Chroniques de l'album dans le blog
Soul Stalker vient de sortir un album sur le label parisien Manic Depression unanimement salué par la critique pour son retour aux fondamentaux d'une electro-dark oldschool, classieuse, sombre, tendue à l'instar de ses mentors Klinik. "A Way Out" marks the return of Vincent, former IN MEMORIA's singer, after some featuring on tributes and remixes under the nickname of Wytlyt, he returns with his solo project: SOUL STALKER.
A minimal Dark electro, tensed, 100% cold electronic on a background of industrial landscape, SOUL STALKER takes roots into old school electro such as Klinik, Plastic Noise Experience and Dark wave (Project Pitchfork, Suicide Commando).
A permanent clash between an icy world of lack, of frustration and depression, and a furious desire to resist, to find a way out... to dance!
The melodies are simple and merely efficient ("The Mirror"), dark and whirling basses and EBM beats, almost martial and aggressive rhythms give to this cold electro a very dancefloor side.
Harassing synth sounds and heavy metal saturated (as in "Lost Souls" or the very industrial "Pain") charge the atmosphere.
And the voice hammers down the nail, cold, nervous, or disillusioned, perfectly sticky to very personal lyrics.
His first live appearences (Kata Bar, Le Klub, La Cantada II) gave him the opportunity to show an original and personal style. Tensed, cold but also stirring and energetic.
The 11 songs of "A Way Out" go straight to essentials, they are direct, efficient ; a real shock therapy through the body to the mind.
Released on Manic
Depression Records , mixed with Claude El Banna from Coltpig
"A Way Out" first album available now !
Songs in the player are only demo or in progress, unmastered versions...
To get the real stuff, get the album...
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An icy and metalic mood, persisting electro loops, a low voice nearly a whisper, SOUL STALKER's music does not want to choose between Dancefloor and atmospheric, it does both at the same time, in the way of DIVE or SUICIDE, PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE... Solo project of the former singer of IN MEMORIA, here comes SOUL STALKER!
(DJ BeheadedDuck)
"The harsh tone of the singer's voice refears sometimes to JL de Meyer from Front 242. The sound is very well arranged, mixing with hability rock and electro." (Piggy Saldek)
Somewhere in the galaxy of Front242/Dirk Ivens/SigloXX/VomitoNegro (to give you a short idea), SoulStalker tries to reach a way out within an intropective, lonely, icely journey, but where restraint energy lives.
(Ain Soph Aur)
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