SPK - Leichenschrei (Full Album)
Vložit
- čas přidán 10. 03. 2013
- For DarknessUnresolved.
SPK are awesome old school industrial that blend elements of the older and noisier industrial styles with the darker, synth reliant sounds of newer industrial scenes. This album in particular is a pretty chaotic and noisy work, though not in the sense that something like Merzbow is chaotic and noisy. This is more noisy in the sense that there's a bunch of weird rhythmic sounds, and some nice aural themes that create a really creepy atmosphere. - Hudba
I grew up with my dad listening to this in the fall most years around Halloween. He passed a few years ago so I'm playing it while thinking of him. Miss you Pops!
Your dad sounds cool. The world has lost a good person.
um
are you okay
i think if my dad listened to this id be fucked up
@@dande5009 are you nuts, who would listen to this insane crap. Only the f-heads
My daughters grew up with this sort of thing, but they won’t be revisiting it in my memory.
He really had great taste in music. I hope you find peace and I hope SPK reminds you of the great times you had with him. SPK is awesome!
However much you think you hate this, please, please come back and listen at least three times before giving up. It grows on you. A lot. The best stuff always does.
+ValekHalfHeart As a weirdo I was hooked immediately
+ValekHalfHeart I agree with you...the best albums are always growers.
hahha, Legendary reply ... I mean ... could I ever be that concise and sincere??
album didn't grab me first listen. I'll give it another go
god damn you were right
I always come back to this album, I just love it, it sounds like being tortured to death inside of an abandoned factory.
Right? I was just about to say "imagine being in the same room as this album?". All the claging and mechanical hums really does give it that industrial feel in the literal sense.
reminds me of a cold sanitised medical morgue with the clanking of surgical equipment and industrial factory machines
always creeps me out when i come back to listen - great stuff!
And what's not to love about that?
Oh man this album is SOOOOOO dark...and even MORE cool...I'm about 12 minutes in and lovin' the hell out of this! I'm not even high or anything. Great music to WORK by, burning the midnight oil...it feels so damn good to be diving deep into wild music (well, OK, if you CAN actually call this music, lol) for the first time in a couple years. (This album is new to me, but by no means the first SPK I've heard.) And to think that, for me, ALL of this abyss of unfathomable taste traces back to about 47 years ago at a pot party in Cleveland, Ohio...with "Here Come The Warn Jets" (ENO) and "Aqua" (Edgar Froese) being the first two that opened up all those portals and braindoors for me! THIS IS AN EFFIN' MASTERPIECE! Kind of reminds me of NWW who I definitely love.
Yeah, I'm old...going on 74 in five months. Gonna have to remember and keep track of THIS baby! So glad that my head still loves to explore this crazy and wonderful shit! Hit 19 minutes so far. This gets an A+ from me!
I see a D. D. A. A. album I want to try after th...OH WAIT there's also a suggested Zoviet France album as well...and, oh, Faust's first album I haven't heard in about 30 years... Decisions, decisions, decisions!! What a nice quandary.
I understand your emotions very well
A lot of music, a lot of unheard in this big crazy world)
From Russia with love!
@@user-jo7ir2jy3c From Rus...HEY, THEY SHOULD MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT THAT! Oh...that's ALREADY been done? Sorry - LOL.
I have to say I've found some utterly AMAZING media from your Country. I don't know the music very well, but Russian film from the Soviet era (and later)? I've seen amazing animation in which every frame could very well be at home in the Louvre. "Film! Film! Film!" and "Hey, Grey" (two short films VERY different from one another in genre and more than half a century apart) are in my Top Ten short films of all time, which is quite an accomplishment, and "The Glass Harmonica" is a PURE trip!
@@frankmerrill2366 I do not understand what are you talking about. Apparently you have your own stereotypes about Russia))). I could share with electronic music from Russia in the 80s and 90s. If this might be of interest to you.
@@user-jo7ir2jy3c I was just saying that my limited exposure to Russian media (which consists almost entirely of short video/films) has been very favorable and enjoyable - and that I haven't done much to explore MUSIC from Russia. Your sharing of electronic music of Russia may indeed interest me. Usually my reason for not "exploring" is because I have no beginning point.
@@user-jo7ir2jy3c Fuck Russia 💀
In the middle of 1980s, as a teenager, I used this and other early SPK releases instead of drugs.
...supposed to have used both silly. Oh well - perhaps in the next life!
It's never too late to do the right thing ;-)
And one dose can be shared with many via loud speakers.
I have a cassette of SPK " last attempt at paradise " Recorded in Kansas "be a.. I still listen to it. If happen to find a copy. I suggest you grab it.
this is what im doing now
This has long been one of my favorite Industrial/Experimental albums
Hi ! 👋
How are you doing?
We ❤ SPK! ✨
It's "Experimental/Industry"
@rubenverheij4770 it's music for people who work in industrial factories
probably the best industrial album ever and possibly the best record it changed my life and inspired my own direction in music
awesom
Nurse with Wound maybe you like too
@GEORGE 74 o Nurse with Wound
It's possibly the best industrial album ever made imo. There's not one bad track
changed my life.....
i know some people say "you need a few listens" to dig this, but i was already into skinny puppy, especially stuff like "draining faces" and "fritter" - this is KILLER - how did i not discover SPK until i was 31 years old? wtf?
Whoa. I'm 31 too and just discovered this
@@thedexterbrosoldheads! :)
im metal head guitarist for 25+ years, even last years ive learned more band than last 24 years, its insane how many band of genre we love exist, and even band from genre specific name we didnt knew existed,
now its so categorised and cross polinated and examined, i found more metal band in 1 year than 25 year, and thats counting all the band i already know from 24 years + only the new ones this year
cant keep up, insane amount of good music lately
I can see Akira Yamaoka taking inspiration from here for the Silent Hill 1 soundtrack.
@CaseofGlass another excellent album
I also have seen that at 22:45 “Despair”
I came across this many years ago in a back street small record shop. I was intrigued and purchased it as I was always on the hunt for something different. It did not disappoint me. My family hated it but I loved it.
haha I can imagine on family togetherness night, when it was your turn to decide what to do and you would suggest everyone listen to this album... and Grandpapa would immediately pop his sleeping pills with bourbon...
It seems as if you want to be in your own Clive Barker Film?
Everybody hated it except those of us that loved it.
Fuck what people think about this music!
i have one weird friend who likes it my kids hate it
I still consider this to be one of the most Brutal albums ever made. Bar none.
Nurse with wound sums close....Peter Sotos, pure magazine...come org.
I wonder how this comment has aged.
>one of the most
>bar none
Try Whitehouse
stalaggh is way more brutal lmao
One of the best industrial album ever created! I bought this on CD about 20 years ago for about $40 and it's worth every penny!
Got mine almost a decade ago for uhh...$10, $12 or $15. Can't exactly remember but it was way less than $40.
Bought the vinyl recently for $120 (AUD)
@@dande5009 Got the vinyl a decade ago for $45. Now everyone wants $90.
@@CharlieMessing that’s USD I presume, so those figures are about the same.
I don’t see a reissue coming anytime soon, so it’s unlikely we’re going to see the resale price drop!
@@dande5009 Wonder who on earth has the rights?
felt very anxious at the end, i was almost eating my fingers
+thomasperceval I think SPK would consider your reaction as "Mission Accomplished".
+thomasperceval Did you also happen to be chewing on glass?
+thomasperceval Try listening to any of the following songs:
Aube - Steal Up (Track 1 off Cardiac Strain): this song is made entirely out of heartbeats.
Whitehouse - Torture Chamber: no description needed.
The Haters - Big Time Crash: nothing but car crash sounds!
Nicole 12 - Yes, Daddy: sounds of babies wailing in the background of an adult film.
Stalaggh - Untitled: the vocals are done by real mental patients.
Enjoy.
finger food. That's ok.
"Stalaggh - Untitled: the vocals are done by real mental patients."
That also applies to Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, Kanye West etc. :D
This record saved my life when I lived in Wausau, WI.
This is the ultimate Industrial album, nothing comes close
Sold this four years ago. Still reminds me of UKs Test Dept. at times. Synth player/singer and New Zeelander Graeme Revell soon took control over the band. In 1989 he started his movie soundtrack making career with 'Dead calm' and TV series 'Bangkok Hilton', both of which made him and Nicole Kidman stars. The following year, he debuted in H'wood with the soundtrack for Tobe Hooper's 'Spontaneous Combustion'. In 2005, he made the score for 'Sin City'.
I saw these play live at the Elephant Fair near Plymouth UK back in the mid 1980s. One instrument was an oil drum played with an angle grinder.
Me tooo!! But not in the UK.
I saw them two times in NL,
but also in begin of the 80s
First time ever listening to this band. Don't hate me but I'm from the 90's so I listened to NIN, Ministry, KMFDM, PIG, Fear Factory and that was my base. I also liked front 242 and Nitzer Ebb. Godhead too. I'm always curious to see who the influences of this bands were. I like this a LOT.
What about Einstürzende Neubauten?
Es música electrónica concreta similar a la de mediados de los 70s 🤣🤣🤣, el llamado "EBM o Electro Industrial" nace del EDM y sus ramas House, Techno, Synhtpop, NRG, Freestyle, Italo, New Beat, Trance, Eurobeat...
@@PolarBear-rc4ks yeah.
Don’t forget them..
@@PolarBear-rc4ks I saw EN live in Detroit about 20 years ago. WOW, just wow!
It's better than fear factory
I've been trying to find this album since I read a review of it in Heavy Metal magazine way back in the early '80s. Totally worth the wait.
Lou Stathis and Matt Howarth, yep.
0:00 Genetic Transmission
3:17 Post-Mortem
5:40 Desolation
6:58 Napalm (Terminal Patient)
9:40 Cry From the Sanatorium
12:06 Baby Blue Eyes
14:44 Israel
17:31 Internal Bleeding
19:17 Chamber Music
22:44 Despair
27:29 The Agony of the Plasma
30:38 Day of Pigs
34:58 Wars of Islam
39:26 Maladia Europa (The European Sickness)
Brian Guerrero we have same icon but different colors :)
Thanks :-)
Day of Pigs/Wars of Island is a hell of a one-two punch.
Cannot listen to one without the other.
Pathetic
::::::::::::
19:17 The end is an endless loop
(till the needle or vinyl is worn-out).
Thank you so much for up-loading this. It just sucks that SPK's back catalog seems to be soo hard to get. Especially THIS album.
@gungeligung It was more difficult ten years ago.
@gungeligung That you'd even respond to, much less try an argue, a post I made ten years ago must be a special kind of autism. Boy chill.
an industrial classic
This album shaped the way I do music Such an inspiration. I play it today and it seems crazy how much it excited me when it was fresh and new. I saw them at Al’s Bar Rozz Williams was there as well. We didn’t know each other yet later we met and formed the 2nd go round of Premature Ejaculation
27:30 the soundtrack to my youth
Primitive industrial as it was meant to be. Every track is a piece of rearrenged sounds and textures that force themselves into fitting in an unnatural way. Truly deserves to be called uncanny.
How the fuck did these guys pull of some of these sounds? This album really is something special.
One of their core instruments was an EMS VCS3 Synthi A - a dangerously raw early British synthesiser. Also notably used by Klaus Schulz, Tangerine Dream, Hawkwind, Eno and Jean Michel Jarre.
LOVE IT! One of my premiere influences as an electronic musician.
Same
i learnt how to produce from listening to this kind of music
One of the best industrial albums ever made. Masterpiece
This album has never been so actual
I love the little surprises like the lockgroove at the end of Side A.
Where have you been all my life
I have always been here. Can you remember anything else?
John Kotz that’s hot
@@AllTheCloudsArePink I wish I could get a better look I love you in that space suit
This album is a beautiful nightmare.
Definitely one of my top 10 albums...amazing with headphones
Early SPK is the best! This album is their masterpiece.
First cut sounds like "Hamburger Lady" by "Throbbing Gristle"......
Yes and No. Genesis P Orridge has previously acknowledged SPK as the only other preeminent, or worthy group within the same genre as Throbbing Gristle at that time in the early 1980's. SPK's onslaught of brutality frightened even him.
raysubsonic
hyrm*
EyesofNeurosis
shim?
karim?
I actually thought of Logan's Run during that track...
It's 1980s,early Industrial,Noise excellent album. Feel so good !
This album tells you about everything that's wrong with our world, and everything that's wrong with one. But it doesn't give one any answers.
Can't solve a problem if you don't know it exists. Step one.
NON/God&Beast.. You'll find your answer there.😀
I remember listening to this the first time, not realising the first side had no groove to take the needle arm to auto stop. After listening to the first side for maybe 45 mins I got up and saw the needle was close to the end the first side, I lay back down, 45 mins later it still hadn't finished. I was stoned at the time.
I am so beyond disappointed I did not listen to this growing up. i guess better late than never, I know I saw the name before, it just never happened.
One of the top essential industrial albums
MAYBE THE BEST INDUSTRIAL RECORD OF ALL TIMES??????
it is on my top 30 of all time industrial LP's
I’m sorry I have to say this but the noise at 8:53 sounds like the one that plays in kitchen nightmares when Gordon Ramsay finds a dead lobster in the freezer or something
Oh SPK. What happened to you. I remember when I was a teenager. I bought your first two albums. Then I bought your third album and I was like, "What the hell band is this? Did I accidentally buy an album by some Thompson Twins knock off?" I remember being very confused back then. Haha! It was just like my confusion when I had my Ministry "With Sympathy" tape, then it went to "Twitch", then suddenly to "Land of Rape and Honey" out of nowhere.
Had the same reaction. Gave up on after that.
Nothing "happened" to SPK. They made their impact on the world, releasing nothing but good music for ten years, then disbanded in 1989.
They were creating and innovating dance music
Fear Factory must do some synthpop
I guess I am one of few to use this as background music while working.
One of two, at least ;)
One of three now!! I love listening to SPK and similar bands when I am working on my art projects.
working in a factory
now try Jean Guillou 'Visions Cosmiques'
Found this while hi and been listening to it for days
Side one:
"Genetic Transmission" - 0:00
"Post-Mortem" - 3:17
"Desolation" - 6:59
"Napalm (Terminal Patient)" - 9:38
"Cry from the Sanatorium" - 12:04
"Baby Blue Eyes" - 14:42
"Israel" - 17:28
"Internal Bleeding" - 19:14
"Chamber Music" - 22:44
Side two:
"Despair" - 27:25
"The Agony of the Plasma" - 30:28
"Day of Pigs" - 34:46
"Wars of Islam" - 39:17
"Maladia Europa (The European Sickness)" - 43:07
::::::::::::
19:17 The end of this track
is an endless loop (till needle
òr till loop/vinyl is worn-out)!!
Some say Information Overload Unit is their best. I beg to differ. To quote Bryan Ferry, talking of his first two albums (unexpected here, isn't it?), "The first one was the prototype - this is the de luxe version".
For some reason a lot of this record make me smile and laugh
I listen to this and things like Cabaret Voltaire while I work
One of the few records out of thousands that I've listened to in my lifetime that I can safely say I could listen to a hundred times and not grow tired of.
oh my, this is good. Genetics transmission indeed, DNA wrapped up in sound. Dancing to toast crumbs spinning on bear traps. Secrets inside or aside.
What Graeme Revell did *before* he wrote incredible movie soundtracks.
Best and purest Industrial Album I know
This piece of genius changed my life it inspired a series of recordings which I admit pale in comparison but nonetheless i% lead me to see them live in 82 at Al’s bar in LA The performance was successful in making me physically ill... I left the club and began to vomit curbside. And later I came to find out it was an intentional part of this performance.
Have them anywhere for listen? Love that sort of stuff
I was at Al’s Bar also. Ear bleeding volume…
cool asf
This was one of my first industrial electronic albums. Brilliant representation of the genre.
I'm listening to this more closely now. Excellent.
SPK got me used to this type of music and ultimately made me fall in love with it. Love SPK sm!
This is really exposing some dark medical stuff man. I love it.
Bought this album 40+ years ago sounds as bizarre now as it did then
An old fav of mine when I was in high school, also liked auto dafe, never cared for their later stuff or most of that Wax Trax stuff. The nineties made me lose interest in industrial music, except the early 80's stuff like this.
the mid 80's & beyond was full of soulless disappointment for industrial & most everything else
this is what i mean by industrial music. and the disco-with-an-attitude industrial can suck it.
Makes old times come alive. Thx.
Classic Industrial Album! Imho, the second half features the best work released as SPK; an awesomely spine-tingling build up of tension and catharsis.
who can put a name to that in and out back and forth sound/sample/effect at the beginning?
The bass drone is likely an EMS VCS3 Synthi A
Probably the one album that defined 'industrial' more than any other, yes there's TG's 'Heaven Earth' and others but THIS... After the fact it's everything.
how to cheer myself up
Hello there and thanks for uploading! English is not my first language and I don`t find the lyrics of "GeneticTransmission" anywhere and it is difficult for me to understand everything he is saying, but I really would like to know...Does anyone have a link to where I can find the lyrics typed down? That would be so awesome, thanks!
As an aside really nice people, I went around on the Crash Course (UK) tour in 1983-4 if I remember and they were very professional and open to their fans.
wow jumped to 11 minutes in and it feels a lot like Blood on the Wall/Bites by Skinny Puppy. That junkyard sound!
Carl Foster You comment on many nice albums always comparing the music to some more commercially successful or "famous" band, annoying to see :P :P :P
@@pristinerecords yeh, Skinny Puppy - TOTALLY commercially succesful (I mean, how could he NOT be?! He was such a CORPORATE PANDERING SELLOUT after all)
and FAMOUS?! For sure, SP really gave the Beatles a run for their money there!...
Dark Madder Hi ... that was a silly and unnecessary comment I wrote, probably written late at night ha ... BUT I just wanna say here that corporate distribution doesnt necessarily have so much to do with overall crowd-pleasing entertainment or even quality as it does with what can sell, with business decisions, niche marketing etc - and what the band wants... Skinny Puppy is corporate music (!) ok? because they were on EMI which is a major corporate label. Just like lots of old gangster rap, whatever major label punk and ""anticapitalist"" music rage against the machine etc etc ... In the mid-60s the beatles were groomed for the teenybopper market, later there was some light psychedelic hippie/protest vibes and eastern exoticism thrown in... Later on - in the 90s-00s esp - corporations were looking for "edgy" and antisocial "Alternative" stuff for the mall...
Im not trying to be elitist rather to challenge these kind of default comparisons to canonized music and critics' strict maintenance of marketing genres, to the detriment of all the tons of great independent musicians, projects, albums that didnt have shitty corporate distribution !!
Another comment on here compared this to Throbbing Gristle. I like thier music too but they are undeniably more known - in part because P'orridge is fame-obsessed and takes credit for pioneering or inventing music styles rather than bringing attention to great lesser-known projects! Just generally defending humble, uncompromising, independent musicians who dont need to be compared to those who sought more validation and money ... Thanks for reading :)
@@pristinerecords Nah, I was just being sarcastic. I know what you mean. Until digital hit there wasn't much distribution without a Corporate PARENT on there. I just meant in terms of "Corporate" in the sense of the populist-pleasing feed that led nowhere the ACTUAL population wanted to go thanks to coked-out A&R types with more money and power in their pimp-hand than sense or good-taste. Even the "alternative" genre mined from college-radio zeitgeist sucked the life out of burgeoning indy scenes not fitting that narrative. I love the democratizing effect that platforms like CZcams and the freeware DAW has brought, but there are determined Corporate campaigns to seize this territory as well - demonitization, mandates for creators to generate Ad revenue and malware assaults on freeware developers just PART of this game...
But I too am not immune to the occassional late-night/and/or drunken comment. No harm, no foul as they say...
currently reading crime and punishment by dostoyevsky to this album -- life is g00d
im metal head guitarist for 25+ years, even last years ive learned more band than last 24 years, its insane how many band of genre we love exist, and even band from genre specific name we didnt knew existed,
now its so categorised and cross polinated and examined, i found more metal band in 1 year than 25 year, and thats counting all the band i already know from 24 years + only the new ones this year
cant keep up, insane amount of good music lately
My mind has just been plugged to something out of itself ❤️👏
THANKS!
This is phucking great! True Art! It's Beautiful! :) (and this is my first listen)
BTW this is Graeme Revell he has written the music for movies from The Crow to Pineapple Express and everything in between en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graeme_Revell
Does anyone have any suggestions for more nightmare fuel music?
Schloss Tegal, off the top of my head.
Nurse With Wound, my dude.
Early Throbbing Gristle, easily.
Premature ejaculation
A lot of old school industrial could be called this. If you want music that specifically sounds like this, check out Genocide Organ. Forget black metal, some of those tracks are the closest thing I've heard to 'evil music'. Atrax Morgue scratches a similar itch
Graeme Revell is a Genious.
Its almost impossible to get the pre metal dance spk records nowadays for a fair price.
Its sad that people prefer the record over the actual music on it.
Yaoi Man i don't see why there hasn't been some affordable CD reissues in so long
Well Eight coins they are well sort after in my box Well it is bit Like TG Coil nurse with wound and the rest of them
@@IndustrialFan666 or Graeme letting Sinan Leong have a hand in writing SPK material.
Who the fuck knows how or why they went shitty synthpop. As big of a mystery as Neil Hill's exact date of death.
Vod reissued the first two albums. But sadly only as boxset . Vinyl in 2016, CD last year. The leichenschrei remaster does sound amazing in that though.
Though if i got the 100€ish id pick it up off the goth/industrial online shop I usually use.
Also I was partially wrong, The Leichenschrei UK reissue, German re and Information Overload German RE tend to be the average price for an album with demand (20-30ish) online vgish.
According to a mention of SPK in an old issue of Heavy Metal magazine, "Leichenschrei" means "corpse shriek". According to Google translate, "Leichenschrei" means "death scream". Either way.......
Stunning and so truthful
Which came first? This album or From Science to Ritual? I'm a bit lost, because some parts are very similar. (Not offended, I love when this happens.)
If your partner snores just get drunk on whiskey and play this over the snoring goes together great
I had forgotten the original inspiration for doing the reverse into forward sounds. Also other sounds as well. Ty.
Kleiner Kommentar , bin mit erwachsen geworden , war mal 14 Jahre alt ,war geil !! Einige lauschten Ultravox, ich halt Neubauten , SPK , Dissecting, aber ist sweet, wenn Leute das heute noch sagen !!
Greetz
Alex
sick as fuck
TONE GENERATOR has just released a new CD on INNERCITY UPRISING RECORDS in Australia. Well worth checking out
Awesome album!!!
great album!!!
Das ist alles so lang her. Wir waren jung und es war 1986.
I would like to know who the 18 haters are.
Classic
If you like this you might like "submachine" as well, there is like 10 diffirent soundtracks
This intrigues me.
this is sensational!
I actually managed to get this cd in the mail last week! German import, via Discogs.
I cannot believe this was released in 1982.
Industriel et expérimental vont de paire.Pour moi SPK reste un des meilleurs groupe du genre.N'oublions pas Nocturnal émission...
spk are at times an enjoyable influence from throbbing gristle. this one is a favorite influence.
Surely i understand people saying this album creates a creepy atmosphere, but it does get kinda boring after sometime as someone else said. Plus, some songs end rather abruptly.
I prefer the band SPK in their energetic form as one can listen in their previous album Information Overload Unit and early songs compiled in Auto Da Fé's first half. Also, contemporary industrial act Korpses Katanonik is far creepier than this. And eventually that guy would create an album using nothing but human bones and skin, for God's sake! For reference listen to the song Kaltfleisch Corporor.
+Brule the Spear-Slayer Er, sorry i forgot to mention you need to listen to that Korpses Katatonik's song at least 10 times in a row before anything, sorry.
+5C4R4M0UCH3 Or maybe just try listening to any of the following songs for "sonic madness":
Aube - Steal Up (Track 1 off Cardiac Strain): this song is made entirely out of heartbeats.
Whitehouse - Torture Chamber: no description needed.
The Haters - Big Time Crash: nothing but car crash sounds!
Nicole 12 - Yes, Daddy: sounds of babies wailing in the background of an adult film.
Stalaggh - Untitled: the vocals are done by real mental patients.
scemo di guerra
italian industrial eh?
Is there any proof the vocals in Stalaggh are done by real mental patients because im pretty skeptical of that as bands quite often like to make up stuff about their albums to gain more interest in them
hey I entered 4 of these *'s & only two went in. music to touch your face by.
Revell has got nanotechnology stimulating his prostate these days by pressing a button , he shares bathtubs with the Kardashians ... just goes to show how fucking genial he got after SPK. No Sarcasm involved ! :|
post-apocalyptic hospital trash blues