76 minutes, 50 seconds

Seelenkrank
Silent Pleasures

Chris Pohl is the dude behind the now-defunct Seelenkrank. It predated his current project, BlutEngel. (He also started a few other projects, including Terminal Choice and Tumor.) OK, so enough background info. After all, if you're reading this moronic idea for a blog, you probably already know this stuff.

What I really want to say about Pohl is that he's a huge cheeseball, or at least comes off that way in most of the CD jacket pictures accompanying each release. The images show him sporting the usual leather 'n' latex 'n' dark makeup, and he's flanked by at least two pale-skinned, raven-haired hotties. This is the gothic-industrial equivalent of the '90s gangsta rapper, who invariably ended up photographed on the CD cover wearing a shiny suit and being fondled by several bootylicious women in bikinis.

OK, Chris, we get it--you're a playa. You write dope lyrics about necrophilia and foot fetishes and attend vampire orgies where the Goldschlager flows like Cristal. You're the Jay-Z of goth!

You could almost forgive him if the songs were better.

Also today:

76:48 BlutEngel, Demon Kiss