Retaliate of Anger - Relic (Machine Man Records) Review by Steve Thomas-Green I’m a big fan of Josh Lamison’s Retaliate of Anger, but I s�ll have no idea how to describe the music he makes. Generally, it feels like a clenched fist, borne out of frustra�on, just ready to explode with power and energy, mixed in with a disharmonic form of melody. A lot of the music on the debut, 2018’s Final Echo was catchy, but in a messed up distorted kind of way… and that theme con�nues here with album number 2, Relic. And although the feel is similar, musically, this has taken quite a few leaps forward, with a load more textures woven into the sound and again, it s�ll sounds pissed off, contorted with rage etc… but the off-kilter melodies are a lot stronger, as are the pulsa�ng beats. So to add to the EBM, the Industrial and the Glitch influences, this does have a slightly dancier edge to it, albeit in a very dark format with the lyrics, “Die Motherfucker Die” snarled over the top of a very catchy beat. But the beat is so strong, I think this would go down really well in a Goth/EBM club se�ng. I’m also going to start my next radio show with it (the song is actually called Destroyer, Shelter) Elsewhere, the lords of bad taste, Decent News are immortalised in Decent News Is My Favorite Boyband, and things get a li�le too personal (I’m presuming) for the 2 parter, Cumbomb… which I don’t have the lyrics for, thankfully. So Retaliate of Anger are back: bigger, badder and be�er than ever… And this baby is out at the end of the month and it comes very highly recommended h�ps://www.facebook.com/destroyeris/
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