Smothered in mud at the foot of the river.

[reddragdiva]

"In This Together" by Apoptygma Berzerk is an example of the tragic decline of a popular independent genre band when it signs to a major, runs clean out of ideas and the major gently suggests the previously disco bleep band do some bad angsty nu-metal for MySpace users. What the fucking fuck.

Comments

[steer.livejournal.com]

I am a great fan of Apop but I didn't like that album. Having said that, I did not recognise the track from your description. I don't see the nu metal connection at all even listening to it now. It's generic poor quality bleep with a guitar on top. If you stripped the distorted guitar it would just sound like a bad Apop B-side.

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

Just checked it out on their site. I'm not a *huge* fan of Apop to begin with (although some of his side projects are fun), but that was just shockingly banal -- the video was unintentionally really funny, with the cuts to the worried pregnant girl and Stephan cock-rocking it like an MTV boy bandmate gone solo. Heh, at least Combichrist can still tear the roof off.

[xthlcm.livejournal.com]

Crap, I'm a retard, nevermind. Combichrist is a side project of Icon of Coil, not Apop.

[tephramancy.livejournal.com]

Actually, there's a brilliant remix of In This Together, I just can't remember who it's by. But it's very disco-pop ;)

[reddragdiva]

I just heard it and went "this is not even EBM-related, and that guitar is horrible." I had to check it was actually Apop.

[dcarson.livejournal.com]

Sounds better than the tragic rubbish they used to put out.

[themadcatlady.livejournal.com]

In-fuckin-deed. Sad times are ahead. Or behind us. :(

[mirukux.livejournal.com]

the choon you're on about is the 'flipside club remix', done by the same guy also did the electropop voltage control mix too.

re the new stuff; i don't mind listning to it, but it's not exactly goth club fodder. one can only really hope for nifty bleep remixes of new apop music for the foreable future in that respect..

[tephramancy.livejournal.com]

That's the one. Now that I think about it, I don't think I've even heard the original... not like it matters :)

[ashbet]

Strangely enough, I'm currently listening to Metallica's "Fade to Black," after having heard the Apop version repeatedly for the past few years . . . :)

I haven't heard their New Big Thing, but if it's anywhere near as much wank as their last album, I think I'll give my ears a rest and spare myself ;P

-- A <3<3

[steer.livejournal.com]

OK -- this is werid. This comment notification arrived TODAY! Where has it been for four months?

[reddragdiva]

Presumably the LJ mail servers have been on crack again.