00:00 - 1. - Stormfront
07:45 - 2. - Strong Arm Faction
14:06 - 3. - Zerstorer
17:39 - 4. - Wolves Of Flame And Shadow
22:10 - 5. - Iron Law: Iron Will
23:10 - 6. - Conflagration Total War
26:55 - 7. - Putrid Stigmata
29:46 - 8. - Bacillus Satanas
34:03 - 9. - Kommand
Copyright © Feldgrau, 2005
Copyright © Agonia Records (Poland), 2005
Copyright © Satanic Skinhead Propaganda Records (USA), 2010
"Feldgrau" was black / industrial metal band from Tampa, Florida, USA acvtive in 2000-2006.
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Bass, Vocals, Electronics - Helmkamp
Guitar - Destruct
Vocals, Keyboards, Programming - Vhex
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"The dark side of war "
Feldgrau seems to be somewhat less well known than most of the other Pete Helmkamp endeavours - Angelcorpse, Revenge, Order From Chaos, and Kerasphorous all seem to be getting more attention than this, now sadly defunct band. Though none of the other bands just mentioned are known for their mainstream-friendly nature, Feldgrau is an altogether different beast. And a beast it is, most certainly. This is bleak and noisy-as-hell war music. The foundation is raw black metal, distorted to hell and back, combined with harsh, grating industrial sounds. The guitar sounds like sawing through sheet metal with a combat knife.
The album begins with a synthetic marching beat and some industrial/computerized sounds. Then all hell breaks loose - harsh, simplistic, incredibly fuzzy guitar riffs over rapid-fire drums. This first track is really extreme industrial machine-like raw black metal. The drums are all programmed by Pete Helmkamp, and I know that programmed drums are anathema to many metal fans, but in this case they perfectly fit the mechanized, bleak, warlike soundscapes that constitute this album. They sound like machine gun fire from another part of the ruined city, but actually there are more tracks on here without drums than with. Sound bites of spoken commands and what seems to be radio communications to and from the battlefield and synthesized approximations of air-raid sirens only add to the atmosphere of utter desperation.
The second track is very different - no drums whatsoever, merely a snarling guitar sound and a strangled voice bellowing incomprehensibly. This does not make the track any less brutal - if the aim of the first track was to kill you, the second track just jumps on your dead body and mashes it to a bloody pulp.
This album is really surprisingly varied throughout. The fourth track, for example, called “Wolves of Flame and Shadow” (gotta love those song titles), is made up of a death metal-like, slow, churning guitar (the guitar player plays with Immolation), a computer-altered voice singing/speaking like an intonation from your worst nightmares, and a synthesized beep-beep-beep pattern repeated over and over again. Magnificent and frightening.
This is of course not the first time that war and extreme metal have been linked. The examples are numerous, but if, say, Hail of Bullets, reflect the general hopelessness of war, the hunger, the cold, and the mud, Feldgrau is the musical equivalent to some inner-city insanity; this is the soundtrack to those final weeks of the war when deranged soldiers take perverted pleasure in mutilating and raping prisoners and civilians stuck in the bombed-out city.
All in all, this album is a totally despondent and cheerless venture, composed of abrasive and disturbing industrial war metal. It’s less techno-industrial and more discordant and grating than, say, Iperyt or The Berzerker, and infinitely less danceable than Aborym. Some tracks seem closer related to acts like Brighter Death Now, but if you’re not afraid of spicing up your extreme metal with a good splash of industrial noise, you should definitely check this out.
Not for the faint of heart, this is probably as distorted as metal music can sound.
Copyright © rasmushastrup, June 22nd, 2011
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