COGNITIVE DISCORD

Senmuth is probably the most prolific composer ever. Before starting his solo career and releasing about 75 albums in 6 years, he was already involved in other projects starting from 1998 that gave birth to other 40 albums. Almost all his production is downloadable for free from his website (but the instructions are in Russian).

Cognitive Discord (iskazenie Poznania) is the first album published as solo artist. The genre is a sort of electronic metal that he defines "Industrial rock".

Effectively there are some parts very close to metal. Also his singing is sometimes metal-style, even if he doesn't growl or scream. The sounds he uses are quite unusual and it's probably where the keywoard "Industrial" is from.

Being he so prolific I wasn't expecting anything particularily cured as in general quantity is the opposite of quality, but I was wrong. There are no repetitions even if his style can be recognized . "Regress" and "Neobratimost" Are two very good songs.

Another surprising thing is that all the songs have lyrics. I don't speak Russian so I don't know what they are about, but being able to release 75 albums with an average of 10 songs for each means writing 750 lyrics in 6 years, more than 100 songs per year !!!

The songs more metal oriented have something of SOAD, but in general he's original. Not a masterpiece but good enough to make download the following album.

A mention for the excellent sleeve design. I'd like to have posters of his albums. 3 stars by now. I'm about to start with his second album but I don't think I'll have the possibility to review all the 75, also because he may release 10 or 15 more in the meantime.