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Band: Stahlschlag Album: Acousticophobie Album Year: 2007 Label: Hypervoxx Genre(s): Power Noise
Rating: 4/10
In summary, Acousticophobie is a really straight-forward power noise album. It’s not terrible, but it’s just really….boring and generic. They don’t try to break any boundaries and there is nothing at all that you haven’t heard before.
The album kicks right off with a very brief sample and goes right into a drum beat. Every track is what you’d expect from generic power noise. Some simple 4/4 quasi-distorted beats, a simple bass line and then some clicking and poping noises. They aren’t bad, per say, just boring. Every track sounds like it could’ve been made with the same 5 drum hits and the same bass patch. One thing that kills it for me is actually the LACK of distortion. I mean it is obvious that they want to make power noise, but just having normal sounding drums in a power noise structure is pretty bland. This shit needs more noise! It’s not crunchy at all. The songs aren’t really driving at all either. I realize that most power noise is void of emotion, but this doesn’t even have anger or power behind it. It feels very…empty. I have a feeling this would appeal to fans of the minimalist power noise stuff like Xotox though.
In conclusion, as I’m sure you’ve surmised, I wasn’t really thrilled with the album. I feel as though stuff like this is what gives power noise a bad name. Anyone can run some beats through a bit of distortion, call it power noise and release an album. It seems that these days everyone and their brother has a power noise side project, and Stahlschlag shows no desire or drive to separate itself from the pack of boring power noise.
-[.d4n b4rr3tt.] |
