ARMAGEDDON DILDOS MORGENGRAUEN ALBUM AUSFAHRT RELEASE: JUNE 2, 2003 REVIEW: NOVEMBER 11, 2003

Armageddon Dildos was an important part of the German EBM-scene in the ninetees with hits like "East West" and "Resist". Keyboard player Dirk Krause left the legendary band a couple of years ago and front man Uwe Kanka is now back at again.
The album "Morgengrauen" moves between synthpop elements and electronic sounds, between EBM-beats and pop-rhythms. Although it feels a little sprawling, Uwe Kanka - together with the Swedish vocalist Malin and Dave Anderson (synthesizer) - has done a good job putting the album together. The music is moving between potential dance-hits like the first track "Tanz auf dem Vulkan" and cute pop love-songs like "Rausch" and the softer pop ballad "Vergiss nicht". The music is simply a mixture of softness on one hand and power on the other.
Armageddon Dildos is known as a band that does not want to be taken too seriously, but it is quite hard to imagine that "Morgengrauen" is an album that is made just for fun. In a way it feels like Armageddon Dildos really wants to gain their leading position back, they just do not know in which way to do it. Therefore, they have made a record that consists of twelve tracks that differs so much from each other that almost every listener will find a favourite. At the same time the music has got a lowest common denominator that keeps it all together. And that must be the specific Armageddon Dildo’s sound.

KARIN MARTINSSON