EOL-Audio Review Archive – Z
This is Part ‘Z’ of an archive of CD and digital download reviews from EOL-Audio (1998-2007) and the early versions of Terminates Here (2008-2011).
Please note that this writing is varied in quality and is not intended to be representative of the new content I’m creating for this site. It has simply been uploaded in order to preserve the many hours of work devoted to previous websites.
EOL-Audio Review Archive – T
This is Part ‘T’ of an archive of CD and digital download reviews from EOL-Audio (1998-2007) and the early versions of Terminates Here (2008-2011).
Please note that this writing is varied in quality and is not intended to be representative of the new content I’m creating for this site. It has simply been uploaded in order to preserve the many hours of work devoted to previous websites.
EOL-Audio Review Archive – S
This is Part ‘S’ of an archive of CD and digital download reviews from EOL-Audio (1998-2007) and the early versions of Terminates Here (2008-2011).
Please note that this writing is varied in quality and is not intended to be representative of the new content I’m creating for this site. It has simply been uploaded in order to preserve the many hours of work devoted to previous websites.
EOL-Audio Review Archive – R
This is Part ‘R’ of an archive of CD and digital download reviews from EOL-Audio (1998-2007) and the early versions of Terminates Here (2008-2011).
Please note that this writing is varied in quality and is not intended to be representative of the new content I’m creating for this site. It has simply been uploaded in order to preserve the many hours of work devoted to previous websites.
EOL-Audio Review Archive – N
This is Part ‘N’ of an archive of CD and digital download reviews from EOL-Audio (1998-2007) and the early versions of Terminates Here (2008-2011).
Please note that this writing is varied in quality and is not intended to be representative of the new content I’m creating for this site. It has simply been uploaded in order to preserve the many hours of work devoted to previous websites.
EOL-Audio Review Archive – M
This is Part ‘M’ of an archive of CD and digital download reviews from EOL-Audio (1998-2007) and the early versions of Terminates Here (2008-2011).
Please note that this writing is varied in quality and is not intended to be representative of the new content I’m creating for this site. It has simply been uploaded in order to preserve the many hours of work devoted to previous websites.
EOL-Audio Review Archive – K
This is Part ‘K’ of an archive of CD and digital download reviews from EOL-Audio (1998-2007) and the early versions of Terminates Here (2008-2011).
Please note that this writing is varied in quality and is not intended to be representative of the new content I’m creating for this site. It has simply been uploaded in order to preserve the many hours of work devoted to previous websites.
Panzer AG
Those of you have read my Icon Of Coil section might be wondering what they’ve been doing since 2004, since the original band doesn’t seem to be up to much. As far as singer Andy LaPlegua is concerned, the answer is primarily Combichrist. That section is in the works now, so whilst you’re waiting for that, I’m going to draw your attention to another little project of his, namely Panzer AG. This saw Andy dabble in a rock-styled sound for the first time since his punk rock days, though the influence was mainly a structural and stylistic one – the music is still primarily electronic in origin.
He even took the project to the stage a few times, though the Panzer AG name hasn’t been heard from in a few years, and it now seems that all of Andy’s creative output will now be channelled into Combichrist. For now, take a read of the two reviews below in case you come across these albums and wonder if the LaPlegua connection means they’re worth a listen or not. Read The Rest… »
Rammstein
English may be the language of pop culture, French may be the language of love, but German is most definitely the language of SEX. Especially when you’ve got a sextet of fiery Teutonic manhood on stage delivering their pyrotechnical rock theatre. Rammstein formed in Berlin in the early 1990s, releasing their début album in 1995, but achieving international success with ‘Sehnsucht’ three years later. Once the world had found out about their fiery stage show (breaking the USA on the 1998 Family Values tour), their route to superstardom was secured.
Interestingly, despite their many antic, the six-piece Rammstein line-up that formed the original version of the band is still intact to this day, without a single change, a surprisingly rare occurrence for a six-piece act that have been going for over a decade and a half. Ten years ago I had to buy their CDs at import prices. They are now very much an major-label, arena-scale band, with a number of similar bands following in their wake, but none of them have got close to achieving the international success that Rammstein have. Anyway, let’s take a look at their backcatalogue, as a lot of people miss the first album and their various B-sides. Are they worth checking out? Read The Rest… »
Fear Factory
Some of you are going to be surprised that I’ve featured a metal band on these pages, but Fear Factory play a critical role in my life as an on-line critic. The first metal band I heard live, the band that inspired me (via Rhys Fulbers involvement) to try out Front Line Assembly, and thus open up the whole electronic industrial scene to me. And of course, in ‘Demanufacture’, they’d produce one of the hardest-hitting set of rifftastic metal anthems that I’ve heard to date.
The band themselves were formed in Los Angeles in 1989, trying out several bass players until finally settling on the Bell-Cazares-Herrara-Wolbers line-up that would see the band through their 1990s ‘golden era’, mostly notably recording ‘Demanufacture’ and ‘Obsolete’. The band initially split in 2002, before reforming without Dino Cazares. They recorded two albums before going on hiatus once more, and then reappeared in 2009 with Dino back in the line-up but with a new rhythm section. The result of all this is a backcatalogue of varying line-up and varying quality. Time to give it the once-over. Read The Rest… »
