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Although I'd never heard of this French trio centered around main songwriter and producer Caedes (vocals, guitar and synthesizers), I was more than pleasantly surprised while listening to their self-released EP "Night Room". The reason for this absolutely positive reaction hides, of course, in the music delivered by Lucky Striker 201 - diverse mid-paced electro-industrial metal with heavy staccato guitar riffs, Jekyll-&-Hyde-type of vocals, and tons of skillfully created synthetic passages (recorded on a home computer!). However, it's not another thoughtless Rammstein or The Kovenant clone, as usual for dozens of stars-wannabe-bands lately, but an intelligent and quite original audio-symbiosis of, let's say, Die Krupps and Gothminister (due to the overall sounding) versus Camouflage, for example (because of the pleasant clean new wave-ish vocals) plus a bit of Crematory (listen to the freezing death roars every now and then). To be more precise in the description, we should add to all this the catchy song structures and the constant "movement", as well as some fresh ideas like the harpsichord inclusion in "Le reflet de son ame", or the 12-minute-long EP's highlight "The Werewolf Metaphor". This final piece is divided in two parts - an "ordinary", faster one (compared to the former 4 cuts), and an up-tempo, heavy yet extremely hypnotic instrumental that simply makes you wanna play this CD again! Yes, with a little more luck (everything else needed is present), Caedes & Co. could easily become the new world-known lucky strikers in music. Let's see...
| Tracklist |
| 1. Burn |
| 2. Life's A Dream |
| 3. A Liquid Blue Quest |
| 4. Le Reflet De Son Ame |
| 5. The Werewolf Metaphor |
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