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Album: "Wunschkind"
(1996) |
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Reviewed by: Darklight The first song "Born-Praised-Kissed" is a traditional sounding metal song with very slight touches of electronics and keyboards buried behind guitars, drums and raw throated screaming mad vocals. The song is very straight forward and basic. Song two "Wunschkind" begins with thrashy guitars and a frantic piano that is very unique sounding. The song then mellows out with melodic synths and whispered vocals, but the chorus kind of ruins it turning the song into basic loud and extremely noisy standard metal music. There are a few little touches here that make it a lot more interesting than the previous song, but the electronics and synths are still used simply as filler. Song three "You've Got It" begins with strictly electronics, synths and drums with vocals that sing in a slight hip-hop style. Guitars kick in over the electronics without taking over. The chorus of the song is hard and heavy with thrashing guitars and shouting vocals, but synths can still be heard. This song basically works this way during its entire course. It does offer a lot of variety and sounds a lot like a Die Krupps song. Song four "Down In This Hole" begins with synths and guitars working together while singing is layered on top. The chorus mixes frantic paced electronics with thrashy guitars. Song five "Walsungenblut" is a pure electronic/synth driven instrumental that would be right at home on any electro industrial album. It's very dramatic and full of emotion and passion. It makes me kind of wonder why this band doesn't go for more of a pure electronic sound with all of their material. It's obvious that they have the talent to pull it off rather well. Song six "Kruppel" blends fast paced German spoken hip-hop style vocals with pure guitar thrashing and drum slamming. This song does have slight touches of electronics and piano in the mix that do make it a little more interesting, but it's still basically a straight forward hard and heavy metal song. Song seven "My Soubrette" is dark, melodic and gothic. It reminds me a lot of Type O Negative. The music is mainly created with beautiful synth harmonies while the singing is very deep and emotional. Guitars and piano make an appearance in the chorus. This is a very powerful song. Song eight "Mind Over Matter" begins with funky electronics and before long heavy thrashy guitars come in and take over. The singing is pure shouting at first, but gets more creative for the chorus. Electronics do come and go throughout, but this is still a very straight forward metal song for the most part. Song nine "Filthy Playground" is another beautiful instrumental created with strictly electronics and synths. Song ten "I.N.R.I. VS. Jahwe" begins with electronics and synths. Guitars come in with a very orchestrated synth melody and German spoken shouting overlays it all. Electronics are used here a lot, but still kind of get dominated by the guitars. There is a very dramatic and powerful feel delivered here as well. It's emotional with some good variety thrown into the mix to make things much more interesting. Song eleven "Song For Whoever" mixes elements of Pantera, Clawfinger and Faith No More. There are slight touches of electronics thrown in here as well. Song twelve "Der Alptraum Der Kindheit" is basically a closing piece for the album. It's just someone talking in German while ambient music plays in the background. The bottom line is that this is the best Oomph! album to be released so far. It's a lot more creative than most electro metal albums.
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Album: "Defekt"
(1995) |
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Reviewed by: Darklight This album rocks. However, it's not a whole lot different from their previous release "Sperm". It's basically more of the same. But that doesn't make it bad, because "Sperm" is a great album. However, it would have been nice if the band took on an even more cyber sound. They still remain an extremely heavy guitar driven electro metal band with only a slight touch of electronics. The songs found here do seem to be tighter and more polished than any of their previous efforts. Also, some of these songs are very catchy. Oomph! is one of my favorite electro metal bands. They create solid music plain and simple, and this album is definitely not a disappointment. But I would like them to start using electronics, synths, and samples a lot more.
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Album: "Sperm"
(1995) |
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Reviewed by: Darklight I have to admit that I didn't know what to expect from a band called "Oomph!" with an album titled "Sperm". Well, it's hard-core electro metal to the maximum. Extremely hard guitar, drums, and electronics that will blow up your speakers. The singing (screaming?) is deep voiced and aggressive. This is one hard band. Every track on this album is pure electro metal. The electronics are overpowered by the guitars and drum beats for the most part, but they are here. The songs are a bit repetitive and straight forward. It would have been nice if they included more diversity and changing tempos and rhythms. The singing style doesn't change much, either. But the album does rock hard, and is good to pop in your CD player when you are in a really aggro mood.
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