#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

#013 - Arkaea

When I first heard about this band my expectations went up quite fast. Anyway in this band you have two former Fear Factory men Christian Olde Wolbers and
Raymond Herrera who actually founded the band. And i have to admit that I like Fear Factory quite a lot. I had also heard about band called Threat Signal whose vocalist Jon Howard and bassist Pat Kavanagh are the two other guys in this band.

Overall I was anyway little bit dissapointed their overall performance with their debut album Years in the Darkness which was releases in summer 2009. Surely this has the elements of Fear Factory, no surprise since Wolbers and Herrera have admitted that half of the songs are originally intented to be in the Fear Factory album. But I think since the situation has changed quite dramatically in that band lately they just decided to use those songs with their new band.

All the components are here and nicely positioned also, but "THE THING" is missing. Anyway here's their video track Locust from that so far only album.






Some links:
http://arkaea.ning.com
http://www.myspace.com/arkaea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkaea
http://www.last.fm/music/Arkaea
http://open.spotify.com/artist/2BHzqg2toz6AFz5JWJD6Zr