A.T.Mödell – Music Is For Fun, Motherfuckers! (Album – A.T.Mödell)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: It took approximately six years for the Spanish act A.T.Mödell to achieve their fifth studio album.
Content: The band already showed an interesting progression at their previous work (cf. “Epic Nightmares”), which they just confirmed by a more achieved and extremely powerful sound. I don’t want to compare this band to any other one, but they remind me a bit of the sonic violence created by Cubanate. They compose a kind of sonic mayhem driven by furious rhythms and an impressive sound canvas. The sound is harsh and merciless, which is fitting with the aggressive and possessed way of singing.
+ + + : A.T.Mödell is a sonic power bomb, but it also appears to be a ‘controlled chaos’. The songs have been accomplished with great sound treatments and especially the final part of the album reveals a succession of great tracks. They found the perfect balance between power and alluring Electronic treatments. There are several great songs featured, but I recommend listening to “Inflame Your Hate”, “An Open Wound That Oozes Something Black”, “Kissed And Killed” and “Fairytales Of Murder” as the main attention grabbers.
– – – : Some of the tracks right at the beginning of the album are a little bit hesitant, but it rapidly moves into a great Industrial work.
Conclusion: The album reflects the true spirit of this album, but it reveals a band with a growing maturity and huge potential!
Best songs: “Inflame Your Hate”, “An Open Wound That Oozes Something Black”, “Kissed And Killed”, “Fairytales Of Murder”, “Mary vs. The Light”.
Rate: (8).
Artist: www.atmodell.com / www.facebook.com/atmodell
About A.T.Mödell
A.T.Mödell is an electro-industrial band from Valencia, Spain, active since 2010 according to Discogs, which names Javier M. Ruminoth as a member. Discogs lists the albums “Noise Therapy”, reissued as a double-CD “Special Treatment” edition in 2012, “Apocalyptophilia” (Danse Macabre, 2013), “Wired For Evil” (2014) and “Epic Nightmares” (2015), the last two self-released on CD, plus a remix of “Atomkrieg” in 2020 and sampler appearances on Sonic Seducer’s “Cold Hands Seduction Vol. 142” and the Zillo CD 05/2013.
“Music Is For Fun, Motherfuckers!”, the fifth album, was self-released on 26 March 2021 as a download and on CD. The fourteen tracks are “Conceptless (Intro)”, “Charge Restart (We’ll Raze Like Thunder)”, “Red Stains”, “Atro-city Of Angels”, “An Open Wound That Oozes Something Black”, “Screw, Party And Be Merry”, “Puppies And Rainbows”, “Destroyer Of Worlds”, “Sour Black Zero”, “Fairytales Of Murder”, “Inflame Your Hate”, “Kissed And Killed”, “Mary Vs The Light” and “Music Is For Fun, Motherfuckers!”. The band wrote on Bandcamp that the album “has no concept except that ‘music is for fun'”. No production credits are listed on the Bandcamp page. The album is the band’s first Side-Line review.
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