Auto Da Fe [Import]

SPK | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 26, 1993)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Grey Area
• ASIN: B000007417
• Also Available in: Audio CD
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #253,712 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Contact

2. Germanik

3. Mekano

4. Retard

5. Slogun

6. Metal Field

7. Walking On Dead Steps

8. A Heart That Breaks (In No Time Or Place)

9. Another Dark Age

10. Twilight Of The Idols

11. Culturecide

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Back when Industrial meant something..., June 11, 2004

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Crypt "thecrypt777" (Arkham) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Auto Da Fe (Audio CD)

...back when Industrial culture was dangerous, cynical and determined to spread it's message. Back when Industrial culture actually existed. The time of SPK when a time when Industrial was not just a style of music, but a philosophy. Not dance music, not techno-pop, not electro goth or electro metal. Industrial was cultural, social and sometimes political propaganda. It was sonic terrorism. Industrial meant clanging machinery, scrap metal, screeching analog electronics, feedback, mutated post-punk noise, primitive ethnic rhythms, and anti-musical experimentation. If you want the true Industrial experience, rather than what MTV and magazines tell you is Industrial, this cd is a perfect place to start. It has all of the above and more.

13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Only hard core "Industrialist" need to apply, December 19, 2001

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"magla" (Dreamscape) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Auto Da Fe (Audio CD)

One of masterpieces of early industrial. Harsh, disturbing and violent, this album isn't meant for massive consumerism. If you appreciate sound manipulation and experiments who defy regular music norms, you'll love this album. Album centerpiece is clearly extremely noisy and abrasive "Slogun". My other favorite tracks are "Germanik" which sounds something like Hitler's speech straight from Hell, and lovely "Heart That Breaks". Buy this album, if you are like me bored by todays pop blandness, but if you're listening to music just to have fun, then stay away from this!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars SPK! SPK! SPK!, January 24, 2005

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Danny Piette (Belgium) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Auto Da Fe (Audio CD)

First off: I'm not the kind of guy that spends time writing reviews for every CD in his collection.
But this SPK cd is really so damn great I couldn't resist. If you want to hear TRUE industrial - not this lame "goth" stuff of the past decade - buy SPK's Auto Da Fe. After all these years, this one still sounds amazingly powerful and inventive.

It includes their first two singles(!), some tracks from 1982 and their '83 E.P. "Dekompositiones".

Recommended tracks:

"Kontakt" - a great electropunk track. If you like Cabaret Voltaire's "Nag nag nag", you'll like this one too.

"Germanik" - those barking german vocals!

"Slogun" - the definition of 'HARSH'! It starts off with distorted moaning and screaming, kinda like a sample of a snuff movie, or someone getting electrocuted. Really disturbing. My wife gets scared when I put it on. Then suddenly there's a noisy and really intense, aggressive synth rhythm and a guy screaming 'SPK! SPK! SPK!' on top. Pure sonic terror - it'll make you want to kill everyone in sight.

"Metal field" - starts of like an early Cabaret Voltaire piece, then turns into a pretty danceable industrial/wave song with DAF/early Front 242 sequences.

"Another dark age" - great electro/wave with dark vocals, akin' to early Front 242.

This is their best release, definitely.