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Artist: THE BOMBS OF
ENDURING FREEDOM
Album: The Bombs Of Enduring Freedom
Year: 2007
The ones among you who keep (or kept) a closer eye on
Ewigkeit didn’t had any boring times lately. First there
was the release of the killer ‘Conspiritus’ album and
the video for ‘It’s Not Reality’, and not long after a
video appeared of Mister Fog burning all his past record
deals (including the one Ewigkeit had at that time with
Earache Records). Not too long after thát, the
announcement came that Ewigkeit has reached its end, but
that already a new project was born: The Bombs Of
Enduring Freedom. October 12, 2007 will bring us the
self titled debut album of this new plague, limited to
665 ‘slightly less evil’ copies. In the press sheet,
we’re welcomed for a journey to the American dream slash
reality of today: from Guantanamo Bay to the television
sets at home and back to the religious suicide and silly
wargames. Unfortunately there were no flight tickets for
this event added to the package, but don’t worry – the
CD will do.
After the ‘Climate of Fear’ intro, the album continues
with ‘Identity Theft’. It’s a catchy and uptempo track,
which contains a strong guitar riff, powerful
programming works and melodic keylines. The vocal lines
have a certain catchy attitude, which is well supported
by the clean and melodic vocal works. ‘Beware The Bombs...’
is an instrumental track (over seven minutes long!)
which contains elements of metal, industrial, (old
school) EBM/electro and even a little ambient. Some
samples of falling bombs are slightly added here and
there to give the track the identity that it deserves
with a name like this. ‘Religious Suicide’ comes up next.
Lyrically it gives you a small look into the brains of a
suicide bomber, but musically there’s some more
complexity hidden in the track. Diverse sampling, wicked
guitarwork (and I’m not only talking about the solo
after the first chorus – keep a closer listen!), bashing
drums and cold keyworks who bring a certain atmosphere
to the chorus. ‘Guantanamo Bay International (Suspect
Package Holiday)’ turns out to be my favourite track of
the record. The track has a little sad atmosphere due to
the vocal parts and the EBM sampling which is hidden
here and there. The chorus is catchy, the guitarwork is
extremely cool and diverse, and the drumparts manage to
mix this all together into one Hell of a classy song
which is a mixture of many alternative styles.
´Television´ is (lyrically) meant as a kick in the ass
of todays society, and more or less a preech to switch
off the television and to wake up in the real world.
Musically it consists of a heavy protounding bassline,
some small ambient samples, midtempo programming and
guitarwork that´s a little less ´present´ than on the
preverious tracks. ‘Wargames’ is again a more uptempo
track. It is built upon crazy programming and a very
strong bassline. Furthermore, it contains wicked
sampling and keyworks, and some little tunes reminding
to a wellknown Nintendo game in the end. It’s the only
track that hasn’t got the lyrics in the booklet, which
is a shame because I think they could be quite
interesting. ‘The Rapture’ has an ominous intro,
followed by atmospheric and preaching parts and a catchy
and powerful chorus. It’s one of the more ‘accessible’
tracks of the record. Next up comes ‘G.I. Jesus’. Its a
track with a sarcastic undertone towards the U.S.A. On a
high exception, I quote some lyrics here: ‘Fighting for
the cause of the U.S.A., G.I. Jesus is on his way!’.
Musically the track sounds like a cartoon theme,
introducing some brand new super hero who will save the
world. It’s probably the weirdest track on this record,
but the sense of humor really applies to me. Ironicly,
the CD ends with the song ‘End Times’. It’s a cool
uptempo industrial metal track, with EBM sampling,
strong guitar- and bassparts and melodic vocal lines.
The vocal lines fit extremely well with the song and the
rest of the album.
It’s not very often that a mixture of industrial, EBM,
metal and ambient sounds this ‘natural’. James Fogarty
already proved with past projects (The Meads of
Asphodel, Ewigkeit) that nobody has to teach him the
meaning of the words ‘songwriting’ and ‘originality’
anymore. This album is strictly limited to 665 copies
and is only available through their official site. Take
some advice for me: (pre-)order this album now before
it’s sold out already. It’s definitely worth the wait
and the money, because unfortunately with all these new
bands showing up these days it’s getting harder and
harder to find this kind of quality waiting to be picked
up. I do wonder how many orders will be from out of
America though...
Vote: 92 / 100
Review by: Gerardo |
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01. Climate of Fear
(intro)
02. Identity Theft
03. Beware the Bombs..
04. Religious Suicide
05. G.B.I (suspect
package holiday)
06. Television
07. Wargames
08. The Rapture
09. G.I. Jesus
10. End Times
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