Hoer is a Dutch band that has excisted for almost 10 years, still this is only the second cd. “TV-Nation” was recorded at the singers home in about 6 months and presented in their “Bunker” homebase last month.
“TV-Nation” has become a pretty varied album with 10 tracks spanning 45 minutes. Distorted vocals, guitars and heavy industrial is what you can expect. However I’m not too crazy about guitars in industrial music, the industrial itself is interesting enough to keep my attention. Hoer mixes somehow classical guitar-based industrial with techno of several kinds. From slightly soft to extremely heavy “gabber” (or “gabba” for English speaking) beats with rave-sounds and they even have a drum and bass track. At other times the songs have more of a metal-structure with grind-like vocals. Sometimes there are even ‘metal-like keyboards’ (the opener may fool you for the first three minutes).
Anyway, I think I can recommand this cd to anyone who enjoys guitar-based industrial (Ministry, NIN, Clay People), but someone who isn’t afraid of some teknoid industrial sounds may like this as well.
The first album is partly available online when you click here. <13/10/00> <3>