Chrome Corpse - Pressurizer 4 EP
There is no doubt about it that old-school EBM will never die. The same thing can be said about this 2-piece act hailing from Seattle, formed by Michael F. Ninethousand and Peter Jobson. So far two singles/EPs and one full-length album have been released, only one of the EPs (+the full-length album) is available on their Bandcamp site. I ran into their Pressurizer EP and thought to myself ... ´Heck, this is exactly the kind of old-school EBM I like!´ And as I have pointed out in former reviews, there are lots of EBM-related styles which I don´t like... So, of course, I needed to review it! This EP has been released as a limited cassette (50 copies) with an additional bonus track. About 16 minutes of pure old-school EBM delight.
So what kind of old-school style do they, producer?. We´re back into the more percussion/rhythmic and minimal driven Front-line Assembly (or 2nd Communication) sound, Gashed Senses and Crossfire kind of. Super-tight, compact, cold, harsh, atmospheric with repetitive and calculated cybernetic sounding tank-caterpiller-keyboards and cool movie samples that ticks perfectly into the machine-like mesh. Melody is not the strongest part/element on this release, but hell... Who fxxxxx needs melody when we are dealing with cybernetic brutality?!...
The kind of sweat-driven Tetsuo-the-Iron´ish EBM which fits perfectly (today) on the cassette-tape format. NOT a glossy CD-digipack with 3D printed graphics! I´m already looking forward to hearing the full-length! Need to scare some dancing cyber-goths away from your lawn, this might do the trick!.
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