Away back when, in the days when Blonde Vinyl was still alive and well, there appeared a musical duo unlike anything ever heard before in the CCM world. It could be dark and brooding, driving and angry, or melodic and haunting--it was Deitiphobia. It was techno-industrial, and it was glorious. They released one true album (Fear of God), an album of remixed early material (Digital Priests), and then they vanished for quite a long time. The duo split. Brent Stackhouse formed X-Propogation while Wally Shaw moved to Chicago, married, and continued as Deitiphobia. X-Prop wasn't bad, Wally's Deitiphobia album, Clean also wasn't anything to laugh at, but neither approached the power of the original.
The original band may have split, and the original label may have gone under, but the original master tapes were still floating around in the possession of one Michael Knott. Knott decided to play. This is the result. It's bigger, it's uglier, more aggressive and all around nastier than the original. I like it.
What Knott has done with these songs is nothing short of spectacular at times. He's mixed and matched without remorse. Pieces of two or three songs surface in one piece, often layered one upon the other--new samples abound. It sounds as if the bass has been even further reinforced, and it's been made slightly grittier than what it was. The changes are so dramatic that every song on this disc has been retitled. It would make no sense otherwise. This is in essence a disc of eleven new songs made up of pieces of a whole slew of others.
This is the power of the original Deitiphobia merged with the all-out musical genius of CCM's resident brainchild. If Skinny Puppy or Nine Inch Nails has ever turned your crank, you owe it to yourself to give this a listen. It'll make slightly more sense if you've heard the originals, but if you have, you don't need my encouragement to hear this, and if you haven't ... well, happy hunting. They're brutally hard to find.
I never would've pegged Michael Knott as the remix type, but then, I said the same thing about Robert Smith until The Cure did Mixed Up...
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