This is the 10th album for those guys from France in 18 years of life. Even though I was never a die-hard fan of this band, I liked most of their works and I was a bit anxious to listen to their new effort.

Their history is a long one. Eighteen years in the music industry are quite a long time. Furthermore, and judging from myself, reading the bio of a band most of the times becomes boring. So instead of writing a paragraph, saying about past and current members and writing down most of the previous titles of their albums, let me write one or two lines about their music, in case you never heard about the band before. S.U.P. (a.k.a. SUP, SPHERICAL UNIT PROVIDED, and SUPURATION - just pick one!) plays some kind of modern Metal (I hate that label but we have to find a common code to communicate) having their roots to industrial and Death Metal, with a cold atmosphere in their albums. Here you will listen to mid-tempo music with samples, keys and other electronic and industrial sounds that emphasize the whole atmosphere. For those who didn't know it, all of S.U.P.'s albums are concept ones, so it didn't surprise me to listen to another one.

Reading the lyrics from this album, S.U.P. are putting the listener in a post-apocalyptic world, and follows one of the Neovocyts (some kind of post-humans) in his journey. The album doesn't really have some dramatic changes from their previous ones, something that is good for the to-die-for fans of the band. The only difference from their previous release Imago is that the band sounds more extreme and not that experimental, having more harsh brakes and riffs, even though the clean vocals are making their appearance again, but still the glows have the first reason. As an album it is a good one, but still there are some things that need - shall we say - an improvement.
Firstly, yes sometimes it's nice not to change you style dramatically but on the other hand, a band that calls themselves as experimental have to make changes and look around for different paths than the one there are walking since the time they hit the studio. Another one is that, despite I liked this album, there isn't a 'hit' or (let me put it in another way) a composition that will make the difference and the album may sound flat to someone. And by saying flat I mean that most of the songs have the same structure, something logical since their sound and the mid-tempo rhythms prevent them for something much different.

As a conclusion, Hegemony is not a bad album. Its cold atmosphere, the nice breaks, the clean vocals and the good brutal ones will make the fans of the band and that kind of music in general happy. And it is probably a good choice for someone to enter to their world. Fortunately S.U.P. didn't become a cold soup.

P.S.: Can anyone tell me why they don't have anything in English in their official site and I had to go to a fan site to read some things?