KRUSAFIX

KRUSAFIX - INFERNAL SKY - CD ALBUM - NEUROGENIK TRANSMISSIONS.

Infernal Sky is the first cd album from a trilogy of Krusafix cd

albums released over a period of three months (Infernal Sky 30th

April, Temptation 28th May, Ascent 25th June 2001).

Here we have a nine track cd which fuses together a variety of music

styles. It has a lot of energy and powerful build ups in tracks. Due to

the high level of creative quality and supreme production, I felt this

epic release deserved a complete track by track review.

Track 1: Satanik (Hellbound Mix).

Is a techno style track using satanik vocal samples used to great

effect.The track uses drum & bass rhythms with industrial overtones

and cyber-gothic elements alongside electronic sounds. A dark

brooding dance track, very gothic or satanik with it’s over all sound.

Track 2: Trinity (Red Pill Mix).

Bursting with energy it erupts with gothic piano riffs and cyber-gothic

vocal samples. A female vocalist croons over dark basslines and

uplifting dark-techno pulse of sound.

Track 3: Raven (One Chance Mix).

A dark electronic dance sounding track which is a tribute to Brandon Lee

and his film The Crow. This track has a progressive trance edge to it.

Industrial-techno rhythms merge with cyber-gothic attitude in the overall

sound of the music. This track hits hard with it’s energy and relentless

heart pounding cyber-gothic sound, with lot’s of cool build ups and

vocal samples.

Track 4: Lifeforce (Kill It Mix).

As it states, it uses electricity sounds in the intro, which gives the

impression of life being forced into a body. A dark electronic sounding

track fused with a tech-trance sound. It has a powerful pulsating rhythm

to it that would encourage you to keep dancing. The track has a slight

repetitive edge to it, but because of the depth of the music, this is off

loaded into a progressive musical build up and rhythmic vibes.

Track 5: Cyber Angel (Morphik Mix).

Here Krusafix has introduced a new mix of their debut single for

2001. This mix is even more powerful and uses stronger industrial

electronic sounds in it. It has a great rhythm and sounds very sci-fi

techno, but at the same time dark and majestic. The music and

samples are a revelation in the way they have been fused.

Track 6: Prophecy (Heavens Legion Mix).

A short track which has a more relaxed feel to it, using electronic

orchestral and techno sounds while introducing dark religious or

satanik samples into the music.

Track 7: Nephilim (Mortal Mix). A dark sounding dance track using

a very powerful bassline and rhythms. It also has a very powerful

melody to it. This track drives forward on an ever changing melody

and pumping dark dance vibe.

Track 8: Sinner (Psycho Mix).

With an intro no one will ever forget once heard, via samples of a

vampires fused with pounding industrial-trance-techno. The track

has a dark ambient gothic feel to the music in places.

Again, Krusafix delivers heart bursting rhythms that pound the gates

of heaven & hell. The dark dance vibe just keeps on building into an

intense cyber-gothic, dark-techno-trance sound. A very interesting

track with a variety of electronic elements in it, with a powerful build

up at the end.

Track 9: Bloodlust (Nosferatu Mix).

This track has a pulsating rhythm and makes for a powerful energised

dance track. With it’s excellent use of vampire samples to great effect.

It has a dark-techno feel to it fused with industrial-trance and over

shadowed with cyber-gothic overtones and style. A powerful track

throughout with a great build up to close the track and end the album.

Infernal Sky is a powerful collection of tracks with a running time of

seventy minutes. Krusafix has invented his own unique style, which

in essences is a complex fusion of electronic music incorporating

cyber-gothic, progressive-industrial, dark-techno, electro, hard-house,

industrial-drum & bass, ebm, hard-beat, rave.

Krusafix stands alone with a sound that crosses most electronic

genres, but at the same time reinvents them all into something

very different and completely new, an electronic music revelation!.

The song titles of this album and overall theme is very cyber-gothic,

religious, satanik and fits the name of the band very well.

A very clever, vibrant and energetic album in which Krusafix has

captured just about every style of powerful electronic-dance music,

a formula that works beyond belief in the hands of Krusafix, and

should be heard globally to high acclaim.

Reviewed by TC - 12/07/2001 - ELEKTRA.