### Near Death Experience: Version 3.0

#### 05/03/09 || Daemonomania

If this is version 3.0, I’d hate to hear what the first two sounded like. We can assume the higher numbers to be a progression towards quality. Therefore, perhaps version 4.0 will sound halfway decent. Not there yet though. It is safe to say that until version 10.4, Near Death Experience will continue to suck balls.

What we have here from the scrotum suction units in question is an amalgamation of thrash, electronica, and a hint of progressive death. They have spacey lyrics about the universe and consciousness and shit. Actually, at their best NDE manages to get a Gojira vibe going. Their best, unfortunately, happens for about three seconds per song.

The other interminable seconds that make up “Version 3.Ho” are pretty fuckin’ bad. Strike ONE: the vocalist is pathetic, and distorts his singing 90% of the time to cover it up. Reminds me of the dude from Tool at times, and that’s never a good reference point. For me, bad vocals kill the tunes in question, so even if the drummer weren’t lazy and the guitarists weren’t unoriginal, “3.0” would still be shat upon and unredeemable.

The only person in the band who seems to have a general idea of what he or she is doing is the blip and bleeper. Snippets of cool little electronic bits manage to take the listening experience from actual, painful death to near death. And a few of the songs are actually just electronica. Upwards of seven minutes of it. Not really my favorite genre, sadly, so STRIKE TWO – your bicycle pump sounds are not inflating my tube, thankyouverymuch.

Information about the band is pretty scarce. Are they the same Italian dudes that just put out a new album called “Threshold of consciousness”? I doubt it. I get a distinctly French feeling from this album, like a baguette might materialize in my hands as I listen. Even if this were the most famous band in Paris and the entire city was capitulating to them on a daily basis, it still wouldn’t mean shit. So STRIKE THREE – even in a country know for its bad music (no, not you Gojira or Yyrkoon or Hypokras or whatever other band we deem cool at GD) y’all motherfuckers still aren’t donning the beret of relative quality.

Wait, I just found out they stuck around after this 1995 release, are in fact French, dropped all semblance of metal from their sound on the next album, got dropped off their label, and have been releasing independent stuff ever since. And you can download it free from their website. Hooray. I hate to take traffic away from GD, as the rush from our site to theirs will no doubt be tremendous.

This band sucks, and we are the first (and hopefully last) to say it.

2.0 “hah hah you were expecting a 3.0 but you don’t get it, biatch” out of 10.

- Information
- Released: 1995
- Label: Abathrash
- Website: virb.com/nde
- Band
- JT 25: vocals, samples, programming
- Curille: guitars
- Nico: sitar impro (?)
- Jaka: bass, hippie wallet (?), samples
- Fred: bassloops
- Mikis: acid loop and hh pattern (?)

- Tracklist
- 01. Earth Connection
- 02. Rejuvenation
- 03. Hate 303
- 04. Garrkine
- 05. With It
- 06. Kot
- 07. Just Like a Friend
- 08. Nierika
- 09. Selacia
- 10. Ngc 315
- 11. Dukun
- 12. Malus 12