| Artist |
| Terrolokaust |
| Title |
| God Loves The Violence |
| Format/Cat |
| CD FACT 3168 |
| Label |
| Caustic Records |
| Style |
| electro industrial |
| Date of review |
| 20th December 2011 |
| Reviewer |
| Carl Jenkinson |
| Rating |
| 9.5/10 |
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EBM & industrial electro lovers everywhere, drop what you're doing & check out this album from the Spanish duo of Javi Ssagittar & Indio right now as it's easily one of the finest releases of the year. On the face of it the duo do stick to the established modern EBM template pretty closely but there's a definite freshness here that elevates this head & shoulders above most other such releases. A lot of this is down to Javi's vocals which are infectious & possess a kind of raw melodicism, bringing an extra expressive layer to every song, particularly during 'Your Fucking Drugs' where the duo are joined on vocals by Betty CM who also has a strong voice & who contributes towards making this song among the album's highlights, an accolade for which there is no shortage of contenders, from the excellent title track, which you may have heard on the World Wide Electronics compilation through the swaggering 'Nihilismo Moral' with its Spanish-language vocals, the surging cover of Ministry's 'Just One Fix' & on to the utterly superb 'The Pain Of Knowing', where the slow, resonant rhythms, heartfelt melodics & painfully heartfelt vocals all combine to form a masterpiece of power & emotion that harks back to the days of grunge. It really is little short of a masterpiece & is probably the highlight, making the second half of the album a particular delight as proven by the brilliant 'Evolution Of Tomorrow', the dynamic style of which would have made a good closer to the album (aside from the remixes) were it not for 'Primitive Ways' which does the job in a nicely dramatic, forbidding & epic note, building up steam as it goes until it reaches its climax as an intense melodic industrial workout that is just the icing on this particular cake. Simply put, this is a quite superb release that puts many established EBM/industrial artists to shame & is one you absolutely should not miss.
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