Monday, October 10 2011
The Survival of the Industrial Sonic in a Deindustrialized West
In the '90s, industrial music crossed over into the mainstream with heavy guitar and massive personalities, but blue collar labor itself was disappearing...
Thursday, October 6 2011
Wayne Static: Pighammer
Wayne Static's solo debut might be a delight for fans of Static-X, but for the rest of you, stand well back.
Wednesday, July 27 2011
Atari Teenage Riot: Is This Hyperreal?
Front man Alec Empire's heavily processed guitar riffs and typical break-beats serve only to make one wonder if he had been frozen in a cryogenic chamber for the past 11 years.
Friday, July 15 2011
Various Artists: Bustin’ Out 1984 - From New Wave to New Beat
1984 was a transitional period for electronic music, as this compilation conveys shrewdly.
Monday, July 11 2011
Techno’s Labor Force, Rock’s Betrayal, and the Birth of the Fascist Groove Thing
Electronic music has always maintained an ambivalent attitude towards labor, at once rejecting the notion of wage internment and creative inhibition while embracing the beauty of the cyborgian mechanics of the factory and the allure of discipline and dominance.
Friday, March 4 2011
Fake Babies: We Started Blues
Fake Babies try to be a sexy keyboard-heavy entity, but more often than not the only stew the band manages to cook up is an industrial mixture of white noise with no shape, no form, and no clear-cut identity.
Monday, November 29 2010
Einstürzende Neubauten: Strategies Against Architecture IV
The tale of an uninitiated music reviewer traveling through a world of foreign sonority and coming out potentially scarred for life, and better for it.
Monday, October 11 2010
Sybreed: The Pulse of Awakening
Swiss industrial metal group offers a middle-of-the-road release that expands their sound and has plenty of upside.
Thursday, March 18 2010
Mnemic: Sons of the System
On their fourth full-length album, Danish industrial metal gurus bring their sound together, combining old and new elements to deliver some of their best material yet.
Friday, December 12 2008
Ohgr: Devils in My Details
Devils in My Details, then, is the complete and utter reversal of the artistic trajectory that Ogre's work with Ohgr and Skinny Puppy Mach II set up.
