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    Klank

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    Reviewed by Doug Van Pelt

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    Label independentHM Magazine #78July 1999
    industrialindustrial metal

    Guitars! Guitars! Guitars! Just give me the guitars! While Industrial purists will eschew guitar-based industrial, this is the kinda vibe that gets me pumped about music today. On this long-awaited release, Klank has adopted a heavier dance vibe, but those wonderful machine gun-like crunchy guitars are everywhere. The vocal quality is there, too. The song "No Answers / No Reasons" features the line "...nobody gives a damn, what good are words..." which, of course, will turn off a lot of listeners who are trying to make their speech pure before the Lord. The song seems to address the fact that so many believing listeners have questions about Klank's music. This song, and "Bleed Me Dry" (with it's chorus shouts of "suck!") and "Don't Like" seem to be angry responses from the artist to his audience. The title-track asks the loaded question, "Tell me why everyone in the world has to be like you?" A valid question, but it drips with a bitter attitude. There's some good points brought up as well, like "...everything I do, you seem to pick apart / I try to be sincere . . . is it too much to ask just to leave me alone? / Haven't you heard of respect, or do you have to be shown?" If we could all just get along, we could enjoy some killer music here. It's kinda hard though, with all the fighting words going back and forth (between both artist and listener). To order, send $12 ($17 foreign) to: PO Box 223, Farmingdale NY 11735

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