Japanische Kampfhörspiele
Neues aus dem Halluzinogenozinozän

Japanische Kampfhörspiele’s new album Neues aus dem Halluzinogenozinozän is described as a milestone in music history. Apparently, it isn’t small words to describe an album like this, not another grindcore album according to the press material. But it is from the grindcore genre they spring into their own brand of music, the new album has an annoying title, lyrics in German, and a pretty amusing artwork.

It is more progressive than your everyday grindcore stuff, it is more punk rock, pop and progressive core stuff. For fans of hardcore, and punk, that sort of thing. They have a fairly fresh sound, not as aggressive as grindcore, more diverse in terms of tempo and vocals as well. They keep the playing time sensible and the album feels pretty short and to the point with their style of music. For stuff in the grindcore/hardcore kind of music it is an album with more depth than you usually see in such albums.

They have power and energy, but also direction and finesse – much more interesting than most of the grindcore genre. I think the album is good, it has fresh ideas and it works pretty well. What I am missing are the outstanding stuff, like an outstanding hit song, something like that. There are bits that are terrific, but there are things that are less exciting. And overall I don’t really think that it is a really high flying album, it is good enough to enjoy for a while but I can’t see that it is particularly memorable.

Probably excellent for the fans of the band, and I think that it can appeal to most fans of the punk, hardcore, and grindcore genres. It can probably appeal to a pretty wide scope of music fans, it may not be quite my cup of tea, and in my view it isn’t a milestone in music history – but albums don’t need to be that to be half an hour of decent entertainment.

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