I’m looking forward to the Wave Gotik Treffen, where a rather unique band will shock the audience with a set of weird hardtrance-type noise, leaving the audience with mouths wide open as well as sore heads. I am talking about Dulce Liquido, a project of Erk Aicrag and (mainly) Racso Agroyam, both known from Hocico. Therefore, this album (Shock Therapy) will no doubt show signs from that very successful band. However, the sound of Dulce Liquido has always been in its own different category and isn’t exactly easy to classify. Obviously it will be given the normal harsh industrial/electro treatment, but (as a song like “Humid Dreams” proves) there are loads of references to the trance- scene (or actually, the hardtrance-scene).

This may not sound pleasing to most readers (who will no doubt stop reading at this point), but there’s more to offer than plain monotone bass with enough impact to get an elephant to the floor.

There’s the aggressive singing in “Pissed Off”, the noise (nearly Haus Arafna!) approach in “Spy Eye” and typical Dulce Liquido-noise in “Dementia” and “Lamb’s Creed” (you’ll know the latter one from the Machineries Of Joy 2-sampler). The mix of trance, industrial and noise sounds pretty good and proves there’s room for an even noisier version of Alec Empire.

So, should you buy Shock Therapy? Depends: if you’re into Hocico and you are looking for something more aggressive, you should check this out, but if you think Hocico is too noisy, this is probably not your style. However, if Haus Arafna/November Növelet apply to you, then this offering might be interesting. This is violent music, which should no doubt leave the average WGT-visitor shocked and amazed. Can’t wait!