A drum computer
is something really cool when listening to an Industrial album,
but in the brutal Death Metal this is none of its business. There
the drums have to bang and to destroy instead of blasting concave
and unemotional. The fundamental idea may be ok when pulling out
all the stops as a one-man-show called KOREOPSIS. The man
behind KOREOPSIS, the one who pull the strings, is named
Johannes Real. And he allows just one guest musician taking part
on Resin. It’s significant that the producer
Dave Snow is the man who chips in some loose keyboard parts. Although
some more ideas created by different brains would suit the Suisse
solo project well. Six years after releasing the first MCD called
Guttural Woods, Resin isn’t
able to top off good ideas and so it can’t persuade the
whole length. The ideas happen to a very large degree in technical,
brutal Death Metal. As a result a sackful of breaks is played
that replace the blast attacks with more or less interesting interim
skirmish. Less interesting has to be defined more specific: also
here the basic concept to assimilate close atmospheric heaviness
and sporadic Jazz colors placates, but this doesn’t move
Resin forward in the general view. In fact these
elements fit well to the run of the mill sound. The more pleasant
the typical genre riffs are which regrettably passed the world’s
auditory canals often enough already. The standardized deep vocals
take the same line. That what remains under the bottom line is
an average KOREOPSIS release that scores with its production
at least. Further six years of latency don’t initiate pains.