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Begun in 1996, Christ I fear that words to describe it come to mind Analogue maintain a hold a more true, unique, industrial sound with their second full-length rather slowly. Chemlab stinks of the next gen- release. “In Radiant Decay” is a direction of industrial music evolution that doesn’t compromise in UNIVERSE. IT WAS ORIGINALLY POSTED ON eration of Wax Trax bands, although they’re on sound or soul as so many others have. Electro-angst permeate this all-to-short wonder, revealing Fifth Colvmn, due to the cast involved in the the carefully thought-out, powerful anger that is Christ Analogue. Sweet and short. [miles] THE INTERNET USENET NEWSGROUP RMI– creation and production of their music, resulting visit CLAY PEOPLE If you like metal, Clay People are in quite a few stylistic comparisons. highly recommended for their originality REC.MUSIC.INDUSTRIAL. IT HAS SINCE ▼ stone Typical fuzzy, scratchy guitar-driven industrial and experimentation in this genre. WWW.WORMBURNER.COM/BM (re-constriction/cargo records) with distorted vocals meant to sound just a bit SPARKED A FURY OF POST AND QUITE A ▲ When we were little growing up in the homeland, we used to dress up as Kiss! We’d get out our instru- ominous and creepy. Chemlab’s lyrics put a black monday online ments and have our friend hide in the rafters of the garage with a tape player to play the Kiss music. cheese metal twist on the usual political fod- We’d charge all the neighborhood kids a small fee to come into the garage and see ‘Kiss’. They thought BIT OF SPAMMING. ALONG THE WAY, der often spewed by industrial bands. The it was so cool. Years later, I look back upon all that and think, “Gosh was that stupid!” [morpheus] lyrics to "Jesus Christ Porno Star" are offen- PEOPLE FORGOT THE ORIGINAL MESSAGE, sive not because they mock Christianity COBALT 60 <yawn>, but rather because the song pro- elemental AND FORGOT THAT THIS IS ONE PERSON vides yet another hormonally driven portrayal (edel american records) of women as violent sex objects <yawn Some of you may have heard of the new Front 242 band, Cobalt 60. This is NOT another Front PERCEPTION OF A MUSICAL GENRE THAT again> "I'm everything you think is wrong 242, although Jean-Luc De Meyer, formerly of said band, is featured on vocals. Also featured is with the world, I'm a slutty dirty little Dominique Lallement on machines. There are very few similarities. Cobalt 60 has a unique feel; HE LOVES. girl...beaten and scarred and ripped and man- there’s nothing overwhelming here. This is good electronic music with a very slight attitude, which gled came for love and stayed for strangle." is almost unleashed on the final track. “Elemental” has the feel of EBM, but lacks the computer- Leading me to query, will male 'rock stars' ized regiment of sounds. There’s much more of a melodic sense of motion, without being over- Industrial music, my friends, is in a sad state of fully coming back to us, Sevren Ni-Arb POINT 3 It is not too late to turn things ever move past the era of referring to women bearing. Cobalt 60’s first effort is of passing quality, but it’s not for everyone. [miles] affairs. As usual pop/rock is nipping at our (X-Marks...) seems firmly entrenched in his around. :Wumpscut:, for instance, has met as 'dirty little girls'? heels. It’s purveyors ruin our club experiences “dance-shit” and similarly, most of his co-con- with thunderous applause for Rudy’s contribu- DEATHLINE INT’L and cause us to live in constant fear of mystery spirators show no signs of rehabilitation. tions to harsh EBM. The Zoth Ommog label Many of Chemlab's samples are recognizable wild boys + arashi syndrome buys, deathly afraid that the next offbeat band (c.o.p. international) POINT 2 The most recent generation of has recently awakened from its slumber and from NIN's “Pretty Hate Machine”, the hip- might just take after Steril. But this is nothing Industrial bands are far too diluted to take over managed to sign some very promising acts hop beats are close relatives to those by Deathline International return with their fourth full-length LP, “Arashi Syndrome”. These crazy blokes new to us, and is hardly worth still more of my from their predecessors. Eco, for instance, like Seven Trees and In Strict Confidence. Sister Machine Gun and Die Warzau, and have finally found their own unique voice. Solid, definite and without fear, Deathline have pushed their commentary. No, what I wish to discuss today is reeks of techno influence. Apoptygma Funker Vogt has been over marketed, but to some of the vocals are obvious TKK rip-offs. conglomerated staff of musicians forth with a sound that gets attention. Keyboards explode with urgency far more subtle and infinitely more threatening Bezerk, synth pop. Even the immensely be honest, holds little actual value. Yeah, its Yet, there is some marginally interesting, if whilst guitars form the framework for destiny. Yadda-yadda! The most noticeable improvements over than our age old nemesis. It is my belief, that not proficient, guitar work provided by promising Haujöbb has, like THD, forsaken high energy, but itsalso horribly moronic. To be their past efforts are the vocals, uniquely Deathline’s. While there have been and are many bands which we as a genre are being systematically corrupt- William Tucker of Thanatos. And Jared's music and taken to sucking Uwe Schmidt’s honest, I wouldn’t be surprised if they went consist of musicians from different bands, most of the time it doesn’t work, however, this time it does. ed by the ethics, aesthetics, and roland drum vocals, when they aren't being obviously There’s even a cover of ’s “Wild Boys”, which is also the feature of ’s single, cock for an occupation.