Empty

God Lives Underwater

Product Details

• Audio CD (September 1, 1998)
• Original Release Date: October 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B00000AEJH
• Also Available in: Audio Cassette
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #302,277 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Hey! I know that picture!, February 27, 2002

By	el_abrotsky "el_abrotsky" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

The cover of this album is an underwater statue of Christ that is located just off the coast of Key Largo, Florida right near the largest piece of coral in the whole reef (a massive brain coral). I went snorkeling there about 10 years ago and I never thought I'd see this thing again. But alas, I go to the record store and bam, there it is.

I really dig the GLU sound. They basically make industrial music fun again, after KMFDM started getting a bit too serious. The vocals are way too pretty to scare or intimidate anyone. It's not about that. Its about creating really good sounds.

I prefer their 3rd album to this (their 2nd), since it is more vocal and electronic-oriented and I feel they do that better, but if you want to hear some hard guitars, then this-is-your-GLU-album. It is very much like the first, only better, longer, and with a cooler cover.

Oh, and if you're ever swimming near the statue, watch out where you touch it, because it's got some fire coral on it.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars God Lives Underwater at their best, March 12, 2001

By	"neomurtle" (Acworth, GA United States) - See all my reviews

God Lives Underwater's music is a blend of alternative rock and industrial. Basically, it's keyboard synths in the backround with electric guitar riffs in the lead. The guitars in Empty add a balanced sound that is absent from their current release, Life In The So Called Space Age. Even though most of the songs are slow and depressing, there's something about Empty that keeps you listening. Those who like electro/industrial as well as those who like alternative rock will find something to appreciate here. If you like what you hear on Empty, check out God Lives Underwater's self entitled previous half-album as well.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars How techno blended with rock is supposed to sound, November 20, 2001

By A Customer

God Lives Underwater is living proof that many of the most talented musicians in the music industry go unheard of for long periods of time before any mainstream following develops, sometimes these artists go their entire career without being fully discovered by the audience they deserve. Just goes to show how often people choose garbage over real music nowadays.

From the opening synthesized guitar line of "Still" all the way through to the very end of "Scared", "Empty" does not let up, combining alternative and heavy progressive rock with some of the weirdest, most trippy sound effects and progression from modern electronica/techno. The only way to really explain God Lives Underwater is just the fact that there is really no other band like them, their closest similarities being Stabbing Westward and Nine Inch Nails. However, the most impressive quality of this group is that it is composed only of two members, who ideally do a better job than the 5 man bands spitting pure waste onto records and calling it music these days.

Suiting both the electronica as well as the hard rock fan, most of the songs weigh more heavily towards one genre for the instrumental portion, but every track conveys painful, heartaching lyrics and contains catchy, energy-filled choruses. Songs such as "All Wrong" with its progressive blues-scale guitar line, "No More Love", "Fool", and the aggressive "Don't Know How To Be" rely more on nicely timed drumming and distorted electric guitars to keep the music flowing nicely, making this some of the best hard rock for awhile, while other tracks such as "Weaken", "Tortoise", and "Empty" base their sounds more on synthesizers and keyboard lines, showing off their techno influences.

The only tracks where the band slows down from their aggressive, energy-filled performance are in "23", a captivating song about loneliness and searching for answers in life, making it one of the best songs on the album. "Scared" is the most mellow song on the record, and unfortunately also the weakest, but it still maintains quality by throwing in the adversity of acoustic guitars.

Standout tracks are "All Wrong", with its catchy guitar line, "No More Love" as it blends guitar with keyboard into a virtual frenzy, "23" showing the groups soft side, "Weaken" giving bright techno influence, and "Empty" with its chorus.

This album definitely got more mainstream attention than their later release, "Life In The So-Called Space Age" (also a great album) due to the catchy choruses and guitars, both of which were lost on the very non-radio friendly "Spage Age" record.

Fans of electronic music and rock alike can rejoice with this band. "Empty" and the self titled EP both have the same feel to them, but the newer "Life In The So-Called Space Age" takes the music to a different angle. I would only recommend "Space Age" to the fan of Radiohead and like-minded music, but "Empty" has a friendly catchiness that most fans of hard music can appreciate.