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Nominated for "Best Industrial CD of the Year". Despostim is the bands Follow-up to their "Album of the Year" Ideology. Take a walk on a slightly darker side of music. Despotism is a mixture of Goth/Industrial with heavy rock roots. If you like NIN, Do
Genre: Rock: Goth
Release Date: 2004
Despotism
W!ck
Record Label: CIA Records
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Album Notes

Despotism is Nominated for "Industrial CD of the Year" by jpfolks.com


Our societies expectations have been systematically lowered to mediocrity. Individualism has been reduced to cookie cutter duplication of a fictional world that can never be. Art has reflected that with the saturation of carbon copy, flavor of the hour artists, that all look and sound similar. Due to the current state of our culture, something must awaken mankind's senses to reality. The world needs W!CK now more than ever, to remind us of what we can have and who we can be. With Despotism, 2004 Release, the band begins a new revolution with its fist in the air.


W!CK is fueled by realism and uses this as a weapon against a war that only mankind has created. The war that is leaving scars with no definitive growth within humanity is being won by freethinking individuals, following the path that W!CK has paved. Now, with the CIA Records release of Despotism, W!CK has constructed the blueprint of music for the new generation.


The 2002 W!CK release, Ideology, awakened our senses with emotionally driven tracks including Everything, Lies, and All This Pain. The release of this album exploded and put W!CK on its first U.S. tour hitting over 30 cities in the last quarter of 2002. Ideology was rightfully awarded "Best Industrial CD of the Year" by JPFolks.com on March 1st, 2003.


Fresh off their 2003 Raid-Invade Tour, W!CK returned to the studio to finish off the long awaited follow-up to their award winning 2002 debut album. The result is a controlled mixture of life lessons, sonic events and multi-media titled Despotism, a 12-track journey into the darker more aggressive side of W!CK. This album is a masterfully crafted frappe' of analog and digital sounds that highlights the power of TweeZes' guitars and the boundless vocal ability of freQ.


The Revolution has just begun, and Despotism is the next chapter,.

Produced by: freQonavitch Saravolatz

Check the W!CK website at http://www.thebandwick.com for current information.

W!CK is always looking for street team members. Email wicksteam@thebandwick.com for details and the W!CK rewards program.

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REVIEWS

Eat Your Heart Out and Then Some
author: Blaine Gossard
                            
For those of you waiting for those endless years between Nine Inch Nails records or still wishing the Stabbing Westword was around, this CD will erase all that time lost. After listening for the first time I found myslef thinking theres so much behind what sticks in front that I have to go back for more. With songs like SLAVE and TIE ME that just grooves from the start and SUICIDE STAR that will inject you like Minstry, this CD is one to have in your collection for your avid Industrialist. With their second release W!CK redefines what can and will be done by still taking another step forward and never looking back. Proving that the next CD should be better than your last and still holding the simpleness of what a song is all about. If I had to choose a complaint I would say that the story gets lost once in a while behind an army of sounds that basks in the glory of industrial music. It is still in my collection and will be on a mix CD or two down the road.
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Solid production, great tunes
author: Shawn Jacobs
                            
Despotism is a great followup to the Ideology EP. W!CK's songwriting and production just keep getting better and better. There are lots of cool industrial percussive sounds throughout the album, and the guitars are in your face with a fat, chunky sound at times or thin and midrangy where needed. There are cool abstract noises throughout that make it a good headphone album. On top of this, most of the songs have a catchy chorus that sticks in your head for hours. Good stuff. Fans of NIN, Rob Zombie, and Static X should be pleased.
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solid industrial metal
author: willieshar
                            
A solid send-up of NIN/Stabbing Westward industrial metal. All the songs groove; too little of this type of music being produced today so it's refreshing that cds of this type can still be found.
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wow..
author: RAndom!
                            
These guys sure sound like nine inch nails mixed with rob zombie. I meen really, they do, its insane. Somehow the guitar sounds very familier, but somehow the familierity makes me feel more at home when i listen to them. The sudden transition in "mental screaming" is strange, but sounds very origional, its a great change from some songs currently on market. i say these guys deserve to be signed. Powerful Music backed up by powerful lyrics, and what sounds to be based on powerful names of a Very powerful genre. In other words, its a powerful album!
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