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Lietterschpich - I Cum Blood In The Think Tank
CD, Topheth Prophet, 2007
www.myspace.com/doomdub

In 2004 a few friends who wanted to start an industrial noise collective must have been thinking about what to call themselves. One will have to admit that the name they thought of gives a certain, well, "sarcastic" view of their world because the Hebrew 'Lietterschpich' - they are from Israel - translates to "a liter of cum".
So far not much clues on what to expect on their first album, released on the also Israelian Topheth Prophet label. And being released on Topheth doesn't lead to any expectations because you can expect a lot of different styles on there. So I'll try something ...
Their website at myspace, which is the only website they have, can be found at www.myspace.cum/doomdub and within the term 'doomdub' also is a core of truth. Even though there is only one true dub track on there (ok, forgive me, but I'm not that much into dub) the slow rhythms and 'doom' factor will give an insight an what to expect.
On first listening I wrote down harsh industrial in a mix with power electronics and slow throbbing metal. And to throw in a few names, I could compare their sound with Mental Destruction, really old and harsh SPK, a little bit of Godflesh. An emotional state of agression we can only hear in NTT allthough Lietterschpich is a bit more rhythmic in nature. And at times the sound and structure reminds me of some Haus Arafna, but also more from an emotional point of view, not particulary soundwise.
The 12 tracks on the album have titles which don't broadcast one particular view on the world. Some seem to be really silly, for example "Stockfish", "Mud and fun", "A horse and a walk in the park" and "Cookies downtown", while there are a few that at least in their title show a certain level of engagement ("Malevolent recreation celebration", "Petty bourgeois (word of a fraud)" or "Segregation".
Still after several listenings I do very much like this album. It's slow and heavy, noisey and nicely layered, full of agression and other emotions and actually good to play an several occasions. Best would be if you have the feeling the world is against you and you just want to react. You'll find soulmates in that by playing this album.

-- Bauke van der Wal [7.5/10]