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Bind, Torture, Kill

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About the Band:
Fronted by Belgian Johan Van Roy, Suicide Commando is the seminal example of an industrial sub-genre known as terror electronic body music (EBM). Like most terror EBM acts, Suicide Commando can be characterized by the use of distorted and twisted vocals over an intense and pounding militaristic beat. As the name of the band might suggest, the lyrics take on an extremely dark subjects, focusing on death and murder. In general, this genre of music isn't seriously promoting or glorifying anything, but is audio art designed to convey an emotional sense of fear and terror.

About the Album:
This latest album will appeal to fans of Suicide Commando's well alternative chart topping album "Mindstrip". Dance friendly and hard hitting, many of the tracks on this album are sure to make their way onto alternative dance floors and radio shows. A common complaint of terror EBM, that the overuse of distorted vocals makes it hard to actually understand the lyrics, does not apply to Bind, Torture, Kill. Van Roy actually has done a beautiful job in balancing the use of voice distortion to the point to where you can clearly understand the lyrics, but to where the distortion adds an angry edge to the fast paced electronic melody and beats.

Recommended Tracks:
- Bind, Torture, Kill
- Bleed For Us All
- Menschenfresser (Eat Me)
- F*** You Bitch

Tracks such as Godsend (Deceased, Pt. 2) also feature spoken word voice-overs similar in style and substance to those used by other industrial albums such as Velvet Acid Christ's "Fun with Knives". This mix of voice-overs & distorted vox works well.

The version of the album being offered on amazon.com is the Metropolis records import. In Europe the album was released on Dependent. The two versions should be very similar. There is however a limited edition version with 5 extra tracks that has also been released. This review is for the regular edition.

Similar Artists:
- Tactical Sekt
- Aslan Faction
- Wumpscut
- Grendel
- Hocico
- Aghast View
- Psyclon 9

Never one to deviate far from the path, Suicide Commando remains consistent with every release. While new technology or synths may be incorporated, one can always tell its Suicide Commando from his signature sound. He just has this way of writing songs that is easily distinguishable among the masses of other bands in the terror EBM genre. Now ready to release his sixth album, Bind, Torture, Kill, Suicide Commando has delivered another phenomenal album that fans were expecting, but weren't ready for. Bind, Torture, Kill has all of what is expected of Suicide Commando - distorted vocals, heavy crunching beats, raspy melodies, and piercing high end. But, this album is different. It has an intensity not seen before on previous Suicide Commando albums.BEWARE!

this album is hard core. I love the high end and the beats, but really, the lyrics are silly (again). It's not Axis of Evil. It's MUSIC

I always been wanting to check out Suicide Commando for some time now. I recently acquired "Bind, Torture, Kill" a couple of weeks ago. I was definitely not disappointed. It took me a few listens for the music to sink but overall I thoroughly enjoyed what I heard. The music kinda reminded me of Mexico's Amduscia and Filament 38 with its distorted vocals and trance like melodies. The music is not your typical EBM. The music is fairly aggressive in comparison to other EBM bands like VNV Nation and Apoptygma Berzerk.

"Bind, Torture, Kill" opens up the album and quickly set the tone for the rest of the album with its aggressive but melodic synthesized melodies.The song could have easily been edited. The lyrics were minimal at best and hearing "Bind, Torture, Kill" over and over again quickly became tiresome. I like how the cd maintains its momentum and energy throughout the album. This terror EBM sound is a nice change of pace from the polished poppier sounds of Apop and VNV.

Suicide Commando surely released a great new album. The tracks sound this time more like the (old) Wumpscut) and I like it. Although I think their last album Axis Of Evil was one of their best , I just loved the melotron melancholic choirs in the back ground, Bind , Torture Kill is a must for all Suicide Commando fans. No one will be disappointed, for sure.I gave it 4 stars and not 5 just to indicate that Johan should stay on his own path and not go into Wumpscut too much.

all I can say is this is not for a rave or dance party.this is not dj this or that.this is emb.not electronic pop

This album could very well be evil in nature. The music is electronic and industrial raver style but the beats are hard and angry and the theme seems to be murder and hate for god. Suicide Commando is the band of bands in the EBM scene to truly convince me that they may be.....bad for my brain. Call it what you will, but this music is dark and violent. BTK IS A WELL PRODUCED ALBUM, but it should be taken responsibly. NOT FOR CHILDISH COLUMBINE TYPES!

This is some super hard hitting terror ebm from Germany. The lyrics are in english, and the concept of this album is pretty much murder and stuff like that...just plain evil and wrong. Very well produced and somewhat addictive. Probably one of the best albums in the genre. >:)

For newcomers, Suicide Commando is evil dance music. Crunchy beats, raw sawtooth keys, and heavily distorted vocals.

Bind, Torture, & Kill is exactly what I expected it to be. Very dancy, moderately intelligent lyrics, very dark.

It's also gone nowhere since Axis of Evil. It is extremely similar, despite what some other reviews might say. So much so that you recognize the exact sounds that he recycled from older songs for this album. The production on this one is a hair better, and the songwriting is noticeably weaker. His sound worked better as simpler. Axis of Evil was extremely catchy. Bind, Torture, & Kill notsomuch. Plus what's with the album artwork? It looks like an ad from the Seattle Sinner.

Bind, Torture, and Kill does what it does very well- the evil dancy thing. But it's nothing special.

Woa! Evil with a capital E! The tittle of this album says it all....it's mostly about killing people!!! Suicide Cammando have obviousley been influenced by dark electro/industrial/EBM music, particulurly by the band Wumpscut. I really enjoy listening to this album...it's uber violent!