What would happen if NAPALM DEATH scored a European Horror Film Festival? Hallucinogenic Polish export ANTIGAMA seem to have a pretty good idea and "Resonance" may be their most accurate portrayal of such an event.

ANTIGAMA are one of the great gifts to (and from) the underground; a band that graces its seemingly innumerable influences with records worthy of bearing their imprints. Previous albums "Intellect Made Us Blind", "Zeroland", and a split three-inch with Post-Grind peers DRUGS OF FAITH twitched manically under the radar, but with their Relapse debut "Resonance", ANTIGAMA are now poised to leave their "best-kept-secret" status behind, exposing their vision to a greater scope of Metal faithful.

Tracks like "Pending" and "Order" are akin to be lost for hours in a cyber-demonic labyrinth of buzzing live wires. The collapsing-elevator riffs of "Ecstasy" are the musical equivalent of machine violently turning on man, and "Neutral Balance" suggests that man is the masochism that will satisfy the sadism of the machine. By the middle of the album, the twain have met, and they are one speeding bloodthirsty creation of organic desire and advanced technical bliss, conjoint in their death wish. It's like "Tetsuo: the Iron Man" in Grind/Punk form. And there is no doubt a severe Punk edge to ANTIGAMA, which keeps the music from being too clinical and cold, retaining the angry, energetic passion of more classic Grindcore bands instead of losing themselves to the "rules" of the genre like so many Sub-Genre pushers of today and tomorrow. "No", "After", and "By And By" are Cyber-Punk anthems if there ever has been...what bands like DESPISED ICON and THE RED CHORD would sound like if they ditched their thrift-store irony leanings and truly lost themselves in their psychosis rather than just paying lip-service to madness.

ANTIGAMA have released their heaviest, catchiest work to date in "Resonance", the perfect gateway record for those not yet familiar with the Polish act's unique brand of Grindcore.