Killing Joke industrial Gibson guitar template, reworked by the distorted production magical genius of Adrian Sherwood. This swirled and then gargled the found sounds around the room, creating forms of musical alchemy. This changed the industrial rock sound forever and was a landmark piece of music. The fact that the eventual derivatives were paler, albeit with more pronounced ferociousness than this multi facted album, has entailed this piece of sonic sculpture languishing. It exists however in its own right.
It is a landmark piece that launched Nine inch Nails and a whole ilk of industrial rock power music. It demarcated a time when America took the essence of punk and then reworked it to bring out wider facets. This took place in the 1980's and has since decayed.
Al Jourgensen, "Alien" to his friends, was a wimpy synth player, until he discovered the electric power of rock, a man who worked backwards from the kitsch and fey to the more masculine muscle rippling sounds of men at work rather than men in offices. This can appeal to both genres the unreconstructed kango man and the one that has been machine ground down on the edges who taps on keys. It has softer moments mixed in with the more raw power to bring out a muti toned piece. Later they became more guitar focused and lost the softer edges concentrating on hard dirge. This has power within the night, lighting a beacon.
Worth the effort to hear the production richochet around the room when blasted out loud. It has those singalonga moments before it blasts itself and rattles the cages.