With this being my first introduction to Deathstars I thought I'd best do a bit of digging until, after the usual bounce around various sites, I had some sort of grasp on what I was going to be dealing with.

You read any of the varying blurbs and the phrase 'industrial goth' is thrown at you constantly.....so what is industrial goth? Evidently you wear lots of make-up, distort all electronica and away you go pitching at both the Marilyn Manson crowd and your Pendulum/Enter Shikari crowd by putting electronics at the fore. Throw in a bit of Rammstein to bring in the thrash crowd and you're looking at the perfect metal crossover album to appeal to all that is current within the scene. Simples really!!!!

As anyone who knows me will testify, you tag something as industrial and I'll expect it to melt my face off - this doesn't. You call it goth and I immediately go back to the 80's. But I'm being really nasty here; the original 'Night Electric Night' is simply a mediocre album, not a poor one.

So with this Platinum Edition in addition to the original 'Night Electric Night' album this version features a whole bonus disc entitled 'Decade Of Debauchery' that is filled to the brim with sticky sweetness for all Deathstars aficionados! (Or so they say - not my words!!!). The band actually conducted a competition amongst their fans to supply three winning remixed tracks which can be found on this release as bonus material and, fair play, first time I can remember that happening. A further six remixes by artists such as The Kovenant and Sybreed means you don't half get value for money.

The more I've listened the more this album has grown on me. There is a fair nod towards the last Pendulum album, it'll appeal to new fans. The vocals in the heavier entrants more than nod towards Andrew Eldridge-style Sisters Of Mercy, and latter day Rammstein. My personal faves 'Revolution Exodus', 'Our God The Drugs' and 'Genocide' interestingly didn't make the original release of the album, either says a lot about the band's taste or mine.

I would recommend this album for lovers of industrial from the commercial vein. It crosses genres easily and won't offend or challenge anyone and maybe that's what is holding me back as that's the bit that I enjoy when I listen to music new to myself.

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