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ACTIVE: 1988- Lords of Acid is a… well, I’m not quite sure — a techno/dance band of some kind. But they are awesome! They are known for their provocative lyrics, blending techno and industrial music with various unorthodox themes. Their debut album, Lust (1991), became an underground hit, establishing their signature sound. I personally discovered …
PALANEEN KÄRYÄ (XO RECORDS 2011) This is one of those songs that highlight the lyrical playfulness of Paleface. The song relies heavily on switching the first syllables of consecutive, rhyming word pairs, so that the “new” words formed this way are still real Finnish language. This kind of wordplay has deep roots in Finnish oral …
PRAY FOR VILLAINS (ROADRUNNER 2009) This song is the second song from this DevilDriver album. And this was actually the first album I heard from the band. So, at least to me, this is one of the “newer” bands I’ve found, compared to all the ’80s and ’90s bands I tend to listen to the …
ACTIVE: 1993- The Kovenant is an industrial (black) metal band from Norway. And they are awesome! They started as a symphonic black metal band but slowly transitioned toward an industrial sound. I’m not a fan of their black metal era myself — the album that got my attention was their 1999 release, Animatronic. At the …
ZOS KIA CULTUS (CENTURY MEDIA, 2002) This kick ass a song appears on Behemoth‘s sixth album, Zos Kia Cultus (Here and Beyond). This is the first album I heard from Behemoth. As Above So Below is a phrase tracing back to the Emerald Tablet, a Hermetic text from around 2,000 years ago. It’s a core …
COME OUT AND PLAY (ATLANTIC, 1985) This is a song by Twisted Sister from their fourth album, Come Out and Play. As I briefly explained, this album happens to be the one that introduced me to graffiti — not Subway Art or any of the early ’80s hip-hop movies. So of course, I wanted to …
THE PUPPET MASTER (MASSACRE, 2003) This is the eleventh album by King Diamond — and it’s also the name of the second track from this very release. Of all the albums by the band, this one falls into my personal top three, alongside The Eye and House of God being the other two. And, as …
ACTIVE: 2015- King Satan is an industrial metal band from Tampere, Finland. Despite the genre, they combine various elements in their music, from death metal to blues rock to aggrotech. It’s pretty hard to describe, so it’s better to give ’em a listen and judge by yourselves. I’d say they share many similarities with Rob …
ACTIVE: 1985- Kim Bendix Petersen is a Danish rock musician and singer who used the stage name King Diamond years before he formed the band with the same name. This happened right after he left Mercyful Fate (only to revive it a few years later). Many might argue that there’s a huge difference between these …
PSALM 69 (SIRE RECORDS, 1992) Jesus Built My Hotrod is a song by Ministry, an American industrial metal band. The song was released as a single in 1991, but it also appears on their fifth studio album, Psalm 69: The Way to Succeed and the Way to Suck Eggs, which came out the following year. …