VELVET ACID CHRIST TWISTED THOUGHT GENERATOR ALBUM METROPOLIS RELEASE: NOVEMBER 14, 2000 REVIEW: NOVEMBER 24, 2000

One of the greatest and best industrial electro bands is back! They have now left Dependent for Metropolis. Their last Dependent album, "Fun with Knives", was a success that pretty much established them as a leading band in the genre. When I speak about a genre, I am not narrow-minded, since Bryan Erickson, who is Velvet Acid Christ, takes a lot of inspiration from modern dance music and in particular goa trance.
The album kicks off with the great piece "Velvet Pill (Jagged Scar Mix)". VAC stick to its usual very cool voice samples. What's particularly cool about this song is the slow metallic hip hop-like beat. Yeah, I like it! The album continues in a more industrial dance-kind of style with obvious goa trance elements, which suits me perfectly. Worth mentioning is that two of the nine songs, "Mindphlux (Trip Zone Mix)" and "Hypersphere (MDMA)", basically are real goa trance. My favourite track on this album is "Lysergia" which is more of an ordinary Velvet Acid Christ song, but still with the very nice goa elements.
Your impression this far is probably that "Twisted Thought Generator" is about drugs, but it's not. The lyrics are very much about fear, suicidal tendencies and depression due to the use of ecstasy/mdma. Musically, this might be considered a drug album, but definitely not lyrically. The only thing I can complain about is the irritating rants made by an acquaintance of Mr Erickson. Pretentious, ridiculous and oh so dark babble at the end of two songs. Anyhow, this is one of the absolute top releases of the year 2000. It breaks barriers, crossing genres and is very skilfully constructed.

JOHAN ASTEMARK