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"Turba", a Portuguese expression for “mob” or “rabble”, is Metadevice's return to a more evident structured sense of composition, often rhythmically guided, combining a wide range of sounds from harsh throbbing synths, loops, electrified drones and even rusty-edged guitars to build sharp industrialized music.

Driven by the intense vocals of Rui Almeida (experimental rock NU's frontman), whose lyrics in both Portuguese and English merge his own words with appropriations from T.S. Eliot, Thomas Pynchon or Nathaniel West, this is an album about collective alienation, raving individualism and a deep dive into the hyperreality of our modern times. This mass movement is not a liberation, but an inexorable escalation of autophagic violence and atomization towards the void.



"Over Turba’s ten tracks span an hour’s playtime substantial sonic territory and harsh atmospheric spaces are covered, and while each track functions as a stand-alone composition, equally they strongly solidify as a collective album whole. " @ Noise Receptor

"Turba is so much more effective and potent just because it doesn’t let loose, because it never allows the threat of violence become fully actualized. With this, it maintains an unsettling sense of apprehension from start to finish." @ Only Death Is Real

"A desesperança é a palavra de ordem e vive através da opressão do ouvinte, com até mais maleabilidade do que aquela que se espera encontrar num disco de industrial/noise. Há uma estética que poderia pertencer facilmente numa banda sonora de um filme e é nesse contexto de desesperança crónica a trazer-nos imagem que reside a maior conquista de “Turba”. 9/10 " @ World Of Metal