Review by Music Non Stop U.K.

On the brink of an August US tour with electro innovator Dismantled, US hard industrial three piece Cyanotic unveil their debut album proper, "Transhuman". For those searching for a fix of adrenalized, brutal and uncompromising industrial (remember how it used to be?), this could very well hit the spot.

A rush of hardwired complex rhythms, saturated soundscapes and brutal beats,"Transhuman" kicks off with "Frequency In Cycles" a slab of machine code madness that segues into "Order Out Of Chaos" - a hard, fast pounding onslaught of phased vocals (a little reminiscent of "Plasticity" or harder "Millennium" era FLA), brutal guitar attacks and stuttering rhythms - excellent. Next up, "Insurgence" delivers tight programming coupled with straight, aggressive industrial, great harsh vocals, and a real energy.

Title track "Transhuman" is a brooding, slowed down powerhouse - completed by an infectious synth rhythms, thick guitar ferocity and layers of vocal dissonance. At this point, you realise that Cyanotic are really striving to deliver what they believe in; merciless industrial that is compositionally astute (these guys really do rule their machines), well arranged, driving and full of bristling energy. The machine-driven "Deface" fires up next, augmented by film samples, effects and caustic vocals, while "Axiom" (the album's centrepiece) delivers a change of attack -- darkened, melodic rhythms brooding beneath slightly phased vocal refrains and a precision rhythmic beat that threatens to explode, an excellent track, showing another face of this emerging act.

"Suspension Of Disbelief" delivers another wall of machine-tooled industrial complete with really effective breakdowns, "Actuator", a 2 minute electro-percussive / sample interlude leading into "Sensory Deprivation", 5 minutes of a burning, flat out cool electronic workout, complete with a powerhouse chorus, massed walls of guitars and buried vocals. Album closers "Beta Blocker", "Antithesis" and "Higher States Of Consciousness" wind things up in style, accomplished (some of the rhythm programming on show here is awesome) well arranged and merciless US industrial, a genre away from current Euro electro trends, "Transhuman" is something of a revelation and comes recommended to all fans of quality, well produced aggressive industrial music.