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Review: 'God Module'
'False Face'   

-  Album: 'False Face' -  Label: 'Metropolis Records'
-  Genre: 'Industrial' -  Release Date: '18th February 2014'

Our Rating:
For the initiated, I quote from the press release: ‘God Mod founder and mastermind Jasyn Bangert has brought his childhood dreams to life as musical nightmares. Not unlike the infamous legend of Frankenstein, God Module carefully takes all the best parts from the known Electro - Gothic - Industrial - Synth Pop clichés. Through the use of various electronic devices these things are unnaturally stitched back together again to create songs that are as disturbing as they are catchy.’

What this means is that ‘False Face’ is brimming with, bumping, pumping technoindustrial tunes bursting with samples and sinister, earnest robotic vocals. Despite the claims for approaching the formulation of the music from a radical, unconventional angle, the actual results are very much of the genre. And while some technoindustrial / electrogoth albums are clearly better than others, there’s a broad section that’s much of a muchness.

Unless you’re actually immersed in the style – and I’m talking as much about lifestyle as music here, this isn’t the kind of music for casuals or weekenders: adherents of this subculture tend to be seriously devoted – it’s rather hard to not only distinguish between bands, but also to take it very seriously. In fact, a lot of it – including but not limited to GM’s pseudo-heretical name, the cover art (really, do you want to sit down and discuss why a naked woman covered in ‘blood’ and wearing a sheep mask is corny?) and the misanthropic rantings, the head-slamming beats and cultivated aggression – all feels like so much contrived posturing, and extremely one-dimensional. And when the ‘mastermind’ is a chubby guy with ludicrous hair, an iffy ‘beard’, a ripped fishnet stocking over his face and an artificial zombie corpse as a stage prop, it becomes a one-dimensional comedy.

I think Ministry’s 1988 album ‘The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste’ is a great album, but I don’t feel there’s much need for need endless danced-up rehashes of it by leather-clad bozos trying to look hard. Of course, there are plenty of other bozos in leather and PVC with improbable piercings who would disagree, and I’m not about to argue with them – just in case their hardness isn’t just an image.

God Module – False Face Online
  author: Christopher Nosnibor

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