Sister Machine Gun Category: Industrial Album: Influence Most people are familiar with Sister Machine Gun. SMG’s legacy goes back to the halcyon days of Wax Trax!, when industrial-rock was still at its peak, KMFDM and Thrill Kill Kult were young, and the world seemed fresh and new. Over the years and through many changes, Sister…
A New January Category: Industrial Album: Cold And Naked Tightly-constructed, A New January comes across as a band with much promise. But something remains lingering in the back of my mind, nagging at me, as I listen to the tracks. The tracks have a tone and structure akin most prominently to Celldweller, music that is…
Industrial/Coldwave Demo Reviews Welcome back… There’s little space and plenty to go over, so let’s dig in. This may be some sharp, harsh stuff, so put those stupid goggles you kids wear to good use. Wouldn’t want anyone to lose an eye. Operator X hits with a harsh, heavily-layered electro-metal sound. The breakbeat-ish nature…
Various artists Category: Compilations Album: Tonedeaf Records Presents: Vinyl Conflict 1 EBM. Elektro. Futurepop. Synthpop. Whatever you want to call it, it’s still the bread-and-butter of the industrial underground. Go to a show featuring industrial-rock and you’ll find an empty room. Go to see someone play karaoke with their sequencer and synthesizer and you’ll find…
Laibach Category: Industrial Album: WAT I have to admit: when last I listened to Laibach, they were on Wax Trax! and doing songs like “Life Is Life”. So, as you can imagine, I was a bit worried about having to listen to Laibach again. I never figured them for the type of band that makes…
Dekoy Category: EBM Album: Redux – Heartwerk v2 LE Bred from the popularity of VNV Nation and its futurepop competitor, Assemblage 23, a plague of similar sound-alike futurepop bands have descended onto the scene in a fashion that was only ever (wrongly) attributed to the range of Skinny Puppy/FLA/Nine Inch Nails copycats. But in the…
Industrial/Coldwave Demo Reviews Welcome back… After the harrowing and horrible experiences of last issue, I was delighted to find that I had received some CD’s dated sometime in this century. Let’s try to sift through this massive stack… First off is Pesdeyet (www.pesdeyet.com), whose self-titled debut has been released on Opcion Sonica Records here…
Various artists The Health Program (Boy Arm Records) The concept behind The Health Program is an interesting one. A drum track is recorded by a well-known death metal drummer and said drum track is given to a variety of artists in different genres and styles to do with as they see fit in the creation…
Sunterra Lost Time (WAB Productions) “I’ve got something I want you to hear,” I told my friend Cathi. Unlike my other dork friends, whose tastes run more towards the eclectic and the banal, classical moreso than industrial, Cathi’s interests are in metal. More specifically, she knows quite a bit about black metal. “What is it?”…
Dataclast Vs. The Earwigs Blast II (Crucial Blast Records) Okay, maybe I’m missing the point. Maybe I just don’t get it. I mean, I don’t like grindcore, I hate powernoise, and I’m not into metal. But what we have here with Dataclast is 29 tracks, usually around a minute or two each, that are, in…