The electronic duo Machine Girl struck the world of digital electronic once again with their latest release U-void synthesizer, featuring Guayaba, RAFiA, and LustSickPuppy. Released on February 26, 2020, U-void synthesizer features hard-core screamo over intense electro-punk beats with a combination of rave and grindcore to form the pinnacle of brutal electronic chaos.  The duo delivers their signature screams with dronic and altered vocals and shaking growls mixed up with the usual onslaught of energetic live drumming.

The eleven tracks are: The Fortress [The Blood Inside], Blood Magic, On Coming, Fortress Destroyer, Scroll Of Sorrow (Ft. Guayaba), Splatter!, Kill All Borders [2020 Worldwide…], Devil Speak, Fully In It, Suck …(Ft. LustSickPuppy & RAFiA), and Batsu Forever.

The American electronic music project was created in 2013 by Matt Stephenson and named after the popular Japanese film “Machine Girl”. The project then evolved into a duo when Stephenson recruited percussionist Sean Kelly to play live drums. In an interview with Resolver magazine, Stephenson defined Machine Girl as “electronic punk” and stated that they didn’t like the “industrial” tag for being “very goth, and very black and white” considering the project “a lot more colorful.”

A review on Pichtforck describes the album as “Relentlessly smashing together bits of punk grindcore, rave, industrial, and more, Pittsburgh duo’s maximalist music echos the cruel momentum of the modern world.”

Since their birth the duo has put twisted images of dogs as their album covers, some of their album covers are straightforwardly terrifying, their 2014 album WLFGRL features a blown-out image of a snarling beast, fangs bared, poised for attack. Some like BECAUSE IM YOUNG ARROGANT AND HATE EVERYTHING YOU STAND FOR are more surreal featuring a video-game firearm on the face of a humanoid canine. U-Void Synthesizer, continues this tradition, editing a regal image of a pup into a demanoid monster wearing a spiked collar that reads “GOODBOY.”