Released
1995

Label
Vuz

Reviewed by
Kyle Godbey


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Last Edit/Update
12 July, 1999

Vuz Presents
Various Artists
Terror Flash: New Forms Of Entertainment Vol. II

"Attention boys and girls, this compilation really kicks! Opened by Templebeat's Euro-Dancefloor-Smasher Wicked this gathering of angry young men presents some of the finest attacks of electro/metal/industrial. Catchy combinations of beat and melody to move your feet and intelligent use of the machinery to tie up your brain. Besides four exclusive mixes of Templebeat's forthcoming album you will find an exclusive mix plus three all new tracks by USA's metalic-electro masters And Christ Wept. Last but not least you will encounter the hot and steamy electro-erotic of Wales finest: Skinflick Prod."
[Vuz Records]

Track Listing

1. Templebeat - Wicked (zeroone)
2. Templebeat - World in Motion (tribal)
3. Templebeat - Just Ice (slow)
4. Templebeat - She’s Lost Control
5. And Christ Wept - Resistance Weakens
6. And Christ Wept - Medical
7. And Christ Wept - Terror Shock Treatment
8. And Christ Wept - Fascist Statement (EQed Heil Mix)
9. Skinflick Productions - Punish
10. Skinflick Productions - Pariah
11. Skinflick Productions - Splice
12. Skinflick Productions - Avatar
13. Skinflick Productions - Biosphere
14. Skinflick Productions - A 1000 Lies

    Albums like this never cease to amaze me. You’d think with one band like Electric Hellfire Club, or The Young Gods, or even Sister Machine Gun, we wouldn’t need three more let alone the other hundreds crawling from the woodwork these days. Unfortunately this album is not Cleopatra, so there’s no fair warning as to the contents. Personally when I see that little Cleo eye I drop the cd as if it were blowing biochemical warfare in my face.
The fact is, I am always meeting new and exciting people that keep the entire back catalog of Cleo and Zoth in the back seats of their cars. No matter how man bands pick up a guitar and an Ensoniq and an Alessis drum machine and say, “Hey, if Gravity Kills can get paid... why can’t we?”, someone seems to agree.

Templebeat
    Four Italians chock full of teenage angst and the latest CD from chemlab. The drums remind me of what Ministry was doing ten years ago, the guitars consist of a few power chords under heavy distortion, and the keyboards are little noise fill ins that you hear in MTV industrial. The production on this is pretty sweet, I’m sure these guys have a future on public access TV, but the style is bland. The vocals are you generic Wax Trax distortion, low volume rants. As much as I can’t appreciate this CD, I found my self bobbing around to a few tracks from these guys. They have groove, but it’s the kind of groove you get into and then slap yourself for enjoying once you realize what you’re doing.

And Christ Wept
    Yeah, you’ve probably heard this before. Again, someone got a drum machine, a few distortion pedals, a guitar, and a cheap keyboard. This stuff is much more down tuned and sounds a lot like the stuff Christian industrial labels were realeasing five years ago or so. The vocal effects are kind of nice, but they’re almost to quiet to actually hear. I don’t want to dance here, I don’t want to groove, I don’t want to sing along or care what they are talking about. I’m just wondering why.

Skinflick Productions
    Industrial and sex. That’s new. I’m starting to get the feeling that no one wants to let go of the Wax Trax days. Either that or they’re pissed at TVT for making Wax Trax into vulgar things. This reminds me of a mix of really old Frontline Assembly and some old Thrill Kill Kult. These guys would be better off as a coverband, but maybe they had a stroke of genius once and don’t want anyone to hear it.
    Back to the core of it all, when I wanted to hear Frontline Assembly, Sister Machine Gun, or Thrill Kill Kult.... I listen to them, not the next best thing. Some of you however can’t get enough and maybe have an ear for the differences. Not me. By all means then enjoy this disk to it’s fullest, maybe we’ll see them on Cleopatra Records one day.