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"Within the first 20 seconds of album opener "Let Them Eat Cake," the song becomes about as soulful and scary as Michael Jackson's "Thriller," which is a lot to live up to. The rest of Vampire Nation's new album, Dead City Diary, drops the neo-soul/pop feel, but remains satiated with a simultaneously ominous and captivating undertone. The worldly, Egyptian-born Fredrik von Hamilton, whose many travels have brought him much musical inspiration, is a whiz at electronic ambience. As Vampire Nation, he emotes ethnic images through a mixture of hip-hop beats, jazz-style acoustic guitars, creepy piano riffs, drum sampling and effects. Though much of the album carries a dark and eerie theme, it shouldn't be categorized as goth-rock, but more of an experience of world music set through current technical trends. Von Hamilton's own Hexagon Records is currently selling the album online for 99 cents, which is a steal considering that's all it takes to travel foreign territories through his vast musical mind." - Pulp Ever imagine your world being thrown into chaos and not knowing the ending to the story? Vampire Nation on their 10th Release (Hexagon Records) have taken the most disparate sounds from Ambient, World, Darkwave, Electronica and Downtempo to come full circle and explode like a Phoenix into the new millennium. The sounds are HOT but will the flame envelope the project into oblivion?