Decadent Swedish Industrial rock for the soundtrack to your nightmare.
Industrial music until recently was becoming a dying genre. But with new acts such as Panic DHH, the resurrection of the legendary Skinny Puppy and Ministry’s triumphant return with The Houses Of Mole there may be some life in the scene yet.
Stockholm’s 8th Sin are one of the newer acts to emerge. Formed as a side-project for producer Michael Brolin collaborating with vocalist Tony Sarkka a.k.a. IT.
It is clear that the early industrial acts such as Ministry and KMFDM have their wicked influence on 8th but the synths lend themselves from 80’s pop group such as Depeche Mode and New Order. Songs like “Hello Japan” and “Sex FX” reek of decadence and would not be out place in an industrial rock club.
Despite the songs delivering distorted aural ferocity you can't help but feel this all been done before. Vocalist IT has his own sadistic style on the record but his wavering voice sounds as if the large ballsy nightmarish riffs could blend it out.
This is the downside to side-projects; you wonder if perhaps they should stick to their day jobs.
A good effort by the Stockholm duo but this is far from ground breaking.