Anzi is a London-based Finnish industrial solo artist. He makes music to stomp and grind too and recorded this album in London, Helsinki, New York and Egypt!
Revival, the opening track, sounds like the more melodic end of Nine Inch Nails oeuvre before I Let You Dive ups the bass stakes and the grinding guitars to sound more like Type O if only they had cheered up a bit.
The Black Dog Bias the album is named after is the fear of certain dogs which means many more black dogs get put down than others which is why Cortex Command sounds like a mash up of DAF and Das Damen and straight off the dancefloor of somewhere like Club Antichrist. It makes you question what is normal. A great catchy as all hell industrial pop tune. Really.
Fear Is No Prophecy is doom laden and claustrophobic industrial dance rock and almost sounds like it was based on The Beatles' Tomorrow Never Knows. However, it's skewed through an industrial blender to make it all the better to throw some twisted shapes to.
God On The Screen is about No Confessions and no remorse for the lives lived and has some cool squelchy beats over a tune that reminds me a bit of Combichrist. False Saints is full of interesting lyrics among the Industrial wasteland backing them and ramming them into our brains while we stomp across the dancefloor and wait for that dazzling 3 second guitar solo.
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Sunburn Jesus has swirling dense guitars cascading over heavy drum beats and cool lyrics about being closer to Jesus, though he won't help you. Sort of. Big Enemy sounds a lot like some of the more recent Ozzy Osbourne solo stuff although Anzi doesn't sound that much like Ozzy vocally.
Nuclear Siren sees them pleading for you to drop the bomb but it's more about a relationship on the rocks than the actual bomb over a good crunchy industrial grinder of a tune. Delusions is the softest thing on the album; almost a ballad and Anzi's voice sounds really cool as stripped and bare as this and does he still have delusions that this relationship can be saved? Well probably not.
The album closes with a radio edit of I Let You Dive that slices about 30 seconds off the other version. It sounds more anthemic if only slightly but it does sound ready for Planet Rock or Scuzz to play the hell out of it. A great way to close a damn good Industrial rock album. Find out more at Anzi online
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