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Fear Factory-Mechanize(2010)

After a long road from 2005's Transgression, Fear Factory have resurfaced once more to give us a new lethal dose of industrial discipline. This mutated version of FF only had one thing in mind and that was to erase the last 8 years as if they never happened, Burton C. Bell at some point claiming he lost interest in heavy music pretty much signalled what could have been the end for the band but it was thanks to the newly reconciliation between him and long time co-founding guitarist Dino...

Rammstein [Reise, Reise]-2004

Taking three years to release their follow-up to Mutter is a good idea since Reise, Reise is more of the same -- the same grit, the same growl, and the same dramatic, orchestra choruses. There's a bit more ingenuity in the production and a little more focus in the songs but not enough for the nonfaithful to pick up on. Unfortunately the lead single, "Mein Teil," is no "Du Hast," but the damning "Amerika" almost equals their breakthrough track. Whether or not Rammstein's label has the guts to...

Rammstein [Herzeleid]-1996

Rammstein's first album was about what was to be expected from a bunch of Germans who happily grew up on everything from Skinny Puppy to Depec Mode to Laibach and back again, not to mention plenty of skull-crushing metal straight up. Precisely brutal and often brilliantly arranged -- the band aren't per se inventive, but they bring everything together to make something astonishingly radio-friendly out of something that isn't necessarily -- Herzeleid in particular is the logical conclusion of...

Rammstein-Liebe Ist Fur Alle Da(2009.10)

I first started listening to Rammstein quite a while ago. 1999 in fact, ten years which look at it now I can't believe it's been that long. It was Du Hast on , which was one of the first soundtracks I bought, actually. If I might get all nostalgiac for a moment, I also can't believe that's pretty much where it started The Matrix soundtrack. If you could see my iPod now. I wasn't really a music person you see, so I didn't really tend to buy much aside from the odd soundtrack here and there....

Sybreed-the Pulse of Awakening(2009.11)

n September the Austrian Sybreed released the EP ‘Aeon’ to display a glimpse of their new album 'The Pulse Of Awakening’. The tracks which one could find on those albums, ‘AEON’ and ‘Human Black Box’, were not even that far away from their previous releases. But that's not the impression that this new design leaves after I have listened to it in its full length. ‘Sonic aggression and ethereal atmospheres should be brought together into a single entity, resulting in a...