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Signo de Aberracion

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I have been following Hocico for along time now and every release is an improvement on the last. Most Industrial acts get stale after a few releses but hocico just keeps getting stronger! And Wow what on improvement this album was over the last! I loved how they have incorparated classical orchastration into their strong melodic stylings, they may not be as good as shostakovich now but hay mabey one day they will be.. But I think their real goal is to make great electro industrial music which is awesome! You will defiantly want to dance to this one - but note in no way is it poppy its quite sorrid and a little sadistic but it will fill you with dark glee and still manages to make you feal good. Yes I would say that one of the classical trax is a little weak but but 3/4 of them are good. Note no way does the classical part sound anything like some mozart, think beetoven, think stunningly sonicaly motivationaly powerful. As of late Hocico is really moving up in the ranks of industrial fans likes but I am not suprised. try this album I think you will agree.

Hocico is one of the best electro-industrial bands to ever make music. It's raw, harsh, thunderous, ripping, edgy, wicked, haunting, complex...all good things about industrial music.

This CD is a great introduction to the band. Their music is more polished and dance-oriented further along in their discography, and they continue their awesome dark-classical themed pieces throughout.

If you like this kind of music they are great at it.

Yes, it's true. Don't let the spanish title fool you. Hocico is an excellent industrial/ebm band. I was a bit skeptical at first when I heard of Hocico, but after hearing a few of their older songs a couple of years ago on a radio show I was inspired to buy their newest album. I must say I'm glad I did. Hocico pounds out powerful electronic industrial music every bit as potent as any german act. The music is purely electronic, aggressive, and most tracks are of a high bpm nature with distortion in the lyrics. A few of the song titles on Signos De Aberracion are in spanish, but all of the songs with lyrics in them are in english. The club favorites here will most likely include Instincts Of Perversion, Untold Blasphemies, and Forgotten Tears. The only weak point is a couple of the instrumental tracks that lack the dramatic feel of the rest of the album. Despite that short-coming, if you like industrial/ebm bands like Evil's Toy, Wumpscut or Abscess...definitely buy this album. Keep up the good work, Hocico!

Yes, it's true. Don't let the spanish title fool you. Hocico is an excellent industrial/ebm band. I was a bit skeptical at first when I heard of Hocico, but after hearing a few of their older songs a couple of years ago on a radio show I was inspired to buy their newest album. I must say I'm glad I did. Hocico pounds out powerful electronic industrial music every bit as potent as any german act. The music is purely electronic, aggressive, and most tracks are of a high bpm nature with distortion in the lyrics. A few of the song titles on Signos De Aberracion are in spanish, but all of the songs with lyrics in them are in english. The club favorites here will most likely include Instincts Of Perversion, Untold Blasphemies, and Forgotten Tears. The only weak point is a couple of the instrumental tracks that lack the dramatic feel of the rest of the album. Despite that short-coming, if you like industrial/ebm bands like Evil's Toy, Wumpscut or Abscess...definitely buy this album. Keep up the good work, Hocico!

For some time now, I've been partial to the aggressive themes that have become streamline in the EBM sectors haunting dancefloors outside of glossy photographs and watered down metaphors of what our youth are listening to, drinking in all they have to offer. That is because these sounds, they are where the messages of angst in a society of premanufacturing are hiding, circulating just outside of what mainstreamed radio is willing to sell their viewers. They are the places where messages seethe and quote passages on what the purpose to all of this is, where the passion is in the pointlessness, asking not what you can do for your country but what your country did to you.
It is where the hatred is, where the violence is, speaking with tongues that aren't carved out of magazine clippings and billboard advertisement.
And that is where, quite by accident, Signos de Aberricion, a voice outside the normal wilderness of sound, found me.

While touting other releases outside of Metropolis records, Signos De Aberracion was my first taste of Hocico and it is their most refined effort to date. And what a release it was, too, taking me back to moments when the distortion of voices drove beat after seething beat into a person until you could almost taste the anger seeping through the speakers.
It felt - good.
So, how would I describe this album?
Well, I'd say it is a mesh of hauntingly harsh electronics assailing its listener with vocal stylings that piece together sounds remnant of something Cradle of Filth would do, only mixed with an Informatik or a Wumpscut. Here, a voice that could be classified as another instrument in the expression of anger plays, its reasoning distorted and yet clear, as it remarks one of the many subjects plaguing this industrial complex - violence. As it remarks, it speaks of pain and wanting to be outside of it, commenting on childhood infractions, playpens of brutality, and the monsters that we, as human beings, oftentimes are.
In all but a couple of instrumental pieces, it keeps the attention with heavily flowing BPM counts, reminding one that hatred and rage, it can come in a package that we can all move to.

Don't let the titles fool you. Despite not being in English, the lyrical content is, translating to those who have, by way of translation, drawn borders in the sand. So, if you enjoy the taste of EBM melodies with your daily dose of reality, then I would send you looking in this direction. This is because there is something being offered here that reminds me of many of the bands that appeared in the late 90s up until the present, and the lot being cast seethes. Personally, I find seething to be a healthy way of functioning in today's overcrowded, overpopulated, overindulgent world and would recommend it to anyone looking for a few minutes of escapism.
Still, don't take my word for it. To sample it, simply listen to tracks provided herein or go to Metropolis.
For fans of this release or for someone who tastes and wants something more, Disidencia Inquebrante is coming in August 2003 and sounds promising as well.

This is one of the most atmospheric electro-industrial releases in a long time. Where many groups just bash you over the head with a distorted drum machine, Hocico work with deep, dark atmospheres that scare the hell out of you before assaulting your ears with industrialized synths, pulverizing beats and a voice straight out of cyber-hell.

As Hocico take you through a world of demented horror (this being Mexico City) you can only gasp in terror as you are both scared witless and dance maniacally. Yes, this CD is exhilarating to dance to, especially "Forgotten Tears" and "Untold Blasphemies," the album's highlights.

Where this album falls down is in how all of the other danceable tracks are pretty over-the-top and just follow the viscious-screaming-and-distorted-snare-drum trick that is overused. Further, there are too few dance songs here, almost half of the songs are dark instrumentals that, although are brilliantly atmospheric, are not very 'charge-you-up' type.

Either way, this CD is very good and one of the more emotional electroindustrial releases.

Not a critic what so ever. Hocico is one of few darkelector bands i like. This is their second best album in my opinion. Its hard to say which album comes before the other when it comes to Hocicos music. All the songs are very nice songs to just bang and dance to. Play them loud!!. Hocico was made to be played Loud or else it just doesnt work as well.

Yes, it's true. Don't let the spanish title fool you. Hocico is an excellent industrial/ebm band. I was a bit skeptical at first when I heard of Hocico, but after hearing a few of their older songs a couple of years ago on a radio show I was inspired to buy their newest album. I must say I'm glad I did. Hocico pounds out powerful electronic industrial music every bit as potent as any german act. The music is purely electronic, aggressive, and most tracks are of a high bpm nature with distortion in the lyrics. A few of the song titles on Signos De Aberracion are in spanish, but all of the songs with lyrics in them are in english. The club favorites here will most likely include Instincts Of Perversion, Untold Blasphemies, and Forgotten Tears. The only weak point is a couple of the instrumental tracks that lack the dramatic feel of the rest of the album. Despite that short-coming, if you like industrial/ebm bands like Evil's Toy, Wumpscut or Abscess...definitely buy this album. Keep up the good work, Hocico!

You might not have heard of Hocico, but over twenty-five million others have. Feeling a little out of the loop about Latin America's biggest electro-industrial band? Two cousins, Erk Aircrag and Rasco Agroyam, formed Hocico (which translates to "trap") nine years ago mixing Hellraiser vocals, dancefloor beats, and the occasional political lyric. "Instincts Of Perversion" sounds like Marilyn Manson (who they commonly open for) filtered through Sasha & Digweed; they've also had the privilege of sharing a stage with Germany's Rammstein. "Child's Eternity" could be some perverse John Williams' Darth Vader march and "En Otro Lado" sounds like a variation on the X-Files theme. It's only a matter of time before David Fincher or Joel Schumacher pick up on these guys and use them as background music for some death-fetish thriller. The irony in their songs is that without the vocals, much of their music would sound at home on any club floor rather than just with the dressed-in-black crowd. Hocico do the beats nicely and get my feet tapping, and the occasional political song is nice ("Forgotten Tears" and "Wounds"), but the industrial slant turns me off.