| 4.0 excellent |
| 1000 Homo DJs Supernaut |
| 3TEETH shutdown.exe |
| Absurd Minds Noumenon |
| Acid Arab Trois |
| Acylum The Enemy |
| Acylum Filthy Memories |
| Apoptygma Berzerk Welcome To Earth |
| Apoptygma Berzerk 7 |
| Attic Return Of The Witchfinder |
| The vocal style makes it hard to get used to this not being a latter-day Mercyful Fate album with some updated drumming. Nothing against Yuri, who's a good 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 Passion |
| Blutengel Omen |
| C-Lekktor The Silence Procession |
| Clan of Xymox Creatures |
| Clan of Xymox Farewell |
| This 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 Artifacts |
| D.I. Horse Bites Dog Cries |
| Dark Angel Leave Scars |
| Darkthrone It Beckons Us All |
| Some 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 bill |
| Das Ich Anti'christ |
| Das Ich Die Propheten |
| Individual 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.r |
| Das Ich Staub |
| Dawn Of Ashes The Crypt Injection II |
| Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables |
| Death The Sound of Perseverance |
| Death Angel The Evil Divide |
| Decoded Feedback Aftermath |
| Depeche Mode Construction Time Again |
| Diary of Dreams Melancholin |
| This 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 Joy |
| Die Krupps V - Metal Machine Music |
| Eisbrecher Eisbrecher |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Eight Thousand Square Feet |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) The Encyclopedia Of Black Sheep |
| This 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 their starting over. |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Enhancer |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Breathing Salt |
| Freakangel Let It All End |
| Front 242 Tyranny (For You) |
| Front Line Assembly Millennium |
| Front Line Assembly Echogenetic |
| Front Line Assembly Wake Up the Coma |
| Funker Vogt Final Construct |
| Gamma Ray Land of the Free |
| Gamma Ray Somewhere Out in Space |
| God Module Viscera |
| Grave Digger The Clans Will Rise Again |
| HammerFall Glory To The Brave |
| Heimataerde Gotteskrieger |
| Heimataerde Kadavergehorsam |
| Hellripper Warlocks Grim and Withered Hags |
| KMFDM Hell Yeah |
| KMFDM WTF?! |
| KMFDM Symbols |
| KMFDM XTORT |
| Kreator Enemy of God |
| Laibach Kapital |
| Laibach Nova Akropola |
| Leaether Strip Rebirth of Agony |
| Leaether Strip Last Station |
| Opening track is awesome if you like the sound of his classic Elektro-Industrial laced with Gregorian chant. A few great tracks on here later 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 |
| Madonna Erotica |
| MDC Smoke Signals |
| Metallica ...And Justice for All |
| mind.in.a.box Black and White |
| Ministry Twitch |
| Mono Inc. Together Till The End |
| Mucky 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 are in-your-face homophobic and racist, but 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. |
| Nine Inch Nails The Downward Spiral |
| ohGr Devils In My Details |
| ohGr SunnyPsyOp |
| ohGr TrickS |
| A 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 -- both of whom share the same vocalist. |
| Pride and Fall Red for the Dead - Black for the Mourning |
| The 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 Desire |
| Primus Green Naugahyde |
| Project Pitchfork Daimonion |
| Psyclon Nine [Order of the Shadow: Act I] |
| Psyclon Nine Less to Heaven |
| Rammstein Herzeleid |
| Sabaton The Great War |
| Sabaton Coat of Arms |
| Sabaton Primo Victoria |
| Schwarzer Engel Sieben |
| Skinny Puppy Rabies |
| Skinny Puppy The Greater Wrong of the Right |
| Skinny Puppy Mythmaker |
| Skinny Puppy Ain't It Dead Yet? |
| Skinny Puppy Weapon |
| Skinny Puppy The Process |
| Skinny Puppy Doomsday: Back and Forth Series 5: Live in Dresden |
| Skrew Burning in Water, Drowning In Flame |
| Slayer World Painted Blood |
| Slayer Undisputed Attitude |
| Slayer Show No Mercy |
| Solar Fake Frontiers |
| Solar 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 One |
| Suicidal Tendencies Join the Army |
| Suicide Commando When Evil Speaks |
| Suicide Commando Axis of Evil |
| Suicide Commando Goddestruktor |
| Tankard Pavlov's Dawgs |
| I'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 Creation |
| The Exploited Beat the Bastards |
| The Exploited Fuck the System |
| The Sisters of Mercy Floodland |
| Turmion Katilot Technodiktator |
| Velvet Acid Christ Subconscious Landscapes |
| VNV Nation Judgement |
| VNV Nation Electric Sun |
| Warzone Don't Forget The Struggle |
| Wumpscut Fuckit |
| Wumpscut Cannibal Anthem |
| Wumpscut Giftkeks |
| Youth Code Youth Code |
| Youth Code A Place To Stand |
| 3.5 great |
| Absurd Minds Sapta |
| This 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 Suffer |
| Absurd Minds The Cycle |
| Acylum Karzinom |
| Aesthetic Perfection Into The Black |
| Black Uhuru Mystical Truth |
| This album has four superb songs on it (tracks 1, and 9-11. But I don't connect strongly with the rest |
| Blutengel Monument |
| Cryptic Slaughter Money Talks |
| D.R.I. Thrash Zone |
| Danzig Danzig |
| Danzig Danzig II: Lucifuge |
| Dark Angel Darkness Descends |
| Dark Angel We Have Arrived |
| Dawn Of Ashes The Antinomian |
| Dead Kennedys Frankenchrist |
| Decoded Feedback disKonnekt |
| Depeche Mode Speak & Spell |
| Destruction Diabolical |
| Die Krupps Vision 2020 Vision |
| Die Robo Sapiens Robo Sapien Race |
| Disturbed Ten Thousand Fists |
| Disturbed Indestructible |
| Disturbed Divisive |
| Elif Endlich Tut Es Wieder Weh |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Gold |
| Exodus Fabulous Disaster |
| Front 242 No Comment |
| Front 242 Official Version |
| Front Line Assembly Artificial Soldier |
| Front Line Assembly Hard Wired |
| Funker Vogt Survivor |
| Funker Vogt Blutzoll |
| Funker Vogt Aviator |
| Funker Vogt Navigator |
| Funker Vogt Code Of Conduct |
| Funker Vogt Death Seed |
| Ghost (SWE) Prequelle |
| God Module Seance |
| God Module The Unsound |
| Great, but I wish he could get his sister involved in the band again. |
| Godflesh Purge |
| Grave Digger Symbol of Eternity |
| HammerFall Dominion |
| Hatebreed Hatebreed |
| Heimataerde Aerdenbrand |
| Iron Maiden Senjutsu |
| Iron Maiden Somewhere in Time |
| Judas Priest Firepower |
| King Diamond Give Me Your Soul...Please |
| KMFDM Hau Ruck |
| KMFDM Money |
| KMFDM Let Go |
Overall 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 Terrible Certainty |
| Kreator Phantom Antichrist |
| Kreator Hordes of Chaos |
| Kreator Hate Über Alles |
| Lard The Last Temptation of Reid |
| Lords of Acid Voodoo-U |
| M.O.D. Gross Misconduct |
| Mercyful Fate Time |
| Misfits Walk Among Us |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult Sexplosion! |
| Nine Inch Nails The Fragile |
| Nitzer Ebb Big Hit |
| nolongerhuman Marionette |
| Solid 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 unDeveloped |
| Pailhead Trait |
| PIG The Merciless Light |
| Pigface Fook |
| Pink Floyd A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Primus Primus and The Chocolate Factory With The Fungi Ensemble |
| Primus Tales from the Punchbowl |
| Primus Antipop |
| Project Pitchfork Continuum Ride |
| Psyclon Nine Divine Infekt |
| Rammstein Reise, Reise |
| Revolting Cocks Beers, Steers + Queers |
| Sabaton The Last Stand |
| Skinny Puppy Bites |
| Skinny Puppy Cleanse Fold and Manipulate |
| Skinny Puppy hanDover |
| Skinny Puppy Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse |
| Skinny Puppy Bootlegged, Broke and In Solvent Seas |
| Skrew Dusted |
| Slayer Haunting the Chapel |
| Slayer Christ Illusion |
| SNFU If You Swear You'll Catch No Fish |
| Spiritus Mortis The Year Is One |
| Excellent 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 Ghosts |
| Testament Dark Roots of Earth |
| Testament The Formation of Damnation |
| The Electric Hellfire Club Burn, Baby, Burn! |
| The Electric Hellfire Club Kiss the Goat |
| The Exploited Punks Not Dead |
| The Hu Rumble of Thunder |
| The Obsessed The Church Within |
| The Sisters of Mercy First and Last and Always |
| The Sisters of Mercy Vision Thing |
| Turmion Katilot Omen X |
| Velvet Acid Christ Hex Angel: Utopia/Dystopia |
| Velvet Acid Christ Ora Oblivionis |
| VNV Nation Praise the Fallen |
| VNV Nation Automatic |
| VNV Nation Noire |
| VNV Nation Advance and Follow (v2) |
| Wumpscut Women and Satan First |
| Wumpscut Evoke |
| Wumpscut Schädling |
| Wumpscut Schrekk and Grauss |
| Wumpscut Boeses Junges Fleisch |
| Wumpscut DJ Dwarf 23 |
| 3.0 good |
| Absurd Minds Tempus Fugit |
| Absurd Minds Gravitas |
| Acylum Pest |
| Apoptygma Berzerk Harmonizer |
| Candlemass Sweet Evil Sun |
| Scandinavian 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, though |
| Clan of Xymox Hidden Faces |
| Cryptic Slaughter Stream of Consciousness |
| Dawn Of Ashes Scars of the Broken |
| Depeche Mode Songs of Faith and Devotion |
| Destruction Born to Perish |
| Die Sektor Death My Darling |
| Front Line Assembly Civilization |
| Funker Vogt We Came To Kill |
| Funker Vogt Companion In Crime |
| Funker Vogt Wastelands |
| Ghost (SWE) Impera |
| God Module Prophecy |
| God Module False Face |
| Green Day Dookie |
| Hatebreed The Concrete Confessional |
| Most tracks are work-a-day, but "Looking Down the Barrel" and "Serve your Masters" are some of my favorite songs from the genre |
| Hocico El Ultimo Minuto |
| KMFDM Naïve |
| Lamb of God Omens |
| Leaether Strip Legacy of Hate and Lust |
| Lords of Acid Our Little Secret |
| Metallica Kill 'Em All |
| Metallica Hardwired...To Self-Destruct |
| Ministry AmeriKKKant |
| My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult I See Good Spirits And I See Bad Spirits |
| Nine Inch Nails With Teeth |
| Noise Unit Cheeba City Blues |
I 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.
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| Pigface Notes From Thee Underground |
| Pink Floyd A Momentary Lapse of Reason |
| Pink Floyd The Division Bell |
| Primus The Brown Album |
| Psychopomps Pro-Death Ravers |
| Sabaton The Art of War |
| Sister Machine Gun The Torture Technique |
| Slayer God Hates Us All |
| Slayer South of Heaven |
| Slayer Repentless |
| Solar Fake Reasons To Kill |
| Most 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. 2 |
| Suicide Commando Forest of the Impaled |
| Suicide Commando Mindstrip |
| Testament Practice What You Preach |
| The Offspring Conspiracy of One |
| Velvet Acid Christ Lust For Blood |
| VNV Nation Futureperfect |
| VNV Nation Matter and Form |
| Wumpscut Wüterich |
| Wumpscut BlutSpuker Tavern |
| Wumpscut Body Census |
| Wumpscut Music for a Slaughtering Tribe |
| Wumpscut Madman Szpital |
| Wumpscut Fledermavs 303 |
| 2.5 average |
| Depeche Mode A Broken Frame |
| ESC (Eden Synthetic Corps) Sandwalkers |
| The 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 Flesh |
| Front 242 05:22:09:12 Off |
| KMFDM Hyena |
| I'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 Devastation |
| Metallica Metallica |
| Mucky Pup Now |
| I 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 Ebbhead |
| Sabaton Heroes |
| Slayer Diabolus in Musica |
| Testament Souls of Black |
| VNV Nation Of Faith, Power and Glory |
| Wumpscut Bulwark Bazooka |
| Youth Code and King Yosef A Skeleton Key in the Doors of Depression |
