Havoc Unit

When Synæsthesia: The Requiem Reveries (the three-way split CD with Hävok Ünit, andOceans and the Sin:Decay) was released early last year, it was intended to serve as the swan song for Finland’s andOceans. The band have now morphed into Havoc Unit, with a more streamlined spelling and minus the Spïnal Tap-esque umlauts. Subtitled Hoarse Industrial Viremia, their debut full-length h.IV+ is not for the weak of heart. "I.esus” sports backbeats like Meathook Seed and "When Snuff Is Not Enough” and "Man vs. Flesh” sound like old, harsh Fear Factory. "Gen.eration Gen.ocide” and "Klan Korps” densely reek of Red Harvest, yet "Viremia” incorporates enough vocal samples and black metal keyboards to make Pitchshifter’s Jon Clayden shudder. "Kyrie Eleison” triple times said elements with grindcore drum machines, while "Ignoratio Elenchi” slows down the mood like a mechanical Queensrÿche. Like label mates V:28, Havoc Unit’s destructo industrial beats and slicing riffage portend the next musical apocalypse, rendering all competitors to mounds of bloody pulp.