REVIEWS

Buy this album from iTunes

Terrorfakt
Cold Steel World

Metropolis Records

Posted: Wednesday, March 22, 2006
By: Stephen Sodergren

It is a rare thing indeed for Metropolis Records to release a noise disc, but they have done just that with Terrorfakt's electronic noise assault Cold Steel World. This is the band's second official album with a remix album stuck in between the new and the old. Cold Steel World takes a more old school approach to the music, as they use the good old standby of artists in the past like Noisex, P.A.L., Synapscape, and Imminent Starvation, which is crunching repetitive beats that rock the shit out of every stereo system they come across. For those noise buffs out there, you know that a repetitive harsh beat loop is never a bad thing as you can trance out to this just as easily as you could bash someone's face in to it. The basic predominant beat structure, which is the bass line, is similar on several tracks of this album, but it's the underlying sounds and samples that create uniqueness to the tracks. That is not to say that the album doesn't get a little too repetitive at times, which it unfortunately does, but with 17 tracks and 75 minutes duration, I can see how some of it gets a little monotonous. Probably the best way to approach this album is to listen to a few tracks to get the aggression flowing and then go out and break something, preferably something expensive or antique! The tracks as they stand alone are all excellent, some favorites for me are the stop and go beat fest of "Street Justice," the breakbeat-like cacaphony of "Ich," the skull-shattering harshness of "Punishment," and the less harsh, almost danceable (i.e. not spastic moshing) "Steamliner." This release is excellent for the tracks on a two or three at a time basis, but it is hindered some by the length which maybe should have been trimmed and saved for a future unreleased disc. To put it bluntly, I would definitely buy this disc for the tranced-out harshness of each track and for the sheer aggression that it brings. Try it out; I think you will be pleased.