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Artist: ZORGLÜB
Album: From The Dust
Year: 2005
French band Zorglüb is crashing innocent human souls
since 2000, first with some kind of EBM but with the
arrival of their guitarist in 2001 it became industrial
metal very quick. After some live shows with Punish
Yourself, Kill The Thrill and the Belgian EBM Gods of
Implant they managed to become more known in the scene
very quick. They say to be influenced by Ministry,
Oomph! and NIN and according to their biography their
newly hired drummer have given this group an extra and
new dimension.
'Burn' is the first track of this release. The first
seconds sound like a 20 years old modem that fails to
connect to the internet, but when the vocals and the
guitars are added there finally is some order in the
chaos. The weird sampling from the beginning comes back
here and there, and even their EBM roots are clearly
hearable with some intermezzo's. This song has many
other different elements: too many to name them all but
I think it is fair to say that it has been melted into a
powerful package. 'Shoot The Clown' is a re-recorded
version of the title track of their debut demo about
five years ago. Since I am not known with that version,
I just say what I am hearing. Robotic sounding music
(think Rammstein meets T3chn0ph0b1a) with an EBM beat on
the background. Easy listening stuff, although the half
clean half grunt vocals affect a little weird on the
music. 'To Dust' has a nice guitar solo in the
beginning, but it is a pity that the raw sound quality
of the demo kinda raped the sound of it. The rest of the
song can be well described as 'The Frozen Autumn with
guitars': an easy listening beat and synths with
atmospheric vocals and a catchy chorus. Plus the guitar,
of course. The last song of this 4 track release is a
live version of 'Weak Again'. The sound quality is way
better than the raw studio tracks, which illustrates
their talents a little better. This is a less industrial
more atmospheric song, in vein of the melodic black
metal bands we all know but with a slower tempo. Yes
indeed people, weird band, weird package, weird cd. But,
it is good shit for sure! Fans of bands like Golem 101,
Ministry and Rammstein will really appreciate this one!
Vote: 80 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Burn
02. Shoot The Clown
(2005)
03. To Dust
04. Weak Again (live) |
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