Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro.

Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl, Cassette.

Background/Info: Five years have passed since the last studio album “Forest Of The Impaled”. In the meantime the army of Suicide Commando fans got a few noticeable singles and the “Mindstrip Redux”-album.

Content: Suicide Commando strikes back with a hard and merciless work. Inspired by themes which stand for the loss of the world Johan Van Roy has found his inspiration he transposed into solid bass lines with EBM influences, dark melody lines, aggressive sequences, banging rhythms and enraged, cavernous vocals. One of the exceptions are the female vocals by guest singer Charlotte Nuytkens injecting a ‘human’ and artistic touch to one of the songs. You’ll rediscover the latest hits “Bang Bang Bang”, “Trick Or Treat” and “Bunkerbitch”.

+ + + : Suicide Commando strikes back with rage and fury, which both were elements I was missing at “Forest Of The Impaled”. This is Suicide Commando at its best; a great sound DNA, well-crafted Dark-Electro cuts accentuated by some solid bass lines, freaky samplings and tormented, icy, sound atmospheres. The best cuts remain the aforementioned ‘singles’ although I also like the opening piece “Kill All Humanity”, “Jesus Freak” and especially “Destroyer Of Worlds” which is carried by an irresistible bass line and pumping kick.

– – – : The softer “Land Of Roses” featuring female vocals byCharlotte Nuytkens is a cool experiment revealing a talented singer, but this is Suicide Commando and I’m missing rage!

Conclusion: Suicide Commando feeds its inspiration by world dramas, horror, religious fanatism and other related themes so how would this project sound-like when living in a happy, shining and bright world? Terror rules and so does Suicide Commando!

Best songs: “Trick Or Treat”, “Bang Bang Bang”, “Destroyer Of Worlds”, “Kill All Humanity”, “Jesus Freak”, “Bunkerbitch – Censored”.

Rate: 9.

Artist: www.suicidecommando.be / www.facebook.com/IIXIII

Label: www.outofline.de  / www.facebook.com/outoflinelabel Read the news on ‘Goddestruktor’.

About Suicide Commando

Suicide Commando is a Belgian electro-industrial project formed by Johan Van Roy in Leopoldsburg in 1986. Van Roy released his first tape under the name in 1988 and signed to the German label Off Beat, releasing debut album “Critical Stage” in 1994, followed by “Stored Images” in 1995 and “Construct-Destruct” in 1998. Van Roy co-founded the Dependent label in 1999, releasing “Mindstrip” in 2000, “Axis Of Evil” in 2003 and “Bind, Torture, Kill” in 2006. In 2009 the project signed to the German label Out Of Line, releasing “Implements Of Hell” in 2010, “When Evil Speaks” in 2013 and “Forest Of The Impaled” in 2017, the latter featuring guest vocals from Jean-Luc De Meyer of Front 242 on lead single “The Pain That You Like”. “Goddestruktor” follows on Out Of Line five years later, with guest vocals from Charlotte Nuytkens.

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Out on July 22 is an all new Suicide Commando album and this time Johan Van Roy also hired the voice of Charlotte Nuytkens, finalist of the Belgian edition of “The Voice” on the track “Land of Roses”.

The regular edition comes as double-CD in digipak, featuring a full length bonus-CD with exclusive remixes of album tracks by Suicide Commando itself and befriended artists such as Cryo, Assemblage 23, C-Lekktor, Dead when I found Her, Tactical Sekt and others.

The album is also out as a limited edition double clear vinyl featuring all 10 main tracks of the new album, 3 tracks from 2 deleted singles and an exclusive version of “Kill all Humanity”.

And finally there is also a limited deluxe boxset (666 copies worldwide) which contains:

• The regular digi2CD
• Exclusive bonus 2CD: CD1 contains a ‘Collective Suicide Best of” Album, featuring a selection of the most popular tracks by Suicide Commando, while CD2 is a ‘Collective Suicide’ of rare tracks-compilation
• Customized Suicide Commando cross body bag
• Hand-numbered certificate

Below are some visuals from the 3 versions. Read the review of ‘Goddestruktor’.

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