Listening to these guys, you know they are going to focus on their live shows. They put out some hard aggotech sounds that I’m sure many an EBM DJ will find worthy additions to their setlists. With the coldness of electricity and the strength of multiple machine gears, H.Exe can do wonderful things for a club night or anyone wanting to dance in their own bedrooms.

We start off with “Introduction” keeping it minimal and avant garde. “Dreadful Visions” gets things flowing Aggrotech style with gremlin vocals, icicle synths and a determination to get people moving. “Hollow” is a pounding, hard hitting ogre that is determined to things up simply for the sake of it. “Never Enough” keeps things steady with automaton precision but bestial aggression. “Crown thy Oppressor” seems to be less about celebrating tyrant noblemen and sounding like a dark nineties dance track on cocaine snorted off a marble workbench. The titular “Killing Monsters” has the clearest vocals so far, more man then goblinoid, as the song breaks out some organic drumming with high notes on keyboards aplenty.

“Infinity” puts it on the slowburner to conserve its energy and move with a grace that you wouldn’t normally associate with Industrial or E.B.M. “Venom” hits back hard and moves with the rhythm like a metronome. “Mask of The Slave” ups the bass a few notches for a monotonous marching beat meant to drain the will of the listener, to make them more like the song’s subject. “Replica” makes things very interesting with a sample from Bladerunner and can’t stay in one place for too long as it bounces about as the fastest song on the album. “Witchcraft” takes another film sample, this time V for Vendetta (And for me, there are few things more industrial then samples in music), as it tries to think a bit goth, but it doesn’t seem to come through aside from the lyrics which are garbled by the Nivek Ogre style vocals. “We Invented Farsh Electro” brings back more V quotes as it pounds away with the fluorescent synths. “Breath of the Dying” breaks out organic sounds and tribal drumming in a refreshing change of gear for a very well composed ambient track that if they ever decided to make a full album full of this kind of thing, it would probably make me go weak at the knees.