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It's a career best for T.Raumschmiere and another proud moment in the history of hard-rocking electronica.
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The punk-informed material on Blitzkrieg Pop sounds like the missing link between Ministry's earlier, sensitive electro material and its later and more well-known incarnation as the nihilistic buzz-sawing and bile-spewing industrial unit.
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This irresistible combination of intelligent production combined with a simple four-four tempo guarantees that this music isn’t just for spiky-haired kids with their fingernails painted black.
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Many fans may be turned off by the abrupt shifts in pace and style, but engaged listening reveals an overarching sensibility that guides the project from beginning to end.
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UncutProve[s] Haas has more to offer than ear-crunching cacophony. [Sep 2005, p.105]
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What keeps Blitzkrieg from descending into petulant shtick is Haas's compositional ear.
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MagnetCampily butch. [#69, p.110]
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Spin[He] veers awkwardly into slickly arranged, radio-friendly verse-chorus-verse. [Sep 2005, p.109]
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Haas has a problem: Let that cartoon tech-metal ramp up (or camp up) just a step too far, and it turns into something kind of, well, uncool-- crossing the line from lovably brutal Germanic electronics into something sub-Rammstein, a kind of mallrat military-industrial metal that doesn't really square with the guy's skill set.
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Q MagazineDiffers markedly from 2003's Radio Blackout... with vocals and punk-pop structures replacing the glam-tecnho clunk of yore. [Sep 2005, p.120]
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Alternative PressPop's dirty-bassed rock may expand T.'s audience, but it's diminished his art. [Sep 2005, p.170]
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We have a lot of good ideas and a few not-so-good ones, but none of them are developed as fully as one would desire.
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[An] irritating abomination.