After Live at the Crypt \/ Leichenschrei & Information Overload Unit here comes another SPK re-release on OEC!<\/p>\n
This time we are pleased and honoured to go for Auto-Da-F\u00e9.<\/p>\n
GRAEME REVELL wrote at the end of 2025 a new and complete introduction to such re-edition.<\/p>\n
Those writings are integrated into cover notes for introduce the new (2026) listener into such a very special album who marks an era!<\/p>\n
That album came first out on Walter Ulbricht Schallfolien on LP in 1983!<\/p>\n
Auto-Da-F\u00e9 is a collection of SPK\u2019s singles from between 1978 and 1979.<\/p>\n
The first five tracks, from ’78 and ’79, are basically a scratchy thrashy punk sound, augmented by synthesizers and samples.<\/p>\n
Guitars grind, electronics screech, and metal is most thoroughly bashed.<\/p>\n
Highlight of these early works, and indeed the album, is the deranged SLOGUN.<\/p>\n
The intro to the song, a demented echoing clucking and quacking, leads into a pulverising mechanical grind.<\/p>\n
Surely a candidate for most extreme song of the late 70s and early 80s.<\/p>\n
The next three tracks come from 1981, and a new more synth-oriented sound has been discovered. “Metal Field” and “Walking on Dead Steps”, ever-so-slightly catchy, creepy, with militaristic overtones.<\/p>\n
“A Heart that Breaks (In No Time Or Place)”, is the stand-out here, a minimalistic, almost EBM track, as an empassioned female voice narrates the amazingly bitter lyrics, while seemingly random percussion bashes quietly in the background.<\/p>\n
The final three tracks date from 1982.<\/p>\n
On these tracks, a kind of shamanic quality has overcome the music, a tribal, mystical sound has come into effect.<\/p>\n
Synth-drum beats hold the songs together, as metallic-percussion inject the tracks with a hint of randomness and confusion.<\/p>\n
Vocals are no longer shouted, but delivered calmly, and the synth backing is created through drones, rather than beeps and stabs.<\/p>\n
Every single one of these 11 tracks is of highest INSDUSTRIAL quality.<\/p>\n
Best and rough sound of the era.<\/p>\n
From Industrial-Noise textures to Punk-Trappings to more danceable Industrial Angst-Pop.<\/p>\n
A selection of great SPK hits that made the history of Industrial Muzak.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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