Hard-Wired EBM Review
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If uncompromising, unrelenting, hard-hitting EBM is your thing then you'll definately want to check out this album from Florian Jaeger. This is one artist who doesn't take any prisoners with a non-stop sonic blitzkrieg that mix the hardest EBM with an almost repetitive hardfloor style. It would be easy for this to become boring but, thanks to the artist's knack of delivering a whole load of effective hooks onto some pretty epic tracks, it never does, which is testament to his abilities. After the short but abrasive opener that is 'The Beginning Of..." the album is kicked into life by the bombastic 'My Apocalypse' which boasts one of the mightiest bass sequence & rhythm combinations you're ever likely to hear. This sort of music isn't famed for its variety & that proves to be the case here as, once the template is set, the any given track veers from it only occasionally but with such engrossingly powerful numbers as the lyrically-emotive 'Without You', where the engrossing sonic maelstrom resembles Suicide Commando just a tad & the dynamic '10,000 Nails' then you can't complain. In contrast to all this darkness is the instrumental 'Divine: Destruction' which, despite its crash-bag-wallop opening & the typically heavy rhythms, boasts some surprisingly pleasant melodics (especially given the title) while 'Under My Skin' proves to be a similarly decent piece of mood music as the haunting electronic piano & slow, thudding rhythms combine to good effect.
Perhaps more than most of its type, this is an album strictly for the hardest of the hardcore EBM lovers & I'm not even sure that the varied bunch of remixes, which take the music to ever harsher powernoise/industrial realms (courtesy of Xotox) or the more accessable electro style that May-Fly bring to 'Without You' (in a manner not dissimilar to Solitary Experiments) will do anything to change that, although the dancefloor-filling remix of that Gottesfinsternis should gain a few admirers. So EBM lovers, check this out, anyone else might want to approach with caution. |
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