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One of the best releases of 2003

S. Benson | Planet Earth | 10/24/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Decoded Feedback's "Shockwave" and Suicide Commando's "Axis of Evil" are without a doubt the two best release of 2003 (as of 10/23/03 anyway).I was shocked by how good shockwave was, having followed Decoded Feedback for a bit now, this is by far their best CD. I guess a lot of people will call it ebm, but to me it felt darker and more industrial, more so than any other DF I have heard before.As a DJ I have been playing two songs a lot, both "Bondage" and "Phoenix" (been playing the video for phoenix a lot recently). To me "Phoenix" is both the best song personally and for DJing, it always does really well on the floor and has a great dark grinding beat.Any Industrial type DJ would be amiss to not have this in their collection."

The Wheels on the Bus Go Round and Round

TastyBabySyndrome | "Daddy Dagon's Daycare" - Proud Sponsor of the Lit | 03/16/2003

(5 out of 5 stars)

"In the realms of EBM music, I oftentimes find my tastes attracted to the more melodic, heavy voxed sounds of chaos that some bands produce in addition to the worlds of greeting card lyrics and love songs. This is because these messages seem to have depth and meaning that go beyond the normal range that noise, speaking out on realms of social reasoning and political entrapment as well as the way a certain someone can make you feel. For this reason, I hold bands like Decoded Feedback in high regard because, no matter the instance or the socioceremonial rite, they have interestingly dark things to say. While progressively manufacturing the darker side of the EBM rainbow, Decoded Feedback has gone through some remarkable transitions that have always taken me time to grow accustomed to. These have been gradual in some album to album instances, ranging only in the motions of the beats or the rhythmic waves of the voxed vocal stylizations. They have been more noticeable as well, especially in the last two album's case, with Mechanical Horizons showcasing a change in how the tempos were approached and how the vocals were done and now, with the old and the new merging in some rites and changing in others. Here, the mentalities of voxed lyrics combine with the style produced on Mechanical Horizons where the distortion is dropped and a gruff form of singing is illustrated, and the beats are slower and more orchestrated than the normality adopted by most of Informatik's faster paced releases. They are still electronic and they incorporate more types of sound than the simple beats that are sometimes used, but they don't have the same dancefloor feeling that some of the former releases held. Still, it is worthy of them, by and far.If you have liked the former releases by Decoded Feedback and didn't mind the changes in Mechanical horizons, then this would be a sure bet. Even if you didn't like the changes, however, its worth a listen to see if the addition of voxed vocals brings you back into the listening fold. For anyone that has yet to check out Decoded Feedback, I'd recommend starting in the Syntax arena and then moving forward. That way you can see how the band progresses and notice how easily the newly incorporated sounds grown on you. Still, if you are curious about how they sound now you can easy find out by either listening to a sample provided or looking at Metropolis before purchasing."

Shows more hard industrial influences than past albums

Ted Del Prato | Acworth, GA | 03/01/2003

(4 out of 5 stars)

"With Shockwave, Decoded Feedback's sound continues to evolve. In this release, Marco and Yone delve deeper into the hard industrial sound than ever before. With a name like Shockwave, I was hoping they would return to their high energy sound found on their earlier albums like Bio-Vital. Not so...with the exception of only a couple of tracks, they seem to have abandoned that formula altogether. The bass-line in most of the songs is slower, with a heavy staticy distortion to it. The actual music itself consists mostly of repeating synth-loops, and most of the lyrics are heavily distorted. However, this formula works well for the harder aggro-industrial genre. Decoded Feedback's sound on this album bares striking resemblence in ways to harsh aggro-industrial acts such as Suicide Commando and Android Lust. This is not a bad thing, it just means that Decoded Feedback is now a good industrial/ebm band for different reasons than before. So for long-time fans: Yes, Shockwave does mark a changing point in Decoded Feedback's sound, but it's still a pretty good album."