The Industrial Twilight: Australia

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Tuesday, April 5, 2016

Maximum Sexy Pigeon - "Unfit For Human Consumption" [2015]

Artist: Maximum Sexy Pigeon

Title: Unfit For Human Consumption

Genre: Industrial Metal/Rock

Country: Australia

Release date: 2015

Track List:

Tunguska!
Dave Unlimited
Army Of Arseholes
Mindless Life Siphon
Headkick

This band name might seem ridiculous at first, but it isn't that far removed from the names of many other industrial rock bands (mostly from the 1990s): Snake River Conspiracy, Think About Mutation, Sister Machine Gun, God Lives Underwater, etc. As for the music, it's actually pretty cool and not ridiculous at all. This EP might be not a masterpiece, but it's still old school industrial rock played the way it should be.

If I'm not mistaken, MSP also have contributed a couple of their songs to the OST of Carmageddon: Reincarnation (I haven't played it, though). You can read a short interview with this Sydney-based duo here in case if you're interested.

Monday, September 30, 2013

Cold Divide - "Weaponized" [2012]

Artist: Cold Divide

Title: Weaponized

Genre: Industrial Rock

Country: Australia
Year: 2012

Track List:

Weaponized
Citizen Replaced
Cold War Skies

From last.fm:

"Cold Divide combine genres to create an uncompromising, original sound. Apocalyptic, menacing and memorable.

From the beginning, Cold Divide have worked hard to ensure that they are a live act to be reckoned with, incorporating live synths, loops and glitched out mayhem from sources both hardware and software alongside heavy rock drums and guitars. This intense and continually evolving process of combining genres and sounds is a vital part of the bands identity, since the production and sound design of their recordings are as equally important as their live performances.

To date the band have supported international acts such as: Combichrist (Norway/USA), Grendel (Netherlands), Nachtmahr (Austria) and Lab4 (UK).

Cold divide have also remixed artists such as Frontline assembly (Canada) and Distaudio (Australia). They have also had the track “Plagueworthy” from their debut ep Grand manipulations used in the in-game soundtrack for the online multiplayer game “APB”, which was developed by the same team as grand theft auto and features other artists such as Pendulum.

Heavy slabs of guitar. Vocals that can soar, snarl and penetrate. Synths and bass that sound like the very fabric of space and time being ripped apart. Drums that make you want to dance but kick you in the chest. Cold Divide aspire to create their own sound. That unique combination that only they can make, so as soon as you hear it, you know. Cold Divide want to make sounds you’ve never heard before, but will want to hear again and again and again"

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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows - "Darkness Calls" [2009]

Artist: Brigitte Handley & The Dark Shadows

Title: Darkness Calls
Genre: Psychobilly/Rockabilly
Country: Australia
Release date: 2009

Track List:

Dave Likes Dolls
Alien Movies
Stand Off
Sleeping with a Vampyre
Time To Fight Back
Identity
Lament Of A Lost Soul
Freedom of Choice
Gonna Getcha
Sour Times
Mad At You
Bitter Taste
Pesticide

Some more female-fronted psychobilly for you! This time the band is from Australia. It's probably the last time I post psychobilly/rockabilly in my blog (at least in the next few months), next time I'll focus on metal and industrial.

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About this blog

I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:

* finno-ugric rarities - various music (including pop) in minor Finno-Ugric languages which I'm interested in because of my heritage. The music from Hungary, Finland and Estonia can be found under the respective categories;

* lo-fi - various poorly recorded demos from before 2000 that are of historical importance. Most of these demos come from the USSR era, so you might want to check out the USSR category as well.

As of now, I try to post only music that has already been made free by the artists themselves, or the rare old releases that are out of print. But if you're an artist and would like me to remove the download links of your work, just contact me using the form below.

Sorry, I don't do reviews by request, I don't have the time. Moreover, I think the bands that feel the need to advertise themselves by sending their demos to as many blogs as possible are usually just plain boring. If you want to contact me for any other reason, use the contact form below.

It should be obvious enough that reviewing anything on here doesn't equals endorsement of artists' personal views. This especially concerns neofolk and martial industrial. It'd be fair enough to say that I have the same approach to the political and religious topics in these genres as Laibach do.

Many of the female musicians featured on my blog are amateur models, and in many cases their modelling work is no less interesting than their music. Right now I'm working on giving it a separate section of the blog (just in case if anyone wants my review to be only about their music and not their looks). The work is in progress, check back later if you're interested.

The title of my blog comes from a song by The Kovenant (album "SETI", 2003).