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Artificial

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For true electro fans. This is a realy great CD. On the edge. I'm more into Velvet acid christ and stuff like that but this is a new sound that will relly get you hooked. Well worth the price since I can't seem to find this in stores here in the states. These guy are realy awsome. Very big in germany. Just try it.

I am always open to new industrial bands, most of them aren't putting there all into there music but this one has so many influences and it's really obvious they enjoy what there doing. If I had to compare the sounds etc, I would have to say there a mix of X marks the pedwalk, Leaether strip, project pitchfork,and VAC. There awesome sounds and vocals are laid out really well, this whole entire album is pretty fast paced as is most industrial but more along the lines of hardcore, I was really impressed, I also got a copy of a cover they did "little 15" from Depeche mode, they completely made me love that song even more then I already had.
This is a good buy for good music!
Enjoy!

Well...me being the techno Connoiseur that i am, ive listened to lots.
this is some really good stuff. Funker Vogt? they sound akin to them, but ive foudn the two styles are not comparable. most of their songs are pretty original, and with a unique sound.
there are a hundred Techno bands out there, these guys, although somewhat out of the public eye, are defenitely worth a listen.

It's no secret that the industrial genre has fallen on lean times. With many bands' best days behind them and others changing their sound to fit the (re)emerging synthpop genre, old-school rivetheads still have a current reason to stomp with joy: God Module.

Artificial is a throw-back to the original gritty, rusty, broken sound of Nine Inch Nails and Ministry, but with a 21st-century techno-influenced flavor. But this is in no way a techno album. Artificial is full of dark menace and razor-sharp rhythms, instantly bringing to mind classics like Skinny Puppy's Rabies or Front Line Assembly's Tactical Neural Implant. The song "Difficult Reflections" is almost punkish in its raw intensity, but Andrew Ramirez and Jasyn Bangert craft the song to streamlined perfection. "Companion" is a marvelous dance-floor anthem, but with intelligent lyrics that might hold more meaning than at first listen. "Silence" and "Illusion" urge the listener to action, while sparser tracks like "Where Even the Stars Still Shine" (which features some nice female vocals) and "Divine Separation" create an audible sense of foreboding space without driving club-style beats or tons of layered sequencing. The album's closing track "Blind" is, quite frankly, a brilliant instrumental work. Artificial contains enough BPMs and distortion to keep industrial fans more than happy, but adds enough melody and lyrical meaning to keep your brain energized as well. It's a diverse album that satisfies on many levels - a rare thing in industrial. Despite being American, God Module manages to capture that certain flavor so noticeable in European industrial, and wears it like a second skin.

After a long dispute with Inception Records, God Module will be releasing their long-awaited new EP very soon. In the meantime, pick up the excellent Counterbalance compilation on Inception Records: it contains an exclusive God Module track that shows their sound is progressing in an exciting way. In a day when once-promising industrial bands like Funker Vogt have shed their original sound in favor of cleaner, lighter programming, it's up to bands like God Module to carry the torch for the strange murky cybernetic heavy electronic music genre known as industrial.

If you want to listen to Funker Vogt, then buy Funker Vogt and avoid this sad excuse of a clone. Unmelodic vocals whispered through tons of distortion & 10 songs that all sound exactly the same sums up this release. Two words: skip it.