Review Summary: Bold, brutal, and meticulously crafted, Körperzier's Fire for Effect is industrial metal with a sick twist – dare to dive into this EP if you've got the stomach for it.
Körperzier, an ambitious industrial metal outfit from Germany, presents a fresh new work Fire for Effect.
This EP showcases the band’s high recording standards and overall level of performance. While there is little innovation and experiments in this release, it displays meticulous approach towards assembling tracks. And “assembling” is indeed a word that fits most – rooting in newschool german industrial, Körperzier’s songs consist of well-tuned fragments and hefty simplistic riffs.
From the opening track Die Besserung one might recognise the style, both in vocals and music, and it would be fair to bring up Sensucht. And among the stronger sides of the project are explicit audacious lyrics (the band’s press-release boasts impressive lyricists collaboration) – describing surgical experiments worthy of The Human Centipede and Cannibal Corpse.
The self titled number represents the danci-er heavy industrial, emphasizing once again on disfigurement and murderous intents - but with a little clean singing! The song leaves an uncanny feeling of something between a pop hit and a vicious metal bulldozer grinding the dead bodies into dirt.
Körperzier continues with cannibalistic extravaganza, industrial metal waltz with lyrics depicting anatomical obscurities.
It is not an easy listening and not for the faint of heart – but if you have the guts (sic!) to take on Fire for Effect you’d probably be rewarded with an empowering feeling when you are through.
