Some bright spark calls this stuff ,and I quote,"Symphonic Industrial",but,Having never knowingly heard anything by Nine Inch Nails, this cassette ,released on the aforementioned 'Cold Meat Industries' label around the advent of Hard Electronic Industrial Rock,with a Gothic Wagnerian slant, is what I guess it sounded like;but like the argument put forward by many an envious American rock musician that only Americans can understand Rock'n'Roll.....i'm thinking self-important Art slobs like the late David Thomas here....well.....the same can be argued that Americans can't understand dark European evil either. Especially when Wagner and Gothic Marching music is concerned.
Just as Rock'n'Roll is basically modern american Folk Music, equally Dark East European Industrial like this is a form of modern folk music too.Replacing the Appalachians for the Urals. The ugly American could never produce anything like Laibach or even Throbbing Gristle within a million extinction events.
The result is Nine Inch Nails, and The Ministry,which i figure are in fact just Heavy Metal again......purely a British form of modern Industrial urban Folk,that gets constantly fucked up by our American Cousins. I'm talking Hair Metal here.
You just can't make traditional dark Industrial Metal from the urban wastelands of Birmingham,UK, in California,or replicate the claustrophobiz in the wide open spaces of Texas with a Van Halen guitar solo.
Having said that, "In Slaughter Natives" are apparently Swedish ,which is just another word for German,or, Norman,or even Viking for that matter. These Scandinavians can do Metal extremely authentically. Which also includes, Thudding Hard Electronics such as this, which feels like one is receiving a damn good, and well deserved kicking if one turns it up a notch.
Dark Electronic God Gary Numan is back at number one ,so i am informed,by copying Nine Inch Nails apparently?......Please let me never hear this potential atrocity ever!
Anyway, we all know who invented Industrial Rock don't we?...yep....Killing Joke innit!?
Tracklisting:
A1 Death, Just Only Death... 5:24
A2 CHRIST 5:24
A3 Media 4:33
B1 Cryptic Slaughter 1:52
B2 Head 5:16
B3 Structure (See Circule Say Cube) 2:43
B4 Then Gothic 5:24
3 comments:
Thanks for sharing this.
Killing Joke it is ;) Gracias for this, ineed ~
Had to laugh re David Thomas. Love Pere Ubu, but you're spot on. Was at one P.U. gig where the dearly departed began reading aloud from a written screed like the town crier. The rant was about there being too many bands and 99% are shit, and it would be a lot easier for proper talented artists if there were fewer shit bands. Not that he was wrong necessarily, but it was pretty obvious which population he believed P.U. were in.
The screed appeared to be a few pages long. After a page or so, the guy next to me shouted "yeah, yeah, yeah get on with it" or some such. Whereupon the screed was folded and put away, and P.U. did indeed get on with it, if somewhat gumpily.
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