Chasing Ghosts

In den Neunzigern waren sie eine große Nummer: Christopher Hall und Walter Flakus zählen zu den Pionieren der Industrial-Bewegung, haben zur selben Zeit wie Nine Inch Nails, Ministry & Co. angefangen und quasi den Übergang vom Synthie-Pop à la OMD und Depeche Mode zum Sound von Fear Factory, Rammstein & Co. eingeleitet. Natürlich wurde das

There was a time when bands like STABBING WESTWARD sounded like the future. Purveyors of a bombastic but streamlined strain of industrial rock, the Illinoisian crew released three major label records in the '90s and received plenty of critical acclaim in the process. Heavily influenced by NINE INCH NAILS, DEPECHE MODE and MINISTRY, but undeniably distinctive in their own perpetually gloomy way, STABBING WESTWARD were very much a band of their time. Twenty-one years on from what was assumed to...