Sex Reflex - Bile

Bile's first album of the new millennium sees the band (or more appropriately its songwriter and only consistent member Krztoff) opting for a more mainstream take on their industrial style that mostly abandons the dark ambient leanings that worked to mixed success in previous releases. Due to the state of the "industrial rock" scene at the time, speaking in very broad terms, this means that the more radio-oriented songs like 'World War Four,' 'Betty Page' and 'There Is No You and Me' have something of Marilyn Manson about them, around his 'Antichrist Superstar' / Trent Reznor wannabe phase, while Nine Inch Nails itself forms the basis for some of the darker and ...  Read the complete review