Industrial

Pitchshifter | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (August 28, 2001)
• Original Release Date: 2001
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Peaceville UK
• ASIN: B00005KK59
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,632 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Landfill

2. Brutal Cancroid

3. Gravid Rage

4. New Flesh

5. Catharsis

6. Skin Grip

7. Inflammator

8. Eye

Editorial Reviews

2001 reissue of the groundbreaking industrial metal album originally released in 1992.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Heavy, March 25, 2003

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lafnjack "lafnjack" (Torrance, CA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Industrial (Audio CD)

Quite simply one of the heaviest albums out there. Although its a few years old, its strong, down-turned guitars and chunky riffs are NOT dated. This is a masterstroke for an already amazing band. Its hard to believe that out of all of their GREAT albums, this one outshines most of them, but its true. Anything by Pitchshifter is great...this is just awesome.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, June 22, 2003

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"mokbd9261" - See all my reviews

This review is from: Industrial (Audio CD)

Heavy stuff... Pitchshifter's best! Darker and more disturbing than any of their other releases. If you like this be sure to check out "Desensitized"

3.0 out of 5 stars Shifting pitches, January 12, 2009

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Pharaoh (Erie, PA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Industrial (Audio CD)

Back before Pitchshifter (then Pitch Shifter) went alternative-by-numbers, they used to be a pretty cool metal band. They lumbered onto the scene in the early 90's with a lead-heavy sound that practically belched smoke, a sound so dire and dreary it could only come from the UK's coldest, harshest industrial wastelands. The vocals came in the form of monosyllabic grunts, the drumming was purposefully stiff and programmed, the guitars didn't dazzle with complexity, but rather stunned with blunt force trauma. Their first LP (released by Peaceville) may not seem so impressive now, but transport yourself back to 1991 and you had people scratching their heads at this strange new genre. Industrial is just that - industrial. Nothing more and nothing less. Eight tracks of coarse, hairy industrial-metal in the vein of Godflesh and Ministry's best work. Listen to the jumpy, alien riffs on "Landfill" or the slow-moving guitar waves of "Eye" and you can sense on whose alter these Brits worship on. Industrial is about as subtle as a killing spree, the music pared down to its most raw, simplistic form. Lacking Godflesh's trippiness or Ministry's density, Pitch Shifter nevertheless managed to craft a fine noise that seemed tailor made for the mosh pit. As years went on that noise would become less linear and more cluttered, the Clayden brothers twisting the sound into an amalgam of metal, techno, and punk, until finally the metal influences were dropped altogether with 1998's www.pitchshifter.com.