PITCHSHIFTER — Industrial (review)

PITCHSHIFTER — Industrial album cover Album · 1991 · Industrial Metal Buy this album from MMA partners
1/5 ·
martindavey87
I first got into Pitchshifter when I heard the song ‘Genius’ on the soundtrack to ‘Mortal Kombat: Annihilation’ way back in the late 90’s. I loved that song back then, and very quickly got into albums like ‘Deviant’, ‘PSI’ and ‘www.pitchshifter.com’. I enjoyed their energetic industrial style and their rebellious attitude, and these were very impressionable on a young, teenage me.

But then it came time to delve into their back catalogue and check out their debut album, and… what the hell happened here?!

Gone is the industrial energy and rebellious anthems, and in their place, is some sludgy, grimy, death metal nonsense. Not that I really have anything against sludge or death metal for the record, but I just find this album plods along at a very slow, very dull, and very repetitive rate. The incoherent vocals, indistinguishable guitar riffs and mechanical drum machines do nothing for me.

And I tried. I really did. I had this on my playlist for a little while and gave it multiple listens, but absolutely nothing is sticking. I just find myself constantly bored and wanting to listen to any one of the bands later releases, which I know they’ll go on to release some true industrial gems. So with that said, this will retire to the CD shelf, most likely to never be played again, but kept because my collector OCD dictates that it needs to stay with the rest of my Pitchshifter collection.
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