:Music Review: Die Sektor – The Final Electro Solution

Die Sektor – The Final Electro Solution
Released: May 18, 2012
Label: NoiTekk / Deathwatch Asia
Website: facebook.com/Die-Sektor-Official

Review by: Michael Faries
A little over a year ago, Atlanta-based Die Sektor released their Applied Structure in a Void, an album that was quite a brave stretch from the band’s previously-released and straight-ahead Aggrotech sound. The newer, broader sound of that album incorporated more elements and song structures from Electro, Breakcore and Rock than were ever heard from the group, and featured vocals that weren’t distorted close to incomprehensibility. As big a leap in sound as that was, it should come as no surprise that the band is again pushing the boundaries of their brand of EBM with this latest release, The Final Electro Solution. (more…)

:Concert Review: Die Sektor with Prognosis at The Crack Fox

Die Sektor and Prognosis
September 3, 2011
Saint Louis, Missouri, United States @ The Crack Fox

Review by: Michael Faries

I have to start this review by being honest: before I heard that Die Sektor was coming to St. Louis, I was only vaguely familiar with them. Other than their stand-out remixes of songs from other groups like Grendel, Dawn of Ashes, and DYM, I wasn’t very knowledgeable when it came to this band. I was just so happy that a decent show was happening in St. Louis that wasn’t Country music or whatever new offspring popular radio stations shat out that I knew I had to go see them live. And judging from the list of bands that are coming to the Crack Fox (where the show was held) soon, it seems I’ll be spending a lot more time there. Every first and third Saturday of the month the Crack Fox hosts Conspiracy, which describes itself as “Art, Music, Fashion, and a lot of Kink!” If this Die Sektor concert was any kind of preview to what the Crack Fox has in store, it’s about time we St. Louisans get off of our lazy, bulbous asses, and shake those things on this club’s dance floor! (more…)