47 minutes, 8 seconds

Severe Illusion
Discipline Is Reward Enough

I'm not sure what a "severe" illusion is, nor am I certain how discipline qualifies as some sort of reward, but as is the case with so many European bands, you have to cut Sweden's Severe Illusion some slack in the English-language department. Really, though, half the time it seems like these bands have purchased some sort of industrial-music version of those magnetic poetry sets. They just slap the pieces ("cold," "torture," "synthetic," "mechanical") up on the fridge in random order, and presto! Band name, album title, track names, and lyrics--all without breaking a sweat, or cracking open a dictionary.

I'd like to see an American or British band do the same. Where's our version of Severe Illusion? Or Aghast View? Or my personal favorite, Construggle Test? We need a band to call themselves Sensuchtschatten or Panzerhösen or Dunkel Ewigkeit...wait a minute, I think those all might make legitimate sense in German...

Also today:

47:07 Any Questions?, Prey for Death
47:05 Painbastard, Storm of Impermanence
47:03 Digital Factor, On Demand
47:03 Neural Paralitic, Recollection Mind
47:03 Storm of Capricorn, Retours des Tranchées
47:03 Swallow, Blow
47:01 Covenant, Europa
47:01 Love Spirals Downwards, Flux
46:59 Die Form, InHuman
46:55 Lexincrypt, My Sepulture
46:54 Filament 38, Fractured