Legacy of Hate & Lust

Leather Strip | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (November 21, 1995)
• Original Release Date: September 28, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Cleopatra
• ASIN: B000001JTR
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #426,740 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Not your average gothic/industrial., August 20, 2000

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Igor Savtchenko (Long Beach, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legacy of Hate & Lust (Audio CD)

'Legacy of Hate and Lust' is my favorite Leather Strip album so far. The lyrics are intelligent, emotional, and passionately sung. The music alternates between harsher industrial and more harmonic gothic with classical overtones, which makes this album very polyphonic and offers a spiritual as well as emotional odyssey. Most of the tracks are quite dancable, but if you are looking for an album that is only harsh, non-stop, pounding industrial, check out 'Solitary Confinement'; I found both of these albums to complement each other very well.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Leather Legacy, December 14, 2001

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"soulscythe" (Orlando, FL United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legacy of Hate & Lust (Audio CD)

Claus Larsen's 'Legacy of Hate & Lust' album is quite good. I have often seen him as the Trent Reznor of the Euro scene- and with good reason! No only does Larsen's skill in composition run parallel to Reznor's, but Leather Strip manages to capture more of the early underground darkwave vibe (maybe that's because Larsen has been around longer than Reznor). Had Reznor written "Down There With You", it would have received ceaseless air time... but as it stands, Leather Strip is destined to be a non-commercial entity.

'Legacy of Hate & Lust' is heavily dependent on synthesizers (more so than NIN)- and that is mainly what the pieces are comprised of. The songs tend to be well written and portray emotion through the use of different sonic soundscapes. Highlight here are the classics "Down There With You", "I Won't Look Back", and "No Rest for the Wicked". Definitely a very good CD that unfortunately falls short of perfection. Fans of Nine Inch Nails and Soul Scythe should give Leather Strip a listen without hesitation...

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Larsen's 2nd Best Work, July 19, 1998

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[e-mail] (Oroville, California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Legacy of Hate & Lust (Audio CD)

As a huge fan of Leaether Strip, I would have to say that this album, Legacy of Hate and Lust, is sonically brilliant. Showing loss, hurt, and over-all emotional break throughs (and break downs), the lyrics are his most penetrating. Track eight (listed as #9 here), "I won't look back" is my favorite Strip song to date. It is hard not to imagine the frustration on Claus's face towards the end of this amazing piece. The only other album to make me feel so complete by LS is Anal Cabaret. Both are definately worth picking up, and show his truly awesome talent. Brilliant work, Claus!