Written by Sebastian Huhn Tuesday, 02 June 2009 Album Review If you believe the press text to ‘Crossing the Rubicon’ then the debut release of the Spanish project is going to be the next big hit in Industrial Rock. But me and I’m sure many of you either are over trusting completely in all of those things so the best thing to really find whether this is extremely good or absolute crap is to listen to an album yourself and form your own opinion. That’s what I did and here’s me writing down mine. The opener ‘Phoenix Uprising’ leaves no doubt that there’s someone having an immense rage piled up inside that needed to be unleashed. The complicated rhythm arrangements just fire out of the synths and drums and give everyone who’s not able to get out of their way fast enough a good kick to the midriff. ‘War’ is for that matter a little more tamed while still keeping on high a constant aggression level and if there’s one moment the raw guitars just aren’t aiming for your eardrums to shred them then little ambient collages are taking their place and the roaring chant has to make way for an insistent and melodic style. The first few seconds of ‘Game’ might feed your hopes of getting to listen to serene island in this raging sea of metallic madness but that only lasts until the voluminous marching drums break in and the expansive rhythmic and guitar make up manifests. With ‘Deadend’ I have found my undisputed highlight. Paolo Greco really sings in this song and pretty good if I may a