Fossil Culture opens with atmospheric call-and-response guitar waves. Wide, light layers of distortion and fuzz play until low-grade drum'n' bass gets scattered in, turning the track into a reminiscence of early mainstream industrial, like a
Ministry dance club mix. Throughout the album,
Peter Frohmader's sampling and cheap synth work seem overexerted in attempts to reach a melodramatic, epic peak. Using
Depeche Mode-era sounds in an attempt to produce mind-expanding music is unlikely, but for simply spacing out to,
Pinhas' guitar work is the strong point of this album. ~ Joslyn Layne