Finally got around to writing up this 2007 disc from Polish death industrial outfit Brandkommando that we got in stock a short while ago; this actually pre-dates the other disc that we've carried from this project, We All Love Your Children, which I was a big fan of. On Keine Arbeit Macht Freil!, Brandkommando goes for a much more aggressive sound, focusing on heavy, harsh electronics and low-end bass frequencies and grinding industrialized rhythms that suggest a heavy Genocide Organ influence. There's much that I dig about this hour-plus PE assault: the atmosphere surrounding the six lengthy tracks is terminally grim, dealing with themes of bottomless human evil and acts of apocalyptic genocide (with a particular focus on the horrific industriousness of the German concentration camp system during the second World War), the sounds effectively evoking nightmarish visions of vast body-pits, black crematorium smoke blotting the sun from the sky, and the slow, methodical destruction of the human body and spirit. Makes for some of the most unsettling and evil-sounding electronic horror that I've heard from this project. The sound is char-black and smoldering, inhuman mutterings and distorted monotone voices (all in Polish) cast across filthy throbbing synthesizers and hypnotic loops of flesh-destroying electronic noise. The delivery is minimal, often laying down simple pulsating drones and crackling black static, but as each track evolves, it piles on more and more corrosive, caustic noise and bass-heavy synth, morphing into monstrous blackened mecha-dirges and massive, rumbling drones that suck the sound down into realms of crushing death industrial. There are brief appearances of Oil-drum percussion and piercing high end drone, demonic vocals pushed through toxic clouds of distortion and swirling black orchestral drift, but for the most part Keine Arbeit crawls like a tar-black cancer across these six rotting, irradiated deathscapes. Released in a hand-numbered edition of three hundred fifty copies, presented in a custom six-panel sleeve.