Industrial music reviews

The first album by the Dallasite Mark Griffin is one that needs to be recognized as a classic. Much as Meat Beat Manifesto has been recognized for making music way ahead of its time back in the late 80's/early 90's--this album came out in 89, and when one listens to it, one can hear the electronica/hiphop of the day, but with a musicianship rooted in the jazz degree Mark Griffin got in North Texas--a stellar program---this ain't no simplistic techno that "sounds the same as everything else"--this is music exploring boundaries and concepts--throw in the insane scratching of DJ Zero, and some of the most clever lyrics ever to grace the face of modern music and you got it--I own 630 cd's, I've made 100's of mix tapes--and this album is one of the ones I listen to the most often--more than ten years after I picked it up--there are very few electronic albums that sound "new" and "fresh" after a few years on the shelf, this album still astounds

this album is more goth dance techno than jesus's other albums, with contributions by scratch genius dj zero. while mark griffin is definitely at home in his usual hip~hop jazz focus, lid off takes his rhyme and reason to new levels. the sinister 'ufos are real' takes a rocket scientest to unravel, 'born with monkey asses' would take a social worker with infinite patience forever to even scratch the surface and 'too bad' would make a serial killer shiver. however the albums highlights would have to be 'real black angel' and 'space man'

The first album that always seems to be overlooked... Anyone who loved Welcome to my Dream should grab this album and see where the brilliant beyond classification storytelling originated. The track "Spaceman" is easily the precursor to "The City Sleeps" and I would say that both songs are equally as good! DJ Zero really shines across the album, and check out the very worthy singles that came before/from this record. A funny yet intimidating finish, "Born With Monkey [butt]" will definitely please any social gathering.

cleopatra just keeps putting out great compliations. very few songs are weak, a great cd for newcomers to the 'goth' scene.the best tracks are switchblade symphony- bad trash, and big electric cat- rebecca.it recognizes both goth rock and dreary and dreamy goth.it all puts you into a daze of brooding thoughts and into a dark morbid fantasy world.just BUY IT NOW and see for yourself

Cleopatra have compiled a good selection of goth music, from veterans like Specimen and Alien Sex Fiend to newcomers like Switchblade Symphony. Very few of the songs are disappointing, which is unusual on a various artists CD. Some of the tracks sound crackly, as if they were taken straight from vinyl, but if anything this makes them even more nostalgic and enjoyable.

If you like your Surf brewed up with a little "Secret Agent" slant (think DEADBOLT...), this is the tune for you! Unfortunately, I can't recommend the rest of the compilation as highly - but this cut wails!

This is one of the best Industrial Underground collections raw and hardcore. If you like Industrial this is a must have.
it is freakin 1337 as hell.
Buy it now now i say or the evil clown will get you

This is one of the best Industrial Underground collections raw and hardcore. If you like Industrial this is a must have.
it is freakin 1337 as hell.
Buy it now now i say or the evil clown will get you

Just because a CD is for sale on amazon, doesn't mean it was mass produced by some faceless corporation. This CD comes to you straight from the underground! There are many incredible tracks on this disc, but among the most intense are Infekktion's "Engel in Schwarz" (Angel in Black), Carbon 12's "Parasite", Auspex's remix of Diverje's "Broken", Pain Machinery's "Everything Will Be Fine", and Xiphoid Process' "Zorn". You gotta hear this.

A great cd. Chainsuck is a talented band and Angelscore was in heavy rotation in my cd player. When I purchased Kindly Stop.... I instantly fell in love. Marydee Reynolds voice is enchanting and with Chris Connelly on the album it only gets better. Too bad more people haven't had the chance to experience Chainsuck

Perhaps the last great WaxTrax record to come out of Chicago now that TVT has taken over the once glorious company. Marydee Reynolds left Boston and the pounding bass and guitars of her first album, Angelscore, to relocate to Chicago and tone down her sound. Working with WaxTrax alums Chris Connolley to William Tucker she created a delicate album perhaps more suited to her delicate voice. TVT released it but odds are unless you were clued into the band before you never even heard a peep about this disc. Shameful.

Chainsuck's second album is even better than their first. Their style is the same but the songs are even better. I highly recommend this CD.

Words are insufficient in describing the immense power of an album which I believe is one of the greatest of our time. "L'Eau Rouge" is simply unlike anything else that's out there. Franz Treichler's mighty voice, the sampled rhythms, noises, classical riffs, the guitar loops...they all combine to form an incredible, indelible listening experience - a fusion of metal, industrial, vaudeville, classical and searing operatics. The result is unforgettable : a highly futuristic and apocalyptic musical nether-world.

This is a crucial album in the development of rock n'roll, a masterpiece that should have spawned a horde of imitators. However, no other band has even come close to taking up the Young Gods' challenge to combine sampling technology and electrifying passion.With a crushing live drummer and a singer who reincarnates all the best aspects of Jim Morrrison and Iggy Pop,the Young Gods reanimate a centuries' worth of dead recorded noise, from Hendrix and Guns n' Roses to French accordion pop and avante-garde classical.Their producer, Roli Mosimann, displays the greatest studio-as -instrument savvy since Brian Wilson and Lee Perry, with radical stereo manipulations that sometimes make you feel as if you've been sealed up inside a hypercube and sent over Niagra Falls.The standout track is Lounge Route, a love song to a comet with what sounds like a hair-raisingly headlong Motorhead riff trapped in a time-space topological manifold,charging ahead with damn-the -torpedos fury and then cycling through some unseen eleventh dimension to end up where it started.This song alone should provide a manifesto to all musicians who want to use samplers to create vital music.GET THIS ALBUM and play it loud as hell. It makes you feel like you are driving down the autobahn through the Swiss Alps,top down at 200 kilometres per hour.In a thunderstorm.With Frederick Nietzsche in the passenger seat.Best ever use of the sampler.

"L'Eau Rouge" is in my view the best release by The Young Gods -- and, in my view, one of the best albums of all time. A true work of art. The styles incorporated are many: metal, classical, Gothic, and punk are a few that come to mind. However you would describe their music, you could say it is very European if nothing else. The drumming by Use stands out as being absolutely phenomenal, both in its originality and technique. While I unfortunately cannot understand much French, the singing nevertheless sounds great with his powerful gravelly baritone (although it may take some getting used to). On the traditional-sounding ballad "Charlotte", his voice (and music) sounds a lot like (a Swiss) Tom Waits. Swans fans will recognize the name of legendary drummer Roli Mosimann as the album's producer and co-writer. For fans of bands like Swans, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, or Laibach, this classic is a definite must-have.

I stumbled onto this band just messin around on Skin Graft records web site since I like other bands like Arab on Radar. LOD is awesome! The guitar is all over the place, sometimes noise sometimes catchy chords. The drums kick pretty nice backing it all up. I'm not very good at descriptions..but this is great stuff. The singer kinda sounds like Lux Interior (Cramps) but without the Elvis influence and more of a Peter Murphy(Bauhaus) influence. I love the hissing!! All in all its kind of noise / punkish with some dark goth overtones.

HAS PASSED-CHICAGO'S BEST DRUMMER DOING THE BEST GUITAR-CHICAGO'S OTHER BEST DRUMMER BEATING THE SKINS AND aNN ARBORS,AND CHICAGO'S BEST FRONT MAN BRING THE ROCK! pLAGUE OF FROGS!

this band is kinda loud, fast noise......like u.s. maple on acid.....it rocks though...one of my favorite bands in fact.....go buy an album! -kyle

This single, together with Tamlin, are some of the most powerful works by Current 93. I wish they had worked more this style and made an album with 9 or 10 songs in this vein, 'cos it would have been prooably the best c93 album ever.

Sadly, they just released 2 singles, but they're very very good and worth the money.

'Lucifer Over London' has 3 songs, and all are fantastic and varied.

The homonym song is one of the strongest c93 songs ever. More rock than usual but still with that folkish touch, it's a 7 minute masterpiece in which electric guitar, acoustic guitar and bells togethe with some atmospheric keyboards make a wonderful song. You won't help repeating the chorus once and again in your head, stuck like glue.

'Sadly go round' is also quite rockish, with some circus-like sounds especially at the end which makes if not a terribly original song, at least very enjoyable.

'The seven seals...etc etc' is a 13 minute song which is mainly narrated, with a wonderfully creepy atmosphere which, unlike other c93 narrated songs, don't tire me at all. It contains some passsages from Lucifer Over London, which makes a sense of unity and circle to the single.

Buy it.

Lucifer Over London actually opens with a Black Sabbath riff! Sad Go Round features a guitar solo! This is one of the strangest, most unexpected directions Current 93 ever took in their long career, and it's absolutely amazing. "Sixsixsix, it makes me sick, i'm sicksicksick of sixsixsix." The "rock" Current 93 didn't last too long, just one more song "How the Great Satanic Glory Faded" on the Tamlin single. It's pretty cool, too.

This is C93's "rock" EP, including the spirited "Lucifer over London," as well as two other tracks, one being a cover and the other being a long talking piece with one of Tibet's wonderful eschatalogical rants.

Mindphaser...... ah what a song. This is the best industrial around. FLA had a really great year when this single came out. Caustic Grip, Intermix's Phase Two, and ofcourse Tactical Neural Implant were released that year (Tactical Neural Implant being the album that Mindphaser came from, and this reviewers favorite FLA release to this day).
If you have not heard the song "Mindphaser" your missing out on one of the best songs ever written by the best industrial group around. Along with two versions of Mindphaser there is also a song called "Toxic" that appears on this single.It has a super hard industrial beat to it and some samples from the movie Brain Dead on it.....very cool!! I'm suprised this song didn't go onto Tactical, but Frontline is known for leaving little extra goodies on there singles. This single is usually somewhat tricky to find in stores so acquire it if you can, its a classic.

What can I say, if you are a Front Line Assembly fan, get hold of this NOW, before its too late. Coming from the superb Tactical Neural Implant album, this is the essence of FLA, the very reason I started listening to them back in 1992. Collectors item, for sure...

I'm no stranger to industrial scene, at least I used to be in early nineties, and this song along with few songs from KMFDM, 242 and ministry is what made that era great!!! Mindphaser was a club anthem back in the day!

If you like Depeche Mode, Industrial Dance, Electro, Red Flag, and Camouflage, this band is for you. It is unfortunate they have not put out anything in the last couple years but their music is great and has potential to go even higher. "What Have I Done to Deserve This" is electro dance pop at its best with clear, crisp vocals. It melts into "Now I've Seen It All" which is a ballad that hooks you permanently into the album. "Make Me Feel" has echoes of DM's "Never Let Me Down" and the extended mix of "I'm Not There" is a head-bobbing industro electro dance track that will get you off your seat and jamming. Not forgetting their industrial influences, Good Courage use plenty of "metal on metal" sounds throughout their songs. "The feeling of pain, the sounds of chains, makes me feel at home again."

BUY THIS PIECE OF ART!Nitzer ebb dm and nin all in on

If you're an avid fan of industrial/electro music you'll LOVE Good Courage. This amazing album sounds like a mix of Leather Strip, Bigod20, and Depeche Mode all in one. Almost all the songs have what can only be described as beautiful instrumentation, while some still contain sounds like banging on metal. 100% electronic. With the added bonus of sharp clear vocals. A must have for every industrial collection!

This is an awesome C/D. Eclectic listening, and excellent performances. Vicki's virtuosity on violin is stunning. Endless Radiance will haunt you with its loveliness, and Logarhythm just plain rocks. The constant change of mood and energy keeps the experience fresh...definite world music. This one stays permanently loaded into the car C/D's.

Mother Compassion - one of the best mucic i've ever heard, indeed.