Sometimes I'm really glad to get an approved food from a band which has already been in business for a long time. In fact always then, when the level of quality is always high.

Fortunately, I can announce this from the newest album of the Bayreuth-based duo DAS ICH. With their mix of EBM, classic and a bit of Industrial, as well as the really interesting lyrics, they are still good enough - without drastic innovations - to be one-upmanship of the whole German competition. This is firstly, because the mix is transformed perfectly and secondly, because of the created atmosphere which is much deeper and more dense than you experience normally.

So it's also on the new album anti'christ. It starts out with the pretty harsh and rhythmical opener Engel ( Angel ), which reminds, as much as the following three songs, to the old times of DAS ICH. Mainly at Keimzeit (Time Of Germination) you feel pleasant thought back into the Staub - period. After the musical and also lyrically very complex Vater (Father), there is quasi a little break. The following songs are put in show straighter and don't have the obvious typical nested structure, which is so often found in the Kramm compositions.

But this is not a disadvantage. This demonstrates the fifth song Krieg im Paradies (War In Paradise), which millcuts in your brain relentless and almost matches as a title song to the apocalypse. In my opinion the potential single, if they would have wanted one ... The next tracks Tor zur Hölle (Gate To Hell), Garten Eden (Garden Eden) and Das dunkle Land (The Dark Land) move with the named trait likewise in the area of Staub, Morgue and Egodram, without degenerating to a plagiarism. Rather they manage to sound both heavier and darker and more melodic, without losing intensity. With it Stefan Ackerman supplements once again with his variable singing and lyrics (where it's worthy to have a look between the lines) in an ideal way the overall-concept. What proves once again, it also goes without cheesy German deathly lyrics ...

With the old demo track Sodom And Gomorra and the quieter but the epic Der achte Tag (The Eighth Day) - incl. the hidden track, the album ends, which you can't miss, if you are a fan of sophisticated electro sounds. And that's that!!!