Cell Zero : The Color Drains Out

8.5

OUT OF 10

This review was commissioned. However it was written from an unbiased standpoint.

I don’t know why I always want to start sentences with the phrase “I’m gonna be blunt” because I’m always blunt and that’s just the way I roll and if anyone has a complaint about that they can rightfully fuck off. But in any case I’m gonna be blunt and say that it’s a shame Cell Zero is such a small act when their brand of industrial rock and metal completely slams the competition like Rikishi butt dropping onto an opponent from the top of the ropes during early 2000s WWE. They’ve the chops to run with the big dogs and have a presence that could completely dominate and is one of the hidden gems that’s actually a hidden gem and not some band that’s well known and only called a hidden gem for the sake of being on some influencer’s list in the void.

Point proven as soon as you hit the play button on their latest album The Color Drains Out as the song that first plays is Already Dead and it has an absolutely slamming percussion that would make any mosher’s tits perk up faster than you can say blueberry pie. It’s not a fast song by any means but it knows how to make your blood boil and I can easily see myself lifting heavy weights to this track in the gym as my back is throwing discs out into the void and my legs are being crushed. In fact upon writing that sentence I added this song to our Industrial Workouts for Industrial People Workout playlist.

The revel doesn’t end with the just the starting track however as each and every single song on the album is brilliant but for the sake of brevity I’ll be pointing out my favorites from the bunch. Blood Money comes to mind first thanks to the dingy industrial artifacts it brings up during the verse as if you’re standing in a dingy alley in a trench coat smoking a cigarette as your allies in the building to your left run an underground fight club. The chorus then blasts with noisy guitars and shouts and screams that sound like they’re coming right from a raw microphone.

I also really enjoyed Something Wrong more than most of the tracks on the album thanks to its near nonstop barrage of guitar driven noise walls. There’s not a single segment of the song that gives you a break and its as if you’re sprinting uphill for a period of time and if you stop the demon right behind you is going to grab your ankle and show you a really bad time as they drag you right off to hell. Or perhaps a good time depending on who you are and how your kinks align. It’s a song I gave that nasty face to. The one where you put on an angry face with a frown though you’re not upset you’re just relatively impressed with what’s going on and that’s the only way you find to communicate to the world that this is really enjoyable.

I suppose my only complaint with the entire album is that the song length can be ludicrous at the best of times especially the final song with is eight-minutes and nineteen seconds. And don’t get me wrong I can enjoy a long song just as much as the next guy but it has to have a decent amount of meat on the bones and not too stretched out just for the sake of being stretched out. There are many memorable moments on the album but none of them warrant a song longer than five-minutes at the best of times. Cut, clip, and do quality over length next time and you’ll have an absolute masterpiece in the bag next time.

Masterpiece or not Cell Zero’s The Color Drains Out is an almighty impressive beast that deserves your attention – much more attention than other bands that you’re giving attention to at this very moment. It’s a shame they aren’t signed and that physical releases aren’t a thing for this band but maybe that will change in the near future. Great job, looking forward to more.

Steven Gullotta

https://brutalresonance.com/
Editor-in-Chief. Been writing for this site since 2012. Worked my way up to the top now I can't be stopped. I love industrial and dark electronic music which is why I'm so critical of it.

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