Posted by Duvy On April - 10 - 2009 Comments Off
What does it mean that one of the early 21st century’s best British bands is actually from Las Vegas? They might not fit into a convenient theory, but the Killers haven’t wasted much time since their formation in 2002: Even before their debut album, Hot Fuss, appeared on Island in mid-2004, they were already selling [...]
Posted by Duvy On April - 7 - 2009 Comments Off
The happily-named Stabbing Westward began as a little known industrial-rock band based in Chicago — the Liverpool of the genre — in 1985. Though it took several years, the Christopher Hall-fronted outfit eventually signed to Columbia, whose roster had recently become more adventurous after a fallow period. The band’s first album, 1993’s Ungod, did little [...]
Posted by Duvy On April - 5 - 2009 Comments Off
Drawing inspiration from Alice Cooper, Ozzy Osbourne, David Bowie, the occult, horror comics, and, by his own admission, the King James Bible, Marilyn Manson established himself in the ’90s as one of the most vilified agents provocateur in rock history. Predictably, the more parental groups, politicians and religious advocates protested his music and stage antics, [...]
Posted by Duvy On April - 3 - 2009 Comments Off
Creating an unyielding audio assault since a multimedia performance in 1984, Kein Mehrheit Fur Die Mitleid (No Pity for the Majority) have taken dance track tactics to their extremes. A crushing synthesis of hip-hop beats and Industrial percussion is used as a concrete foundation for sinister instrumentation. Guitar riffs as dark and violent as Slayer’s [...]
Posted by Duvy On April - 1 - 2009 Comments Off
Despite the fact that they started out as a more pop-oriented goth band, Ministry’s unspeakably abrasive, endlessly negative music remains pretty much definitive industrial metal. On top of that, we have singer Al Jourgensen to thank for the whole post-apocalyptic biker-cowboy look that led to sales of millions upon millions of full length black leather [...]
Posted by Duvy On April - 1 - 2009 Comments Off
The wild stage antics of Mindless Self Indulgence front man “Urine” caught the attention of Insane Clown Posse and earned the band the opening slot on their 1999-2000 tour. In the studio, MSI race through minute-or-so, industrially mutated hip-hop/metal tunes. Their off-center cover of Method Man’s “Bring the Pain” went off like a pipe bomb [...]
Posted by Duvy On April - 1 - 2009 Comments Off
Nine Inch Nails is a one-man industrial-rock band whose symphonic noise and intense lyrics articulate an alienation and rage that have attracted a wide audience. The diviner of this millenarian angst is Trent Reznor, who writes, arranges, performs, and produces all of Nine Inch Nails’ material.
Reznor grew up isolated in small-town Pennsylvania, where he studied [...]
Posted by Duvy On March - 17 - 2009 Comments Off
Slick, club-oriented electronic tracks teeter on the elusive boundary between Euro-Trance and Darkwave. Thin melodies and dreary lyrics slide hopelessly over a sea of dark, shimmering synths like remnants from an oil spill off the coast of Greenland. A festival of gloom for those who find beauty in the dark.
“REFORMATION 01″ LIMITED BOX SET: VNV [...]
Posted by Duvy On March - 17 - 2009 Comments Off
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