Wasted Sky

Numb

Product Details

• Audio CD (May 16, 1995)
• Original Release Date: July 18, 1995
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Metropolis Records
• ASIN: B000005OOU
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #334,881 in Music (See Bestsellers in Music)

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dark and Evil, August 3, 1999

By A Customer

Numb at it's best. Dark and evil music, with lyrics to match. Highly recommened. sythns, samples, with some guitars. They also put on a good show, saw them with Front Line Assembly. Check them out, can't compare them to any other band.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best Numb album, December 17, 2004

By	Music Fan - See all my reviews

I love this CD. Although it is dancey, it is more industrial than other "industrial" bands. It has plenty of effects and samples to keep it interesting. It is very dark but not ridiculously like Wumpscut and VAC can be. All these songs are hits. This came out before EBM lost its industrial influence and became techno music with maybe a vocoder.

5.0 out of 5 stars Started off like 'puppy' now has their own sound, June 24, 2004

By	Rocky IV "metrohillbilly" (Loveland, CO United States) - See all my reviews

Here's an overlooked and fantastic band for you. Although "Numb" hasn't done a lot of music for a band that's been around as long as FLA, their music is very powerful. I own all six of their albums (at least I think it's six unless they've done one recently I don't know about) and each album is distinctly different and unique from the previous. Starting with the self titled album 'Numb' which sounded a lot like that old feel-good 80s 'puppy' then to 'Christmeister' which in many ways was similar to the sound that 'Ministry' demonstrated in the late 80s. Then there was 'Death on the Installment Plan' which seemed to have blended the previous sounds quite powerfully and uniquely. And now on 'Wasted Sky' Numb's sound seems to have completely evolved into their own. Although the 'puppy' influence may still be there, "Numb" is a band that can be compared to no other. I could say they're like NIN, but more intensely darker, or I could say they're like FLA but more straight forward and danceable. Or I could say they're like VAC, only without all those movie samples. But none of these comparisons do them justice because they have their own sound that has to be heard by each music fan before being labeled. I think this is probably their best album (at least I think it's my favorite), but their later work on 'Blood Meridian' and 'Language of Silence' is great, great stuff too.