Apoptygma Berzerk - Soli Deo Gloria[FLAC - LOSSLESS] torrent

FLAC files
Release Date: November 12, 2001
Original Release in 1993.


Track Listing:
1. Like Blood from the Beloved, Pt. 1
2. Bitch
3. Burnin' Heretic [Album Version]
4. Stich
5. Walk With Me
6. Backdraft
7. ARP [808 Edit]
8. Spiritual Reality
9. Skyscraping (Schizopreniac)
10. All Tomorrow's Parties
11. Sentinel
12. Ashes to Ashes
13. Like Blood from the Beloved, Pt. 2
14. Burnin' Heretics


The first Apoptygma Berzerk album offers a feast of competent and generally quite catchy hybrid of electronic goth (or should that be 'darkwave') and EBM. Notable tracks include the scathing 'Bitch', the oft-forgotten darkwave classic 'Burnin' Heretic', the Pitchfork-esque 'Spiritual Reality' and a (rare) good cover of a Velvet Underground song - 'All Tomorrow's Parties'. There's also a remake of the early Apop single 'Ashes To Ashes', smoothing of the rough edges of the original and making it more listenable as a result.

There is the occasional moment of over-indulgence. Skyscraping is too self-conciously 'clever', a somewhat directionless seven-minute composition that stuff in more samples and musical influences than advisable, but the albums is for the most part free from filler. Even the four short instrumentals serve a function, with the two parts electro-medieval 'Like Blood From The Beloved' sandwiching the album neatly. In my experience, many people miss the album and just buy 'The Apopcalyptic Manifesto' - although you'll miss out on some good songs if you do.

(Review from EraserOnline)


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