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Rating: The sound rapist. The terrorist of EBM. The sick head of the darkest Flemish Industrial. Simply a man: Johan Van Roy. The mad mind of the 'one man band' Suicide Commando, who managed to lay waste to half of Europe with his glacially brutal screams and his hits of formidable instrumental aggression. Johan Van Roy and his metallically sick nightmares.
Since the late '80s, Van Roy, under the name Suicide Commando, started to make a name for himself in the Industrial-EBM scene par excellence: the Belgian one. All this thanks to a strong personality and a taste for sound and the most violent experimentation of beats, very close and suitable to the explosive mixture that was circulating in Europe at that time. We're talking about fundamental personalities in the Belgian scene of the time, such as: Front 242, Sonar later on, and the Klinik of Mark Verhaeghen, Eric Van Wonterghem (later Monolithic), and Dirk Ivens (then Dive). Only eight years and several initial demos and tapes later, the debut album 'Critical Stage' was released, followed just a year later by the second 'Stored Images'. Powerful and impactful albums that contain some of the most famous club hits of the Belgian 'ensemble', re-proposed and revisited for the occasion in the collection in question. An anthology that somehow will serve as a watershed between the 'old' production very much tied to a late 80s and early 90s sound and the more recent one characterized by more devastating albums of enormous sonic power and more appreciated among the genre's enthusiasts in its more typically danceable side, such as the recent 'Axis Of Evil' and 'Cause Of Death: Suicide' of 2004. A compact evolution of the sounds that brought Van Roy directly and forcefully to the top spots in the alternative charts of half of Europe.
There's everything and much more in this first 'Anthology' dated 2002, a testimony to over fifteen years of career. There's a shrill and terrifying parade of the greatest tracks of the 90-02 decade. A blend of deep malaise and insanity. Two discs for an hour and a half of fear and madness. An hour and a half of wild iron dances, of relentless hypnotic dances in dark and infernal rooms on rotting floors infested by nightmares of the worst kind.
The chilling introduction of 'Better Off Dead' has the honor of opening the EBM collection with a macabre metallic dance that will set the pace for the hallucinatory journey into the planet of Suicide Commando... cursed dances that will continue with explosive whiplashes on the cathartic notes of 'Dein Herz, Meine Gier', another club hit contained in the 2001 EP 'Love Breeds Suicide' that, upon release, confirmed Suicide Commando at the top spot in Germany. This dark, chilling journey into the entrails and mind of Johan Van Roy will lead us blindly across expanses of hammering and obsessive sounds traced and marked by explosive and dazzling screeches. We will get lost, disoriented, and damnably fascinated among more markedly electronic tracks ('Never Get Out', 'Burn Baby Burn', 'Intercourse', 'Murder') to real wandering dancefloor mines like 'Traumatize', 'Necrophilia', 'Hellraiser'... from malignant Gothic-EBM 'lullabies' ('Save Me', 'Love Breeds Suicide', 'See You In Hell') to powerful Techno-Industrial anthems ('Desire', 'Better Off Dead', 'Dein Herz, Meine Gier') in an endless and shocking incandescently cold and desolate scenario.
The second CD of the anthology ranges greatly like the first between more or less recent productions. In addition to giving us unique and rare versions of fan-favorites like 'See You In Hell', 'Desire', and 'Better Off Dead' and returning them to us dirtied with even more bloody and apocalyptic hues, the disc contains excellent remixes as well as the cover of one of the hits by the ever-Belgian Klinik: 'Sick in Your Mind'.
The tracks built on fearfully devastating granite bases reveal violent and direct lyrics in their cold and penetrating minimalism always perfectly mixed with tight melodies at high intensity, robotic and mechanically incisive. The samples, fast and adrenaline-pumping, enhance the work of the truculent and paranoid drum machines and the repetitive and furious synthesizers. The rhythms are obsessively claustrophobic and derailing, ready for continuous sudden transformations.
A journey, that of Suicide Commando in the most visceral underground at double speed and always with one foot on the accelerator and the gaze lost out the window on those landscapes of fire and fog that surround it... a nice little trip to the center of a boiling and frozen hell if you will...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Better Off Dead (06:22)
In the name of Jesus
What have we done
Slow death and diseases
We're on the run
No one will hear you
You're on your own
No one to save you
We all die alone
We're better
Off dead
We're the slaves of evil
Where angels weep
Escape from my hell
You fucking creep
We killed our nature
We lost all hope
Destroy my creature
Where is the rope
We're better
Off dead
02 Dein Herz, Meine Gier (05:44)
Dein Tod, die Ewigkeit
Dein Blut, es tut mir so leid
Die Liebe lebt nicht mehr
Meine Sehnsucht umso mehr
Nie wieder trennst du dich
Nie wieder lass ich dich gehen
Nie wieder hasst du mich
Nie wieder lässt du mich stehen
Dein Herz, meine Gier
Ab jetzt gehörst du nur mir
Dein Herz, meine Gier
Ab jetzt verbleibst du bei mir
Meine Angst, dein Übermut
Mein Hass, in voller Wut
Die Liebe ist nicht mehr
Mein verlangen umso mehr
Nie wieder trennst du dich
Nie wieder lass ich dich gehen
Nie wieder hasst du mich
Nie wieder lässt du mich stehen
Dein Herz, meine Gier
Ab jetzt gehörst du nur mir
Dein Herz, meine Gier
Ab jetzt verbleibst du bei mir
Mein verlangen, meine Gier
Ab jetzt gehörst du mir
07 Desire (04:43)
Desire
You turn me on
Your blood my ecstasy
Desire
Don't try to run
Your pain my fantasy
The pain, the fear
Your hell is here
Your grave, my dear
Your death is near
Desire .....
09 Comatose Delusion (Overdose Shot Two) (05:10)
Overdose infusion
Comatose delusion
Overdose illusion
Comatose delusion
Resist
Resist to evil
Refuse
Refuse to die
Insert
Insert the needle
Resist
Resist
Overdose infusion
Comatose delusion
Overdose illusion
Comatose delusion
10 Necrophilia (03:48)
I want to get your body
I want to get inside
your ice cold body
covered in shrouds
I want to taste your body
I want to taste your smile
you make me feel so horny
you're making me go wild
necrophilia
I penetrate your body
I'm getting inside
your eyes wide open
staring at the sky
I'm taking of your clothes
you're looking so livid
to hell with religion
you're dead, I'm living
necrophilia
music & words by Johan Van Roy
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