Rob Zombie is back with his new album. You can love or hate his works, since White Zombie days to his solo albums, but the man has imagination and ideas. I love his movie work, I watched all his movies many times and every time I watch them again, I always see something new. Such great atmosphere, gore and poetry. This new album contains 17 songs of carnage in the vein of Rob Zombie. That means industrial metal with touch of psychedelia, horror punk even garage rock and hard rock. Heavy use of electronics and samples is fine by me, I love electronics and samples when they are used cleverly and fit perfectly to the song structure. There are couple of short songs that serve more of intros or instrumental intermezzos between acts of this psychodrama. Listening to this album is like watching Firefly family rampaging, stomping around and loving it. My highlights recommended songs: Shadow of the Cemetery Man, The Eternal Struggles of the Howling Man.
Arcane Objective is an entity hailing from Philadelphia and this opus contains 11 songs. The music of Arcane Objective can be described as industrial full of electronic use, leaning more on electronic side of things than on industrial metal side. In fact, song structures are written as industrial metal, but instead of guitars, Arcane Objective uses electronics and believe me, maybe I will sacrilege now, but I must say it sounds fantastic. Vocals are distorted sounding more like a nightmare from damaged brain than singing and I love it. This apocalyptic soundscape is perfect soundtrack to the ending of humanity taken over by machine perfection and consistency, removing all false humanity and flesh aside. Recommended songs: Panic, Salvation.
Vocalist Patrik Mennander backgrounds the song: “Ruoska’s new single Runno goes deep into Finnish mythology and culture. On it’s twisted lyrics Ruoska interpret the Finnish-like determined mindscape: Sisu!Theme of the song is familiar from band’s early days, bowing to old fans as well as seducing new ones with it’s twisted and gloomy humor. It opens the inevitable return of Ruoska after over decade of waiting and leads the way towards the upcoming new Ruoska album.So turn up the volume!”
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