Schultz – Shot Of Pain (CD Album – BLC Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro & metal.
Background/Info: Schultz is a French solo-project which saw the light of day in 2002. Later on Franz Schultz joined hands together with painter and stage performer VDREY. Several albums have been released on different labels, but “Shot Of Pain” is the first new opus since the self-titled album released in 2011!
Content: I can’t say that Schultz reinvented its sound, but there’s more harmony between guitar parts and electronic treatments. The result is an extremely powerful opus, which sometimes makes me think of an imaginary fusion between Cubanate and Birmingham 6. Electro vintage sounds (sometimes evoking The Neon Judgement) and heavy metal guitar riffs are the essence of this work.
Some guests have been invited to achieve a few songs, but the most surprising feature is for sure the legendary French punk formation Ludwig von 88 contributing on 2 songs.
+ + + : Schultz has gained an impressive maturity resulting in a brilliant and totally accomplished piece of work. There’s a genius harmony between guitar and electronics. This is a crossover sound evoking some pioneers in the genre. I also like the production of the vocals; they’ve been used more like an extra effect while sampled passages are still featured. There are several noticeable songs on this album. I have a preference for the body-industrial like “Fuck Buddy” and “Drugs Are Sins” featuring VDREY and Ludwig von 88.
– – – : I don’t see real minus points about this work!
Conclusion: “Shot Of Pain” sounds as great industrial-body music; a sexy fusion between metal and electronics and definitely an album that has to put Schultz back on the industrial music map.
Best songs: “Fuck Buddy”, “Drugs Are Sins”, “My Wish”, “House Of Misery”, “La Musique Me Rend Sourd”.
Rate: (9).
Artist: www.facebook.com/SchultzIndustrialMetal
Label: www.facebook.com/BLC–Productions-1534826426812404
About Schultz
Schultz started in 2002 as the solo project of Franz Schultz. In 2006, the Swiss performer VDREY asked to collaborate on a fetish-event art performance, and the pairing continued from there; VDREY gave her final show with the project in 2014, in the same place the collaboration began. This review describes “Shot Of Pain” as the first new Schultz album since a self-titled release in 2011. In a Click Interview published later the same month, Franz Schultz described a different intervening release, the six-track “Raw Fucking Power” (2017), with VDREY singing on several tracks. A 2017 festival booking alongside Dirk Ivens and Clan Of Xymox brought GuitarFox and Sandy Dynamite into the live line-up. VDREY left Schultz some months later, and by the time of that interview the project continued as the trio of Franz Schultz (electronics and vocals), GuitarFox (guitar and vocals) and Sandy Dynamite (live dance and vocals).
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