Industrial music reviews

Desmo Donte is THE band to listen to on this cd. The lead singer, Riccardo has a beautiful voice that haunts deep to your innermost soul...."Into the Sun" still lingers in my mind....good job Desmo Donte...and Riccardo :)

These are the sort of songs my favorite goth club djs play, but I hadn't heard most of these. I had heard ExVoto, saw them in concert, they were awesome. I'd love to find more cds of theirs.

This is the kind of compilation Cd that you can just let run...no wannabe covers from Puff Daddy...its all etherial Goth. Ex Voto has been around a long time, and developed a loyal following. This effort prominently features the voice of the stunningly beautiful Babalon (shes also on the cover of their new CD). If you're into it, see their website too...you can get more CDs there.

pulizia e pienezza scevra da soverchieria
percorsi sonori agili e corposi
un vero alto condensato di cultura giramanopole
colpevolmente dimenticata dalle Accademie
bravo e ancora bravo

i know this review won't really help anyone, but it is totally cool. its perfect for raving, partying, and all-out chilling in the car. i love this kinda of music, its like a mix between electronica and techno. its mad good.

i mostly listen to like metal or alternative and occasionally some electronica. and this one is pretty good from start to end! its totally different from most stuff you hear.i have no real complaints for this one so i give it 5 stars!

This is some of the most energetic music that I've heard, and yet isn't retarded on the musical side of it. Most drum and bass is not all that heavy on the music side of it, and is focused mostly on the beats. This is nowhere near the case from this duo. And they do more than just drum and bass, there's some crazy break beat, and even a track blurring genders, with a sort of electro/industrial breaks feeling to it. The guitars they bring with the music add an incredible twist, adding even more to the energy. Great CD all around, I'd recommend this over most drum and bass CD's out there right now.

Aaaaaah. It's refreshing to finally hear something like this. I've been searching for this sound forever! They take the insane tempos of hardcore techno, add some great samples, killer guitar riffs and mind boggling beats and make them sound like never before. I would recommend thisd to anyone who likes fast paced electronic music and is sick of the juvenile and ridiculous Atari Teenage Riot acts.

A must have for all hardcore raver techno fans.

When I first started bringing Metropolis albums to my home, it was a hit or miss process that I wasn't sure of and that I sometimes found myself regretting. Granted, they do produce some of the best music in the world when it comes to EBM acts, but randomly picking and choosing personas to bring into the fold wasn't the best way to taunt the day. Then, by some freak chance, I bumped into my first Electropolis album and found that there were a few bands I hadn't tried here, that some people I had made rash judgments on were actually a lot better than I had given them credit for, and that this form of electronic music encompassed more ground than I thought. While on the heavier side of the EBM rainbow, most of the acts here are pretty versatile, and the coverage of the sampler is good and allows a little bit for ever taste that cares for techno/industrial/EBM dancefloor melodies out there.

Many of the tracks on the album bear noting because they are pretty creative and are actually enjoyable to listen to. Front Line Assembly's Bliss, sculpting an exotic plateau that isn't as dark as their normal works but that still carries its weight, joining Numb's Blood, perhaps their best work ever because of the voxed lyrics and the heavy yet darkly contrived sounds, the heavier sounds of Wumpscut's Soylent Green (in German), Informatik's Entropy that flashes me back to a time when all their words were voxed and all their sounds seemed possessed by shadows, Mentello and the Fixer's almost screamed vocals on the distortedly heavy Vision (some don't like the remix, but I thought it was good), an older Funker Vogt release that still wears their heavier sounds, Terminal Sect's slower BPMing Backwards Effigy that becomes catchy after a few listens, and others as well. This isn't to say that everything is perfect on the album because it isn't, but it does state that, in the world of samplers, it is a cut above the rest because of its listenability.

For anyone wanting to look into some older Metropolis releases and experience some of the heavier sounds resting on the steps of electronic angst, then this would be something worth checking out. There are quite a few bands here that have the ability to hook their listener, plus many of them have something - albeit dark most of the time - about the world and its sociopolitical ways of running things. It, along with quite a few other Metropolis albums, comes highly recommended.

This compilation by one of industrial musics premier record label's, Metropolis, offers up almost every important band in modern EBM / industrial dance. You have some staple acts like Front Line Assembly (with what was probably an unreleased song from FLAvour Of The Weak) to :wumpscut: (a Soylent Green in German). Both of these tracks are worth full price of the CD. But wait, there's more!
There's a remix of Numb's dark and evil 'Blood' from their Wasted Sky release. Da5id Din's Informatik offers up 'Entropy', an excellent track. Numb remixes Thinkingman's 'Screaming Saints' to abrasive perfection while In Strict Confidence offer an extended mix of their awesome 'Prediction'. Out Out, Terminal Sect, Necrofix and Evil's Toy all serve up some great industrial tracks, making this the best compilation CD I own.
Weaker track that I found (or ones that didn't suit my tastes) were Mentallo & The Fixer's remix of 'Vision'. I really like MATF but this mix really seems to have no direction. I am not a big fan of the techno side of industrial, but if you do, Funker Vogt's 'Killing Fields' would definitely be for you. Haujobb and Snog are both bands that I'm not too fond of either and these tracks are exemplory of the music they make. If you like these bands, this would be good for you.
Basically for the average industrial fan, this CD is all hit-no shxt. Highly recommended.

This is a great collection of industrial, whether it's for the purpose of introduction or collection. This album has enough remixes and unrealesed goodies, like Wumpscut's German Soylent Green, to satisfy the jaded listener. I was glad to hear the established acts like Numb and Mentallo along with a couple of lesser known bands. All the songs are great - I love Snog's Born to be Mild, and the FLA instrumental is priceless. Thanks go to Metropolis for a great album.

This is by far one of the best CD's in my collection FOR GOOD REASON!!!! It pulsates and grinds away like industrial was meant to but unlike a lot of stuff it's actually listenable. It's clean and structured, which makes it just amazing. If you love industrial but hate the tires-on-gravel, laryngitis vocals and distortion of most bands, this is for you. My favorite tracks include Leviathan, 2D, Wind of the North, Final Man, and Go Film, but all are great.

If you have nothing from this band, but like dance industrial/EBM, then you're missing out. Mostly dark and heavy (but I wouldn't say angry) beats, and lyrics which are actually quite listenable and very complementary (to the music).

Hard, heavy and rythmic. The Swedish Modern-EBM-group does it again. From The Album Europa. Just BUY IT!

This is by far one of the best CD's in my collection FOR GOOD REASON!!!! It pulsates and grinds away like industrial was meant to but unlike a lot of stuff it's actually listenable. It's clean and structured, which makes it just amazing. If you love industrial but hate the tires-on-gravel, laryngitis vocals and distortion of most bands, this is for you. My favorite tracks include Leviathan, 2D, Wind of the North, Final Man, and Go Film, but all are great.

If you have nothing from this band, but like dance industrial/EBM, then you're missing out. Mostly dark and heavy (but I wouldn't say angry) beats, and lyrics which are actually quite listenable and very complementary (to the music).

Hard, heavy and rythmic. The Swedish Modern-EBM-group does it again. From The Album Europa. Just BUY IT!

This album is amazing. It's a worthy continuation of Die Form's previous work. All the tracks are awesome by themselves, but the album as a whole is a flowing masterpiece. My favorites are Transgressions and Suffocations.

Extremum is absolutely exquisite. While the pace is a bit different than other previous albums, every track has its own unique intensity, ranging from the ethereal to the horrific. The tracks flow smoothly in a natural progression. This CD confirms my belief that Fichot is a genius at capturing emotion in sound.

Extremum,from a great dark band called Die Form,is a great album.Being a fan of their other albums,especially Duality,they always have very strange,sexually moody,erotic tones in their music.Not for the faint hearted!If you enjoy macabre music,this album is for you.This album is a bit slower than theur other ones.But still just as effective.Definately an album filled with fantasies of sugarplums and opium filled dreams.

This is a local band from Chicago, I have been following them since I heard Separated at North Beach in Schaumburg. If you like hard rock, pick this up. After a listen I am sure you will want to see them live!

First CD.. Very Powerfull & Full of energy... Some Songs on this CD were Featured on MTV's Making The Video in July/August - 2000

This CD is very full of energy... great songs... a couple songs were featured on MTV's Making the Video... definatly worth the asking price!

"I'm not crazy. I'm not deranged. I am... I am... I am TWISTED!" The theme that runs through 'Pandemonium'; my favorite song on this disc. These guys are good. No song is alike, but they're all good. Great engineering. The balance of instruments and vocals build upon each other and produce a feeling and a pressure in the listener, more than just a mix of sounds. And it's $0.01. You can't go wrong.

Buy it anyway! Do not think. Feel their world. They are so cool.
I say, "everything is sensual!"

A-RI-GA-TO, SA-YO-NA-RA

Buy it anyway! Do not think. Feel their world! They are so cool!!
I say, "everything is sensual!"
A-RI-GA-TO, SA-YO-NA-RA!

Whether you're sad, angry, confused, happy or depressed. Gridlock will always leave you excited. This album is quite a bit darker than Formless (if you're familiar with that CD).

Bottom line, don't listen to it alone in a dark room... You may become scared very easily!

This work is simply unparalleled in any art genre. It grinds, floats, glides, and scrapes along in the most intriguing and mesmerizing fashion; quiet, whispered lyrics add texture at points, while crushing beats fall between simple and harmonious chords. Every track is fully unique: "Sever" develops into a progressive, beat-driven machine takeover, while "Scrape" devolves into aural chaos; conversely, "Ash" builds itself out of almost nothing into a pensive, haunting hymn, and the title track "Further" overlaps into an almost mantra-like chorus of synths and clicks. Pure auditory magnificence.

This is truly a classic within the so called Industrial genre."Further" combines hasrh power-like noise strucute, with dark ambient drones and ambience, and for even more depth throws in minimal, yet deep meanings lyrics. An amazin release from this San Fran based band, a cd to dream to, to read to, to..do whatever you want. If you like this cd, check out Gridlock's side porject, Dryft..