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Album:
"Axis
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| Reviewed by: Darklight After
three years of silence, Johan Van Roy (aka Suicide Commando)
finally delivers his much anticipated follow-up to Mindstrip. But don't
expect a Minsdstrip 2, because that's not what this is. There are still
trademark Suicide Commando sounds, samples and effects
included on this CD. There are even a couple of songs that sound like
they're from Mindstrip. But for the most part
this overall recording has more of a club flavor to it than any Suicide
Commando release before it. And that's actually a good thing in my opinion.
Because sometimes the music of Suicide Commando is
a little too slow paced for my tastes. I mainly listen to industrial/EBM
for the energy, and without it I get bored. Thankfully, there's a lot
of energy on this CD. Almost each and every track here could be a club
hit. But that's not to say that this is a happy dance album, because
it's not. This is still Suicide Commando with frantic
electronic programming, slamming beats, dark melodies and Johan's angry
distorted vocals. But there's more of an EBM vibe to everything now.
It's not just strictly crunchy noisy electro-industrial like in the
past.
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Album:
"Mindstrip" |
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| Reviewed by: Darklight I liked the previous Suicide Commando CD Construct><Destruct because it was extremely dark, angry and aggressive with an electro-noise element to it, but the songs were a bit too dreary and sparse making me lose interest in it rather quickly. It sounded like something was missing from the songs. Well, Johan Van Roy (aka Suicide Commando) returns with this much better CD. While a lot of darker electro-industrial acts from the past are toning down their sound and going in more of an EBM/synth-pop direction, Suicide Commando keeps it real by dishing out some of the darkest, angriest, most brutal and noisy electro-industrial music to come along in a while. What Johan Van Roy does on this CD is create harsh industrial assaults that are noisy, chaotic and angst riddled, but also have solid energetic rhythms and beats that allow them to be dance floor friendly. This was something that was sorely lacking from his previous work. Just from the song titles alone you know that nothing here is going to be nice or friendly. Each and every song is angry featuring noisy electronics, sampling, driving drum beats and distorted vocals that growl out the dark disturbing lyrics. The songs here, while structured as angry chaos, blend catchy beats along with dramatic synth melodies. There's no instrumentals or experimental filler to get in the way of the action. This CD delivers the same insane madness from beginning to end. As with most CDs, some songs are a little more exciting than others, but there's still nothing bad here. If you're looking for some extremely dark and aggressive electro-industrial music to scare people with, this Suicide Commndo CD is the one.
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Album:
"Construct><Destruct" (1998) |
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| Reviewed by: Darklight This is the solo project of Belgium musician Johan Van Roy. The music that he delivers here for your listening pleasure is extremely dark electro industrial that sounds very similar to Decoded Feedback, Leaether Strip, Velvet Acid Christ and :WUMPSCUT:. However, he does include his own unique elements that does indeed allow his music to have a slightly different edge. His aproach is very dark, cold and dreary with a lot of noisy sounds. You may hear haunting bells in the background and then harsh distorted noises and hard drum beats will come in along with growling vocals. Basically this is slow moving music that is created with a lot of noisy and distorted electronic sounds. The lyrics are quite disturbing and morbid at times and the vocals snarl with anger. There are samples here as well to add a litle more layering to the music. The songs don't sound that much different from each other, but they each do include their own elements that allow them to stick out from one another just enough to prevent the CD from sounding repetitive. The music is a bit too slow moving for the dance floor. The rhythms and beats are very dreary and never quite move quickly enough to make you want to move to them. While there just doesn't seem to be a lot happening in this music and it's not very original, I still do like it. It could be because it's very dark and disturbing with a lot of eerie sounds. It's something that you could especially enjoy listening to in the dark. While this CD isn't for everyone due to its extremely dark nature, fans of bands such as Velvet Acid Christ and :Wumpscut: should enjoy it quite a lot. As an added bonus there are three remixes at the end of the CD done by Dive, :Wumpscut: and Pierrepoint.
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