Blasting The Past Right Back Into Now Icon Of Coil Revisit Serenity Is The Devil

Icon of Coil 
Regret 
Norway 
 
Since 1999 the Icon of Coil project has been responsible for some of Europe’s most head-turning industrial electronica and futurepop flavoured EBM.  They began as a solo project, founded by Combichrist member Andy LaPlegua, and then became a three piece with the adoption of Sebastian Komor and Christian Lund. With a long career that’s included performing alongside headliners such​ as VNV Nation and Covenant, the band have made a full circle with their latest release. A reworked version of their debut 2000 album, Serenity is the Devil, it contains the feature track Regret. The sound that started it all off is just as relevant now as it was then, and although each further release has drifted in various directions, this central tone remains strong and resounding. Out now on Metropolis Records, the highlight of the digigoth 2000s, always with a pang of Regret.  
 
A grimy rhythm opens with clattering mechanical sounds that rumble and cast industrial magic. The conjuring continues as bass opens out and thumps in the EMB sound we want to dance to. Groove and atmosphere bubble up between the beats and the music ascends in a slalom of instinct and breaks. The vocal hits, gothic and robotic, a thumping bass and ripped synths surge on through the jet-speed flight into the moment. It progresses and revolves; each new layer reveals extra pressure and intensity that coalesce into musical semblances of dancing exhilaration. Heaviness from construction, dance stimulus infused, and shady like the yew tree graveyard on the overgrown hill, Regret thumps us onward into the energy needed to continue onward.  

You can get the album Serenity is the Devil by Icon of Coil from Bandcamp (If you're colourblind like me then highlight the text to read it)

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