and
uncompromising new album – is fueled by expressions of lust, anger, pain
and hate.
Presenting a foreboding soundscape, the album kicks off with a
hauntingly atmospheric instrumental “Declamation,” setting the tone for
what is to follow: dark, stabbing synths; heavy, robotic beats; and
swarming, buzz saw-style guitar sounds. Songs such as “Follow the Trail
of Blood” (featuring Brendan Schiepatti of Bleeding Through) are
baretoothed aggression; meanwhile the floor-stomping, first single
“Never Surrender” proves to be aggressively catchy, with its
metronome-tight rhythm through the verses, giving way to explosive
choruses that is bound to pack dance floors. “Through These Eyes of
Pain” takes a much subtler approach. Its echo-y vocal wash and glitchy
beats conjure images like a mournful dream, exposing the man inside the
monster. Though the moods displayed in Making Monsters are decidedly
sinister, LaPlegua manages to portray these emotions in many different
guises. Laden with hook heavy choruses, speaker-crushing beats, and
LaPlegua’s trademark dark, aggressive vocals, this is an album that
exudes honesty and the darkness that often comes with it.
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