Industrial music reviews

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Satan's Little Helpers is a real musickal amalgam of a pleathora of diabolical sounds that works marvellously to manifest this abysmal opus, telling stories of serial killers Jack the Ripper, Son of Sam, & others such as Charles Manson, Sean {sellout} Sellers, Richard "The Night Stalker" Ramirez, & others. Carnal delights are heard also herein, which is always a joy.

Particularly enjoyable was the sytar, which provides for some enjoyable atmospheric conjurations {accented with scented candles &/or incense work nicely}.

This EP provides for over 20 minutes of musical mayhem & madness. Sound bytes are added, of news reports & some quotes from the killers themsleves, plus some improvised words added in here & there makes for a combination unheard of.

Great and Wicked Satanic rock. I love this CD. All Odinists and Satanists should buy this CD.

This disc has my favorite mix of Mr. 44. The nice thing about EHC remixes is that they don't all sound exactly alike. Also, they make some of the best mood music, which is shown with Baptized in Blood. This is a great disc for the price and has some great stuff on it.

What can I say about about Chemlab? A great debut from an *INCREDIBLE* INDUSTRIAL/ELECTRO band that still stayed together! They continue on to make kick ass experimental beats and music that's very pleasing to the ears! It's nothing I've heard before! Love this CD!...

i still remeber buyin this tape as it was back in the day, i have been surching for this cd for way too long. i love the sound of it, i really have nothing to say other then buy it

Everytime I encounter the word "classic," someone is always trying to recount a mountain-moving work that makes the clock stand for them. And I listen to the chatter, the sonatas and the movements and the nasty southern rock, and I smile and nod. But I never can relate to them because they aren't my classics, and I leave that table disappointed. I suppose its the age one is born into and the flame one seeks that determines how one views the word, be it rebellion or the rant of a piano, and I wasn't born into the hippie genre or to some outing by Mozart or Bach. To me, the "classics" are the albums that established a new way of doing things, taking both the "preamble that sound is" and the "sound itself" and resculpting it into something different. Feedback looping, distortion, building an electro-mousetrap; these are the poisons of my youth. KMFDM and Sister Machine Gun, Ministry and a sordid array of Wax Trax artists; those were the banner symbolizing - something. As KMFDM would later state (under the moniker MDFMK): The revolution will be synthesized!"
And, with albums like Burn Out at a Hydrogen Bar, it was.

While Chemlab isn't readily remembered in many an adoring fever-dream of what "the good old days were," Burn Out was actually pretty momentous at the time and turned me on to all kinds of sound. A lot of the work was seamless, the sounds were orchestrated and yet filled with random elements of noise, and it still had this rough edge to it. I've always like Chemlab because they've stayed pretty true to that system, using beats were would later tout as "industrial" to push vocals that were like some kind of punk within its genre.
It was good stuff then and has aged pretty well.

As far as tracks that I'd pick out from the album at a glance, I'd have to go with "Chemical Halo," "Summer of Hate," "Elephant Man," and perhaps a little "Coedine, Glue and You" loving. Chemical Halo was the first Chemlab song I heard and is probably still the best out of the bunch, with the meaning still burning bright: "with the sky pouring down every creature will drown this time there will be no Noah's Arc." O yeah. I also like the "kneel and kiss the hand you can not bite" message in Summer of Hate, and the sexual overture ringing out of Codeine, Glue and You."
All that hate and all those drugs never die.

i have owned this album for about 3 years and it just recently got stolen from me. i was heart broken. never has an album come out and equalled it in dancability. propably tkks 4th best album, but i don't have REINCARNATION OF LUNA. the main stand out on this album is GROOVY'S and the BOMB GANG GIRLZ' flawless vocals. it is not industrial, but hey it is the funnest album i have ever owned ! standout tracks are MYSTERY BABYLON, INTERNATIONAL SIN SET, CONTINENTAL TOUCH,LEATHERSEX,and SEXPLOSION!

On my first listen, this CD made me think of growing a beer belly with a lot of curly black hair growing out of it. I wanted to have several gold chains hung around my neck while doing the nasty to a few 20 year olds who look like 40 year olds. In other words, it made me want to be in a 70's porn.

On the next listen it sounded even better. This is my first MLWTTKK CD, and it was not what I expected.

If you're looking for dark/goth...maybe one of their other CDs is better for that. For what it is...I do like this CD.

Sexplosion. That pretty much says it. This seemed like a turning point for the TKK to me. Not as dark/evil as the previous releases, yet not as techno-glam as the later ones. But its all those things with a bit of kink and sleaze and a cherry on top. In summary, its sex-filled dancetracks even Satan could love.

I'd never heard much of Tea Party in the past other than some (way cooler than me!) friends who've got thier albums. Then 'Heaven Coming Down' was given airplay on Triple J radio (slightly alternative) and I couldn't stop singing it. Months later I bought the CD for $10 at a bulk sale! It's my album of the moment and I think 'The Messenger' is great, as well as H.C.D. and songs 9 & 11. (It's in my car stacker so I don't know the titles sorry! ) It's a mellow album, but that suits me fine - especially for driving. Too much Cult, Faith No More, Offspring = too many speeding fines! I just think that The Messenger is screaming out for a short reprise at the end.... If this CD is different to other Tea Party ones I'll probably have a good listen in the shop before buying another.

What to say, this album is very strong! TRIPTYCH - the fourth Tea Party album is nothing short of a masterpiece. It hits hard with its first song Touch, and then trips out with Underground after that. The fourth song Heaven Coming Down is amazing! It was the #1 played song on Canadian Radio in 1999 with its chyming guitar sound and mesmerizing beat. The band put great effort in this song and in return were rewarded. The Halcyon Days follows and this song represents what The Tea Party are all about - Eastern instrumentation mixed with Western World Rock. The Messenger - taken from Daniel Lanois' version is next with a great accoustic feel from Jeff Martin(lead singer, guitarist). These Living Arms is a love balad based on Jeff Martin's dream of death. It's heavy with an orchastra sounding background. It's a great song. Infact none of the songs on this album are weak. If you don't believe me then get this album yourself and make your own call. This album is a MUST HAVE for Tea Party fans all around the world!!!

I don't like rock music, but I'm a big fan of the Tea Party because of the middle eastern sounds which they mix into their songs. But I mostly like them because of Jeff Martins voice. He has a beautiful voice, very lyrical and masculine. When I listen to him sing his ballads I actually get chills all over because it sounds so sincere and real--so virile. As opposed to the chessy and treacly songs that are put out by certain "boy bands".

The only problem I have with this album is the song "Great Big Lie" which seems to be an attack on The Catholic Church/Christian beliefs. I think the writer has a very poor concept of what Christianity is about. But he is entitled to his opinion.

But this is my only problem,The Tea Party is obviously a very intelligent and talented band. Any rock group who can make ME enjoy them is doing a good job.

Not much to say about this compilation. All goth can be hit and miss, but this compilation is fair in content. Very different spectrums on this album. Most of the tracks are organic, which is whats wrong with all the other Unquiet Grave compilations. The newer the material, the more electronic and dissonant. Volume 1 has a very retro goth feel to it...like some of these songs could be pouring out of a dark, evil goth club in the heart of the city. I'm not going to review the material b/c I believe the style of music speaks for its self. I will say that if you are looking for variety, look no further. Bells, organs, guitars, sitars, harps, violins, synthesizers...all are present. Haunting female vocals, low thundering gothy male vocals...they are present too. Perfect music for a Halloween party being held in a dusty old mausoleum...Enjoy this compilation this coming fall...happy Samhain!

This was the first real goth cd I actually bought. I'd heard of a few of the bands on it from hanging around the Chamber and the Vault in Atlanta, but I'd never actually gone out and bought a CD like this one. I'm very glad I did! Previously, I had been into Type O Negative, KMFDM, Wumpscut, and the like, however this was an excellent choice to showcase more of the "pure" goth sound, instead of the industrial/metal point of view that I had previously enjoyed.
This CD had me at hello, with the poppy intro of "Eccentricity" by Magenta. I was certainly not expecting to hear something that sounded like it had crawled out of the 80's, however after 5 seconds I knew EXACTLY what gothic synthpop was. This song is truly a diamond in the rough. The next song, by "Slave" by Trance To The Sun is kind of whiny and freeform. Think of it as being the musical equivalent of one of those modern paintings...at least it makes sense to someone, right! After that comes "Vision in Black" by Advent Sleep. I like it when goth has organs in it, just because I like the sound of them, and if you're into the "organ" thing then you won't be disappointed here. Great song. Machine In The Garden offer up a great tune to keep the ball a rollin', and some really Ethereal stuff comes next (I'm not a big fan, but I really enjoy the selections here.) The next highlight here is Gossamer's "Run". Dark and dancable all in one. Definitely made for the clubs, and with amazing lyrics to boot. Jennifer Hope checks in somewhere in this part of the first disc too, her song, "The Sky Is Blushing" is amazing. "The Sky Is Blushing" is a must have for long airplane rides, looking out over the clouds and listening to this song is an unreal experience, if you don't believe in God, you probably will after you try this. Moving right along, the next selection worth mention is "My Sweet Nothing" by Second Skin. This song is simply amazing. Move over Andrew Lloyd Webber, because Second Skin just wrote a new ending for Phantom of the Opera! "Do You Believe In Angles" by The Last Dance is the next song. This song has amazing lyrics and a dancy beat. This is probably the closest to happy goth you'll ever get, and the guitars are a nice touch here, too.
The second disc begins with a song by Rhea's Obsession called "When I Was In My Prime". In all honestly, I haven't listened to this song all the way through in the 2 years I've owned the disc, so I can't really say much about it. I've listened to the intro a few times though, and they did a great job with that. "Crucifixion" by Spiritual Bats is an interesting track. It's kind of similar to the Advent Sleep track on disc one, but the singer has some kind of an accent. It could be spanish or european, I'm not sure, but it's a nice touch to a great song. "Restraining Order" by [someone] Williams comes next, it's only a minute or so long, and this is one of the only weak points on the album. This guy sounds like he's begging the gothic crowd to tell him he has a good voice. Anyway, next is Android Lust. She is simply amazing. This is a very very hard dance track with a melody that sounds like the song from "Unsolved Mysteries", only alot more spooky. If you're into cyberpunkish type of stuff this is right up your alley, definitely one of the high points of the record. The next honorable mention is "Il Regno Del Vento" by Burning Gates zips right along, and the next goodie is "Butterfly" by Tapping The Vein. Intersting lyrics and incredibly strong female vox give this dark grunge band a well earned spot on this disc's roster. Diary of Dreams show up with "You -Das You", a dancy track with some good mixing of instruments and great vocals. Bella Morte have an organ laden somber dance romp with "Funeral Night", which is another highlight of the CD. Bella Morte is definetly going places. The only problem with this track is the consistent use of a cowbell, but you only really notice it until you've listened to the song 1000 times like I have. Some instrumental Lycia-ish thing closes out the record, and is, again, a song I haven't listened to all the way through yet.
The bottom line is: Get this CD! I got it at Newbury Comics in Boston for 7 bucks. You can't beat that. It's priced very well, and well worth the price. This is a great who's who (also a great what's what if you're a newbie like I was) of gothic/darkwave/and ethereal music. This opened some new doors for me musically, and I'm definitely glad I took a chance on it!

wanting to listen to something different from my usual extreme metal tastes, i tried this album out of pure curiosity. a double album for 11$ so there's nothing much to lose here. with that in mind, i pushed the play button. a couple of hours later came the verdict (please check the rating). I barely know about no more than 2 bands out of the 32 featured on this compilation but at least 20 of them can make some really awesome music; a quite high "quality material" ratio for a compilation. this is goth, alright, but it might be closer to a blend of dark pop and techno then to the usual "Gothic" flavor of Type o negative and the likes but still this is an essentially dark music playing here and it's sure to satisfy any gloomy-minded sicko like me.

Fabulous CD. I'll let you read the reviews below. I just wonder about the CD title: "Brain Over Muscle"; a "mental" title, but, in reality, the album is highly danceable: it totally delivers the bodily instinctual drives for bouncing and trancing out! :-) Contra: some tracks have a bit too much lyrics (for a techno), and there is a same basic sample sound that runs almost all the tracks, but... who cares?... This CD is damned good! :-)

Neotek has put together some excellent electro on this disc! Unfortunately, many people seem to have missed it completely.

Thats my review. Track (9) the music speaks for itself.

VAC have some truly good music mind you.("Falling Snow" is a great song) However VAC is not consistent and "Church of Acid" seems to flail while falling into the catotonic dribal that makes up to much of what we will call industrial/EBM/and Darkwave. For this matter so have all his other albums. The recording quality is terrible and the ability to procure an oringinal sound by most industrialites have always been a feebling attempt or a gesture that laped up the blood of Skinny Puppy. Now Skinny Puppy were amazing and we all loved them but argue it till you drop dead VAC is just another existential melodrama cartoon that lives in the shadow of a giant no matter what you have cloned them for.(Leatherstrip, Placebo Effect, so on) As good as Front Line assembly and Front 242 have ever been... no one else has been Skinny Puppy.

When Velvet Acid Christ pumps into my bloodstream, I still get a jolt because they were something shocking when they began circulating and I like that. They don't come across as a band that overtly mourns itself without lashing out, and they don't come across with some cuddly little voxed message wrapped in their EBM. They're actually one of the more "in your face" ideologists when it comes to spitting in the eyes of people limping around in this broken playpen we call democracy with their blinders on, and they do it with a "maybe I should kill you" attached to so many of the statements. The works take time to spit in the face of blind youth-culture that flocks to clubs while ignoring the world around them, in the face of governments that bind our hands and lie to us, and it seethes.
And I like seething.

Church of Acid is an album with all the trimming that VAC listeners should enjoy. In fact, I'd say that a few things are different in it than other (later) VAC albums because the vocals aren't always voxed and that lets emotion come out in different fashions, but the formula still stays the same. Humanity, the notion, is a disease and one that could be flushed down its own cosmetically-corrupted toilet, and that the world is diseased and rotting as well. The album starts out with that socially viable message, with the "Hell One" introduction pointing a finger and with "did you ever f---ing care? Liar!" and letting the album drift from there. "Let's kill all these m-therf---ers" is a nice example of political landscaping, touting how we're "killing everything in the name of democracy," and a lovely reaction to governmental exploitation in a nice "get the f--k out of my face, I'll kill you in a second." Mmmm. It also has a catchy beat, and that's delicious. Skippy around, I'm partial to "Hallucinagene" because it is murder personified (graphic rejection of love via a 12 gauge shotgun), "Dead Flesh" because it speaks on the hypocrisy of people and their nearsightedness when it comes to "saving animals" versus "social show-n-tell," and I like the way "fade Away" leaves us with a little "life is no fantasy there, no dream" flavor.

If you aren't familiar with VAC, this isn't "love songs" volume one and it doesn't paint a happy place for your mind to run to. The earlier works are more about pain and lashing out at the world, about falling from the hands of drugs after 14 days and just wanting to kill or sleep, and it's done in rather flavorful fashions. It has an electronic beat that ripples in the mind, sometimes darkwave and sometimes composed to a more melodic hue, but its always stark and cold.
Like an operating table, it rebuilds.

This CD is definitley different then VAC's more recent releases... but i like this CD alot. it's not really a album, but more less the best of 2 older cds that were never officially released. my fav track is Hullucinagene. this cd is more of a industrial work then the newer, more dance driven vac.

VAC have some truly good music mind you.("Falling Snow" is a great song) However VAC is not consistent and "Church of Acid" seems to flail while falling into the catotonic dribal that makes up to much of what we will call industrial/EBM/and Darkwave. For this matter so have all his other albums. The recording quality is terrible and the ability to procure an oringinal sound by most industrialites have always been a feebling attempt or a gesture that laped up the blood of Skinny Puppy. Now Skinny Puppy were amazing and we all loved them but argue it till you drop dead VAC is just another existential melodrama cartoon that lives in the shadow of a giant no matter what you have cloned them for.(Leatherstrip, Placebo Effect, so on) As good as Front Line assembly and Front 242 have ever been... no one else has been Skinny Puppy.

When Velvet Acid Christ pumps into my bloodstream, I still get a jolt because they were something shocking when they began circulating and I like that. They don't come across as a band that overtly mourns itself without lashing out, and they don't come across with some cuddly little voxed message wrapped in their EBM. They're actually one of the more "in your face" ideologists when it comes to spitting in the eyes of people limping around in this broken playpen we call democracy with their blinders on, and they do it with a "maybe I should kill you" attached to so many of the statements. The works take time to spit in the face of blind youth-culture that flocks to clubs while ignoring the world around them, in the face of governments that bind our hands and lie to us, and it seethes.
And I like seething.

Church of Acid is an album with all the trimming that VAC listeners should enjoy. In fact, I'd say that a few things are different in it than other (later) VAC albums because the vocals aren't always voxed and that lets emotion come out in different fashions, but the formula still stays the same. Humanity, the notion, is a disease and one that could be flushed down its own cosmetically-corrupted toilet, and that the world is diseased and rotting as well. The album starts out with that socially viable message, with the "Hell One" introduction pointing a finger and with "did you ever f---ing care? Liar!" and letting the album drift from there. "Let's kill all these m-therf---ers" is a nice example of political landscaping, touting how we're "killing everything in the name of democracy," and a lovely reaction to governmental exploitation in a nice "get the f--k out of my face, I'll kill you in a second." Mmmm. It also has a catchy beat, and that's delicious. Skippy around, I'm partial to "Hallucinagene" because it is murder personified (graphic rejection of love via a 12 gauge shotgun), "Dead Flesh" because it speaks on the hypocrisy of people and their nearsightedness when it comes to "saving animals" versus "social show-n-tell," and I like the way "fade Away" leaves us with a little "life is no fantasy there, no dream" flavor.

If you aren't familiar with VAC, this isn't "love songs" volume one and it doesn't paint a happy place for your mind to run to. The earlier works are more about pain and lashing out at the world, about falling from the hands of drugs after 14 days and just wanting to kill or sleep, and it's done in rather flavorful fashions. It has an electronic beat that ripples in the mind, sometimes darkwave and sometimes composed to a more melodic hue, but its always stark and cold.
Like an operating table, it rebuilds.

This CD is definitley different then VAC's more recent releases... but i like this CD alot. it's not really a album, but more less the best of 2 older cds that were never officially released. my fav track is Hullucinagene. this cd is more of a industrial work then the newer, more dance driven vac.

I'm glad I didn't pay much for the cd. LOVE kidneythieves, LOVE the song "Zerospace" so I figured I'd love this cd because it had a couple remixes of Zerospace.

Must say i was disappointed. The remixes weren't that good,and the remixes have none of the lyrics. For the price I got my single but I wish I would have just bought the original Zerospace album.

This CD is pretty much just a remix album. The remixes are decent, of course, if you are a die hard Kidneythieves fan, which I'm not, simply because I have such a broad taste in music, this is a must buy.

I wasn't too impressed with the Zerospace remixes, but they are good, and the other remixes never really caught my attention at all. So this CD is basically just sitting on the shelf.

Though, funny thing, this was the FIRST Kidneythieves album I did buy, simply because I heard Zerospace and needed to own the song.

It's not a waste of your money, if you love KT.

well, i was pretty surprised to see some of the guest remixers on here, and i wasn't disappointed. though the actual album tracks are the better tracks on here...this is basically just a taste of zerospace, you know, in case you're kind of apprehensive about picking up zerospace, they give you full length album versions of a couple of the songs, which most bands don't seem to do enough of nowadays. if you decide kt is your bag, you should definitely check out "live in chicago" which is only available through the kidneythieves website

One of the things I read about Cubanate was that you can't tell whether you're hearing synth or real guitar, because they use both in a seamless integration of industrial & rock.. which makes this a great example of coldwave industrial.

I agree with another reviewer that there are better albums, such as Antimatter (that's my opinion). However this has some hard driving tracks like Exultation and Vortech I, which is what I love about Cubanate.

Fans of bands like Bile, Chemlab, etc. have to pick up some Cubanate if you haven't already. This is a fine album to start with.

BUY THE CD, DON'T STEAL THEIR MP3s. this music deserves much better than 128kbit/sec compression.

Honestly, this cd spent the least amount of time in my cd player of all their albums. It's not bad, but it doesn't give you enough to want to come back for more. Great if you're a fan though. I wouldn't get this one first, Get either antimatter or cyberia first. Antimatter would be more apt in my opinion to be in the "top 5 industrial albums ever." My second favorite pick is "interference."

Knowing pretty much each little industrial / metal band in the world that has made an album: trust me: it does not get much better then Barbarossa.

Extremely well produced & smart record, yes sir.

No compromises, just blunt industrial music. All songs are excellent. Expect no compromises in the lyrics, words like LETS GO TO WAR (titelsong), give away the caracter of this album.

very very good.