Alles Liebe
Studio-Album – Stendal Blast

Catchy electro and more guitars with lots of hit potential and a spontaneous opposition to academic literature. This is fun, this is heavy, this reminds of Rammstein, but it's also very suitable for the dancefloors.

The parodists of the German Electro-Underground are back again. The controversial reactions to their debut album "Was Verdorrt" in mind, "Alles Liebe" might cause far less irritation, but the trio around Kaaja Hoyda is still provocatively funny: Whether it's "Oil" that intones Rammstein-like things, "Blood in the Shoe" reminds Stefan Eicher or it always sounds like the cocoa pulling through of Das Ich, Lacrimosa and Co, Stendal Blast never make the mistake of celebrating ridicule for their own sake. There is truth and identity in everything they do. That they make it at least musically easier for their audience this time and even call some dance numbers their own should actually help to inoculate also a larger part of the scene a little thoughtful humor. It would always be desirable.

"Blood in the Shoe" is a bitterly evil ballad. "Oil" is something they used to call a gutterer before Rammstein... "You're not that beautiful" is... something like a love song. Less electronics and a little more traditional four- and six-string instruments enrich the strange world of K.H. on Stendal Blast's second album. The strange world is also your world, and that's why this record is perverse. I am one of those who liked Stendal Blast back in 1995. Whoever hated it then will still hate it today - for completely different reasons, reason enough to buy this CD, because we can all use motivation, right?