E-CRAFT - Forge the Steel
Songs: 11  Time: 65:34
E-Craft are back with their second full length, Forge the Steel.  Still dabbling in the electronic body music that Nitzer Ebb and Armageddon Dildo’s made famous, E-Craft have taken the familiar turn and added a few guitars to the mix.  Forge the Steel isn’t overpowered by guitars.  Their presence actually adds solidity and pure aggression to the tracks.  Believe, combining pounding beats with throttling guitar riffs and dense keyboards, is the first track.  Guido’s vocals still retain that certain guttural ‘oomph’ that drive each track home.  On God is Dead, a cyber enhanced rhythm line is joined by the deep vocals to create a track full of power without being beat heavy.  The sequences on Silence emulate a feeling of rising and falling while the rhythm line assaults the body, driving any living creature to the dance floor.  The New Right actually sounds like a blend of synth-pop and EBM.  This is due to the airy sequences being played against the strict beat.  The same mixture is used on Mit Und Ohne, but this time the vocals also seem to align themselves more with synth-pop.  Runaway is a speedy piece with a combined rhythm and percussion that pummel the listener with aggro beats and throbbing sequences.  Tacked on to the begining of this CD is a multimedia presentation that revolves around a CPU video for Die Stahl, a nice touch indeed for those of us who live outside of Europe and don’t have any way of seeing videos by bands like E-Craft.   As a whole, Forge the Steel finds E-Craft developing their own brand of EBM even more so than on Die Stahl, showing the masses that they are a force to be reckoned with.
    
MASCHINENWELT                 E-Craft is:
Postfach                                      Guido Henning / Enrico Wassilick / Mario Bernhardt
12061 Berlin
Germany
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