Chemlab albums12/18/2023 ![]() ![]() This is not that post punk that sits in the back of a room smoking a cigarette trying to look cool. The more I listen the more impressed I was by the blood pumping through every song. ![]() Vocalist Alex Svenson has this deep rich Micheal Hutchence flavor and star appeal. Then Comes Silence – The newest album Machine from the Swedish post punk stars is tight, modern, and crackling with life. Vocals calling like ancestors from beyond the veil. That cutting upstroke guitar is a blistering cadence. It shakes hips, it sizzles, he rides that baseline like a chopper through downtown. The Ghost Of Bela Lugosi – Just when I think Vin can’t surprise me any more with his ability to zig and zag in new directions he does a perfect latin flavor deathrock. This whole album is an emotional powerhouse and a fitting tribute to King/Louche two of the most beloved in this scene. Listen to this all star list: Hepster, Mary Byker, The Joy Thieves, Stoneburner, Bootblacks, Jim Marcus (GoFight), Curse Mackey, Sapphira Vee, Melodywhore. This album really needs it’s own in depth review but I wanted to call out a few tracks. 20 tracks each with a different lens and feel. Here they have brought in an impressive who’s who of Electronic music to re-imagine this breathtaking album. The original album was an exciting homage to totem culture with beautiful high art aspects seldom heard in traditional industrial. This project is an amazing team-up of Martin King ( Test Dept/Pigface) and Jared Louche ( Chemlab). Bellhead have kept it up with a hand full of releases including the 2020 EP “Unicorn Bones” and the Single “ Sanity Assassin” an edgy in you face cover of the Bauhaus song.Keep you eyes on Bellhead, especially if you are a fan of the 90’s industrial rock style of Orgy and Snake River Conspiracy and even later Thrill Kill Kult.ĭogTablet – The first release I want to discuss is the Muscle and Bone Remixes from Dogtablet. 2020 has seen the Release of 2 albums the gritty pulsing Circuit Flare, and the epic droning of The Tarkovsky Suites.learn more īellhead: Chicago, Illinois Also from the land of WAX TRAX, this 2 Bass & a Drum Machine, Male/Female duo gave us their first taste of their mix of industrial sleaze with the thick dirty sound of “ Fire Control“. If you missed out on or just miss the raw paranoid energy of early industrial and noise, but need a taste of something new, look no further. Russia, member of Melter and owner of Lens Records) first came on the scene with the darkly haunting 8 minute “Drawstring” and the pair continue to dish out fresh dark DIY industrial reminiscent of Throbbing Gristle, Brighter Death Now, and the edgier side of COIL. Electronic music pioneers Christopher Turner (of Nookleptia and the mixcloud show The Garbageman Show) & Robert Hyman (Drummer of Mr. TH Inc: Chicago, Illinois Hailing from the beating heart of American Industrial music comes the sonic power house TH Inc. Join in the chant and leave your inhibitions at the door. Bringing gore and empty warehouse space into stark relief that transports you back to a 90’s rave in Detroit. It rolls over you in slow driving sludge and flashing lights. Zwaremachine: Loud and nasty from Minneapolis, this band is a grinding tidal wave of shrapnel and hiss. Having already built a following within the U.S alternative scene playing with acts like Psyclon Nine, Dope, Skold, Combichrist and more this is not one to miss, oh, and they`ve got their keyboards on a chain swingset □ Having recently released the single “ Blithe Din” along with a ton of remixes this Florida based aggrotech band is perfect for those who love catchy synth lines that worms their way into your ear while banshee like vocals speak of biblical themes full of symbolism painstakingly researched for accuracy and adopted to whatever vocalist Richie V. The new album out “The Bunker Tapes volume 1” is a perfect homage to the past with a fresh hypersonic spin. I love the clarity achieved through modern tech that takes the early feel and refines it into the modern expectation of laser focus. It’s catchy and dancy, with steel jaws of metal drive guitars and distorted growl. SpankTheNun: The Texas industrial sensation from Eric Hanes is bringing Industrial back to it’s early core. ![]() Here are some of the echoing booms filling my warehouse. In the past few years I have found myself rediscovering and broader and more intricate hard electronic sound. As time went on my anger and napalm softened and I moved away from this soul. Ministry, NIN, Skinny Puppy, Test Dept, KMFDM, Die Warsaw, Lord of Acid, Neubauten, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, Leatherstrip, Chemlab, were the fiery steam fire oily sounds that spoke to my soul. In my youth I didn’t really have a punk rock phase. ![]()
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