Re:O discovered the intersection between Bjork in her Military of Me period, Atari Teenage Riot and Static X of their newest mechanised juggernaut, Crimson Want. As an alternative of listening to cogs grind within the instrumentals, you’re drenched in cataclysmic cascades of gnarled industrial groove metallic pinched with hypersonic hooks that ship the form of escapism solely doable when your synapses are scorched by searing scorching machinations of electro-metal annihilation.
With one of the vital magnetic breakdowns in metallic since Machine Head dropped Sport Over, the monitor twists your system into knots as you observe the whirling dervish of sheer momentum. Tying all of it collectively are vocals candy and euphonic sufficient to counter the rancour, but ferociously affecting sufficient to make sure the depth is rarely diluted. Each concord cuts via with razor-sharp precision.
Shaped in 2020 by vocalist, synth participant and multi-instrumentalist Rio Suyama, the Japanese-British outfit has earned acclaim for his or her Japancore concoction of metalcore, industrial metallic, J-Pop and darkish pop. After reforming in 2023 with James Wright, Jon Roberts, James Stevens and later Alex Carli, they’ve stormed phases internationally and caught the eye of BBC Radio 1 and BBC Introducing Oxfordshire. With releases like Stains on My Soul, Ronin and The Haunted, Re:O has develop into a formidable power, however Crimson Want pushes them into a fair darker, extra unflinching area.
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Overview by Amelia Vandergast
