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For years Wumpscut has been one of the biggest and best known acts around in the
dark electro / EBM scene. Rudy Ratzinger started this project in the early
nineties and has since then produced a number of dancefloor classics within
the gothic genre.
Wumpscuts' fifth album (not taking into account the compilation and remix
albums) opens with a typical Wumpscut track. 'Opening The Gates Of Hell' is
a harsh dark electro song with a pounding bassline, heavy beats, a few
gothic flavoured chords and distorted vocals. But unlike what one would
expect when listening to this song, the new album is not just filled with
more of the same Wumpscut sounds as heard before. Not that the music on
'Wreath Of Barbs' isn't dark, it is just a bit more diverse in sounds and
feeling then on other :W: albums.
'Deliverance' the second track, and the first single, is still a typical :W:
song but there is more to it than just the dark electro / EBM beats. The
melody sounds a bit more brighter than normally, it is still gothic
influenced, but just a little bit brighter. Besides that Rudy Ratzinger
employs a vocoder in some places instead of a using a distorted voice all
the time. This gives the track a whole different feeling.
The third track 'Wreath Of Barbs', doesn't sound much like anything :W:
produced ever before. It sounds more like Kraftwerk on a bad trip, or maybe
just Wumspcut on tranquilizers. This song is build around old style electro
beats while all vocals are delivered through a vocoder. Besides paying
tribute to his roots :W: shows here that there is still some development
possible in a genre that is bound to clichés (heavy beats, melancholy or
dark melody and distorted vocals).
After this the album continues with tracks like 'Dr. Thodt' (a slow and dark
industrial track), 'Mankind's Disease' (EBM bass and beats mixed with
classical/medieval sample) and 'Christfuck'(typical :W: song with a poppy
flavour to it). These songs show some more development for :W:, but
everything is done nicely within the framework his own sound.
The other tracks on the album aren't as good as the previous ones. They are
a bit more in the vein of the old work. This doesn't say the rest of the
album isn't good, it is just more of what could be expected. The only
surprise left is the last track 'Eclipse (Kaelte Container Remix)' a slowed
down cover of the classic Kirlian Camera song.
But overall 'Wreath Of Barbs' is a good record with again a couple of
floorfillers on it ('Deliverance' 'Christfuck' and 'Wreath Of Barbs').
The first six songs are excellent, after that it is just more :W: Too bad
the whole album doesn't show the same development as the first tracks. In
any case this record is still worth buying both for fans and for people who
are new to Wumpscut or this kind of music in general.
http://www.kindamuzik.net/recensie/wumpscut/wreath-of-barbs/1099/
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