MIND RIPPER II
Various Artists
Van Richter

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Label comp from aggro-dustrial pushers Van Richter highlights the latest gloom-tunes from their impressive roster of post-Apocalyptic cyberpunks. The death disco gets rolling with a typically icy track from Germanic disaster baiters The Fair Sex before launching into the creepadelic “Halloween” from synthcore legends Girls Under Glass. Testify offer up the awesomely titled, 8-minute electro-nuclear track “Quest of Nothing (Warzone Pharmaceuticals mix)", Plastic Noise Experience ping and bling through a dated sounding goth tune, Death and Horror, Inc. blast their way through a terror-train of noise and static, and Sielwolf close out the first round of hits-from-hell with a percussion-heavy dose of scary freakdustrial. And then it all starts over again, with slight variations. All of the bands on deck owe at least half their sound to Skinny Puppy and/or Christian Death, but the best of ‘em (Testify, Death & Horror, Sielwolf) manage to keep the zombie-beats sounding fresh. If you’re looking for something you can dance AND die to, just dig around in here, you’ll find it. ________________________________________________________

-Sleazegrinder