Like Attrition, Amber Asylum are going the Gothic Classical route, with Kris Force’s soprano graced by lulling strings and shimmering washes of cymbals.
More mainstream than any of the other bands I’ve heard on the label, the electro these guys record isn’t for dancing, it’s for being pissed off at the world.
In addition to the traditional rip-snortin’ industrial juggernauts that are their standard fare, are songs with (gasp) real drums that aren’t even industrial.
Not every song is all-out speed-kills punk filled with cartwheeling guitar riffs and harmonies stacked like mattresses in a furniture warehouse, but enough are.