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Gothtronic Webzine reviews Blood Death Ivory
Review by TekNoir

ANGELSPIT - Blood Death Ivory (Dancing Ferret/Alive)

The electro-industrial band Angelspit is a band that really owns the increased success to their own efforts. Which band decides to move from Australia to Berlin to be able to do as many concerts as possible in support of their official debut album? Angelspit saw it’s breakthrough in the industrial clubs with an electroclash-like remix by Combichrist of the song 100%.

The band performed alongside Front Line Assembly, KMFDM, Front 242 and The Cruxshadows and the debut album Krankhaus got picked up by the US label Dancing Ferret, who re-released it. A year later Blood Death Ivory gets released through that same label and this second Angelspit album shows a band that has become more mature. The songs on this almost perfectly produced album sound really great. They are more accessible and elecgtronic but definitely not slick at all. ‘Paint Hell Red’, ‘Skinny Little Bitch’, ‘Kill Kitty’, ‘Shaved Monkey’ and ‘Jugular’ are all potential club hits that contain the necessary musical variety as well. A stereotypical approach is not Angelspit’s thing.
Heavy thick sequences, merciless pounding beats, chemically sweetened melodies and a varied use of rhythms, with influences taken from industrial, electro and punk mixed into an explosive cocktail, go well together with the cynical lyrics and combined singing of the duo Zoog and DestroyX.

This is what electropunk should sound like. Angelspit defines the future musical framework for this genre on Blood Death Ivory. Highly recommended to fans of Mindless Self Indulgence, Combichrist, Pzychobitch and KMFDM.

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