Guess what i found this month? A truely strong piece of Electro Punk Metal! And i'm very happy that i  found it. It's actually a long time ago that i found a band that sounds a bit into the direction of an old OOMPH album. This type of music is not very spread, except for the weak releases of course.
Gift is the second and yet the newest release of KDA. A third release is already done but the band did a contest for movie artists where anyone can send in his masterpiece concerning any song of the new album (snippets of every new song available on the website) the complete album will be released as an extensive multimedia experience.
Additionaly, the release may be further delayed because a band member (Norri) recently joined Corvus Corax and he seems to be busy with them at the moment.
Gift covers a broad variety of moods and does absolutely not care about any genre restrictions. The rough structure of the sound is dominated by e-guitars and electro melodies, but that's it for the predictable part. You never know what comes next.
Whilst most recent Electro and EBM releases tend to sound clean and smooth these days not so for KDA, the synthi sounds very oldschool and dirty, and is clearly trimmed for that purpose. Puppenlied is one of the greatest songs, unfortunately it features such aggressive oscillation sounds, that my sound system is not capable of reproducing it correctly. In the end only the DJ headphones of a friend could do it perfectly and it sounds like the perfect EBM metal synthesis and a lot of energy in it. I would love to hear this one on the dance floor! The text is shouted and sung in equal parts and sometimes distorted heavily. All the music has such vital dynamics in it.
But not only loud and fast, the songs reach from chill-out and dreamy atmosphere to more dynamical and melodical whereas the production and mixing is always at the highest level! Listen to "Kerasunflower" and close your eyes, well ladies and gentleman here goes your ride in Spacemountain... skip to "last dance" and you enter a tropical rain forrest. Unbelievable.
So you ask all this metal guitars and electro sounds, where are the punk elements?
First, better don't ask what the band's name stands for. I have no clue.
It means "Krebs durch Arbeit" which translates to "cancer through work".
Wow, if that's not punk! Second, "cosmo pacifico panama" is 13 seconds of baby crying. You might ask "What the hell...?" but it's just punk my friend. Skip it and that's it...
Summed up you get a disk that's really entertaining, makes a lot of fun and
doesn't do without interesting lyrics. More of it, please!
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Reviewer: Tobias Weigl
Hompage: www.electropunk.de
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