ZEROMANCER are not really handy to put them in any drawer where you can say: hey, that’s it, here’s what you have to expect! Well, it shouldn’t be the sense of matter actually. Someone has once described their music as electro rock. That is probably not really wrong. In the one spot or the other you can refer to Oomph! You also can distantly associate the song Chrome Bitch with Marilyn Manson. But actually, ZEROMANCER sound like ZEROMANCER!
The opener Doctor Online emerges immediately as an absolutely smash hit. Completely in the style of the previous album Clone Your Lover. And so it’s going on for the next. Songs like the titletrack Eurotrash and Need You Like A Drug are striking in the same nick. So, dance-crazy people are bound to start to fidgeting like hell. I think, you can almost call the first songs as Pop Rock. With Wannabe you get a first change. This song just stand out a bit because it is quiter, but without being a ballad. All following songs like Neo Geisha and Cuppola are pretty influenced by Seigmen. Seigmen was the band, out of them 4 members founded ZEROMANCER, after Seigmen was pretty known and popular in the underground, but not really getting a look-in. For that you might have to blame their old label. Anyway, on the previous album the lads still tried to restrain all their influences in this way, in respect to the old band and the members and the new band and the members, singer Alex said once to me after a show with Kovenant. Now they admit these influences within a special scope. Well, who can deny his past yet ? It definitely won’t do any harm! On the contrary. Then especially the Seigmen influences don’t make ZEROMANCER to the usual standard. But admittedly, the cover version of Real Life’s Send Me An Angel is and was totally unnecessary. This kind of cover versions always have a bitter smack, even when the song not really is foozled.
Altogether you can say, Eurotrash is significantly more matured then the debut album Clone Your Lover. The guys have had way more time for recordings and they used them well. Admittedly I have to confess I like the second part more than the first tracks. But that doesn’t really astonish, I am a big Seigmen fan and I like the crazy influences very much. The lyrics are pretty easy knitted, but dripping of cynicism and they give a nice image of our society.