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Artist: POST DEATH SOUNDTRACK
Album: Music As Weaponry
Year: 2008
Post Death Soundtrack is a young and freshly formed collective from Canada. The band was formed in 2005, by Kenneth Buck (as well in Huckster Rayzor and The Black and White Checkered Scarves) and Steve Moore (as well in Inner Surge and The Unravelling). Their live performance includes two extra members. According to the biography, Post Death Soundtrack is "the antithesis of todays mainstream music culture, creating confrontational music by weaving Industrial, Electronic, Trip-Hop and Rock sounds".
The stuff presented on 'Music As Weaponry', this band's debut album, contains many influences from out of the more 'old school' regions. Terms such as post punk, wave, synth pop and even a little ambient came in mind during the first listening. An exceptional thing for this band is the fact that they did manage to add a certain amount of diversity within the borders of this genres. It slides slowly from very wave influenced tracks such as 'War Song', 'Long Cold Night' and 'We're Going Hunting' to old school gothic rock touched tracks like 'The Preemptive Art'. The more experimental tracks turn out to be my favorite ones. 'Decentralize' comes with wicked electronic works, and very dark sampling - to be mixed with outrageous vocal lines. 'Killing Time' has a little theatrical approach to blend perfectly with the electro metal attitude. 'Hegemonic Bastards Network' on the other hand turns out to be a more extreme track, including hardcore vocal lines and very powerful riffing, to blend together with the mostly midtempo programming. It's an old school album with many modern influences, and most of all, a very accessable approach despite the album concept.
Album concept? Yes, 'Music As Weaponry' is a concept album. As well taken from their biography: "Music as Weaponry" focuses on the process of belief, it's role in the development of ideological institutions and their relation to ongoing violence, including the death of modern music. The result is the use of music as something new and powerful, lending a voice in the harmonization of the counterculture". It's always an exceptional thing when bands have something to say with their lyrics, and when it even turns into a concept album it's always an extra highlight for me. No matter if you agree or not on the "the use of music as something new and powerful, lending a voice in the harmonization of the counterculture"-part, you cannot deny the fact that these people know what they're talking about.
Post Death Soundtrack delivers with this debut album an excellent alternative for the 35 year old Sisters of Mercy and Fields of the Nephilm groupies, as well an excellent addiction to the recent developments within the post punk genre (History of Guns, Deathboy, Camp Z, ...). I don't see many people not liking this release in general.
Vote: 80 / 100
Review by: Gerardo
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1. Axe of Fiction
2. Decentralize
3. The Preemptive Art (Striking First & Hardest)
4. Life Gone Solitary
5. Long Cold Night
6. War Song
7. Euchreist
8. We're Going Hunting
9. Simulatuon & Simulacra
10. Killing Time
11. Serenade
12. Fingerprints
13. Hegemonic Bastards Network (Hbn)
14. I'll Meet You At the End
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