Shockwave [Enhanced]

Decoded Feedback | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 18, 2003)
• Original Release Date: 2003
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B000089CMN
• Also Available in: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #427,237 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Phoenix

2. Bondage

3. Democracy

4. The Fruit of Wisdom

5. Heaven

6. Do You See

7. Nothingness

8. Organic

9. Shockwave

10. Burn Europe Burn

11. Love Will Save You [Cover Version]

12. Phoenix [Multimedia Track]

Customer Reviews

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best releases of 2003, October 24, 2003

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S. Benson "Neve2004" (Planet Earth) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Shockwave (Audio CD)

Decoded Feedback's "Shockwave" and Suicide Commando's "Axis of Evil" are without a doubt the two best release of 2003 (as of 10/23/03 anyway).

I was shocked by how good shockwave was, having followed Decoded Feedback for a bit now, this is by far their best CD. I guess a lot of people will call it ebm, but to me it felt darker and more industrial, more so than any other DF I have heard before.

As a DJ I have been playing two songs a lot, both "Bondage" and "Phoenix" (been playing the video for phoenix a lot recently). To me "Phoenix" is both the best song personally and for DJing, it always does really well on the floor and has a great dark grinding beat.

Any Industrial type DJ would be amiss to not have this in their collection.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round, March 16, 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

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This review is from: Shockwave (Audio CD)

In the realms of EBM music, I oftentimes find my tastes attracted to the more melodic, heavy voxed sounds of chaos that some bands produce in addition to the worlds of greeting card lyrics and love songs. This is because these messages seem to have depth and meaning that go beyond the normal range that noise, speaking out on realms of social reasoning and political entrapment as well as the way a certain someone can make you feel. For this reason, I hold bands like Decoded Feedback in high regard because, no matter the instance or the socioceremonial rite, they have interestingly dark things to say.

While progressively manufacturing the darker side of the EBM rainbow, Decoded Feedback has gone through some remarkable transitions that have always taken me time to grow accustomed to. These have been gradual in some album to album instances, ranging only in the motions of the beats or the rhythmic waves of the voxed vocal stylizations. They have been more noticeable as well, especially in the last two album's case, with Mechanical Horizons showcasing a change in how the tempos were approached and how the vocals were done and now, with the old and the new merging in some rites and changing in others. Here, the mentalities of voxed lyrics combine with the style produced on Mechanical Horizons where the distortion is dropped and a gruff form of singing is illustrated, and the beats are slower and more orchestrated than the normality adopted by most of Informatik's faster paced releases. They are still electronic and they incorporate more types of sound than the simple beats that are sometimes used, but they don't have the same dancefloor feeling that some of the former releases held. Still, it is worthy of them, by and far.

If you have liked the former releases by Decoded Feedback and didn't mind the changes in Mechanical horizons, then this would be a sure bet. Even if you didn't like the changes, however, its worth a listen to see if the addition of voxed vocals brings you back into the listening fold. For anyone that has yet to check out Decoded Feedback, I'd recommend starting in the Syntax arena and then moving forward. That way you can see how the band progresses and notice how easily the newly incorporated sounds grown on you. Still, if you are curious about how they sound now you can easy find out by either listening to a sample provided or looking at Metropolis before purchasing.

4.0 out of 5 stars An okay album, March 20, 2006

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Alison G (N. Richland Hills, Tx, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Shockwave (Audio CD)

There's a few tracks here that stands out amongst others such as "Phoenix" (which riffs kind of remind me of Rammstein's music - definately a plus), "Bondage", and "Shockwave". However, my beef with this album, after listening to it several times, is that all the songs seem to blend in together and get somewhat boring. Perhaps this isn't Decoded Feedback's best cd, I don't know... this is my first cd I've heard from them. Perhaps I'm just more used to danceable stuff? Nonetheless, this is great for background music even or driving.