3 Band: Luther-N
Album: Dogmatics
Label: YoungSide Records
Release Date:
Reviewed By: Chris W
Tracklisting:
01: The Atonement
02: Rest In Peace
03: Confession
04: Show Me Now
05: I Believe
06: Just By Faith
07: The Show
08: Nobody Move
09: The Table
10: Take My Life
11: Reformation
Christian industrial has pretty much stayed in the background of the general music scene. With only a few bands making any kind of name for themselves such as Mortal, Circle Of Dust, and Klank. The cold hard fact in my experience is that when it comes to industrial your either good or downright awful, there’s not much of a middle ground. Luther-N is a project from Shane Sowers of Junker Jorg.
Luther-N plays a more melodic brand of industrial and unlike many industrial artists can actually carry a melody vocally. There is also more of a synth presence than most, creating a blend of synthesizer melodies and the bizarre noises that help to give industrial it’s sound. Vocally, the lyrics are not barked and half spoken half sung as is standard, Shane brings a strong sense of vocal melody to the songs that makes them so much more enjoyable and more than once I found myself singing along. The guitars tend to lean more to the chug chug rhythmic chords than to melody, which is fine because as said earlier the vocals and synths do a fine job of carrying the songs melodically. Lyrically Luther-N is the most outspoken about his faith of the christian industrial bands I’ve heard. The only shortcoming being that it sometimes comes off as cheesy Musically it reminds me a lot of Nine Inch Nail’s With Teeth album and some of Mortal’s more melodic work
Overview: Honestly this is the best industrial album I’ve heard since Mortal was still an active band.
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This is probably the best band name I’ve ever heard.
The guy seems pretty obsessed with Martin Luther. His old band was called Junker Jorg which was an alias that Luther used at one point.
I remember back in the day a band called Gnashing of Teeth. They were pretty much industrial noise, but they had some pretty cool tunes. Under Midnight and, to a lesser degree, Chatterbox also tried to pull off a quasi-industrial sound. I can remember buying Circle of Dust’s cd… good stuff… far better than the Metallica wannabe sound from their demo (can’t remember the band’s previous name). I’ll have to check these guys out. Thanks for the heads-up.
And as a side note, the Gnashing of Teeth I mentioned is a different band than the metal-core band put out through Steve Rowe. Just so you know… because things matter…