CD Review: Suicide Commando – Implements of Hell
February 4th, 2010 Filed under: Reviews - Music by admin
CD Review – Suicide Commando
Implements of Hell
Metropolis Records
When you have 24 years of experience under your belt, you clearly know what you are doing. Belgian dark electro activist Johan Van Roy, the man behind Suicide Commando, is ready to command your damnation as early in the year as possible with his new full-length album, Implements of Hell. As one of the originators of the genre, he’s still on the forefront and the new release deserves careful attention, as always.
Since Johan knows what he is doing, the main question is why does Suicide Commando sound different? Not bad, but different. The distinct trademark sound familiar from Bind, Torture, Kill is gone, replaced by a more not-so-disctinct dark electro/electro industrial one, complete with a stronger concept throughout the album. Not as if it comes unexpected, considering the teaser Die, Motherfucker, Die, which came out last year.
Well, if you’re that conservative, then you might be a bit disappointed. Go buy yourself a pack of tissue, while we thoroughly enjoy tracks like “Death Cures All Pain”, simple but striking artwork and the atmosphere of darkness and evil, that creeps and is ready to jump and devour you. Best digested as a concept album, from beginning to end, the album still has some tracks that stand out, e.g. “God is in the Rain”, where Dr. Commando treats us with a 90′s cyber embrace, merged with more than modern beat.
Bonus points go to “Severed Head”, where the sample is absolutely brilliant, the matter of fact tone of the narrator is the doctor’s recipe. Or is it commandante’s?
By Arceon
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