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The vocals that start this album on the song "Ganglords" immediately have an impact on you, fortunately that aweful feeling emminating from this high, whining, mechanical vocals goes away as you realize these vocals aren't used throuhgout. Within that same song, Think About Mutation, uses death vocals to produce a very deep and powerful sound. Okay, those annoying vocals are used at various points throughout the album, they aren't that annoying after a while and they do play a part in the music. Still interesting are the death vocals. They add a lot of intensity to this already high speed, deep, recording. Ranging from metal to hard-core techno, the various stylings on this album all manage to keep a very familiar sound: a techno influenced industrial metal with growly vocals. Just as I keep saying that about the vocals, that style really only comprises about 30% of the vocal styles. Other than that it goes from that annoying whining as I described, to a mid-ranged rasp, to a robotic sound. The latter two of which fit very nicely into the techno based sound where they are used. Then they use some cleaner vocals in places where the death style would have better accentuated the very intense and deep nature of the sound, but that is part of their style, providing some originality and uniqueness rather than do the expected and produce very standard music. That however will probably keep some listeners away, those expecting a more approachable sound. That, and well the diversity itself, I could probably find some people that will love some songs on the album and absolutely hate other ones. Although, as I mentioned, Think About Mutation has a definite sound, they do diverge from that and truly go to quite different areas of music. A decent album that is worthwhile to listen to.