Human: Cadaver Academy – April NZ Tour 2008
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- Human: Cadaver Academy – April NZ Tour 2008
- The greats of Goth
- Shining in its Evil Splendor
Human: Cadaver Academy – April NZ Tour 2008
Scoop.co.nz – Scoop.co.nz (press release) – Mar 20, 2008
Since then they haveproduced a massive back catalogue of original music touredseveral times over released several music videos receivedairplay all over the world and played alongside metallegends the likes of Pungent Stench and Dragonforce. Theyhave gained a large following in the metal underground sceneand have earned a reputation as a live act to be reckonedwith. Having a crazy Monty Python meets Napalm Death side totheir music has both die hard fans and first time listenerseagerly anticipating the band next movements. Unpredictability is a handy weapon to have in any band’sarsenal – and this group has got it inabundance. ‘Cadaver Academy’ is the working title forHUMAN’s next album due to be released sometime in 2008… Since then they haveproduced a massive back catalogue of original music touredseveral times over released several music videos receivedairplay all over the world and played alongside metallegends the likes of Pungent Stench and Dragonforce. Theyhave gained a large following in the metal underground sceneand have earned a reputation as a live act to be reckonedwith. Having a crazy Monty Python meets Napalm Death side totheir music has both die hard fans and first time listenerseagerly anticipating the band next movements. Unpredictability is a handy weapon to have in any band’sarsenal – and this group has got it inabundance. ‘Cadaver Academy’ is the working title forHUMAN’s next album due to be released sometime in 2008.
The greats of Goth
Telegraph.co.uk – Mar 20, 2008
Carl McCoy Along with the Mission’s Wayne Hussey Fields of the Nephilim front man McCoy brought a new aesthetic to the goth male look – that of the long-haired dusty cowboy complete with jackboots leather trousers and waistcoats. His lyrics were inspired by Aleister Crowley while his fans were inspired to make strange windmill arms in the air. Marilyn Manson In the Nineties goth music morphed into industrial death metal and even emo. Manson’s American take on the genre was a million miles away from Bauhaus and the Banshees but his look took the basics from everybody and ran with it.
Shining in its Evil Splendor
PopMatters – Mar 20, 2008
“This album is almost like a sample platter of everything that we’ve done through the years and in that it’s less focused if you will but that’s a good thing I think” explains Haake on the phone from Sweden where the band is rehearsing for its upcoming North American tour in support of Ministry. “Focus can easily turn into something too linear as well like the Nothing album in retrospect it’s kind of mid-tempo all the way through but I think that album is more focused because of that. ”More preoccupied with the sheer physicality of the music than the lurching convoluted guitar melodies of Catch Thirtythree the ferocity of obZen from the songs’ structures to the taut performances to the absolutely crystalline production sounds like such a breath of fresh air especially coming in the wake of the rather stilted and mildly disappointing Catch Thirtythree. But the key ingredient that the last album sorely missed however was Haake himself who opted to record the extremely complicated album using programmed drums which had many metal fans up in arms. “For what that album was even though each of our albums is to some extent an experiment Catch Thirtythree was just so much more of that” he says. “We also noticed pretty early on that for what we wanted with a more guitar-driven album the programmed drums really worked well. So we just went ahead and did it.
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