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Troops

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This album absolutely floored me. "Dunkelwerk" (a one-person project) created an industrial symphony of the tragedy and terror of the world wars as experienced by German soldiers and civilians from freezing Stalingrad to fiery Dresden. No glorification of war or martial valor, "Troops" is instead the musical equivalent of Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front."

Industrial's growing kind of stale these days. :w: is simply churning out a new album once a year like clockwork, the club kids seem down with this Combichrist crap that's just four repeated measures for 6 minutes with a few cuss words tossed in, and good God it's all so tedious.

That's what made this such a great find. Sure, it's EBM, and sure, you've got all of the WWII-era samples you'd expect since '95, and sure, it sounds a lot like other beats you've heard before, but the despair sets it apart. I never realized the firebombing of Dresden would make for such a great track. Driving and suited for long, flat stretches of highway, the album just keeps grinding down with the loss and defeat faced by all in war. I love it. Absolutely adore it. One of my favorite albums of the past few years.

For fans of: Funker Vogt, later Evil's Toy, tanks.