Hit-and-miss record with cover songs and new material for gothic with a penchant for electronic music - A review of BlutEngel's Fountain of Destiny

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BlutEngel is a German darkwave, Electronic Body Music and futurepop project by renowned vocalist, songwriter and programmer Chris Pohl who has been and is active in numerous other similar projects such as She Hates Emotions. The group is particularly...

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Hit-and-miss record with cover songs and new material for gothic with a penchant for electronic music - A review of BlutEngel's Fountain of Destiny

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BlutEngel is a German darkwave, Electronic Body Music and futurepop project by renowned vocalist, songwriter and programmer Chris Pohl who has been and is active in numerous other similar projects such as She Hates Emotions. The group is particularly...

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Hit-and-miss record with cover songs and new material for gothic with a penchant for electronic music - A review of BlutEngel's Fountain of Destiny

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BlutEngel is a German darkwave, Electronic Body Music and futurepop project by renowned vocalist, songwriter and programmer Chris Pohl who has been and is active in numerous other similar projects such as She Hates Emotions. The group is particularly...

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Hit-and-miss record with cover songs and new material for gothic with a penchant for electronic music - A review of BlutEngel's Fountain of Destiny

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BlutEngel is a German darkwave, Electronic Body Music and futurepop project by renowned vocalist, songwriter and programmer Chris Pohl who has been and is active in numerous other similar projects such as She Hates Emotions. The group is particularly...

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Hit-and-miss record with cover songs and new material for gothic with a penchant for electronic music - A review of BlutEngel's Fountain of Destiny

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BlutEngel is a German darkwave, Electronic Body Music and futurepop project by renowned vocalist, songwriter and programmer Chris Pohl who has been and is active in numerous other similar projects such as She Hates Emotions. The group is particularly...

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Creative, diversified and entertaining but also cold, experimental and noisy - A review of Skold's Dies Irae

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It's really by pure coincidence that I stumbled upon Skold's brand-new fifth studio album Dies Irae. It turns out that Tim Skold was once a Marilyn Manson and Shotgun Messiah member. This also explains why this album offers quirky industrial rock with...

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Reviewing Japan's overlooked rock veterans Ningen Isu - Fifth part: Odoru Issunboushi / Dancing Dwarf (1995)

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Dancing with the ugly dwarf Some people might think that Japanese heavy rock trio Ningen-Isu would slow down at a certain point in its career and there might have been indicators for that surrounding fifth studio album Odoru Issunboushi which roughly...

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Directionless but properly executed - A review of Sirenia's Riddles, Ruins & Revelations

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There is a game my best friend and I are playing from time to time. He will make me listen to groups from his Spotify playlists and recommendations and I have to guess their names. Usually, I'm quite good at this but when it comes to female-fronted symphonic,...

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Interesting concept but slightly restrained execution - A review of Orden Ogan's Final Days

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Four years ago, German melodic heavy and power metal quintet Orden Ogan took us a trip to the past to the Wild West. This time around, the band headed for the future and developed a conceptual record about artificial intelligence and the impending decline...

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A turn for more controversial, heavy and sinister territories - A review of Eisbrecher's Liebe Macht Monster

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Only a few months after the release of the cover album Schicksalsmelodien, German Neue Deutsche Härte band Eisbrecher is back with its ninth studio album Liebe Macht Monster. The record includes fourteen brand-new tracks with a generous running time of...

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