buffyleigh
I never heard of this band before. The album is pretty wild, but reading their Wikipedia page is even wilder.
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I never heard of this band before. The album is pretty wild, but reading their Wikipedia page is even wilder.
All a bit coarse and in parts interpreted listlessly. Like you want to blend Rammstein and Front 242, but order it on Wish … Some songs started promising, e.g. "Jägerspiel", but this one too was very monotone later.
Martial drums, guttural voice, orchestral arrangement, industrial and noisy bits here and there. It is easy to hear how this could have been ground breaking and influencial when it came out. It is also easy to get tired of their commitment to totalitarian imagery that they could have tune down from time to time.
This album has two cover versions of the annoying one hit wonder “Live is Life” by Opus, sung in guttural German accents, which is probably two too many I think. There’s also a cover of One Vision by Queen which ends up sounding like a world war II era propaganda speech. The rest of the album continues the totalitarian theme with pounding drums, grandiose orchestral stings, industrial noise and speech samples. It all makes me feel a bit queasy.
Interesting. Not more, not less.
This kinda grew on me as I listened to it. It's definitely its own thing, so gets points for that. Mostly it felt like a joke that I wasn't in on.