| Artist |
| K-Nitrate |
| Title |
| Voltage |
| Format/Cat |
| CD AD-HUN-46-CD |
| Label |
| Advoxya |
| Style |
| Industrial |
| Date of review |
| 26th September 2011 |
| Reviewer |
| Carl Jenkinson |
| Rating |
| 4/10 |
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Now here's a prime candidate for the 'blimey, are they still going?" log!! I remember K-Nitrate playing early on at an Elektrofest some years ago but then, as with so many bands, it all seemed to go quiet. That was until 2010 when this newie saw the light of day, on the Russian Advoxya label which indicates that Graham Rayner & Chistian Weber's networking techniques are not to be scoffed at! Sadly, the album isn't the electrifying experience that the title might promise, being a repetitive industrial slog that's lacking in variety or any real excitement while the lack of any meaningful vocals robs it of any kind of character. It's certainly crisply rendered & powerful when taken in small doses & there are some promising riffs in there, too, but this promise is never really built upon which makes listening to it all in one go something of an ordeal, what good ideas there are being stretched far too thinly over the album's 10 tracks & it's only towards the end that anything comes along to make the listener sit up & take notice in the shape of 'XMachineX' which is quite an infectious little ditty beiing followed by 'Disbeliever' which isn't totally without merit either while the atmospheric break that graces otherwise minmalistic penultimate track 'Automatik Killer' offers another glimpse of what they could be capable of but, overall, these bursts of inspiration aren't enough to make this one worth recommending, not when there are so many bands out there turning out much better music, sorry.
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