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New Zero God – MMXIII – Album Review

New Zero God
MMXIII
Photography by – George Labrou

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One of Wicked Spins Radio’s DJs Mike Pougounas is a man with an amazing history in music. Mike was part of Greece’s greatest goth band Flowers Of Romance. After the Flowers Of Romance split Mike followed his musical life and then in 2006 entered into his latest band New Zero God. New Zero God have a lot to live up to as they now have three of the original members of Flowers Of Romance. So do they live up to their past? Read on and you shall see.

MMXIII is the latest offering from New Zero God and is being released through Secret Sin Records in February 2013. On listening to the album I find the constant thing being that typical New Zero God sound but yet that are a lot more tangents in this equation.

Mike Pougounas – Vocals, Keyboards, Tambourine

Goth is the root of the sound of New Zero God but there is a lot more than you would expect. Damaged and Sinners And Lovers are ringing with that beautiful gothic undertones through the good heavy bassy sound as well as melodic guitar work and also the low melancholy vocals on both tracks. The same can be said for Angeline but this is a more upbeat goth classic.

Dimitris “Sidheog” Steves – Drums, Loops

You have a couple of tracks that encompass that New Zero God sound but yet throw in a few more elements. Hypnotised throws a little bit of psychobilly punk into the melting pot but yet New God Zero manage to maintain every part of who they are. No Cure For Love is a much more upbeat and up tempo goth rooted track which is played to perfection.

In Dreams We Trust is something which I thought I would never hear, it’s a happy goth track. It’s ace, I love it. I can’t really explain it other than it has all the elements of goth in the guitars, beat, bass and vocals but it’s happy.

Harris Stavrakas – Bass

Pinup has more of a rock feel but has a wonderful bassy notes very reminiscent of the late great Ian Dury, but the vocals are just so different but again it’s another great track.

Intoxication is deep, doomy and depressing. This is goth and has all the elements like romance from that great gothic heyday, this has all the markings of a modern day goth classic track.

Freakshow, oh Freakshow. It’s my favourite track on MMXIII, it has a solid droning bass line which is backed up by clean, fluent and beautiful guitars. The beat is perfect and the vocals just bite when needed.

Lao – Guitars

Until The End Of The Line is the final track on the album, it ends great too. Amazing lulling synths and guitar almost blast into a goth explosion of great proportions. It’s alluring and mystical, amazing song.

New Zero God definitely live up to their roots providing some great goth tracks but also making the music their own they add elements of punk too. MMXIII is a great album which will appeal to a lot of people whether you like goth, punk or rock. MMXIII really is goth with a distinct lack of anti-depressants and a bit more whoomph to boot.