You'd be
hard-pressed to try to categorise that the band are
all about. There's the earth-type guitar durge on the
title/lead track and Superhuman,
track two, vocals varying from the audibly coherent to the screams of the
thrash vocalist, some technology , some samples,
several mood-swings and tempo changes. Track three is the spanner - Platinum Matrix, a techno track that
goes totally against anything and everything we'd been led to expect thus far,
and definitely not on the Alchemist or Segression
support-set list. Track 4, however, returns with a shuddering thud - Truckasaurus (a
vague Simpsons
reference?!) is 0'18" of slammin' black thrash preluded by (performed over the top of) a sample of Frank
Sinatra singin about old Leroy.
Finally, Drift does exactly that with
an instrumental piece featuring electro-rhythm in one ear and a quiet Kirk
Hemmet style guitar in the other.
An EP or
album used to be able to set the genre for the band or label, but "Chrome Matrix" fails to do that for
either, except if they're going for the no-genre genre!