God Is an Automaton

2003年にスイスで結成されたSYBREEDは、メロディック・デスを融合させたインダストリアル・メタル第2波の牽引役としてシーンに衝撃を与えた存在である。
2004年のデビュー作『Slave Design』で地下シーンから高評価を得ると、以後も『Antares』(2007)、『The Pulse of Awakening』(2009)、『God is an Automaton』(2012)と進化を重ね、彼ら独自のサイバー・メタル、通称"デスウェーブ”を確立。FEAR FACTORYやPERIPHERYを彷彿とさせる重厚なリフとエレクトロニックな要素の融合は、SYBREEDならではの世界観を生み出し、多くの後続バンドに影響を与えた。2013年に惜しくも解散したが、その先鋭的なサウンドは今なお世界中のファンを魅了し続けている。
近年、長らく廃盤だった3作品がデジパック&カラーヴァイナルで再発される。

After paring down their sound somewhat on 2009's The Pulse of Awakening, Switzerland's Sybreed made an about-face three years later, back into denser industrialized techno-metal frameworks with their fourth album, God Is an Automaton. While still very much a song-oriented affair, marked by elephantine grooves and big-time hooks, swooping synth melodies and clean-sung choruses, the album never cuts a corner when it comes to stacking and blending these various dynamics with intricate complexity. As a result, tightly bonded Fear Factory-inspired extreme metal guitars and (surprisingly live-sounding) drums serve as the fundamental cornerstones for Sybreed's daring electronica experiments, yielding numerous pneumatic drill-driven assaults that are simultaneously polished to a mirror-like sheen by those self-same accessible songwriting ingredients cited above -- as evidenced by such numbers as "No Wisdom Brings Solace," "Hightech Versus Lowlife," "Destruction and Bliss," and others. The band also employs skittish digital rhythms across "Red Nova Ignition," whips robotic vocoder out of the Cynic toolkit for the title track plus "The Line of Least Resistance," and doesn't really lose creative steam until the very last tracks. By that point, though, Sybreed have impressed with the sheer breadth of sonic detail sowed throughout God Is an Automaton's surprisingly memorable collection of tunes. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia