| Artist |
| Weena Morloch |
| Title |
| Amok |
| Format/Cat |
| CD TRI 428 CD |
| Label |
| Trisol |
| Style |
| Metal/punk |
| Date of review |
| 20th December 2011 |
| Reviewer |
| Carl Jenkinson |
| Rating |
| 6.5/10 |
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If you only went by the cover of this, the third album from Alexander 'Samsas Traum' Kaschte's other project, you'd probably think that this is going to be some kind of Marilyn Manson-style industrial rock. The back cover, however, suggests something more punky & down to earth while the music gives you all this & much more as, while the opening "Die Nacht Der Stempfen Messer' kicks proceedings off in a manic punky, metal style with some electro colouring, pretty much as you'd expect, really, the album as a whole sees the band widening their compositional pallet to good effect with some mighty axe licks making for a Judas Priest-style fist-clenching rock-out during 'Wenn Ich Einmal Gross Bin' while the guitar noodling that graces the instrumental breaks of 'Einen Lenin Pro Tag' & 'Herz Und Faust' rival Thin Lizzy in their complexity & melodic prowess, perhaps not enough to convince your rock-loving dad to give it a spin (if he saw the cover he'd no doubt run a mile!!) but it's no bad thing to see the album taking some unexpected turns; likewise the Theremin-like synthwork that adds something a little different to 'Alarm'. Indeed, it's when they stick to the more traditional metal styles on 'Kaputt!" that they let themselves down, their strength undeniably being in this incorporation of more varied (albeit traditional) elements & even if the more traditional electro colouring that crops up on the pacey 'Disko-Vampir' was perhaps to be expected, given the title, the closing title track sees Kaschte really showing what he's capable of in the vocal department as his soaring voice compliments the plaintive piano & strings combination extremely well, closing the album on a most pleasing note.
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