Industrial music reviews

I love this stuff. 5 stars, these kids are great.

This Ep is great. I loved the song Edge Of No Control from Satyricon. The two Remixes plus the regular version of Edge of No Control are perfect old-school techno songs, The Circular Cosmic Spot is good too, DJ Interruptus is strange but is very cool with all the scratching and Original Control Version 3 is excellent. This EP is worth the money. If you like Old-Skool Meat Beat Manifesto then buy this and Satyricon.

I bought this album just for the Front 242 track, and was really suprised at how much it impressed me the first time I listened to it. This album is probably geared toward newer listeners of industrial, but will really please anyone that loves pulsating techno with a bit of metal. I really recommend this album, and I am searching for the other volumes.

Quite simply, MMTM is awesome. They sound very similar to a blend of KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails(though a bit more KMFDM). Since Amazon doesn't have a track list, I'll provide one here.

1 "Chaos"
2 "Slave"
3 "Touch"
4 "Obsolete"
5 "Self"
6 "Want"
7 "Praise"
8 "Don't Even"
9 "[:fa:]Q2"
10 "Mode 3"
11 "GOD"
12 "Art Is Dead"
13 "E.S.P."
14 "Gomi"
15 "desparate"
16 "I.C.E."

Electrolust starts out with the short song Chaos, which is more of an introduction than anything else. After Chaos, the album really starts going with its best track, Slave. Slave's fast pace, heavy sounds, and flawless vocals combine to create what I believe to be one of the best songs ever written in the genre. The album shows the similarities to Nine Inch Nails in track 4, Obsolete, which is another simply awesome song.

Anyway, I don't intend to dissect the album here, just give a vague idea of what it is like for potential buyers [...]Essentially, if you like KMFDM or anything remotely similar, buy it.

(Also, check out their other album, Robot, for another of the greatest songs ever, Jezebel.)

The first disc of this double "Best of.." compilation is entiteled Great Black Time, and (as title might suggest) is representable of the early, noise/experimetal material. The second CD is called Mighty in Sorrow, and sure enough it's the more recent, apocalyptic folk stuff. This compilation represents the band rather well and makes a great introduction to the world of Current 93 where nothing is what it seems...

This is a great record. This is a BRILLIANT record. This is one of the ten best records of the 90:s...

Why?

It's the mix of the hard industrial beats and basses mixed with strings and atmopsheric synthsounds sets a mood that stays in the whole album. The singing, is not good, but he sings with energy without too much distortion on the vocals. You can actually HEAR what he sings.

But nothing beats the mood... The mood in the songs are brilliant, so dark, so evil and yet warm in a strange way.

The amazing intro of Submission(that was voted the second best song of 97 in a Swedish paper), the lovely dark of "Going Down", the subdued guitars in "Desire Slowly Bursting" everything is at it's best.

If you are a fan of guitarfree industrial, get this album now. You will NEVER regret it.

Now this is one great CD by a great underrated artist. This record when it came out became one of the reords for me of that year. Gary Clail was able to produce very innovative music that still had a danceable beat; not to forget that he was also politically very very astute. Standout track Human Nature is simply fantastic. There are other gems in this collection such as Food Clothes and Shelter etc. since this is a sound-system record the reggae and dub influence is very strongly felt along with the hard post-punk rhetoric.

I agree with Mr Viberg's statement that the 90's had some awesome dance music. Most of it awesomely bad.

To say that "The Emotional Hooligan" is 90's dance music and then to effectively describe it as a collection of fun-tracks...I'm stumped, stymied, utterly confused.

At least try listening to it again. And this time try to visualise a real world around you.

Not being horrible Chris, just a bit staggered.

Richie

B. Viberg

Very unique. The bass and beats are very dub in nature, the out-in-front samples are industrial, while the background guitar and occasional keyboard sound like slow-core indie rock (think Low or stripped-down Slowdive).

It's a shame they only put out two albums.

See also: Namanax, Scorn, Lull.

i love this stuff; anyone who likes to mellow out to good tunes should check this out

It's all maya, of course, but who can resist it? Anyway, try listening to the Ozrics while reading transcendental literatures like Krishna Dharma's Mahabharata or Ramayana. It enhances the experience manyfold. The mind soars off into spiritual regions while the heart becomes wrapped in mellow rasa. Other contemporary aids to meditation, which have mushroomed in popularity of late, are not even needed for this experience. Just let the words and music take you away to worlds you can hardly even imagine. See you there.

I LOVE this album. It rocks hard, yet has this openness to it. Plenty of 3 part harmonies and warm guitars, agreeably heavy beats. There's nothing not to like.

As much as I hate "this meets that" comparisons, imagine Music for the Masses-era Depeche mode meets The Real Thing era Faith No More.

Quite possibly the most underrated album of all times.
Though electronic rock has somewhat died out (Gravity Kills, Stabbing Westward, GLU), this album will always be in heavy rotation in my collection.

This is NOT Industrial, so don't expect it to be. It is pure electronic based rock. The mix is perfect. If you listen you can hear how intricately the electronic music is mixed in with the standard rock guitar music.

I can't say enough good things about this album. I HIGHLY recommend it. I have owned this album since 1995!

RIP David Reilly

i bought this cd way back when i was 15 and now i'm 25 - wow. i just listened to it again the other day for the first time in a while and i still must say, they were true innovators. i always remember thinking that his voice sounded like layne staley at first, but i got used to it and liked it. the sounds that were made on this album via synthesizers and drum machines were unique for its time. and it was one of those i would get trashed and listen to. sounds good with a buzz. good beats w/ crisp & crunchy guitar riffs. the thing about GLU that made them standout from the other techno-metal bands of time was the song-writing. each song feels inspired, has heart and means something. they don't sound like they were just trying to make a party-record or something. they proved their ingenuity with 'life in the so-called space age' and i'm just sad they are no longer around. i hear their solo efforts are decent though and look forward to checking them out. I was fortunate enough to catch their live show a couple times in charlotte, NC which was a cool b/c they played w/ a live drummer along w/the synthesizers and drum machines and of course the guitars were killer - thanks 4 the muzik