Divide By Zero |Re-constriction 1997| 
1. Greetings and Salutations, 2. Twelve Ten Forty-Eight, 3. Divide by Zero, 4. About to Break, 5. Cold at Night, 6. Come Together, 7. Tear It All Away, 8. Wood, 9. Perfect World, 10. Way It Goes, 11. Article One, 12. Unity (Come Together, Pt. 2), 13. Bonus Track
I came across the band's name at least once and very possibly on a compilation CD. The band's name reminded me about the 90s coldwave and in fact the album was released by a cult coldwave label Re-constriction which left great albums by such bands like: 16volt, Collide, Diatribe, H3llb3nt, Leaether Strip, Numb, SMP, Society Burning or Tinfed; the label unifying bands with a homogeneous tune.
Killing Floor's music combines punk, hardcore and coldwave vibes with real vocals, drums and lots of real guitars with not much of electronics. You may find echoes of their music (Cold At Night song is a good example) on the two albums by Slave Unit however the sound was explored by others like Society Burning, Diatribe, Contagion (Perfect World), Ministry on older albums (Tear It All Away) and Killing Joke (with no samples, Twelve.Ten.Fourty.Eight).
Unity (Come Together Pt.2) it's my most favourite track on the album, less punk, more coldwave, mysterious, and the longest on the CD. The Way It Goes sounds like a tribute to Sex Pistols, but About To Break brings the hardcore sound. The title song is a typical coldwave track continued by Machines of Loving Grace with that characteristic arrangement which actually couldn’t be associated to any other music style.
Not distracting setlist of songs blended into a harmonious whole could be an interesting item for fans to be put next to Diatribe and Slave Unit CDs. ( Katarzyna NINa Górnisiewicz. Must not be used for promotional or commercial purposes. See a Legal Note for the copyrights below)
Come Together |Re-constriction Records, 1997| 
1. Come Together (Album Version), 2. About To Break (Album Version), 3. Tear It All Away (Institute Of Technology Remix), 4. About To Break (Alien Faktor Remix), 5. Wood (Christ Analogue Remix), 6. Jimmy And The Killing Floor.
Re-Constriction Records name electrifies every die hard fan of coldwave music. That label set up in 1991 r., was a source of over 40 the most meaningful releases of the 90s, just next to Fifth Colvmn or Wax Trax! A number of bands which inked deals with this small but particular music style orientated were Diatribe, 16Volt, Numb, Vampire Rodents, SMP, Clay People, Iron Lung Corp., Tinfed, Society Burning, Collide, H3llbent or Christ Analogue amongst all.
This release brings also a very serious entry to music history. It contains the two album versions of Come Together and About To Break but also remixed version of songs by Alien Faktor, Christ Analogue and Institute Of Technology.
Killing Floor (don’t be mislead by the same name band active in the 70s) fit in the sound of Re-Constriction very well and I think that’s how it is recognized these days. Valuable. ( Katarzyna NINa Górnisiewicz. Must not be used for promotional or commercial purposes. See a Legal Note for the copyrights below)
Killing Floor-Dev/Null |Cargo/Reconstriction, 1995| 1. Ecosystem (monkey house mix), 2. Strand, 3. Two dimes, 4. Prelude, 5. Never Go Right, 6. Glass (shards re-edit), 7. What Is The Truth?, 8. In Decline, 9. Ecosystem (procreation dub), 10. Glass (live), 11. Ace of Spades (Motorhead)
Dev/null is a special file in UNIX alike systems that discards all data written to it (but reports that the write operation succeeded), and provides no data to any process that reads from it, so works like a bit bucket. The null device is typically used for disposing of unwanted output streams of a process, or as a convenient empty file for input streams. This is usually done by redirection*.
Computer technologies are still one of the most often inspiring things for a big number of industrial music artists and so a lot of tracks or album titles got such ‘programmed’ names.
A constant fear or hope for others about a general computerization of the world stimulates a lot of musicians, and especially that kind of music to analyze whether human kind revolts against an artificial intelligence’s rules or gives up. Those and other less important topics about computers, programmers, hackers and people almost forced to adjust, clearly reflect the echoes of the new age era we’ve entered several years ago.
Fortunately when it comes to music content of the album, it doesn't bring any of synth sounds only tuned up by the computers. Rebellion of Killing Floor's music brings unique atmospheres and sometimes supports the works of hard core or cold wave bands like Diatribe, Chemlab or Drown.
Such genius songs like „In Decline”, „Two Dimes”, “What Is The Truth?” and „Glass” should be put amongst the classic songs of industrial rock and coldwave styles however seemingly Killing Floor was never any famous band back then.
Dev/Null includes also a gloomy composition called „Prelude” with a hypnotizing monologue, probably made to sound like an artificial intelligence speaking and a cover song of „Ace od Spades” originally by Motorhead finishing the album.
It's probably the best album of Killing Floor bringing both guitar driven and electronic vibes, cold and aggressive, meaningful for industrial rock and coldwave music. And so there's no other choice than love it. ( Katarzyna NINa Górnisiewicz. Must not be used for promotional or commercial purposes. See a Legal Note for the copyrights below)
* source: Wikipedia
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