And Then You Die – Electric Uterus (Album – Skithund Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Finish formation And Then You Die this year celebrates their thirtieth anniversary. The band now featuring Michael Wägar, Harri Huhtala and Ove Ritola has accomplished a new work; “Electric Uterus” revealing seven songs.
Content: The album takes off with a kind of intro-track followed by a hard and heavy sonic outburst dominated by furious, Industrial-like guitar playing and an exploding chorus. The hardest part of the work sounds violent and merciless, but also feature a kind of hypnotic sensation on “Shit That Floats” while “On The Rim” makes me think to an Industrial version of Depeche Mode.
+ + + : The heavy, evil side of this work is absolutely terrific. The songs have something menacing and extremely violent, but also reveal carrying choruses. “Fuck Your Sacrifice” is a true sonic apotheosis; a total apocalyptic approach of Industrial music with an aggressive chorus. The fuzzy-industrialized guitar playing creates a haunting and somewhat hypnotic feeling.
– – – : The work is alternating brilliant songs with rather less uninspired cuts, but in the end I prefer focusing on the best side of the work.
Conclusion: “Electric Uterus” is a piece of dynamite; a kind of Industrial terror production for tough people.
Best songs: “Fuck Your Sacrifice”, “Shit That Floats”, “On The Rim”.
Rate: 7½.
Label: www.skithundrecords.com / www.facebook.com/skithundrecords Read the news on ‘Electric Uterus’.
About And Then You Die
And Then You Die was founded in 1990 in Vaasa, Finland, and was among the first electro-industrial acts in the country. The group builds its tracks from loops and sequences, heavy bass, guitars, analog synthesizers and, at times, live drums.
Through the 1990s and 2000s the band issued limited VHS singles, vinyl and CDs alongside a range of digital releases. In the late 2000s they signed to Skithund Records, which released full-length albums including “The Love Album” and “I Need More Hate to Survive”.
“Electric Uterus” arrived in 2021, the year the band marked thirty years of activity. The long sold-out “Geisteskrank” EP was digitized in April 2024, and the video for “Dead (We Are)” followed in July 2025.
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