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Alec Empire

The Golden Foretaste Of Heaven

February 1, 2008 | 4 Comments
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Berliner Alec Empire has been making brittle-nosed, uncompromising digital-thrash-disco for years. Highlight ‘New Man’ beckons Suicide-esque evil forces through a distorted speaker amid a mess of bluster-core beats. More thrilling torment from one Empire that will never crumble.
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8 out of 10

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zombinadoll

Feb 18, 2008

This should have been given a 10, an 8 isnt good enough for this man.

Dee_Lite

Feb 18, 2008

definitely the best album alec has ever done. cool, rockin' electro tracks...perfect for the dancefloor!

Midi Junkie

Feb 18, 2008

AMAZING record! Cool you guyz gave it 8/10. Blows everything else out of the water right now!

Lord Dainippon

Mar 1, 2008

Bringing the new intelligent and fresh sound from Berlin to everywhere, its as exciting as discovering Gary Numan for the first time when you've "Closet dabbled" in electronic back in the day.

Strong sounds and minimalistic beats as found in "Robot L.O.V.E." grind a sexy groove into the dancefloors, "Ice" bringing experimental and excitement into a context with it's basic sound but full force kicking message.
"On Fire" is a hard hitting maelstrom of guitars and heavy crashing drums which is guaranteed to satisfy anyone curious to check out the album.

If you're into changing your music style into forward thinking, you're best to start right here!