JAVIER DAFONTE (FRA) (May '98)
(Avulsed Fan)
Soy un fan de AVULSED y vivo en Francia (perdoname pero escribo muy mal en espagnol!). Hace 2 días que compré el "Cybergore" CD y hace 2 días que estoy escuchando éste disco de puta madre! Me gusta mucho esta mezcla de sonidos. Yo escucho Death Metal desde 7 años (SUFFOCATION, BROKEN HOPE, etc...) y cuando he escuchado "Cybergore" me ha dado un golpe, tanto es diferente de mi estylo de origen. Pero me gusta mucho, gracias a AVULSED ahora no voy a escuchar solo Death Metal me gustaría descubrir otros estilos de música (pero el Death Metal será siempre mi estilo favorito) y el sonido de "Cybergore" está muy bueno, quién es David Niger? Porque hace muy buenas mezclas! Y también M.C.Velarde, son amigos de AVULSED o simplemente gente para ésta colaboración? Pero "Cybergore" no es sólo un buen disco porque el artwork y el layout están muy bien hechos! Y también el CD ROM que es algo nuevo para la REPULSE RECORDS. Estoy muy orgulloso de RPEULSE RECORDS porque como soy de origen Espagnol (mis padres son de galicia) pero vivo en Francia, me encanta ver una casa discográfica. Hacen un trabajo muy proffessionnal y tener cadadía un poco más de importancia en el underground internacional! Bueno, hasta pronto!! AVULSED RULES!!
P.S.: Y un grande FUCK a la gente que no le guste "Cybergore" porque éste estilo de experiencia nos mete en el año 2.000!!

AGONY 'ZINE (FRA) (June '98)
Avulsed "Cybergore" CD+
Spain - Repulse Records - RSP29 - 4/5
Let's introduce them shortly to those from you that don't know them ... Avulsed's today's Demigod (by the way, did you know they re-formed ? They played Germany in April !) ... In brief, if you don't know Demigod, fuck it, you're not into Death Metal and you'd better not read this review ... Or may be you like techno and then, read ! "Cybergore" is Avulsed new "album" in fact consisting in techno-remixes (with hilarous re-titling) from their debut, "Eminence In Putrescence" . To be brief again, let's say this debut is a hell of an album whenever it suffered from a not-that-good production ... Generally-speaking, what would you think of a 100% into techno guy trying to play some death-metal parts in his stuff ? You'd think it's ridiculous for he isn't much into that and his death-metal things wouldn't be that good .... Well, that's why techno remixes need skilled techno musicians to be efficient, not ridiculous .... That's why Krabathor's remix sucks ... I don't know for how long the guys having remixed Avulsed's album are into techno, but as far as I can hear (I like techno, not love it, but it has its times also ...), they're into it a lot as remixes are totally up-to-date and never made me laugh ... You'll probably hear saying Avulsed started this death metal/techno cross, but that's not exactly the truth, even if this is the first TOTAL techno/death album, as Malevolent Creation, as some others, already included techno-remixes in their "Joe Black" album, but this was the kind of ridiculous things previously told ... Techno, as any other genre that is meant to be heavy-as-fuck, needs a killer production to be efficient and that's what this album lacks and deserves only 4/5, not 4.5 nor 5 ... Having as basis the "Eminence ..." album, this is obvious the re-mixers hadn't the best product to start with, still due to this producer ... So, what about the remixes here presented ? Well, most are really good ones, and some are just average, but, let me tell it one more time, this is NEVER ridiculous despite what many could have feared. Tracks such as "Hash-Perversions", "Addicted To Red Bull", etc ... are keeping the definitely awesome sense of melody Avulsed has, with, obviously, still managing to be brutal death-metal . Re-mixers didn't try to keep the original song as it was with only including beats, they deformed them (beyond belief, he ! he ! ed.) making this album a real pleasure listening to / discovering ... Most of the tracks, besides some melodies, are just keeping only parts of the original songs and Dave Rotten's ultra-low vocals are just put there and there to emphasis the contrast between the original style and the techno parts ... Let's see if this will remain as a starter from a new sub-sub-sub-sub genre from metal ... I guess yes ! Great, but for open-minded people only ...
CD+ rom part's review: made in Adobe Acrobat's format, it's sometime a bit too slow to run, but this has the advantage of being really graphic-oriented with high-quality pix, the whole band bio, photos, discography and chronology, as well as the rare "Powdered Flesh" video-clip, taken from their "promo '95"'s song. Really informative Rom part even if I'd have liked, as Serious Entertainment did, a whole Repulse Records' catalog with sound-clips featured in ... This Rom part is to be ranked #2 after Mercenary's one (mainly for S.E.'s catalog) in da CD+ "prefered list" from your mighty Zineditor's faves ever (yeah, I know, Carcass' "Swansong" included a good Rom part with Earache's roster, but that was such a shitty album and such a childish-designed Rom part that it sucked big dicks finally ...). Repulse will release Gothic Sex's new album with a Rom part also, may be they're gonna consider those comments as being interesting for them to use ...

CHRONICLES OF CHAOS #31 (USA) (June '98)
Avulsed - "Cybergore" (Repulse Records, April 1998)
by: Pedro Azevedo (0 out of 10)
Following the sad example given by Fear Factory's "Remanufacture", Spanish death metal band Avulsed have decided to release a remix album of their reasonably good "Eminence in Putrescence". The band describes these remixes as "cyber-techno/death" experiences. Agreed. The music on this CD is but a angled, ridiculous version of "EiP". I will not waste anyone's time throwing more adjectives into this review to detail the result any further, as the rating above should easily clarify -my- opinion by itself.

MACABRE 'ZINE (WEB) (SPA) (Junio '98)
Avulsed "Cybergore" CD-Repulse Recs.
5 sobre 6. -Iván.
Antes de nada quiero aclarar una cosa, y es que me considero bastante abierto musicalmente y ciertos grupos de Techno como PRODIGY, DAFT PUNK, MOBY o CHEMICAL BROTHERS me gustan. Una vez dicho esto he de decir que este CD tambien me gusta. Porque para el que no lo sepa este CD son remezclas del "Eminence in putrescence" La canción estrella es mi favorita "Sweet Lobotomy" de la que hacen tres remezclas: "Beyond Monotony" "Sweet bakalaotomy" y "Petisuis Lobotomy", que es la que más me gusta. Como ellos mismos anunciaban va en la onda del "Remanufacture" de FEAR FACTORY, pero más brutal. Y yo añadiría que mejor, mas original y más techno. La última canción se llama "EmiXnence in Popurrence" y es un medley de canciones del "Eminence..." muy guapo. Además incluye una pista en CD-ROM en la que además de fotos, su discografía, su biografía, una biocronografía y todos sus conciertos incluyen el clip de "Powdered flesh". Ahora la decisión es tuya: si eres cerrado musicalmente mejor que esperes al segundo disco de AVULSED pero si te molan los experimentos píllate éste.

MACHO CABRÍO (SPA) (Junio '98)
(Avulsed Fan)
Antes de nada, yo soy uno de esos que tiene vuestro CD "Cyber-gore" .Esto significa que quiero algo a cambio, ya me entiendes, en el CD pone que si escribimos tendremos una sorpresa. Ahora os toca "joderse" un poco y achantar con lo que prometéis (jeje). Ya me dijiste que esto solo era un forma de incentivar a la peña, pero en fin ... a ver si me mandáis alguna cosilla. Me conformo con alguna copia de tu grupazo Christ Denied (no pido nada, verdad? jeje). Ahora en serio, el Cyber-gore me ha gustado mucho. A mi siempre me ha molao el rollo techno industrial que ultimamente está saliendo (Prodigy,Chemical ...), y lo que habéis hecho está cojonudo. Me gusta mucho la combinación de batacas electrónicas con riffs pesados. Lo que me agobia un poco es algun tema que tira hacia la onda makinera a lo pum-pum-pum .

DANIEL FERNANDEZ LOIS (SPA) (Junio '98)
(Avulsed Fan & Bloody 'Zine)
Antes de comenzar con las preguntas he leído en el CD que pedís la opinión de la peña acerca del "Cybergore", pues bueno, la mía es que ha quedado COJONUDO y no es peloteo. Lo veo como un experimento dentro del Death que demuestra que pueden seguir haciéndose cosas originales dentro del estilo "jugando" con la tecnología actual. Si bandas como FEAR FACTORY o los WHITE ZOMBIE lo han hecho y a la peña le mola creo que también se puede demostrar que en éste país se pueden hacer cosas similares. Lo del CD-ROM añade más interés al asunto y sobre todo para aquellos que como yo nunca habían visto el vídeo y pueden tener acceso a toneladas de información sobre la banda. Pues éste es mi opinión; lo único que no me acaba de matar es cómo ha quedado la re-mezcla del "Sweet Lobotomy", la de "Beyond Monotony" pero bueno, es una opinión personal.

ATSUSHI FUJIMOTO (JAP) (June '98)
(Toy's Factory Records)
At a glance, it sounds like Chaos Face, led by Buckethead and Bill Laswell, a Jazz artist who is known for the works of Painkiller, Praxis etc. But this techno compilation of one of the premier Spanish death metal/grind bands ,Avulsed's Cybergore will be much more accepted by those who are into death/grind......only if they have open-minded opinion about what the extremites of a band should be. When it comes to hard core techno, it surely attracts the fans of grind core......aggression of blast beats are in the same sense as those of techno's. Don't listen to this effort with small volume of your hi-fi in your house, just feel it + get stoned at your nearest disco + kill people who're into softer ones .......

MICHEL (BEL) (July '98)
(Radio Venom-D.J./host)
The technoremixxxes from AVULSED are quite interesting, for an adventurous, mature audience. Pure cyber madness. This is how Michel (the Radio Venom-D.J./host) perceives his music after administering several synthetic substances. It will make our listeners flip completely. Hand over the bag with XTC-pills, michel! How the fuck drugs are no good?!? Dope head Dave should oppen his own dance club!!

ORKUS MAGAZINE (GER) (July/August)
Avulsed "Cybergore" CD (Repulse)
By: Der Thomas
Fabulous the sound of good arranged grind/death metal in front of the background of a bass (and breakbeats) full of pressure and original fat guitars and bass, which are made better with a good piece of resounds, and combined with great musical cleverness, which is in a way hate-core, that is allowed to be called (without any exxageration): CYBERGORE!! The band „Happy Grindcore" made it before in a very dilettante way (which still made their genius manifold), and this style is now made by AVULSED with remixes of the "Eminence in Putrescence"-album. Perfectly banned on CD for eternity. Forget about FEAR FACTORY's harmless "Remanufacture": AVULSED lives! What is also awaiting the audience? It's simple: a CD-ROM- track with infos about the spanish grind-heroes, photos and a video of "Powdered Flesh", which is renamed on „Cybergore" into "Powered Fish". Great too: "Hidden Perversions" is now "Hash Perversions". Only the bad BRAVO-layout of the songlisting sucks, but you can stick some horny things over it. Absolutely great: "Petisuis Lobotomy", "Pastivoracity (Frozen Speed)" so as all other songs.

ABLAZE MAGAZINE (GER) (July/August)
Avulsed "Cybergore" CD (Repulse Rec.)
By: mis
Oha, now ther are at least true-deather beginning to make techno-remixes. I don' t know...If bands such as FEAR FACTORY are making something like that it is meanwhile normal and bullshit! A band like AVULSED, which played pure death metal for years, I never thought something like that, no way. With the last output "Eminence in Putrescence" they gave us a nice piece of a death-metal-album and lately since that time you can take them seriously. But now to the point, the music (¿?!). The result never sounds like the things I talked about before of other bands, no, it is just more brutal and sick!!! The band must have consumed masses of drugs to produce something like "Cybergore". Strange thing, I can' t listen to that every day, but some times...why not? Shall come from VADER in the future, too. By the way: CD-ROM-tracks incl. Video, photos etc.

WEEDCORE WEB MAG. (USA) (July '98)
Avulsed "Cybergore"
There is this band called Fear Factory, maybe you've heard of them. Well, I'm not sure these Spanish deathmetallers have. This is Avulsed's second album on Repulse (sorta). "Cybergore" is a collection of previously released songs in which the band was given an opportunity to remix and re-edit into "techno" songs. "Cybergore" has techno beats underlying the background, used as the main driving force. Layered upon that are the original song's guitar riffs and vocals. The vocals are used very sparingly, and some have added effects. Keyboards, dialogue samples, and a few ambient parts are of course added..hey this is a remix album remember? I cannot compare these remixes to the original songs, as I have never heard them. A few song titles are "Hash-Perversions" and "Addicted to Red Bull"..don't let the marijuana overtones lead you into believing this is a "weedcore" album. Although interesting to listen to a few times, I just cannot get into this album all that much. It is not necessarily bad, I do enjoy alot industrial/electronic music..but I can't see myself listening to this more than a handful of times. Mainly because it reminds me of Fear Factory, most of it is just stereotypical dance/techno, thirdly some of the sounds added seem to be overtly annoying on purpose. Mainly though, techno remixes, dance remixes, jungle remixes, etc. just do not work very well with metal. Exceptions are "Perpetual Larceny" by Brutal Truth (maybe because that was one of the first). The techno beats/drum machines sound way too sped up to be natural, making them pretty laughable..sounds like rapping your fingertips on a desk. The songs for the most part do sound very similar and repetitive. Which is ironic that they have a song titled "Beyond Monotony"....only song that really worked for me was the last track, "Emixnence in Popurrence" which sounded like they just took out the live drum track, put in a drum machine (or added some studio effects to it) and put in a few keyboard pieces over a few of the slower parts. As with Fear Factory, when bands release a techno remix album it seems like they are just fresh out of ideas. So instead of coming up with all new songs, they just re-hash old ideas or in the case of Fear Factory, have some one else do it. Just a big marketing ploy, "easy money" as my boss would say. I don't know what the intentions were behind "Cybergore"...I'm sure that the band and label didn't expect to make some huge profit from this. Probably just messing around in the studio, and that's prefectly fine. I just can't get into techno remixes. If you are into Fear Factory, electronica/techno, and newer Front Line Assembly, then by all means pick this one up. I think what we need to see are less remixes and more fresh, new ideas of ways to be BRUTAL!!! (in which this album is not). I can't believe I just wrote a review of this length. I guess it's easier to criticize something, then to praise it. Anyways...it's on Repulse Records.

CALMANT 'ZINE (LIT) (July '98)
Avulsed - Cybergore (Repulse)
By: Saulius Majauskas
AVULSED still sells its records under the glorious label of "pure Death metal", yet there are absolutely no doubts the ways had been parted with in order to sign a deal with Amsterdam-type hardcore techno, also to be known as gabba. All what have left of former AVULSED are growling vocals and sampled death metal guitars with a good deal of loud breakbeat rhythmic foreground. Even if the world has already faced millions forms of pulsing techno records, obviously death metal remixes aren't daily event, surely. To some extent, this content might be comparable with beloved series of "Thunderdome" or even to "Terrordrome" if you prefer.

NECROMANCE MAG. (SPA) (Julio '98)
Avulsed "Cybergore" (CD 1998) - Repulse Records.
David Déniz - 8 sobre 10.
Pues ya está aquí el controvertido y esperado álbum de remezclas de los madrileños AVULSED, un álbum que ha levantado una gran expectación, y que sin lugar a dudas sorprenderá a más de uno cuando lo oiga. 9 temas de su "Eminence In Putrescence", aunque renombrados de la siguente manera: "Frozen Beat", "Addicted To Red Bull", "Pastivoracity"... por nombrar algunos. Todos los temas mantienen la caña, y si a todo ello le sumamos, unas excelentes remezclas muy bakalaeras y unos ritmos discotequeros, obtendremos "Cybergore", que hará flipar a los adictos al bakalao y callarse a los que esperaban éste álbum para criticar a AVULSED.

ETERNAL FROST WEBZINE (USA) (July '98)
Avulsed - Cybergore RPS029CD+
By: Jason
10 Tracks 49:05 Playing Time1.Frozen Beat 2.Addicted to Red Bull 3.Sweet Bakalotomy4.Hash-perversions 5.Powdered Fish 6.Petisuis Lobotomy 7.Gorroreality8.Pastivoracity (Frozen Speed) 9.Beyond Monotony 10.EmiXnence in Popurrence 11.CD ROM Interactive (PC/Mac).
Take a bit of Brutal Death, mix in a little techno, toss in a video and you have the newest incarnation of Avulsed!! Reviews have been mixed as you might expect, but the band has taken a step that most would never have the balls to do. This release IS NOT considered a new full length as their new one will be recorded at a studio in Sweden later this year. Regardless, if Fear Factory 'Remanufacture' floated your boat, this will make that oat FLY! CD includes a digitized video that can be played on a PC or MAC.

ETERNAL FROST WEBZINE (another review):
Gentleman (and ladies), I have seen the future, and it is Avulsed. Or, in a more general sense, it is death metal remixed into techno. I'm sure this has been done before, to varying degrees of success, but this particular combination works really well. What's especially cool is that the band did the reworking themselves, so they have supreme understanding as to how the music should be used. Slammin' techno beats with crunchy guitars and death vocals! I'm sure some of you really don't dig this sort of stuff, but you should give this a try. I really think underground metal will enter society's backdoor via albums like this. I must say, while I dig the album immensely, I think the beats could have been a bit more varied. It's a niggling complaint, though. In another small twist, the band have included one death metal track at the end,rather than putting a techno song at the end of a metal album. It's obvious these guys enjoy what they're doing, and furthermore that they are good at it. If you don't have an avulsion to drum machines, I'd suggest you give this a listen. Hell, this could actually make you enjoy techno if you don't already. The death track at the end is well written and performed, at times melodic, often brutal and slightly odd in places. They haven't abandoned metal by a long shot. Plus, it says it has a CD-Rom track, as well. Cool, it has a video on here. It's a fucking shame that PCs suck so bad at playing video. . . There is also a .pdf document, but they include Acrobat Reader and Quicktime 2.0 on the disc. There are some pictures, but they don't have a recognizable extension (.jpg, etc.) Every band should do this, even if the space on here is a little underutilized. Why not put your entire website off-line and on CD-Rom? Anyway, if you only like metal, approach with caution. If you like techno, plunge into Cybergore. --

Mark (GROINCHURN) (South Africa) (July '98)
Hello Dave!
MaRk here again! I got your CDs this weekend - thanks very much! (Did you get my package yet?). Anyway, first off i must say, I love the "Cybergore" CD!!!!!!!!! The songs are great and the CD-rom part is excellent too!! Really cool layout and artwork... well I can't say enough good things about this CD!! As far as using stuff for the compilation, so far my favourite track is track 4, "Hash perversions", but I'd like to know from your side as well which songs you would prefer to have included, so let me know!

IRON PAGES MAG. (GER) (July '98)
AVULSED are going on someones nerves with their CD "Cybergore". The Spanish death metal band starts mixing hypnotical techno-beats and death metal. The problem is, that they don' t manage it to produce a good kind of soup with that. Anything but "Pastivoracity" must be described as a failure.

THE DARK SITE WEB-ZINE (GER) (July '98)
Avulsed - Cybergore
1998 Repulse Records
10 Tracks ; 49:10 Minuten
Martin: 6 points
To mix techno-noise and metal doesn' t seem to be of a good inspiration or at last innovation, even when REPULSE try to tell us something like that. "Remanufacture" from Fear Factory isn' t very young anymore and Prodigy are existing a little bit longer, too. Now AVULSED try to copy these bands wo' ve done this style first. What seems more clearly, then to update the uninteresting material of those Spanish guys with techno? At first I have to say, that the material of this underground -band now is more interesting, especially more interesting than the releases before, which couldn' t enrapture me at all. Too much average death metal, without highlights and without capability to be kept in mind in any way. The grunting of the fronter, which is going through a harmonizer in such a way that lyrics can' t be understood at all, they have kept- without inspiration and going on s.o. nervs, these vocals. If you called them ugly and now listen to the rest of the music, there's indeed a positive impression. The deep death metal riffs are mixed with beats and keyboards, mostly in a trip-hop or breakbeat style Sometimes there are good harmonies between the different elements, but there's a lack of real in the whole thingand after half an hour the band seems to have used all ideas and so they become monotonous. Who doesn' t care about these things and who likes such a mixture will be happy. The bandinfo tells us that Avulsed will sound "normal" again on their next release, and so they will drown in the formless death metal masses. What a pity- the good appendage will only stay one.

HONOR SANGUINE WEB-ZINE #9 (POR) (Aug '98)
Avulsed - Cybergore
Repulse Records CD
Serafim Ferreira: 82%
Weird and bizarre is what we can say about this job. The most brutal Death Metal is transformed is Techno/Cyber/Death Metal. For those who know the band, this work only contains remixes of other tracks already released by the band in previous releases. But believe us, you never heard it like now. They have mixed the guitars with a danceable beat and acid noises that sometimes remind us of Prodigy, Nine Ince Nails or Think About Mutation. Tracks like Powered Flesh, Carnivoracity and Eminence in Putrescence are transformed in the same order in, Powered Fish, Pastivoracity and Emixnence in Popurrence. The green cover and vomiting colored back fits the entire work, seeming like some one had LSD for breakfast. This work include also a CDROM track, full with infos on the band and a video of Powered Flesh (the original). This work is an escape to the normal work of the band, giving the musicians a change to clear their minds from work. We just hope that this experience ends here, because ont is good but two causes nausea.

Malcom Daglish-ROCKWORLD D.J. (UK) (Oct. '98)
Love it loads!! Shits on the Latest FEAR FACTORY album. However, it's too heavy for most of the Industrial crowd...

THE DEAD SEA MAG. #3 (UK) (Nov. '98)
Avulsed - Cybergore
Repulse Records CD '98
Nicholas Moberly
Rotten's lot have released an album of remixes from their "Eminence In Putrescence" CD in the vein of FEAR FACTORY's "Remanufacture". All these are in the techno/jungle/drum'n'bass direction, and for me as a detractor of the Spaniard's last album, it would be the quality of the remixing that would break this release for me. All the tracks remain reasonably faithful, in particular the last one, which has emerged virtually unscathed (see the pun?). The rest of the songs keep much of the guitar riffing and even some of the death growling, but add a variety of beats over the top, thus seeming to provide an adequate distance from the songs without completely losing them over the hill as it were. Thus, "Powdered Flesh", the best song on the last CD, has metamorphosed into "Powered Fish", and luckily is based around the best riff of the track, and in so doing finds renewed favour with me. While the rest of the music is never so interesting, the different flavor of each remix is commendable, and some credit to a grind band for doing something a little different. I know FEAR FACTORY provided the impetus, but them grind bands tend to be a conservative lot. In addition the CD has a video clip (a good one at that) of "Powedered Flesh" and lots of detailed info on the band through CD-ROM.

NORDIC VISION MAG. #12 (NOR) (Nov '98)
Avulsed - Cybergore
Repulse Records CD
Melankol X
Style: Cyber Techno/Death. Remember "Eminence In Putrescence"? 10 tracks from the album have been remixed with Techno beats, or more precisely electronic beats and the result is great. Raw and brutal spiced with several killer beats and sounds, this was a great surprise. This kind of experimenting sometimes gives great fruites, and AVULSED have really done something I never thought owuld happen. Being a raw Death Metal band they have dared to combine their music with Electronic beats wich has resulted in an extremely fresh and catchy CD. But if you hate this, we can assure you that this is not the new style for the band, they will record their next album later this year. Let's just hope they will remix some of The songs from that album as well since this is very good.

GOREFLESH (USA) (Dec '98)
Whats up man this is GOREFLESH here in Las Vegas NV and all I got to say is your shit RIPS... I heard the "Petsuis Lobotomy" mix on MP3 off the net, and had to seek your album out.. fucking took me 3 monhs to find it <I dont have a credit card> and it fucking rules... I listen to mainly Death Metal, but your shit rocks much respect to dave nigger and mc velarde.. I still am trying to track down your full length to hear what the songs sound like normally, but your shit rocks... COME TO VEGAS... we just had Cannibal here with Angel Corpse and Prophecy... you guys will rip it apart

ARLONG (MAL) (Feb '99)
Hello there Avulsed
I'm Arlong from Malaysia. I've bought your 'Cybergore' and my comment is that you guys really kick ass. I mean, at first instance I was not so excited to hear that the remix is going to be in techno...well another industrial experiment that usually changed the core element of DM.Really hate that!!! But after listening to 'Cybergore' my expectation changed...the album still carrying the Death Metal gore and brutality of its original version..the best example of a DM remix. Keep up the DM element in Avulsed!! Death Metal forever, -arlong-

VAE SOLIS WEB MAG. #6 (RUS) (Mar '99)
Avulsed "Cybergore"
Repulse Records
rating: 5, 5 of 6 - Kai Mattias Stalhammar
I bet no one expected such a thing from this famous Spanish band! They always were one of the most innovative and interesting death metal acts in Spain, but nothing could foretell that they will ever release "Cybergore". The album's title explains everything, appearing as the perfect definition for what is going on here. Yes, it's kind of a cross between 'Cyber Death Metal' and Techno, i.e. typical Techno beats (intented for the dance floors, ha ha!) mixed with inhuman growling and brutal guitars (check out "Addicted To Red Bull", for example). Actually, there're no new tracks here, only re-mixes (although the song titles were changed a bit - f.ex. from "Hidden Perversions" to "Hash-Perversions", or "Frozen Beat" instead of "Frozen Meat") which may remind some of you of FEAR FACTORY's "Remanufacture" (as it said in the bio), however I should admit that these acts don't have much in common, as well as "Cybergore" and "Remanufacture". Despite those cyber-sound and programming, AVULSED still sound very brutal and (what's most important!) original. All of the songs are re-done in a different way, so this CD never becomes boring. There're two more things I can't leave unmentioned - firstly, this album has a CD-ROM track featuring video clip, various pics and alike stuff. And secondly, let's hail these guys for choosing such an amazing design and coverart, which also fit their music perfectly! Expect the interview in the sixth issue as well as the brand new CD, "Stab Wound Orgasm" (out soon!), which will be composed and performed in the vein of old AVULSED's creations, since "Cybergore" was only an experiment!! (Herr Stalhammar)

PUNISHMENT 'ZINE (SWE) (Mar '99)
Avulsed "Cybergore"
(Repulse Records)
Wermén
The very first time I heard a so called "Techno-remix" of a metal band must've been either on Pungent Stench's "Dirty Rhythms And Psychotronic Beats" or Brutal Truth's "Perpetual Conversions". I have to admit that it was quite fun but most of all surprising to hear some techno crap on a metal disc. Anyway, that techno remix crap has been done by hundreds of other bands since and I have never really understood the reason why. I mean, why feature some half made techno-crap on a metal disc which is obviously bought by a metal head for the intention to listen to some nice metal? Also, techno, jungle, eurodance and all other stupid names they might have for this kind of computerised so called "Music" are in my opinion the mother fuckin´ peak of commercialism. Which is at least something I already think we've got plenty of in the scene and needless to say, don't need or most of all don't WANT in this scene. As you might have understood, Avulsed's "Cybergore" disc is a full-length with only techno re-mix crap and it sure as hell sucks! The re-mix shit isn't especially well done either and it sounds so god damn typically "Half-made". All though I hate and despite techno or whatever in general one can hear if it's at least well-done and with a thought behind it. This ain't and who might be the possible buyers of a disc like this. Probably not Avulsed's ordinary fans as fans of good old brutal death metal can waste money on a new metal disc instead. Ordinary techno consumers can buy some fuckin´ Atari Teenage Riot, which is at least aggressive, or a Prodigy disc. - Wermen

STORMBRONGER WEB-ZINE (SWE) (April '99)
Avulsed "Cybergore"
(Repulse Records)
Derek 10/10
Isn't it funny how the sweet smell of success can bring out the creative talents of any band regardless of genre? Because that exactly what's happened to Death Metaller's Avulsed after coming of the Repulse European tour of 1997. When the band got chance to make some special re-mixes of some of their debut album 'Eminence In Putrescence' and to cut a long story short 'Cybergore' was born. 'Cybergore' then is basically 10 tracks of techno mixed with Death Metal and although bands have been using samples in their music for quite sometime very few have had the guts to release a whole albums worth and for that alone I take my hat off to them. Now whether or not you like the idea of metal bands playing around with dance music is down to you, but there's one thing that stands out when listening to 'Cybergore' and that is that Avulsed have managed to create 10 individual tracks and not something that sounds like one overblown dance 12" single. Each track is different in some way and this instantly gives the listener something to get your teeth into. The best way I can describe 'Cybergore' would be like taking the power and aggression of Deicide and mixing it with the more artistic side of the Prodigy, which creates a very unusual, but very accessible sound, that in no way is overblown and up it's arse as say The Chemical Brothers, and whether or not the sounds of sexual pleasure mixed with Techno with just a bit of ambient as on the opener 'Frozen Beat' get your foot-tapping or maybe it'll be the more harder mixes of 'Addicted To Red Bull' or 'Powered Fish' that will have you dancing round the house like a loon, I can guarantee that by the time 'Cybergore' comes to an end, it will have changed your view on music (or at least it's potential ) for good). What effect all this experimentation will have 'Avulsed' career is unknown, but as I've already said you have to give them 10/10 for having the guts to do something like this in the first place.

The French Connection Web-Zine (FRA) (Apr. '99)
Avulsed "Cybergore"
(Repulse Records)
Laurent
Born in 92, Avulsed recorded 2 demos & one 7"ep before releasing their Carnivoracity's EP which was later reissued by Repulse records. Then, Cryptic soul productions offered them to tour with Vader, Deranged & Sinister in 96. This year was also the year of their first album : Eminence in Putrescence which was already released by Repulse records. Now, the band is back with Cybergore, their new effort. If you hate techno music, I really ask myself if you have to hear this band. Maybe it could be a good thing to appreciate this kind of song. Avulsed blend techno rythms with heavy guitars & death metal vocals. One thing is sure, this result sounds very differently from what Techno muisc proposes on channel like MTV. It's definitly not commercial music. Avulsed created some of th emost frightening song ever composed. The cross of technology & human music is near from perfection. It doesn't sound like Rammstein 'cos there's definitly less melodies & the techno parts are really in front of the album. & facing Rammstein, Avulsed has got heavier guitar parts. These last ones are combined with som e very loud death metal vocals parts. So, it's definitly uncompromising music; It's still metal but it's not only metal, even if it's really extreme. One last thing, this album is aslo a CD rom with tons of infos about all Repulse records & so on.

BURN THE SUN WEBMAG (USA) (July '01)
Avulsed "Cybergore" CD
Repulse Records 1998
Pete Johnston peter@burnthesun.com
I know most metal fans dislike techno, but that’s just because most techno doesn’t have Death Metal vocals and killer guitar loops fused into it. Spain’s crazy gore mongers Avulsed have chosen to depart from their usual music and for one special disc give us a chance to really appreciate quality brutal techno. Yes, I said brutal techno, and no it is not an oxymoron. If after a listen to Cybergore you don’t know why I am calling it brutal, you need a hearing aid. The songs on here are truly relentless. There are two ways the band achieves this feat. First, the excellent vocals and riffery from the band’s Eminence in Putrescence album are rejuvenated, and second, the remixes of these songs are all done tastefully. That means the songs are fast, the beats are aggressive and they fit the guitars very well. And there is no “trance” influence evident on the album in case that’s what you are worried about. It is possible to discern the differences between songs, it is possible to hear the progression of most of the individual songs, and it is likely that you will enjoy the result. My only problem with Cybergore is that since it is techno, some of the elements do get old after 5 or 6 songs, but that’s the nature of the beast. Techno is repetitive. On a final note, the band has chosen to redo their logo space age style for this album as well as retitle the remixed songs humorously. The package is clever and the music convincing.