Cold Dark Matter

Red Harvest | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 23, 2001)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Relapse
• ASIN: B000056VL7
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #238,358 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Omnipotent

2. Last Call

3. Absolut Dunkel: Heit

4. Cold Dark Matter

5. Junk-O-Rama

6. Fix. Hammer. Fix the Itching Scull

7. Death in Cyborg Era

8. Move or Be Moved

9. Move or Be Moved

10. Swallow the Sun [*]

11. Pity the Bastard [*]

12. Move or Be Moved

13. Swallow the Sun [*]

14. Pity the Bastard [*]

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Estonishing, May 11, 2001

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"metalheadmissy" (Ogdensburg,NY) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Dark Matter (Audio CD)

This band can't be described in words. Has to be heard for to be believed. I had a friend tell me about this cd. I at first wasn't too interested in buying this. I did pick a copy of it up from relapse's mailorder and was amazed with it. It is nothing like anything I have ever heard in my lifetime. It is really a blend of everything. Almost to some extent has a bit of a techno/industrial sound to it . Think for the most part almost everyone would like it.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars very nicely done, February 9, 2003

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E. Roberts "ia" (Canton, MI United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cold Dark Matter (Audio CD)

there are few bands that can really combine industrial with metal effectively, like ministry. this band does it impeccably and adds atmosphere to the mix. some may say it's industrial black metal. some of the riffing styles on certain songs and drum patterns would lead you to believe that, but no. this band is all about bleak, post-apocalyptic futures not raping christ and worshipping odin. listen to songs like ad noctum and last call, and it will feel like you're walking through the remains of a wartorn city of a dead world.

there are a couple of detractors posting reviews on their latest 'Sick Transit Gloria Mundi.' don't listen to those guys. metal/extreme music isn't for everyone and especially not those guys who don't even listen to metal as a genre. they're opinions are grossly misinformed. yeah the drums are fast and there's lots of screaming... it's metal. to the casual listener, metal will always sound like a bunch of fast noise unless it's doom. then in that case it's slow noise. but rest assured, it's music.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Get Depressed, April 15, 2009

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Pharaoh (Erie, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cold Dark Matter (Audio CD)

Somewhere between the industrial-metal madness of Ministry and the blistering primal aggression of black metal, Red Harvest makes their home. These Norwegians have been loudly toiling in obscurity for years, finally getting an American introduction courtesy of Relapse. Cold Dark Matter is their sixth opus, and it sounds like it was cooked up in an underground lab in the aftermath of nuclear war. A wildly dissonant rampage greets the listener, at once uncomfortable and awe-inspiring. And it rarely lets up. The production is (purposefully?) thin and scratchy, like listening to ham radio transmissions from hell. The songs relentlessly follow a monolithic pattern: distorted guitars meet distorted vocals with a side dish of distortion thrown in for variety. The tempo shifts for "Absolut Dunkel:heit" becoming faster and, dare I say it, catchier, while "Junk-O-Rama" crams a melodic chorus in between some ham-fisted guitar mauling. By far my favorite track is "Last Call". Slower and more sedative then the rest, it shows a atmospheric, more nuanced side to the band. While some tracks can safely be skipped, the wheat outweighs the chaff, with the final result being like a nuclear dawn: moving, though not something you want to experience up close. And that cover... it's just as ugly as the music. Here's to truth in advertising.