Review# 18
Deathstars is what you get when you have a band that has essentially become fed up with the (especially at the time) current Stockholm metal scene. This line up is a incredibly changed and metamorphosed version Swordmaster, a black metal band. Apparently Kiss was a huge influence early on but by the time Synthetic Generation, their debut album, was released they really sound more like Rammstein with a bit of Marilyn Manson. The band radically changed their image and sound, no longer another black or death metal band struggling through the scene of the time, not by a long shot! The name Deathstars does not have any link to Star Wars, it is essentially Death Metal and Stars.
This album is much more raw sounding than the next two albums, it is dark and obnoxious and sleazy. Whiplasher has a fantastic grimy voice to carry across the lyrics and the distortion on the guitars backs this up nicely. Deathstars specialise in tracks that can really get a dance floor moving, if that dance floor was in an Industrial metal bar, with tracks like Modern Death, New Dead Nation, Synthetic Generation and Revolution Exodus. But in saying that they have wonderful sludgy slow(ish) song like Syndrome and Little Angels.
Give this album a spin if you like Rammstein or Manson, Deathstars aren't genre pioneers as such but they are a great band and they tick all of the right boxes.
Synthetic Generation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlhbrEMX7mM
Syndrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KgZfVOmOAc&ob=av2em
Deathstars is what you get when you have a band that has essentially become fed up with the (especially at the time) current Stockholm metal scene. This line up is a incredibly changed and metamorphosed version Swordmaster, a black metal band. Apparently Kiss was a huge influence early on but by the time Synthetic Generation, their debut album, was released they really sound more like Rammstein with a bit of Marilyn Manson. The band radically changed their image and sound, no longer another black or death metal band struggling through the scene of the time, not by a long shot! The name Deathstars does not have any link to Star Wars, it is essentially Death Metal and Stars.
This album is much more raw sounding than the next two albums, it is dark and obnoxious and sleazy. Whiplasher has a fantastic grimy voice to carry across the lyrics and the distortion on the guitars backs this up nicely. Deathstars specialise in tracks that can really get a dance floor moving, if that dance floor was in an Industrial metal bar, with tracks like Modern Death, New Dead Nation, Synthetic Generation and Revolution Exodus. But in saying that they have wonderful sludgy slow(ish) song like Syndrome and Little Angels.
Give this album a spin if you like Rammstein or Manson, Deathstars aren't genre pioneers as such but they are a great band and they tick all of the right boxes.
Synthetic Generation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TlhbrEMX7mM
Syndrome: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KgZfVOmOAc&ob=av2em
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