Average Rating: 3.86 Rating Variance: 0.51 Objectivity Score: 63% (Fairly Balanced)
Sort by: Rating | Release Date | Rating Date | Name5.0 classicAnthrax Among The LivingBig Black Songs About FuckingBig Black AtomizerBob Marley and The Wailers LegendCandlemass Epicus Doomicus MetallicusCandlemass NightfallCircle Jerks Group SexD.R.I. Dealing with It!Dark Angel Time Does Not HealDawn Of Ashes The Crypt Injection IIDepeche Mode Black CelebrationDmitri Shostakovich String Quartet No. 5 in B flat major, Op. 92Erasure The InnocentsExodus Bonded by BloodFront 242 Front By FrontFront Line Assembly Tactical Neural ImplantFunker Vogt Maschine ZeitGamma Ray No World OrderGodflesh StreetcleanerGodflesh PureJudas Priest PainkillerKing Diamond The EyeKMFDM NihilLamb of God Ashes Of The WakeLeaether Strip Underneath The LaughterLords of Acid LustMetallica Master Of PuppetsMetallica Ride The LightningMinistry The Mind Is a Terrible Thing to TasteMisfits Earth A.D./Wolf's BloodMy Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Confessions Of A KnifeNine Inch Nails Pretty Hate MachineNitzer Ebb As IsNuclear Assault The PlagueohGr WeltPeter Tosh Legalize ItPink Floyd The Dark Side of the MoonPink Floyd Wish You Were HerePink Floyd AnimalsPink Floyd The WallPrimus Sailing the Seas of CheeseRammstein SehnsuchtSabaton Carolus RexSamhain November-Coming-FireScott Joplin Piano RagsSex Pistols Never Mind the Bollocks, Here's the Sex PistolsSkinny Puppy Too Dark ParkSkinny Puppy VIVIsectVISlayer Reign in BloodSlayer Seasons in the AbyssSuicidal Tendencies Suicidal TendenciesSuicide Commando Implements of HellSuicide Commando Bind, Torture, KillThe Cure Staring at the SeaTurmion Katilot HoitovirheVelvet Acid Christ Fun With KnivesVNV Nation EmpiresWendy Carlos The Well-Tempered SynthesizerWendy Carlos Switched-On BachWendy Carlos Switched-On Bach IIWendy Carlos Switched-On BrandenburgsWumpscut SiameseWumpscut Bone PeelerWumpscut Wreath Of Barbs4.5 superbAcylum Kampf Dem VerderbBauhaus 1979 - 1983Big Black The Rich Man's Eight Track TapeBig Black The Hammer PartyBlack Uhuru NowDeath SymbolicDepeche Mode Some Great RewardDepeche Mode Music for the MassesDepeche Mode ViolatorDestruction Release From AgonyDie Sektor (-)Existence(+)Filled with clicking, whizzing, whirring distorted effects that plunge into steady, throbbing Aggrotech passages of breathtaking power. Many moments match Johan Van Roy's best work, and while the sample effects aren't quite the match of the late great Rudolph Goettel, they compare to it well Front 242 06:21:03:11 Up EvilGhost (SWE) MelioraHammerFall Crimson ThunderHerzschlag Fest Der LiebeHocico Memorias AtrasHocico Tiempos De FuriaJudas Priest Invincible ShieldKing Diamond AbigailKMFDM AngstKreator Gods Of ViolenceKreator Enemy Of GodLeaether Strip Self-InflictedLeaether Strip Solitary ConfinementManimal PurgatorioManimal ArmageddonManimal Trapped in the ShadowsMansion Second DeathMinistry The Land of Rape and HoneyMucky Pup A Boy In A Man's WorldA hybrid of the Dead Kennedy's and Dead Milkmen (but leaning heavily towards the Milkmen on this record). For me, the highlight of this album is the production of the drums; I can't think of a single album with a live drummer -- punk or metal -- that has surpassed the sound quality of the double-bass in these songs (though I can think of a few who've matched it). Some of the lyrics could easily be interpreted as homophobic and racist -- they are definitely WILDLY insensitive -- but they're more a topic of stand-up comedy than hate. Hardcore punk was never a movement of nice people. Being a dick at some level was almost an expectation. I hardly ever listen to lyrics anyway, much less identify with them. My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult 13 Above The NightNitzer Ebb ShowtimeNitzer Ebb BeliefNuclear Assault SurviveNuclear Assault Game OverPrimus Pork SodaPrimus Frizzle FryRammstein MutterRammstein ZeitRevolting Cocks Live! You Goddamned Son of a BitchSamhain InitiumSepultura AriseSkinny Puppy Last RightsSkinny Puppy RemissionSkinny Puppy InquisitionSkinny Puppy SpasmolyticSkrew Burning in Water, Drowning In FlameSlayer Hell AwaitsSolitude Aeturnus AloneSolitude Aeturnus Into The Depths Of SorrowSolitude Aeturnus Beyond The Crimson HorizonTestament Brotherhood of the SnakeThe Electric Hellfire Club Burn, Baby, Burn!The Exploited Beat the BastardsThe Exploited Fuck the SystemTill Lindemann ZungeVelvet Acid Christ MaldireWumpscut EmbryodeadWumpscut Bunkertor 7Youth Code Commitment to Complications4.0 excellent1000 Homo DJs Supernaut3TEETH shutdown.exeAbsurd Minds NoumenonAcid Arab TroisAcylum KarzinomAcylum The EnemyAcylum Filthy MemoriesAesthetic Perfection Into The BlackAesthetic Perfection A Violent EmotionAesthetic Perfection All Beauty DestroyedApoptygma Berzerk Welcome To EarthApoptygma Berzerk 7Attic Return Of The WitchfinderThe vocal style makes it hard to get used to this not being a latter-day Mercyful Fate album with some black metal drumming. Nothing against Meister Cagliostro, who's a first rate musician, but he just doesn't have the depth possessed by the singer he's emulating, and I keep wishing Diamond would sing for the band instead. The other aspects of the vocals are great, though. The guitars and drums are border-line top shelf, and they sort of encouraged me to accept the vocals. Track 3, Hailstorm and Tempest, got me interested Babatunde Olatunji Drums of PassionBlutengel OmenC-Lekktor The Silence ProcessionClan of Xymox CreaturesClan of Xymox FarewellThis would be a Classic, one-of-my-very-favorite-albums-of-all-time if all the songs AFTER track 3 had the same quality as the first three songs. When the guitar comes in for the chorus on track 3 it fills me with fucking ecstasy. Even when I'm not on actual Ecstasy. But I only like an additional two songs on a ten-song album, so even a Superb rating is too high. D.I. Ancient ArtifactsD.I. Horse Bites Dog CriesD.O.A. Hardcore 81Dark Angel Leave ScarsDarkthrone It Beckons Us AllSome of the criticism of this album surprises me a little, but I'm new to the band. They didn't start out Doom and their new material is a slow disappointment? Maybe Fenriz is getting his need for speed by DJ'ing House music these days. Also, a'la Electric Wizard, Doom riffs are probably more fun to play when stoned than thrashier ones. Anyway the riffs on this album sound like they'd be a kick in the ass to play after one or two -- but maybe not nine or ten -- bong hits. Don't know if that's their poison, though. Certainly booze would also fit the billDas Ich Anti'christDas Ich Die ProphetenIndividual songs on Die Propheten probably aren't as good as selections from other albums, but I think it's their best album as a whole. For example, the 1st. and 4th tracks are slow, psychedelic, creepy songs that aren't all that great individually, but they help knit the album into a satisfying whole if you start with track 1 and end with track 8 of the original release (and hence skip the extra live songs). As for whole-album listening, it also helps that there's only eight songs -- my short attention span on a single album is too short for anything longer.rDas Ich StaubDas Ich ReliktDawn Of Ashes The AntinomianDead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting VegetablesDeath The Sound of PerseveranceDeath Angel The Evil DivideDecoded Feedback AftermathDepeche Mode Construction Time AgainDiary of Dreams MelancholinThis music is new to me and took awhile to grow. But the album is solid Electro-Goth in a vein comparable -- to my ears anyway -- the electronic tracks of Clan of Xymox. Another comparison: An electrified version of The Cure mixed with The Sisters of Mercy, with some EBM and Synthpop spices thrown in (guitars are used occassionally, but sparingly and supportive rather than dominant as they are in Sisters). Die Krupps The Machinists Of JoyEisbrecher EisbrecherESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Eight Thousand Square FeetESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) The Encyclopedia Of Black SheepThis sounded Superb at first, but didn't really keep its shine over the last few weeks. Still an excellent album though, not least because it represents a change in style. It's almost like they're starting over.ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) EnhancerESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Breathing SaltFreakangel Let It All EndFront 242 Tyranny (For You)Front Line Assembly MillenniumFront Line Assembly EchogeneticFront Line Assembly Wake Up the ComaFunker Vogt Final ConstructGamma Ray Land of the FreeGamma Ray Somewhere Out in SpaceGBH Leather, Bristles, Studs and AcneGod Module VisceraGrave Digger The Clans Will Rise AgainHammerFall Glory To The BraveHeimataerde GotteskriegerHeimataerde KadavergehorsamHelloween Walls Of JerichoHellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered HagsKing Diamond Give Me Your Soul...PleaseKing Diamond ''Them''Love the music, but I read the lyrics to it, and he belts out this super dramatic line to a lyric that wasn't at all dramatic. There was this weird mismatch, it brought me out of it, and now I'm critical. It's the same kind of thing that happens with movies sometimes. It totally sucks, and I'm kind of pissed now, because the music is killer, and it sounds like it deserves higher than a "4," but I can't, like, UN-HEAR lyrics. I should've listened to it without reading them. Still, the story is dec and I'm in it now, and it extends into the next record, so I'll stick it out and see what happens KMFDM Hell YeahKMFDM WTF?!KMFDM SymbolsKMFDM XTORTKreator Terrible CertaintyNot as good of an album as Coma of Souls, but "Storming with Menace" and "Terrible Certainty" are two of the best thrash tracks ever put to tape, so it had to be at least a 4.0Kreator Violent RevolutionLaibach KapitalLaibach Nova AkropolaLeaether Strip Rebirth of AgonyMadonna EroticaMDC Smoke SignalsMetallica ...And Justice For Allmind.in.a.box Black and WhiteMinistry TwitchMinistry Psalm 69There's really only five tracks I go back to on this one (1,2, 5-7), but they're slapping classics, so a 3.5 doesn't seem high enoughMono Inc. Together Till The EndMorgul Blade Heavy Metal WraithsMucky Pup Can't You Take A Joke?When this album came out I was deep into Hell Awaits and Ride the Lightening, and listening to a lot less punk. But "Nazichizm", "AIDS," and "Innocents" really made me hark back to the good-old-days before metal started creeping into the guitars of punk. On the other hand, the drums on this album (and its successor) were definitely metal-influenced, and integrated well with the punk sound without changing its basic character. True, the lyrics could easily be interpreted as homophobic and racist -- for sure they are WILDLY insensitive -- but they're more as a topic of stand-up comedy than hate. Hardcore punk was never a movement of nice people. I hardly ever listen to lyrics anyway, and pretty much never identify with them Nine Inch Nails The Downward SpiralohGr Devils In My DetailsohGr SunnyPsyOpohGr TrickSA surprisingly dance-able album. I'll have to sit down with it a couple of times to see if it has the same depth of layering and psychedelic qualities that can be found in their previous releases. After a couple of passes while doing housework, the music -- Ogre's vocals sound like no one else's -- struck me as a little closer to EBM/Futurepop (Aesthetic Perfection, say) than a classic electro-industrial sound (Velvet Acid Christ, or Das Ich, say). But really it sounds like neither of these. Rather, it's just another great offering from one of the two most creative bands in the business that happen to have the same vocalist.Onslaught In Search of SanityPailhead TraitPIG Red RoomPossessed Beyond the GatesPossessed Revelations of OblivionPretty much all the tracks on this album are great, but the second half is better constructed -- it mixes "slow" with fast, unlike the first half that's just fucking balls out speed -- and is easier to listen to in one setting. Pride and Fall Red for the Dead - Black for the MourningThe vocalist doesn't do harsh vocals very well on some of the tracks, but instrumentally they were at the top of their game. Pride and Fall Of Lust And DesirePride and Fall In My Time of DyingPrimus Green NaugahydeProject Pitchfork DaimonionPsyclon Nine [Order of the Shadow: Act I]Psyclon Nine Less to HeavenPsyclon Nine INRINot an example of Nero's best work, but is for me his most CONSISTENT work. Rammstein HerzeleidSabaton Primo VictoriaSchwarzer Engel SiebenShellac To All TrainsSkinny Puppy RabiesSkinny Puppy MythmakerSkinny Puppy Ain't It Dead Yet?Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and ManipulateSkinny Puppy WeaponSkinny Puppy The ProcessSkinny Puppy Doomsday: Back and Forth Series 5: Live in DresdenSlayer World Painted BloodSlayer Undisputed AttitudeSlayer Show No MercySolar Fake FrontiersSolar Fake is one of the best practitioners of adapting what I think of as a "Metalcore" vocal style -- The alteration of harsh and clean vocals -- to EBM. Actually, he's the ONLY practitioner I can think of when compared to his EBM/Futurepop peers. Spahn Ranch The Coiled OneSuicidal Tendencies Join the ArmySuicide Commando When Evil SpeaksSuicide Commando Axis of EvilSuicide Commando GoddestruktorTankard Pavlov's DawgsI've never really cared about Tankard one way or the other. But this one is getting a daily listening this last week. Especially Diary of a Nihilist through Momento, and then the last track. Bad ass. Some of the best thrash I've heard in years. Testament Titans of CreationThe Electric Hellfire Club Kiss the GoatThe Exploited The MassacreThe Exploited Death Before DishonourI gave this a 3.5 without having listened to it forever cuz it's not on Spotify. Forgot how good this one is. American punks rarely did it this wellThe Sisters of Mercy FloodlandTurmion Katilot TechnodiktatorVelvet Acid Christ Ora OblivionisVNV Nation JudgementVNV Nation Electric SunWarzone Don't Forget The StruggleWendy Carlos Beauty in the BeastWumpscut FuckitWumpscut Cannibal AnthemWumpscut GiftkeksYouth Code Youth CodeYouth Code A Place To StandYouth Code An Overture3.5 greatAbsurd Minds SaptaThis is probably an excellent to superb album. But I value the first song "Carry the Flag" so highly -- it's one of my favorite Industrial/Electronic songs -- that it clouds my perception of the other tracks; when it comes time to rate it I can feel myself getting sour-grapes about the rest of the album because they're not like that first song, and I can't really judge them fairly. I'll have to give it more time. I like it better than the previous album, though. Absurd Minds Serve or SufferAbsurd Minds The CycleBlack Uhuru Mystical TruthThis album has four superb songs on it (tracks 1, and 9-11. But I don't connect strongly with the restBlind Guardian Battalions Of FearBlutengel MonumentCryptic Slaughter Stream of ConsciousnessCryptic Slaughter Money TalksD.R.I. Thrash ZoneDanzig DanzigDanzig Danzig II: LucifugeDark Angel Darkness DescendsDark Angel We Have ArrivedDead Kennedys FrankenchristDecoded Feedback disKonnektDepeche Mode Speak & SpellDestruction DiabolicalDie Krupps V - Metal Machine MusicDie Krupps Vision 2020 VisionDie Robo Sapiens Robo Sapien RaceDisturbed Ten Thousand FistsDisturbed IndestructibleDisturbed DivisiveEisbrecher SündeElif Endlich Tut Es Wieder WehESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) GoldExodus Fabulous DisasterFear Factory GenexusFront 242 No CommentFront 242 Official VersionFront Line Assembly Artificial SoldierFront Line Assembly Hard WiredFunker Vogt SurvivorFunker Vogt BlutzollFunker Vogt AviatorFunker Vogt NavigatorFunker Vogt Code Of ConductFunker Vogt Death SeedGhost (SWE) PrequelleGod Module SeanceGod Module The UnsoundGreat, but I wish he could get his sister involved in the band again. Godflesh PurgeGrave Digger Symbol Of EternityHammerFall DominionHatebreed HatebreedHeimataerde AerdenbrandHigh on Fire Cometh the StormI:Scintilla OpticsFirst four tracks are classic contributions to the music of the Gotho-Industrial Complex, but the rest of the album is a little uneven Iglooghost Tidal Memory ExoIron Maiden SenjutsuIron Maiden Somewhere In TimeJudas Priest FirepowerKerry King From Hell I RisePossibly Kerry's best writing since Seasons. I like this a lot more than Repentless, anyway. That one felt like he was writing in the shadow of Araya and the ghost of Hanneman, and they were subconsciously getting in the way, whispering "tsk tsk tsk, that's not what Jeff would do!" This one sounds like Slayer and all, but it clearly benefited from the absence of nervous producers breathing down his neck to make it sound like Slayer KMFDM Hau RuckKMFDM MoneyKMFDM Let GoOverall I like this better than their last couple albums. Like Hyena and Paradise it has noticeable non-Industrial influences: "Push!" has a funky bass that sounds like something Flea would play; rap and big-band horns are prominent on "Next Move"; "Turn the Light On" and "Touch Me" contain heavy Bluesy/Rock guitar solos; definitely the lyrics and possibly the music of "Erlkonig" is from Schubert's setting of Goethe's poem of that name. But the tracks on this album sound to me more natural/better integrated throughout the album than on the previous two. Like, The Muse was more involved here, whereas some of the earlier stuff sounds more like experimental exercises in style-imitation. My major regret is that they gave up the Turkish influences from Hyena's "All Wrong - But All Right;" I was hoping they would develop that sound further. But apparently either the audience or The Muse or both prefer American Blues structures better. I doubt I'll ever LOVE the album, but I definitely like it enough to go back for more. Kreator Phantom AntichristKreator Hordes Of ChaosKreator Hate Über AllesKreator Coma Of SoulsI got this album at about the same time as Seasons in the Abyss, and it got overshadowed by Abyss. Then Sepultura's Arise came out later, and I kind of forgot about Coma. It's excellent but, except for the big banger on this album, I don't think it compares as well, overall, to Petrozza's later work Lard The Last Temptation of ReidThe first three tracks are classic; I enjoy them as much as anything the Dead Kennedys or Ministry ever produced. But the others are comparatively just average to good, with a couple greats. The comparison to DK and Ministry skews my perception, and this one's a little hard to rate Leaether Strip Last StationOpening track is awesome if you like the sound of his classic Elektro-Industrial laced with Gregorian chant. A few later tracks are great too. Best album he's produced in decades. Of course, I tend to not process lyrics, so can't say anything about their quality, And the vocal style kind of sucks, but I love the guy, so it's okay Lords of Acid Voodoo-UM.O.D. Gross MisconductMercyful Fate TimeMetallica Kill 'Em AllMetallica 72 SeasonsExcept for a few tracks from Magnetic and Hardwired (and "Fuel" is pretty good too, I guess), I'm not a fan of any whole album beyond Justice. But this one might be Hetfields finest expression of the thrashy-rock style he started developing after Justice, when Whiskey-in-a-Jar and Turn-the-Page influences crept into his music on the black album, and then crashed into it and monopolized it on Load through St. Anger. Magnetic and Hardwired then seemed to tone down the Rock. But it came back stronger again on 72 Seasons and is probably my favorite balance. It's still not the kind of thing Cliff would have approved of though Misfits Walk Among UsMy Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Sexplosion!Nevermore NevermoreNine Inch Nails The FragileNitzer Ebb Big Hitnolongerhuman MarionetteSolid Aggrotech. Nothing innovative here, but the tone-colours on some of the tracks -- especially the first two -- are excellent and unique in the genre. Some of the lyrics are off-the-hook fanatically atheist and come off pretty cheesy if I bother to listen, but I usually don't notice lyrics. Anyway, religious music-lovers probably aren't listening to stuff like this. First track has a superb intro ohGr unDevelopedPIG The Merciless LightPigface FookPink Floyd A Saucerful Of SecretsPrimus Primus and The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi EnsemblePrimus Tales from the PunchbowlPrimus AntipopProject Pitchfork Continuum RidePsyclon Nine Divine InfektRammstein Reise, ReiseRevolting Cocks Beers, Steers + QueersSabaton The Great WarSabaton Coat of ArmsSabaton The Last StandSabaton The War To End All WarsSkinny Puppy BitesSkinny Puppy The Greater Wrong of the RightSkinny Puppy hanDoverSkinny Puppy Mind: The Perpetual IntercourseSkinny Puppy Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent SeasSkrew DustedSlayer Haunting the ChapelSlayer Christ IllusionSlayer South of HeavenA hard one to rate. It has four of the very best metal tracks ever written mixed in with a bunch of songs that I always skip. SNFU If You Swear You'll Catch No FishSpiritus Mortis The Year Is OneExcellent music, excellent singing, occasionally distracting lyrics. Scandinavians are famed for speaking tight English, but the vocalist occasionally sings stuff that a native speaker just wouldn't sing, and it comes off...wrong somehow. Not bad, just awkward. Stabbing Westward Chasing GhostsTestament Dark Roots of EarthTestament The Formation of DamnationThe Electric Hellfire Club Satan's Little HelpersThomas Thorn, aka Thrill Kill Kult's "Buck Ryder", apparently identified as a practicing satanist. I'm not very freaked out by that since I don't believe satan is real, but track 6 on this one, Kali on Acid, is definitely one of the best executed of "spooky" songs in the Gotho-Industrial complex The Exploited Punks Not DeadThe Hu Rumble of ThunderThe Obsessed The Church WithinThe Sisters of Mercy First And Last And AlwaysThe Sisters of Mercy Vision ThingTurmion Katilot Omen XVelvet Acid Christ Subconscious LandscapesVelvet Acid Christ Twisted Thought GeneratorVelvet Acid Christ Hex Angel: Utopia/DystopiaVNV Nation Praise the FallenVNV Nation AutomaticVNV Nation NoireVNV Nation Advance and Follow (v2)Wumpscut Women and Satan FirstWumpscut EvokeWumpscut SchädlingWumpscut Schrekk and GraussWumpscut Boeses Junges FleischWumpscut DJ Dwarf 233.0 goodAbsurd Minds Tempus FugitAbsurd Minds GravitasAcylum PestAgnostic Front Liberty & Justice For...Great title, great cover, great introductory sample, killer fuck'n drumming and music up until about 40 seconds in, when he starts "singing" with what has to be one of the oddest vocal styles in all of Punkdom. Cryptic Slaughter used a somewhat bizarre style too, but I could never get used to Agnostic Front's, no matter how good the music Apoptygma Berzerk HarmonizerCandlemass Sweet Evil SunScandinavian Gods turns out to be my intro to Doom metal. I gave this a Great rating initially, but now that I'm going through the Classic material it doesn't stack up. May even have to bump it down again. Scandinavian Gods is still a killer track, thoughClan of Xymox Hidden FacesDawn Of Ashes Scars of the BrokenDepeche Mode Songs of Faith and DevotionDestruction Born To PerishDie Sektor Death My DarlingFront Line Assembly CivilizationFunker Vogt We Came To KillFunker Vogt Companion In CrimeFunker Vogt WastelandsGhost (SWE) ImperaGod Module ProphecyGod Module False FaceGreen Day DookieHatebreed The Concrete ConfessionalMost tracks are work-a-day, but "Looking Down the Barrel" and "Serve your Masters" are some of my favorite songs from the genreHocico El Ultimo MinutoKMFDM NaïveLamb of God OmensLeaether Strip Legacy of Hate and LustLords of Acid Our Little SecretMetallica MetallicaMetallica Hardwired...To Self-DestructMinistry AmeriKKKantMy Life with the Thrill Kill Kult I See Good Spirits And I See Bad SpiritsNine Inch Nails With TeethNoise Unit Cheeba City BluesI picked up Voyeur when it came out and decided that Noise Unit is an outlet for the band's mellower ideas. But now that I compare this new one to the previous album, Deviator, I find on Deviator some harder, Front Line Assembly-ish stuff, so I guess I'm wrong. Are there any big fans of Noise Unit that can set me straight on this? Sounds like a topic for review, :-), but I don't know their music well enough. Voyeur is the only album I know and I never perused their back- catalogue. This album sounds pretty mellow, more like Voyeur than Deviator? Vocals sound like they're exclusively sung, or at least processed-spoken, rather than harsh. And the synths -- except for the dubstep influences -- have an ambient feel overall. Curiously, I hear more reggae in "Dub it Up" than dubstep, but maybe I don't get the meaning of "dub"? Usually this kind of mellower stuff is my background music, but I'll be giving it a second listen, especially "Alone Again" and "Ether" and "Reality is Less Than TV." That last has a surprising bluesy feel to the synth-violin that is MOST unusual in Leeb and Fulber's work. Pigface Notes From Thee UndergroundPink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of ReasonPink Floyd The Division BellPrimus The Brown AlbumPsychopomps Pro-Death RaversSabaton HeroesSabaton The Art of WarSister Machine Gun The Torture TechniqueSlayer God Hates Us AllSlayer RepentlessSolar Fake Reasons To KillMost of the songs on here are routine: Easy to listen to if your into EBM/Futurepop, but not very inspirared either -- EXCEPT for "Face Me," which is first-rate; it compares easily to anything on Frontiers. This puts the album slightly above average. Static-X Project Regeneration Vol. 2Suicide Commando Forest of the ImpaledSuicide Commando MindstripSystem of a Down ToxicityChop Suey was and still is wildly overplayed on my local metal station. It formed a kind of stew along with Linkin Park and Freak on a Leash. They cooked that stew for hours and hours and served it over and over and over again. Coming back to the rest of this album years later I find that it's a well made dish prepared by musicians with gourmet-level talents. But I know the flavor of the style too well, and I'd just rather order something else. Testament Practice What You PreachThe Offspring Conspiracy of OneVelvet Acid Christ Lust For BloodVNV Nation FutureperfectVNV Nation Matter and FormWendy Carlos Digital MoonscapesProbably wonderful -- maybe even a 5.0 Classic -- if you love Ambient. But it's very slow compared to her other work Wumpscut WüterichWumpscut BlutSpuker TavernWumpscut Body CensusWumpscut Music for a Slaughtering TribeWumpscut Madman SzpitalWumpscut Fledermavs 3032.5 averageDawn Of Ashes Reopening the ScarsKristof Bathory has a range of vocal styles, from whispers and spoken word to death growls and processed hardcore. I'd rate the album a little higher if the tracks with my favorite music weren't accompanied by my least favorite of Bathory's vocals. Track 3 is great, and 2 is excellent, but his death growl is off-the-hook Cannibal Corpse deep and guttural and it just doesn't work for me. There's a couple other good tracks with "lighter" vocals -- track 4 is the standout for me -- but most of the album is horror ambient and pretty much like the previous one, with less actual music Depeche Mode A Broken FrameESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) SandwalkersThe music is as great to excellent as the previous albums, but the vocalist increased the death-metal growl on this one, and I can't get used to it. It either doesn't work for me with electronic music, or it's just the timbre of this particular vocalist. ESC lessened the growl's use on the following album, "Gold," to better affect, and they lost the growl completely on the 2022 album, for which I am personally much gratified.Exodus Pleasures of the FleshFront 242 05:22:09:12 OffKMFDM HyenaI'm mostly with NickLizard49 on this; I don't think I'll be listening to this very often, if ever again. But it's interesting that Konietzko seems to have given up making good industrial music, and has instead been playing around with different musical styles the last couple of years: The second track sounds like a hip-hop/rock hybrid; the third, roadhouse rock; the sixth, early 80's punk; the seventh, rae-gae. The beginning of the ninth reminded me a little of R.E.M., and the eighth track sounds like -- of all things -- industrialized country-western. I gave it a higher rating, though, because the title track is pretty average for KMFDM, and I actually like "All Wrong - But Alright.' That track is heavy with North-African/Middle Eastern drum beats, and also processed Middle-Eastern vocals sort of reminiscent of Ministry's Hezbollah. Since Ministry released that song I've always thought the master drummers from that region held great potential for Industrial-style experimentation. This track isn't very successful, but it could a landmark for the future. Leaether Strip After The DevastationMucky Pup NowI liked their first two albums a lot, but this one was too..."fun" for me. True, Mucky Pup's first album (Can't You Take a Joke) is much lighter than, say, The Exploited, but the guitars and drums had a hard edge. Compare "Hippies Hate Water" and "Three Dead Gophers" on NOW with "Nazichizm" and "Innocents" on JOKE. Their next album, A Boy in a Man's World, continued losing that serious edge and, on the album NOW, the edge is gone completely. (They hit a sweet spot with Man's World, in my opinion). Finally, to add to the levity, the snare drum on NOW is tuned like Primus', who put out "Suck On This" the previous year. Primus is also "fun," but I like Primus' fun better than Mucky Pup's. Nitzer Ebb EbbheadSlayer Diabolus in MusicaTestament Souls of BlackVNV Nation Of Faith, Power and GloryWumpscut Bulwark BazookaYouth Code and King Yosef A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression2.0 poorAesthetic Perfection MMXXII'm done trying to find a single track on this that's worth hearing regularly. For my efforts this album deserves to be eaten after being skewered and roasted over an open fire in the summer, during a heatwave. Daniel Graves needs to quit admiring himself in the mirror and refocus on being a musician again. He simply isn't sexy enough or cool enough to justify dozens of minutes of electrified narcissism. My review for this album is on the SEX EP, as the cover of that record explains the attitude of this album better than words: https://www.sputnikmusic.com/review/88903/Aesthetic-Perfection-SEX/#lastpost Aesthetic Perfection SEXDarren Hayes HomosexualThe Electric Hellfire Club Electronomicon1.0 awfulNine Inch Nails Ghosts VI: LocustsNine Inch Nails Ghosts V: TogetherRoger Waters The Dark Side of the Moon Redux
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