An album, which will be in competition for the best album of the year! HALO IN REVERSE confirms that there is still talent around to be discovered and that electronic music can still be more than just the average boom-boom club noise of today! The one-man American band fits into the electro / industrial rock genre that mixes trashy guitar with depressive piano rolls, and aggressive intricate electronics all fused together with Joshua Steffen’s raging se*uality, and high energy synthesizers.Drawing from influences as diverse as DEPECHE MODE, Peter Gabriel, MINISTRY or yet Rob Zombie, but it is with NINE INCH NAILS’ early and moreaggressive days that HALO IN REVERSE’s music is the most easily compared to. If obviously following the direction brought by Trent Reznor, JoshuaSteffen is definitely doing his own thing, combining emotional melodies with caustic synthesizer and guitar textures, mixing the organic with the syntheticin a mélange that is as enticing as it is aggravating. His most striking and dominant unique characteristic is within his passionate and intoxicating voice:strong, decadent, artfully lustrous and dreamy.On "Trials and Tribulations" HALO IN REVERSE presents the ultimate display of an artist taking his powers to his utmost, focusing on musicianship andsolid songwriting resulting in both great music and strong lyrics. An album that reveals awesome production work and a degree of musicianship seldom seen around these parts, on which the music just flows and influences combine fluidly. An album filled with emotion and the pain that only love can bring us when it is no longer returned.Betrayal, bitterness, depression and se*uality bring the setting of this industrial/electro pop-rock chef d"oeuvre of pure sensual intensity you will play again, and again, and again... and again until the tears end up rolling... A cleansing experience!Deluxe carton box edition with a bonus disc including 5 exclusive bonus songs, plus 11 alternative versions and remixes from other artists...Released early December, 2010 on Alfa Matrix.Track Listing CD1:01 Something"s gone terribly wrong02 Pop Icon Puppets03 Sweetest Honey04 Falling apart05 Modesty"s Failure06 Go all the Way07 I Machine08 Something this real09 They"ve taken Me away10 Whittled to an Edge11 Where were You12 You13 Acubens (Alpha Cancri)CD2:01 Modesty"s Failure (P45K mix)02 Sweetest Honey (DRØNE mix)03 Modesty"s Failure (Leæther Strip mix)04. I Machine (VTG 3am mix)05 Whittled to an Edge (Cold Painted Soul mix)06 Go all the Way (Needles Eye mix)07 Pop Icon Puppets (Josh"s DnB Destruction mix)08 Something this real (Jamie Myerson mix)09 Falling Apart (crashtv mix)10 Go all the Way (Jamie Myerson mix)11 Modesty"s Failure (Jamie Myerson mix)12 Mississippi Queen*13 Theme for a Portrait of Hell (unreleased)14 Seething (unreleased 1995 demo)15 Drama Queen (unreleased 1995 demo)16 For You (unreleased 1995 demo)
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