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Artist: ZORGLÜB
Album: Schizo Affective Disorder
Year: 2007
People who are reading this review and are familiar with
my review of the demo EP “From The Dust” by French band
Zorglüb know that they already managed to become a
positive surprise back then, and that I was really
looking forward to a full lenght release of this by
Ministry, Oomph!, KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails influenced
band. People who are reading this review and are not
familiar with my review of the demo EP “From The Dust”
by French band Zorglüb know that they already managed to
become a positive surprise back then, and that I was
really looking forward to a full lenght release of this
by Ministry, Oomph!, KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails
influenced band now as well, since they’ve read the
first line of this review. People who think this intro
is useless so far, I agree, so lets mention some real
information now. Zorglüb is already existing since 2000
and released several demos so far. Their new album is
called Schizo Affective Disorder, is released in 2007
and is distributed by Season of Mist.
‘To Dust’ is the first track of the album. It kicks off
with some wicked guitarwork, to be followed by an easy
listening track with a dark atmosphere. It contains cold
synthlines and very wellfitting dark and raw vocalworks.
‘Phantasms Of Perversity’ comes up next. This track is
clearly more industrial influenced, with some wicked
beats here and there and more powerful guitarwork.
‘Great Collector’ is the third song of the album. This
one contains rhytmic beats, surprisingly fresh keylines
and some Samael likely parts. This all combined turns
this song into my favourite one of this record.
‘Everyone’ has a touch of the Reise Reise album of
Rammstein in the beginning, but this song turns out to
be more diverse to be called some kind of copy.
Specially the cleaner vocal parts sound very refreshing.
‘Without Conscience’ is some kind of ambient intermezzo,
and ‘Burn’ follows. This is a very modern industrial
metal track, with more brutal parts and parts that are
more gothic influenced. The synthline on this track is
clearly used as the spine. ‘Inner Fear’ kicks off
slowly, but when it kicks off it’s heavy like Hell. Very
bouncing bassline, cool (lead) guitarwork and excellent
synth parts and industrial samples re featured with
ease. ‘Weak Again’ follows, and features a very dark
intro, diverse vocal lines and maybe the coolest
synthlines of the album. Next up comes ‘Shoot The
Clown’. The first seconds sound extremely weird, but
when the real track kicks off it happens to be an easy
listening though heavy industrial metal track with very
wicked guitarwork and samplings. ‘No God’ is the next
one. It contains little chaotic vocal parts, heavy
guitarwork and a catchy chorus. The cold intermezzo
(with cool synth parts) is very wellfitting. ‘My Own
Spread’ sounds like a mix between bands like Malmonde
and Samael, which definitely is a compliment. ‘Nightmare
Circle’ is already the last track of the album. This is
an instrumental outro, where you mostly need to pay
attention to the synth lines.
When the album was finished, I took a look at the
playing time of the album: fourty-three and a half
minutes. Was I really listening to this album so long?
Did I miss some tracks? Yes it’s hard to believe the
album is finished already, but time really flies when
you’re having this much fun. Fans of bands like Samael,
Rammstein, Malmonde and maybe even Fear Factory should
really check this stuff out, and I think with a better
production, this stuff even sounds three times better!
Vote: 88 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. To Dust
02. Phantasms Or
Perversity
03. Great Colletor
04. Everyone
05. Whithout Conscience
06. Burn
07. Inner Fear
08. Weak Again
09. Shoot the clown
10. No God
11. My Own Spread
12. Nightmare Circle |
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