My heart warms up when I receive music from Swiss bands. Aside from the fact that I was born there, a bunch of great electro/industrial bands come from there (Young Gods, Sybreed, Apollyon Sun, Swamp Terrorist) ...not to mention one of the earliest electronic instruments (check out 120years.net)!
Anyway, Matamachete is a 5 piece industrial-metal grounp from the Italian speaking part of Switzerland. With the Canadian label D-Trash (always open and focused on what's new in the world of digital hardcore) they found a home for their second full length record "Tanin No Kao" (The Face of Another, a 1966 japanese movie). Less glitchy and more structured than other D-Trash releases I've reviewed, Matamachete borrow equally from the cyberpunk and the aggro-industrial worlds. Their brilliant production work (by Nino Mauro) is clearly of electronic matrix but their sonic attack and attitude is much more in-your-face punk-rock. As you might have guessed, luckily their singing style escapes the used & over-abused EBM tradition. Instead they go all the way with their two singers, and if anything, they sound more like an Organge 9mm-type post-core band. Matamachete dirty distorted bass lines, wild drumming and hardcore singing remind me a lof of a band called RSU (Rifiuti Solidi Urbani, from Italy) but you can also detect several metal influences and everything in between: Unsane, Pitch Shifter, Dope Stars Inc. (also from Italy), Lard, Mysery Loves Company, Nailbomb (especially on Matamachete's last song sung in Portuguese, when you can't help it but to be reminded of Sepultura's Ratamahatta days), Atari Teenage Riot and so on and so forth...
All of this is packaged with great art work (by Andrea Todaro) featuring a hot local model, some s/m leather fetish hints and some Japanese Kanji. What more could one possibly want? Great record for you to check out!