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

Label: Cleopatra
Catalog#: CLP 0323-2
Format: CD
Country:US
Released:1998
Genre: Electronic
Style: EBM, Industrial
Notes:
Rating: 3.50/5 (6 votes) Rate It
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Tracklisting:

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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User Reviews:
ThomasBear, Jan 08, 2006

I have a soft spot for this release because it was the first ever true industrial release I ever got my hands on. Retrospectively, Im 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", weve seen a steady stream in "The Blackest Album" series (I think theyre 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. Theres an absurdly minimalist bleepy version of Battery (La Honda Militia). Theres a strangely poppy and almost orchestral interpretation of Nothing Else Matters (Apoptygma Berzerk). Theres a ridiculously heavy and dark version of Master Of Puppets (Hellsau) - and theres a whole bunch of fillers to pad out the rest. Every track is fundamentally different, the one common factor of course being that theyre 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 cant be all bad.

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