1989 saw the claustrophobic and introverted debut album from Nine Inch Nails in “Pretty Hate Machine” with Trent Reznor recording as a multi instrumentalist, a record that spawned a collection of singles and would eventually lead to the huge success both commercially and critically that was “The Downward Spiral“. Unlike a lot of Industrially tinged
The continued Industrial Black Metal rumblings of the South African solo project Aois Innealan have been felt like Earthquake tremors on a Global scale following the arrival of debut EP “Colossus“. So as the singles continue to appear like rain drops falling from a blackend sky, we spoke to mastermind Daniel Botha about his work…
Between Nine Inch Nails 1989 debut album “Pretty Hate Machine” and 1994’s highly influential “The Downward Spiral” were a pair of EPs entitled “Broken” and “Fixed” which sowed the seeds that would become that sophomore record. The first of those, “Broken” saw something of a style shift from essentially darkwave gothic 80’s inspired synth pop
Recorded in between tours in support of their critically acclaimed 2019 album “Sulphur English“, 10th July will see a covers album cunningly entitled “Garbers Days Revisited” from Inter Arma via Relapse Records. The album, recorded at Dark Art Audio in Madison, Tennessee sees the band show off their influences including Prince, Cro-Mags and this freshly
Five years after their 1989 debut “Pretty Hate Machine“, 1994 saw the release of the second, critically acclaimed and highly influential album from American Industrial Rock outfit Nine Inch Nails. A concept album that depicts the self destruction of a Man as he moves along “The Downward Spiral” to his eventual suicide, it’s widely considered
The 13th studio album from Bakersfield California Nu-Metal pioneers KoRn titled “The Nothing” was produced by Nick Raskulinecz who handled the role for 2016’s “The House of Suffering” as well as albums from Trivium and Deftones. Said to have been inspired by the villain from “The Neverending Story”, a Supernatural force of destruction spawned from
There are many fans who would argue that the Die Hard saga died after the trilogy and that “Fortunate Son” by Creedence Clearwater Revival playing during credits at the end of Die Hard 4.0 was the highlight of the film… Harsh? Possibly. But we still can’t bring ourselves to watch the fifth installment of the
Earlier this week Louder described the seminal year for Metal that was 1994. It featured genre redefining and generation inspiring albums like the self titled debut from KoRn, “Troublegum” from Therapy? and “Superunknown” from Soundgarden not to mention Trent Reznor’s masterpiece “The Downward Spiral” from Nine Inch Nails. You can read that in full here. We’re not
Produced by the band themselves and recorded at Chris Blancato’s Studio in Sydney, with the exception of Marcus Bridge’s vocals which were recorded at Sydney’s Electric Sun Studios, “Alien” is the fifth studio album from Australian Titans Northlane. Having surprise released their previous effort “Mesmer”, this time out their label UNFD have taken the usual
Taking its name from the 1967 book of the same name by Marilyn Bender which opened the doors to the World on the Jet-set lifestyle of the 1960s and the culture of beauty, fashion and politics, “The Beautiful People” is arguably one of Marilyn Manson’s finest moments. Appearing on the bands 1996 album “Antichrist Superstar”
