
On this day, 10 years ago, Nitzer Ebb released their sixth studio album Industrial Complex!
Industrial Complex is the sixth and latest up to date studio album from British Industrial-electro-EBM band Nitzer Ebb. It was initially intended and released as a limited tour edition (2009) only but was soon after picked up by the German Major Records who released the album in Europe on 22 January 2010, fifteen years after the band's last studio album Big Hit. This is the band's first release after leaving Mute Records following its 2006 retrospective, Body of Work. The Major Records version also came with a bonus CD containing remixes by Terence Fixmer and Depeche Mode's Alan Wilder amongst others.
Martin Gore of Depeche Mode—himself a fellow Essex boy—has contributed backing vocals on both 'Once You Say' and 'Payroll'. While the track 'Never Known' was featured on the soundtrack of Saw IV. The album was produced by the renown English producer Flood.
Although this comeback album could not please all their old school fans it generally received positive critics by the music press. NME gave the album a 4/5 star rating stating Nitzer Ebb "proves to be far from obsolete". Other magazines wrote critics like "Industrial Complex is a real stormer" or "Industrial Complex sounded like nothing I've ever expected, it's sure one great album."
Industrial Complex
Basic/tour edition (Red background cover, single disc, Artists' Addiction Records)
1 "Promises" 3:48
2 "Once You Say" 3:41
3 "Never Known" 3:58
4 "Going Away" 4:10
5 "Hit You Back" 4:19
6 "Payroll" 2:57
7 "Down On Your Knees" 3:52
8 "I Don´t Know You" 3:12
9 "My Door Is Open" 3:15
10 "I Am Undone" 3:51
11 "Kiss Kiss Bang Bang" 2:57
12 "Traveling" 3:13 (bonus track)
Belgian edition bonus tracks (White cover background with $ sign, Alfa Matrix)
13. "Once You Say" (Komor Kommando Mix)
14. "Once You Say" (Leæther Strip Mix)
15. "Once You Say" (Essence Of Mind Mix)
16. "Once You Say" (Implant Mix)
17. "Once You Say" (Pouppée Fabrikk Mix)
Limited edition (Double CD - Tracks CD2, Major Records)
1 "I Am Undone" (Alan Wilder Remix) 5:29
2 "I Am Undone" (Christopher Kah Remix) 5:17
3 "My Door Is Open" (Terence Fixmer Remix) 5:48
4 "Once You Say" (Tom Furse Remix) 6:07
5 "Once You Say" (Celluloide Mix) 4:46
6 "Once You Say" (Orphee-Eeproh Remix) 4:29
7 "Once You Say" (People Theatre Remix) 4:24
8 "Once You Say" (Collapsed System Mix) 4:44
9 "Once You Say" (Suessenborn Sinessence Remix) 4:10
USA edition tracks (White cover background with $ sign, single disc, Artists' Addiction Records, AAR 001)
Same as Basic/tour edition, then additional tracks:
13 "On The Road"
14 "I Am Undone" (Alan Wilder Remix) 5:29
15 "I Am Undone" (Christopher Kah Remix) 5:17
16 "My Door Is Open" (Terence Fixmer Remix) 5:48
17 "Once You Say" (Tom Furse Remix) 6:07
DISCOGS
“A Rose Shattered”, the debut EP by Brussels-based Syrenomelia, offers two dark songs with candid lyrics, seamlessly merging indie, goth and metal aesthetics.
“Two excellent songs which bathe in melancholic atmospheres, and will appeal to a wide range of music fans because of the combination of styles. If it depends on us, you will often hear this name in the future.” - Dark Entries magazine
"A Rose Shattered", de debuut-EP van het Brusselse Syrenomelia, biedt twee donkere nummers met openhartige teksten, die moeiteloos indie, goth en metal elementen samenvoegen.
“Twee sterke nummers die baden in een melancholische sfeer en door het samengaan der stijlen een brede waaier aan muziekliefhebbers zal kunnen bekoren. Als het van ons afhangt zult u deze naam in de toekomst nog vaak te horen krijgen.” - Dark Entries (link review NL)
On January 21st, 1993 American Industrial/Metal band Ministry released its third single Just One Fix, taken from the album Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs (1992)
The song features samples from the movies Sid and Nancy, "Never trust a junkie" and The Man with the Golden Arm with Frank Sinatra reciting the words "Just One Fix” and “Gimme the thorazine. You don't need the thorazine” from the movie The Trip staring Peter Fonda and Bruce Dern.
The accompanying video was directed by Peter Christopherson (Coil) and features video footage and audio samples of author William S. Burroughs saying “Bring it all down”. Burroughs, who is known to be one of Al Jourgensen’s inspirations, also provided the single's cover art.
It was released as 3-track jewel case CD-Single, Digipack and 12” vinyl by Sire/Warner Bros. Records
Just One Fix (12" tracklist)
A1. Just One Fix (12 Inch edit) 8'13"
B1. Just One Fix (Video edit) 4'24"
B2. Quick Fix 4'11"
Just One Fix (Lyrics)
Never trust a junkie
Blood keeps drifting your way
Certain of its destination
Driving through New Orleans at night
Gotta find a destination
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Life keeps slipping away
Fighting in a war with damnation
Poised, keep cutting away
I'm looking in through to salvation
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Just one fix
Like if I boarded a train
Trying to take in another station
Join us and the choice will be made
Unless we kill the lie as a nation
Just one fix (just one fix)
Just one fix (just one fix)
Just one fix (just one fix)
Just one fix (just one fix)
Just one fix (one fix, one fix)
Just one fix (one fix, one fix)
Just one fix (one fix, one fix)
Just one fix (one fix, one fix)
Just one fix (one fix, one fix)
Just one fix (one fix, one fix)
Just one fix (one fix, one fix)
Songwriters: Barker Paul / Jourgenson Allen / Michael Bruce Balch / Rieflin William
The cult Anglo-Dutch experimental rock act The Legendary Pink Dots will tour Europe in February 2020 to promote their current studio album 'Angel In The Detail', which was released in the late summer of 2019 via Metropolis Records.
Coming off the back of an extensive US trek in the autumn, the tour also marks the band's 40th anniversary since forming in 1980 and it concludes with a London show on February 29th.
LPD's co-founder and frontman Edward Ka-Spel states: "We're cramming this anniversary with a lot of special, often handmade releases. Next up is a DVD-A edition of '40 Angels - The Archive', with just 89 being individually made that contain all 4.5 hours of the epic archive which appeared on our Bandcamp page last autumn."
The full itinerary is as follows:
07.02.20 GOTHENBURG (SE) Musikens Hus
08.02.20 COPENHAGEN (DK) Alice
09.02.20 MALMO (SE) Inkonst
11.02.20 HAMBURG (DE) Markthalle Club
12.02.20 BERLIN (DE) Quasimodo
13.02.20 GDANSK (PL) Drizzly Grizzly
14.02.20 POZNAN (PL) U Bazyla
15.02.20 PRAGUE (CZ) Cafe V Lese
16.02.20 VIENNA (A) Replugged
17.02.20 BUDAPEST (H) Robot
18.02.20 MUNCHEN (DE) Backstage
19.02.20 LJUBLJANA (SLO) KUD Channel Zero
20.02.20 BOLOGNA (IT) Freakout
21.02.20 MILANO (IT) Ligera
22.02.20 LUZERN (CH) Sedel
23.02.20 FRANKFURT (DE) Nachtleben
24.02.20 PARIS (F) Le Petit Bain
26.02.20 KOLN (DE) Helios
27.02.20 AMSTERDAM (NL) OCCII
28.02.20 NAMUR (BE) Belvedere
29.02.20 LONDON (UK) Moth Club
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Reviews within this magazine:
- BLAC KOLOR : Nephi
- DAGEIST : Sexy
- DIE KRUPPS : Vision 2020 Vision
- EMPUSAE : Iter In Tenebris
- KIM GORDON : No Home Record
- KMFDM : Paradise
- M73 : Tainted
- MONICA RICHARDS & ANTHONY JONES : AESTUARIUM
- ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO : Let's Play (Two girls and a goat)
- PLASTIKSTROM : Beton Gegen Angst
- PRO PATRIA : Executioner
- PSY'AVIAH : Soul Searching
- RIDE : This Is Not a Safe Place
- RINGFINGER : Pressure
- SYRENOMILIA : A Rose Shattered
- THE HERESY GENE : La Luz Del Padre
- TWIN TRIBES : Ceremony
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