Society 1 has returned with their new record, “The Sound That Ends Creation.” Society 1 continues to make amazing music, taking it to the next level by combining Industrial, Goth and Metal. This record should break the band through to a larger audience and with Matt Zane as their leader and singer the time might have come just for that.
This record is very well paced not throwing all fast or plodding songs together but rather placing all the tracks around the record. This seems to set a tone that no matter what the band writes, they feel you should get a full experience and not just turn the music off cause of its slow gothic feel or its fast paced metal feel. Matt Zane and company want you to listen to the whole record and believe me you will.
“It Isn’t Me” kick starts the CD and is the perfect track to get everyone’s attention. They don’t shy away from guitar solos either; in “Enraptured” there is a nice guitar solo. In the song “Touch A Girl” Zane says “I want to fuck the world,” maybe he still has his pornography past on his mind; either way this lyric leads to many different interpretations.
“Let Me Live” is a song about killing, but seems to be an attack on our President. Although many bands have been doing it this is one of the subtlest songs of the attack. The CD seems to have its goth rock moments as well. On the song “I Love Her”, the band takes on a Type O Negative vibe and is lyrically as cryptic with a line such as “I love her but she’s dead”.
Society 1 seems to take notice that a lot of bands scream and make lyrics unintelligible so while screamed or sung these lyrics are understood. If you haven’t heard of this band before this might be the best starting point as it covers so many bases of the bands influences without losing their own definitive sound. Society 1 has retuned and this time seem on the verge of taking it to the next level.
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