Hasswut – Mund Zu! (EP – Art Gates Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Metal, EBM.
Format: Digital, CD.
Background/Info: Spanish formation Hasswut has already been active for a couple of years now. Earlier stuff was released on Mutant-E Records while they later on joined hands with Art Gates Records. “Mund Zu” is their newest work featuring five songs plus one remix.
Content: “Mund Zu!” seems like a mini-album. The sound remains driven by Neue Deutsche Härte. Bands like Rammstein and Oomph! will quickly come to mind but there’s a more explicit electronic touch emerging at the surface. One of the songs even sounds like the offspring between Tyske Ludder and Rammstein; EBM meets metal. The last song is a remix by Miseria Ultima.
+ + + : Hasswut is a formation I haven’t heard in years but they clearly reveal an impressive evolution in sound and songwriting. This is a powerful production carried by solid guitar playing and mixed with pumping kicks and Electro arrangements and bass lines. “Zünder” is an absolute masterpiece for the EBM-Metal fusion. The opening cut “F.F.F.” and the title song both are other noticeable cuts.
– – – : There’s nothing original in the band’s sound but as I often said I prefer a less original- and kicking work instead of an original recording without highlights.
Conclusion: Hasswut remains a somewhat unknown formation which I can highly recommend to lovers of Neue Deutsche Härte.
Best songs: “Zünder”, “F.F.F.”, “Mund Zu!”.
Rate: 7½.
Artist: www.facebook.com/hasswut
Label: https://artgatesrecords.com / www.facebook.com/ArtGatesRecords
Art Gates Records issued “Mund Zu!” on 26 February 2022 on CD and digitally. The six tracks are “F.F.F.”, “Mund Zu!”, “Haters”, “Säure”, “Zünder” and “Haters (Remixed by Miseria Ultima)”. The release reached Bandcamp on 13 March 2022.
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About Hasswut
Hasswut is a Spanish band working in industrial metal, EBM and Neue Deutsche Härte, singing in German. Their first album, “Wir Sind…”, came out on Mutant-E Records in 2014, followed by “Falsch!” and its rework “Re-Falsch!” in 2017, and the tour edition compilation “Wir Sind… / Falsch! / Die Macht” on Mutant-E Records and No Devotion Records in 2019.
The move to Art Gates Records began with the single “Die Macht” in 2019, continued with “Atomkrieg” in 2020 and led to the “Mund Zu!” mini-album in 2022. The band also turns up on compilations from the wider scene, among them “Endzeit Bunkertracks [Act VII]” in 2015 and the “Face The Beat” sessions in 2015 and 2019, and remixed a track for A7ie on “Narcissick Volume II” in 2016.
Three years after “Mund Zu!” the band moved to Negative Gain Productions. Side-Line reported the single when ‘Sauerstoff’ arrived in March 2025, ran an album premiere in April, and reviewed “Sauerstoff” in August 2025.
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