Control Human Delete hails from the east of the Netherlands and released Error Spectre a few months ago. Error Spectre is the second release of this young band and is one hell of a professional package. It includes a full colour booklet, a pressed instead of burned CD, which includes a beautifully designed extra CDROM-track including a video clip of “Seeking For The End Of Life” and of course some highly interesting music. Error Spectre is build around the concept that humanity is quickly destroying its own habitat and ultimately will destroy its own race. In C.H.D. words: “We have always been seeking for the end of life”. It still isn’t clear to me if the band thinks this is a good or a bad thing but anyway the concept is a strong one. The first track “Error Spectre” is an intro in which the long impressive monologue of agent Smith (Hugo Weaving) from the Matrix is used to underline the concept. The following tracks delve deeper into this subject.

The music to accompany the lyrics fits really well. The first band that comes to mind is Satyricon. They too have this hard to describe cold feeling over them. It’s a combination of strong screams, haunting guitar riffs and tight drumming and a great production.

In comparison to Satyricon C.H.D. use more spoken lyrics and a lot of samples. The songs all have a long running time but are interesting enough to keep my attention. Long atmospheric parts with keyboards and spoken passages are combined with icy black metal in the vein of the aforementioned Satyricon. The production is unbelievable for a demo and Pascal Altena from Ground Zero Productions deserves respect for doing an excellent job.

Overall I found this release pretty impressive. The music is very strong and shows great potential but more bands show that. What sets C.H.D. really apart from the rest is the professional package and website. In a desperate attempt to find some point of criticism I must say that the sometimes thick accent of singer Rien Oortgiesen is a thing they should work on but this is only a minor complaint. If any record company is in search of a talented professional interesting band you know where to look. Tell ‘em I sent you.
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