Execution Tracks

Funker Vogt | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 10, 1998)
• Original Release Date: November 10, 1998
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B00000F1UK
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (23 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #92,202 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com

War and death are preoccupations of many industrial bands, but few are quite so engrossed by the topics as Germany's Funker Vogt. Execution Tracks, their third full-length, thus fits in nicely with past titles such as 1997's We Came to Kill and the double-EP collection Killing Time Again. Song titles like "The Voices of the Dead" and "Fortunes of War" indicate the kind of lyrical content FV traffic in, and the pictures of tanks and warplanes on the CD jacket should clean up any lingering confusion. As for the music, this time around the band goes for a cleaner, even more techno-influenced aggression--as if one were present at a rave held in a World War I trench following a mustard-gas attack. The rhythm patterns aren't quite as aggressive as they've been in the past (battle fatigue, perhaps?), but Jens Kästel's growled, processed Vocals of Doom pack enough of a wallop to scare the combat boots off you. A competent, solid effort. --Steve Landau

Product Description

Re-release of the classic ''Execution Tracks'' album from German EBM / Electro legends Funker Vogt. It includes two bonus tracks in a digipak, remastered --This text refers to an alternate Audio CD edition.

Customer Reviews

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars ferocious music. goes straight for the jugular., April 27, 2000

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"cthulhukid" (Purgatory) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Execution Tracks (Audio CD)

Wow. Loud. From a scale of one to ten, this CD should be played at eleven.

However, do NOT buy this CD if you are looking for anything more than than stomping music and screaming about war, cuz you're not gonna get it. What you will get are thunderous beats, growled vocals, and all that anger that gives industrial music such a wonderfull sound. It really doesn't get much more intense. Funker Vogt doesn't screw around. The songs are ruminations about pain, death, war, etc. Basicaly what most other industrial bands sing about. They don't push it to the limits that Funker Vogt does, though. This is about the limit at which one can still be taken seriously. Much more and they delve into the realm of the charicature. Luckily Funker Vogt knows just where to stop.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Hearing the Voices of The Dead, January 14, 2003

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TastyBabySyndrome "Matthew Lewis, author of M... ("Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Little Tendril Baseball Team, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Execution Tracks (Audio CD)

This is Funker Vogt doing what Funker Vogt does best; commenting on the brutality and the utter futility of mankind and its occupation with war. Simply looking over the names of the songs lent to this work showcases that fact, with the thirteen songs rarely straying from the message they've held high since the beginning. It an odd array that steps outside the typical methodology of approaching this type of message, too, leaning a bit more toward the dance floor than some of the more aggressively pitched songs of the past and coupling harsh vocals to underwrite the meaning behind the music. This paints a bleak picture of sorrorw and suffering, exhibiting with sound what many have painted before in other mediums.

In my opinion, Funker Vogt shows great progress as a band whose work was already seeded with greatness and simply needed polishing in a few areas. They've begun the reengineering of their sound slowly, beautifying it in places and keeping some of the aggression in others, taking the middle ground that drifts further and further into the realm of harsh electronica as the band rediscovers the approach they want to use. This, coupled with the fact that their lyrics, although rough in some ways, still convey the mentality of man and the message that the band wants to get across as it asks you to ponder something, more than makes them worthy of purchase.

Still, listening to the opinion of someone is simply that, and the doubting can listen for themselves here and also look into Metropolis to find out if its for them.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars After a year and a half, this album is still my most played, October 10, 2000

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Xavier13 (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Execution Tracks (Audio CD)

Simply put, I've always had a craving for fast and pounding synth songs. I picked up Execution Tracks after reading about FunkerVogt and hearing a partial track on a German industrial/gothic website. So, I ordered the album and was instantly consumed by "International Killer", "Tragic Hero", and "Shaven". The only song I ever tended to skip was "Fortunes of War", because the volume drops dramatically after "International Killer" and seems drab in comparison. I had a hard time finding any industrial bands to compete with this FV album. After a year and a half, I still love driving with this album blasting in my car. If you yearn for synth sound as much as I do, this album is a must-have! =)