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December 28, 2010

2010 Album Releases You Want to Listen to

Filed under: Album Reviews — Tags: 2010, 2010 albums, ad inferna, angel theory, angels on acid, chrom, code 64, combichrist, culture kultur, das ich, diary of dreams, faderhead, front line assembly, funker vogt, heimataerde, hocico, how to destroy angels, in strict confidence, iris, killing joke, klangstabil, la femme verte, laurentiu rusen, lost area, massiv in mensch, menschdefekt, Mergel Kratzer, mind.in.a.box, minerve, painbastard, peter murphy, project pitchfork, provision, s-talker, sam, santa hates you, shadow minds, slave republic, solemn novena, solitary experiments, stereomotion, tenek, tense, viva music, wynardtage, zeromancer — admin @ 10:00 am

A rich and provocative year, 2010 meant the release of many new albums from the relevant names from the gothic, industrial and electro scenes, but also the discovery of new artists, that come, layer upon layer of sound, to further enlarge the musical spectrum, reconsider the influences, and at the same time remain under the non-mainstream cone of light.

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December 25, 2010

Shadow Minds ‘The Arc of Truth’ Album Review

Filed under: Album Reviews — Tags: 2010, album, charly barth rickflefs, danse macabre records, michael nielsen, release. new album. album review, review, shadow minds, the arc of truth — admin @ 10:30 am

German duo SHADOW MINDS (Charly Barth-Ricklefs and Michael Nielsen) tell us their truth in their latest album “The Arc of Truth” (September 2010, Danse Macabre Records). After one maxi CD entitled “Nemesis” (2006) and one full album called “Extend the Line” (2008) released with Nordlicht Records, SHADOW MINDS go full-blast with their EBM and synth-pop new album “The Arc of Truth” with Danse Macabre Records – home, among others, of BEATI MORTUI, DAS ICH, OTTO DIX or ROSENCRANZ.

The album comprises 14 original compositions, including one collaboration with ISAAC JUNKIE. Overall, the album charms from the very first beats, and does a great deal of moving around techniques and genres, to the extent that no one song resembles the other, and there is pure quality in the album’s composition and musical layout. “Standing Up”, the album’s first thrust, proposes an emancipated sound, which sounds modern and fresh, with Charly’s vocals unobtrusively fitting into the song. “Standing Up” is about the prominence of one’s own opinions in any life situation.

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