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Antimatter

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What the hell?! This album is probably the best of the electro-hate band CUBANATE. Every song is filled with big pumping armageddonical beats with electro-trash guitars and angst samples from hell. "Bodyburn" is turbo-charged with hate and anger that every time you listen to it, you wouldn't mind fighting 5 big marine guys (as long as the music is being played on). If you like this album, i recommend CYBERIA and BARBAROSSA. (INTERFERENCE sounds different; but if you're a fan like me, pick it up as well). ANTIMATTER is a must have!!!!

Antimatter has a great combination of ambient, techno, goth, and truly haunting lyrics that combine into one great album that all industrial fans should have! The beat in Angeldust is trance inducing along with the odd background sounds (even the remix Angeltrance is awesome!), Body Burn is a head bangers delight, and Junkie is the kind of raveish tune you've come to expect to hear in a disco (I'm not complaining). Kill or Cure is the only disapointment here, the lyrics are a little off kilter, but if you ignore them, the music makes up for it. This kind of stuff deserves to be immortalized in a movie, and if it does, even if I own this album I'll be sure to pick up the soundtrack anyway.

I agree with the other reviewers & their 5 stars.. I've had all the Cubanate albums at some point and this is probably my favorite. Why? Because what I like about Cubanate is their intensity, loud & furious industrial metal/coldwave with driving guitars, intelligent aggressive lyrics.. I like the comment about being able to fight 5 big marines as long as the music's playing, lol.. that's the way this stuff makes you feel. This stuff imbues you with the power to pick up a car and throw it at your landlord's office. There's some other great heavy coldwave industrial stuff out there, but Cubanate was a definite pioneer in the field and is fun to listen to.

BUY THE CD, DON'T STEAL THEIR MP3s. this music deserves much better than 128kbit/sec compression or whatever you find from hoarders who probably haven't even listened to their collection.

This was my first ever Cubanate album, and I rediscovered it after taking about a 15 year break from it. I have to say...

This album wears extremely well for the years. Produced in '92-'93, the mix of harsh but dance-able techno (aggro-tech as its now called) was unique. Another reviewer threw out a list of labels that pushed out similar material for the time, but being someone who has a nearly complete library of 90's industrial labels, I will assert emphatically that NOTHING has ever sounded like Cubanate with the possible exception of Metropolis artist Numb. (Language of Silence era.) Take that as you will; Cubanate's style is exquisitely in your face and violent.

Hands down my favorite track is the album opener "Body Burn." I'm no better at screaming along now than I was when I was 16, but this is probably the catchiest "hate song" ever written, with the exception being "Oxyacetelyne" off of Cubanate's "Cyberia" album.

Cubanate's formula is quite simple: Techno synth-bass and drums with sampled (and mutilated) guitars mixed throughout. It's simple, but as I said, not often copied. (Take this factoid as it is... not copied because its awful? Obviously I disagree...)

No guitars, but the closest modern equivalent would be Combichrist, another band I'm quite fond of.

Subsequent Cubanate releases (especially Barbarossa) suffered from formula syndrome... Marc Heal & co. was never quite able to find an adequate direction to evolve to, perhaps because of how narrowly simple the formula was. Their final offering, 1998's "Interference" was quite good, but it doesn't bear much resemblance at all to the sounds from this or 1995's "Cyberia."

sub-Wax Trax, maybe sub-Cleopatra industrial dance junk that doesn't earn it's 'tude. They probably think they sound like Ministry. I think they left their beat box on its default settings. KMFDM if you must, Sister Machine Gun if you can't help yourself, but do cross the street to avoid this album.

If you want an "Adrenaline shot" of "industrial" "hate", consider a Grey Wolves album, or (for people who need their irony explicit) maybe an early Foetus. Cubanate are playing for an audience of dummies.

Dyslexics beware: I purchased this accidentally cos I thought the band name was antimatter. God I'm stupid.