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AndThenYouDie releases two new albums – Omaha available for free download
The long-running electro/industrial group AndThenYouDie (a.k.a. ATYD) from Vaasa, Finland, spits out two new albums.
The anticipated new album Fallout, a follow-up to their 2003 release Abuse Park, will be released in January 2008 by Onyxia Records. To keep things warm in the grip of winter, ATYD has already made available a digital shadow release - Omaha - free download for high-end music. With Omaha ATYD paints an imminent landscape of inhumanity and delivers a view of the dark and uncontrollable side of human mind. Omaha is released only in the Internet and can be downloaded for free. All downloaders are given a voluntary possibility to support the artist directly with an appropriate amount of their own consideration.
Download Omaha from: www.skithundrecords.org/andthenyoudie.
Additional information:
www.onyxia.org
www.skithundrecords.org
www.myspace.com/atyd
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Album review / Abuse Park
The band with the uplifting name And Then You Die has been around for a very long time now. It was formed in Vaasa, Finland, in 1990 and at that point meant to be something of an art collective, focusing not only on music but also various visual expressions. Later on I think it was all about the music, at least what laid open for the world's eyes to see. Having never heard of this band before this was not what I had expected, in fact far from it. Weird is what it is, weird indeed. We have the electronic experimentalism and the harshness of Nine Inch Nails, the cold heaviness of Godflesh and a pinch or two of melancholic psychedelia. If the music itself is weird then perhaps it's even weirder that I found this album quite enjoyable. I do have one objection though - I would have preferred if they could have left out the noise in a couple of songs, it doesn't add anything to the experience with the exception for annoyance. Singing in Finnish doesn't sound that good either but luckily most of the songs have English lyrics. Nine Inch Nails may still be gods to most fans of modern industrial music but there are some other bands out there worth looking into and this Finnish act is one of them. And Then You Die is industrial enough for fans of industrial music, monotonous enough for fans of ritual music and heavy enough for the metal fan in you. In short, they have found a nice balance in their music. [6,5/10]
"Vincent Eldefors / Tartarean Desire"
Album review / Abuse Park
Finland, the European country with the highest suicide and alcoholism rates. A country where nights are long, very long. Where days are short, very short. Or so say the clichés... But it’s not And then you die’s music that is going to deny them. Speaking of stereotypes, when it comes to music, Finland is the place famous for Nightwish, Children of Bodom or Spinefarm crap. Let’s hope the industrial driller of ATYD will kill them soon. I got to know them through a friend of mine who said “you gotta listen to them, they are greatâ€. So I contacted the label to see if I could get hold of a copy. Then I heard that one of the blokes at the label was a friend of my friend... I got kinda scared that I had been tricked by someone who got over-enthusiast because he knew those who were releasing the CD. The parcel arrived, I put the CD my stereo. I was immediately relieved. This stuff is truly great.
Apparently, And then you die has a very long history: the band was formed as early as 1990. Over those 13 years, they have released 5 CD’s, ep’s, 7 or 12 inches. Abuse Park, which seems to be a compilation of various tracks taken from all ATYD prior records, is the first album to be released on Onyxia records, an exciting new label focusing on noise/industrial/electronics/experimental music. Keep an eye on them. I don’t know whether that aim is still up-to-date (that wouldn’t surprise me, Atyd and their label being what I’d call aesthetic/visual interested people), but ATYD initial ambition was to be an art collective mixing music, film and various other arts. They are now a duet when they record.
Industrial music has a long history. Throbbing Gristle, Einstürzende Neubaten, Foetus and many more have been at the forefront of daring music world-wide and have had a major impact on electronic music. In regards to ATYD, those bands had a huge influence on a scene that sprung in Birmingham through two incredibly talented individuals: JK Broadrick and Mick Harris. Those two legends and their various projects (such as Godflesh, Techno Animal, Tech Level 2, God, Scorn or Lull) come to mind immediately when you listen to Abuse Park.
And don’t expect me to complain: when talking about references, you can’t get much better than Broadrick and Harris. Even more: ATYD manages to always sound fresh and original. It’s all about respecting the forefathers and remaining original. For how do you want to show all due respect to people that perform very unique music if you don’t go further than they do? Neither them nor us do need copycats.
ATYD uses guitars (although it’s not the main instrument and sometimes is buried deep beneath the other sound sources), bass (very heavy, I’d say it’s the most important instrument on Abuse Park), loads of machines and sometimes real drums. The overall sound is very cold. If I’m not mistaken, the lyrics are mostly sung in finnish and the vocalist plays on the way he sings in a very interesting way, which brings a nice change when you think of all those one- dimensional vocalists. As I said earlier, the band’s roots undeniably lie in dark music. From Industrial-Metal riffs and rhythms to Prong-esque grooves to dark dub/ambient/trip-hop à la Scorn Evanescence era to folk à la Swans (on Junkie) to Einstürzende Neubauten own brand of Indus (listen to Aavistus orgiaa , it will remind you of Installation N°1 and its lyrics “just one law, disobey!†which fit perfectly to ATYD attitude). I even hear some hiphop and drum'n'bass beats somewhere in here...
This CD is a trip into a post-apocalyptic world, dark, cold and pitiless. A vision of our world in a few years, after THE catastrophe. From our industrial society, only ruins remain. Here and there you see the metallic skeletons of plants and factories. Nature should take over but it won’t, it just can’t, it’s dead too... The sky is grey or maybe amber. Anyway, it’s troubled. Abuse park could be the soundtrack of Caro and Jeunet’s cult movie Delicatessen if you remove the happy ending. A place where you wouldn’t want to live...
Most metal fans won’t get this. Neither will regular fans of trip-hop. This is too dark and heavy. This is too demanding. And then you die is a band that music needed, visually as much as sonically. Abuse park is limited to 500 copies. Get it now, d’ya hear me? 5/5 Rating: [5 of 5 Stars]
"François Monti / Musique Machine"
Album review / Abuse ParkDie Musik von And Then You Die zu beschreiben ist nicht einfach, sie in eine der vielen geläufigen Genres einzuordnen quasi ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit. Los geht es mit "Maggot", einer Art Electro-Funk-Rock-Kombination, die mit sehr ungewöhnlichen Vocals in zerknirscht-gebrummter Rhythmik und Tonalität aufwartet. Trotz dieser eigenartig anmutenden Mischung, und gerade wegen der unkonventionellen Gesangsmethode, weiß der Song zu überzeugen und führt so selbstbewusst das Album "Abuse Park" an. Das darauffolgende "Stroke By Stroke" startet ebenfalls mit elektronisch-rockigem Gerüst, mischt dann allerdings vereinzelt Noiseelemente ein, die vor allem den verzerrt gebrüllten Refrain untermalen. Weiter geht es dann wieder ganz anders, mit dem chilligen "Sydämeni Laulu" in leichter Stonerrock-Manier, ein wahrer Ohrwurm-Track, genauso wie "Cease To Exist". Dieser Song fesselt vor allem durch seine dominant-markante Bassmelodie, der ein sehr charismatischer Sprechgesang zur Seite steht. Hin und wieder schleichen sich auch hier wieder abgedrehte und schrill-noisige Samplesequenzen ein, die dem Ganzen den nötigen Pfiff verleihen. So könnte man nun einen Song nach dem Anderen aufzählen, jeder hat seine besonderen Eigenheiten, wie es sich für ein ordentliches Experimental-Album gehört. Auch wenn "Abuse Park" einen hohen Gitarrenanteil aufweist, kann man es keinesfalls als Industrial-Rock oder ähnliches bezeichnen, dazu ist der elektronisch-experimentelle Bestandteil doch zu ausgeprägt."Abuse Park" ist eine kleine Perle für Liebhaber, die sowohl mit ruhigem Gitarrensound als auch mit Electroklängen zurechtkommen. Songs wie "Tonight" würden sich sogar sehr gut als Untermalung an einer Bar machen, wobei ein großer Teil des Albums zwar auf diese Lounge-Schiene aufsetzt, in seinen Ausprägungen jedoch wesentlich experimentellere Pfade beschreitet als daß And Then You Die mit dieser CD den Weg in die Clubs finden könnte. Dennoch sollten auch in dieser Musikrichtung Interessierte hier mal ein Ohr riskieren. Von meiner Seite aus bekommt "Abuse Park" ganz klar den Geheimtipp-Stempel aufgedrückt.
"Necroweb Musikmagazin"
Single review / Maggot Drone edit
Etwas älter, genauer wohl von 1996, laut Label Homepage, ist die blaue 7" von And Then You Die, einer finnischen Band die mir bis jetzt völlig unbekannt war.
Das Titelstück Maggot ist hier im Drone Edit vertreten, welche Unterschiede es genau zum Original gibt weiß ich leider nicht. Das Stück erinnert mich an alte Krupps Sachen. Über einem elektronischen fundament spielt eine E Gitarre immer das gleiche Riff das von stumpfen, heftigen Beats begleitet wird. Sicher für die Tanzfläche geeignet, für den Gebrauch zu Hause zumindest für mich eher nicht.
Seite 2 beginnt mit dem Stück Kachol. Flott gespielte (gesampelte?) akustische Gitarren bilden den Anfang bevor die Elektronik den Faden später aufnimmt. Im weiteren Verlauf spielen alle Elemente zusammen, mit den Keyboards im Hintergrund entsteht ein etwas epischerer Eindruck. Mir gefällts. Dann kommt 8, ein Stück das ebenfalls mit einem rockigen Rhytmus beginnt bevor raue, punkige Gitarren einsetzen. Sehr primitiv, im Hintergrund gibts ein wenig Elektronik.
Für Leute die gerne rockigen Elektro mögen vielleicht ein gute Anschaffung. Die Platte war auf 333 Stk. limitiert, weitere Infos gibt..s auf:
http://www.skithundrecords.vaasa.net/
"Neo-form.de / Thomas Ehrhardt"
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