Various - The Blackest Album / An Industrial Tribute To Metallica - Volume 1

Label:

Cleopatra

Catalog#:

CLP 0323-2

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Released:

1998

Genre:

Electronic

Style:

EBM, Industrial

Tracklist

1	Apoptygma Berzerk -	Nothing Else Matters	4:40
2	Die Krupps -	Battery (Re-Filtered By Filter Section)	4:59
		Remix - Filter Section
3	Razed In Black -	The Thing That Should Not Be (Back In Black Mix)	5:00
4	Spew -	For Whom The Bell Tolls	4:40
5	Hellsau -	Master Of Puppets	5:00
6	Razed In Black -	Damage Inc.	4:07
7	Abaddon -	Whiplash	2:39
8	Godheads -	Wherever I May Roam	4:24
9	Element, The -	Nothing Else Matters (Elemental Mix)	3:41
10	Carbon 12 -	The Thing That Should Not Be	4:58
11	Birmingham 6 -	Seek And Destroy	4:58
12	In Strict Confidence -	Sad But True	4:57
13	La Honda Militia -	Battery (High Voltage Mix)	4:49

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Rated 3/5

Review by ThomasBear Jan 08, 2006 (edited over 3 years ago)

I have a soft spot for this release because it was the first ever true industrial release I ever got my hands on. Retrospectively, I'm amazed that I listened to it as so much back then and then actively got into the genre too.
Ever since Die Krupps released the first industrial "Tribute To Metallica", we've seen a steady stream in "The Blackest Album" series (I think they're up to 4 now).
Releases like this are generally pot luck. Many of the interpretations are atrocious. Some are interesting. A few more are just weird. A sekect few are decent or better. This one had all sorts. There's an absurdly minimalist bleepy version of Battery (La Honda Militia). There's a strangely poppy and almost orchestral interpretation of Nothing Else Matters (Apoptygma Berzerk). There's a ridiculously heavy and dark version of Master Of Puppets (Hellsau) - and there's a whole bunch of fillers to pad out the rest. Every track is fundamentally different, the one common factor of course being that they're all Metallica covers/interpretations.
Very hit and miss. But it was just enough to get me over the line and open my mind to industrial - so it can't be all bad.