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Chain DLK Webzine reviews Blood Death Ivory
Review by Marc Urselli-Schaerer

ANGELSPIT - Blood Death Ivory (Dancing Ferret)

Australian duo Angelspit are very talented and committed: how else would you call a band that relocates to Berlin for one year just so they can make sure they play every possible venue and festival of what once used to be EBM's epicenter (and obviously still has a big electronic scene)? Before that they had already toured the US with Cruxshadows as well as opened in Australia and New Zeland for some of the greatest electro-industrial bands on earth (KMFDM, Frontline Assembly, Front 242 etc).

It seems natural that given these kind of efforts going into the live side of things, you can expect kick ass recordings from their time in the studio. Heavy and pounding beats, mighty supporting bass lines, scorching saw-tooth waveforms, brutal zaps, chemically infectious vocals (treated but not just distorted the old way). These sonic industrial cyberpunk attacks remind me Skinny Puppy's latest record and come with the amazing frantic chopped up production that you can find on breakcore/IDM records that Hive records would put out or on great records like Moldover's full length debut.
This is electro-industrial music at its best: this is probably what the new EBM is or should be now.

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