It’s more electronica than metal, more trance than industrial, but people with a wide enough taste should find something interesting in False Icons.
Their debut God Complex is in the heavily mechanized department of electronic metal, with tracks like Transform and the self-titled False Icons that is practically 100% synth and beats, and leans on hard style industrial influences like KMFDM and Bile.
False Icons is not a simple band though, so they have songs like Lead the Way that emulates the sound and tempo of late Tiamat and Moonspell albums, via atmospheric and almost psychedelic rock guitars and sludge bass riffs.
All together God Complex is an advanced and slowed down take on legendary Ministry and Nine Inch Nails – something in between these two bands. For the “purebred” metalheads out there, God Complex will seem far too computerized, the vocals too clean, the pace too slow. There is nothing like the guitar-dominated rock n’ roll’ish industrial metal of Megaherz and Rammstein on this album – nothing to appease the oldschool fans of our beloved genre.
All in all, this is not very good metal, but its some very well-composed soft industrial. If any of you metalheads should want to branch out and embrace our cousin genres of the other black-clad underground scenes, I would say that False Icons is a very good place to start learning. Compared to other active industrial acts False Icons is first-rate, but they really can’t be compared with metal or rock – thus their rating on this rock and metal-focused website is necessarily a bit off.
