Rebirth of Agony

Artist: Leæther Strip
Label: Cleopatra
Category: Music

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Media: Audio CD
Number Of Discs: 1

UPC: 741157982121
EAN: 0741157982121
ASIN: B000001JVU

Release Date: 1996-10-15

Rebirth of Agony

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Tracks:

You Know WhereTo Put It
Life Is Painful (Bastard)
Switch On -- Switch Off
LiesTo Tell
My Mind Is My Master
How Do I Know?
The Edge Of Anger
I Want You Hard
Take Care Of Me
Anger Is Part Of Me
Make My Blood Boil
Fool!

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Customer Reviews:

Pounding.......2006-03-12

Definatly a good album. overanalyzing comments not needed. Just buy it and be happy.

maybe the best leather album.......2001-05-20

I know most of the fans prefer 'Solitary Confinement', but for me, 'Rebirth of Agony' is perhaps the best album ever made by Claus Larsen. When i listened to this cd 4 years ago, I had already listened to 'Pleasure of Penetration', 'Solitary Confinement', 'Object V' and 'Legacy of hate and Lust'. 'The Rebirth...' seemed to me to be quite superior to all these. I was a huge Leather Strip fan then, so this cd became one of my 5 favourite cds. But then I started to read critics and fans saying this was the worst album by this band, and I couldn't believe it... and even though now I am not the fan i used to be (now i prefer Skinny Puppy, Neubauten, Dive...) I still think that, as a whole, this cd is the best Larsen has ever made. Mainly due to various reasons: 1- Larsen manages to control his agressiveness and achieves to compose a cd wider in range, not as repetitive as previous albums. 2- Larsen's voice sounds with more variety here: stmes distorted (Lies to Tell), stmes fragile (Anger is a part of Me, Edge of Anger)... 3- the electronics are more varied here. The cd begins with one of the best LS song's ever: 'You Know Where to put It': it serves as a guide of how Leather Strip had evolved. Good chorus, good voice, wonderful electronic sounds... Leather strip songs used to sound the same from beginning to end: the beat fell into repetitiveness stmes; this song breaks that defect. 'Life Is Painful' is similar though with a dirtier sound; 'Switch On-Switch Off' presents larsen's voice at its more natural and even beautiful. Good electronics as well. The fourth, 'Lies to Tell' is an example of how typical Leather songs sounded then and had evolved. Vocoder, more agressive chorus, quicker beat... all this makes a vetry good sound with an excellent chorus. 'My Mind is My Master' is slower, more controlled; it's not bad though sth makes it inferior to the previous. 'How Do I Know' is another typical song; much too typical I'd say... I suppose older fans love this... I don't like it, it's boring to me. 'Edge of Anger' is very skeletical, slow and melancholic... one of the best anyway. 'I Want You Hard' is very danceable and I enjoy this a lot; it's not as good as 'You Know...' or 'Switch On...' but good. 'Take care of Me' seems like a second part to 'I Want You Hard'... it's more typical and very danceable. 'Anger is a Part of Me' is the more gothic song here; it could be included in 'Legacy...' if it had had a darker atmosphere (and composed earlier, of course) 'Make My Blood Boil' begins with interesting drums, but gets too boring: very distorted voice, quite repetitive... typical Leather song. The cd ends with 'Fool', the shortest piece here and just decent. This cd has lost some charm since i was a hard Leather Strip fan, but I still consider it the best by this band in spite of many contrary opinions. Everyone has its favourites, anyway. But it seems this Danish man is lost nowadays and I don't really know what he will do in the future (if he does anything)

ex militant claus, in a depression.......1999-05-26

Theres a lot about this album I find intriguing. Yes, sure, maybe the lyrics arent as defined as some other Leae releases. Yeah, sure, maybe Its constructed from a simple pattern, and yeah, sure, maybe it isnt as aggro as most people have come to expect from claus. But if he did what we were expecting, wouldnt that be boring? I think this album has a very somber flowthrough, occasionally touching extremely gothic edges, which i normally dislike. Some was a tad to resemblant to crap rocker trendy razor, but it is what it is. The sequel to legacy, a continuous self expression project alering the emotions of what claus' life holds. It goes though a series of emotions...from angry to depressed, to let down to rememberance...It isnt as bad as people who have this pre conception on what it should be has made it sound.

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