Spooky industrial/dance with a creepy edge that gets under your skin. That is Fatal Blast Whip. Icy beats combine with eerie melodies to chill your soul and get stuck in your head with the result that you'll be mentally replaying the eerie piano of "Seduction (Soft Core Remix by Battery)" long after the CD stops spinning.
Unfortunately, 50% of the disc is comprised of a set of remixes of "Seduction," which come off as filler, adding nothing new to the song or enhancing it either.
With lyrics like:
Your love can't ever wait
in the manifest of your hate
seduction is your power
from "Seduction", and
Device, running in your head again
Impulse, making you a slave for death"
from "Slave Device," Fatal Blast Whip mixes the dark apocalyptic visions of most industrial bands with a tinge of hope. While this is basically fan-pleaser material like the "Torn Skin" maxi-ep, it showcases a band that could do very good things with their upcoming full-length. Let's hope Blacklight keeps up the good work.
3.5 tocks
Other coverage for this album
Dead Zine 1999Reviewed by D_ListerThis is a 9 track EP. That's right an EP with 9 tracks. The first 5 are the title track with 4 remixes of the song by various different artists. An interesting approach to an EP that really does a good job of offering more music to the listener without incurring more studio time. Now the back of the CD lists only 8 tracks which appears to be a post production error as track 7 "Forbidden" has been…Similar sounding releases
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