#021 - Bella Morte

From America, more precisely from Charlottesville, Virginia, comes a gothic industrial combo called Bella Morte (I think this translates to Beutiful Death which is actually their latest album also). I've always had little problems with this whole gothic thing. Most of the time these bands just sounds so fake. Everything is so "bloody" dark and gloomy. And at the same time you're so transparently populist.

Founded already 1996 has a lot more industrial elements in their sound on their earlier releases. Latest offerings unfortunately contains much less samplings and they sound more and more just another gothic rock band. And I have to say that I'm not surprised why HIM is so big in America. This is just again just another gothic nail to that coffin that that one day will be buried and maybe then they won't rise anymore.

The earlier records sounds little bit better, but still that gothic twist ruins everything..



Some links:
http://www.bellamorte.com
http://www.myspace.com/bellamorte
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bella_Morte
http://www.last.fm/music/Bella%2520Morte
http://open.spotify.com/artist/2SyimynlSU0Oii7p3NYtSV

#020 - Bahntier

Bahntier is an Italian trio originally founded 1999. The founder of the group is Stefano Rossello, who was the sole member also in the beginning. After a year Filippo Corradin and Justin Bennett (live drummer for Skinny Puppy) joined the group. They are signed to Rustblade which is an Italian independent label run by Stefano Rossello.

I don't quite get what Bahntier tries to achieve. Backgrounds are way too simple to create any real atmosphere, vocals are really bland and arrangements really unsurprising. Maybe they try to catch some noise atmosphere, but I've to say this is quite boring. At least based on 2005 released Revulsive.



Some links:
http://www.bahntier.com
http://www.myspace.com/bahtier
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bahntier
http://www.last.fm/music/Bahntier
http://open.spotify.com/artist/0OMQ0wxQhRGHacUNW7BWz3

#019 - Ayria

Last artist starting with letter A on my list at the moment that can be found from Spotify (doesn't mean that I'm done with these, I just come back to these later).

Again interesting sounds from Canada. This country seem to have some real issues with this kind of music, since so many good artist in industrial scene comes from Canada. Ayria (pronounced area) is a futurepop project formed by it's vocalist Jennifer Parkin.Signed to Belgian label Alfa Matrix they've released three albums and two EPs since formation 2003.

Ayrias sound is quite minimal but i have to say I like the combination of real simple backgrounds and Parkins melodic vocals. I can't say that this is something that would rock my world in any way, but I definately check these later if I somewhere crash to them. Here's a video trackMy Device from their Flicker album released 2005.


Have to mention also that they've made also Deftones cover Change. I've liked Deftones many many year and I have to say that cover version was a total waste of time. No new ideas inserted there and it was just boring interpretation, there was no sound of Ayria in that. Don't do those kind of version anymore.

Some links: 
http://www.ayria.com
http://www.myspace.com/ayria
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ayria
http://www.last.fm/music/Ayria
http://open.spotify.com/artist/4BTJnYa0TMqVLjAJ0yFoOE

#018 - Atrocity

German Atrocity has not that much to do with industrial. Their history is more like travelling from death metal to gothic and power metal kinda world while adding some small industrial elements to this mix. The portion of these elements is anyway quite small. This industrial "sticker" most propably comes from their 1995 released Die Liebe album which they did in collaboration with fellow countrymen Das Ich who are much much more electro oriented.

That album is actually much more interesting also compared to Atrocitys normal sound. Combining the metallic side of Atrocity with dark or even black sound of Das Ich, the combination sounds really haunting at it's best. Check out this title track for example (the sound could be little bit better in that YouTube though, but you get the idea).


One thing have to be mentioned still. Atrocity has done two cover albums also where they give their view on some 80s disco hits like Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood, People are People by Depeche Mode and Don't you Forget About Me by Simple Minds just to mention few from that "second coming" album Werk 80 II.

WARNING! Don't touch those, those are dangerous.

Some links:
http://www.atrocity.de
http://www.myspace.com/atrocitypage
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atrocity_%28band%29
http://www.last.fm/music/Atrocity
http://open.spotify.com/artist/050NpEYZ5xFUS1BOAZjVmX