Finnish industrial flavored metal act Kaos Krew has released their sixth full length album “Blackout” today on December 15th 2023.
Kaos Krew is a musical project from Finland that mixes hard rock and metal with influences from the industrial scene. The band is basically a one-man project by Ulf Skog.
The studio work is mainly done by Ulf Skog who also writes all the songs. A great deal of guest musicians has appeared both live and on the records.
“The album as such is not a concept album but consists of songs written during the period of possible energy crisis, therefor the title ‘Blackout’.” Ulf Skog comments on the album.
2005 founded industrial influenced metal band Kaos Krew from Finland has returned to its roots as a one man band with its upcoming sixth album “Blackout”. The full length will be released in December 15th 2023. All of the songs are made and performed by the bands founder Ulf Skog accompanied with a number of visiting session musicians.
Sweden’s Deathstars are back with new, fifth studio opus. This is the first studio full length since 2014 and their last album ‘The Perfect Cult’. Anyway, this one contains ten songs of industrial cold, almost inhuman robotic metal like we are used to from this band. I was glad when I saw this album was announced because I like this band very much. Although they mix industrial cold metal with gothic, there are couple of really catchy and melancholic melodies in their song structures and their songs always had an appeal to me that was hard to grasp, but it was there. Vocals are gothic-like, sometimes almost spoken not sung but they evolve into great melody in many choruses backed with excellent female backing vocals that are somehow already a trademark for this band. This is not their best work ever, but songs like ‘This Is’, ‘Midnight Party’, the title song or ‘An Atomic Prayer’ are for sure killers and winners for me on this album. Good one indeed and welcome back Deathstars!
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