Tag Metropolis
Blimey, talk about banging them out? Industrialists KMFDM are back with their 23rd studio album snapping at the heels of 2022 release Hyëna and like its predecessor it’s another diverse listening experience with all manner of musical tropes coming at… Continue Reading →
If you used to fraternise all the second-hand CD and Record shops across the land (remember them?) you can’t fail to have noticed all those distinctive sleeves by artist Aiden Hughes for the band KMFDM. I wish I had picked… Continue Reading →
It’s all been a bit confusing about birthdays of late and what you can and cannot do during them. We were told that parties were not allowed and then the person who said this allegedly had one themselves, although it… Continue Reading →
Statiqbloom are about hard beats, haunting, hallucinogenic, post-industrial electronics. With this information I prepared for my trip. The scene is set with the industrial sound of chaos. Dark thumping electro with whispering vocals signal “Alcestis”. This takes me back to… Continue Reading →
It ain’t easy being a KMFDM fan. I looked back and realised I hadn’t bought a new album since 2009 and had missed about three somehow. This is something that has to be rectified as, well if ever there were… Continue Reading →
The 13th Sepultura studio album, 7th with Derrick Green and the studio début of drummer Eloy Casagrande, is inspired by Austrian filmmaker Fritz Lang’s classic 1927 movie ‘Metropolis’ with socio-political lyrics by Andreas Kisser and Derrick Green. Musically it pulls… Continue Reading →
Melencolia Estatica’s album Hel, inspired by Fritz Lang’s classic film Metropolis with its imaginative and talented mix of modern, harsh and complex black metal with a broad use of vocals was one of 2012’s musical highlights for me. Masterminded and… Continue Reading →
Within three minutes of the start of Hel, the third full length release from Italy’s Melencolia Estatica its pretty clear that the multi-instrumentalist behind it, a lady named Climaxia, isn’t going to make things easy on the listener. Obligatory tolling-bell-followed-by-wall-of-riff… Continue Reading →