Alice In... AIW 224 (2022)

Gothic/Post-punk group formed in August 1991 in The Netherlands. Based in Berlin,Germany.

The new Gtterdmmerung album took a few years to complete. Recorded during the pandemic, but demo sessions started long before any lockdown. The basic feel of the album was to return to the early deathrock/ gothic sound of the debut album. “Intensity Zone” is the result of that. Instantly the sound of Gtterdmmerung is present, yet it’s also less polished, punky and more of a rock-driven album. 

This led to “Intensity Zone” being the rawest sounding album since the debut. That’s also why the old logo returned on the cover and even the colour combination of the artwork harks back to the debut from 1994. 

But “Intensity Zone” does stand on its own. Lyrically dealing with danger, disappointment, delusion, dystopia, death…almost anything starting with a D really… Musically very diverse; from the hard deathrock of “Sink into Fragrance” to the familiar Dmmerung sound of the first single “Never After”, through to the electronic dancefloor track “Common Existence” and ending with the almost 10 minute long atmospheric and dreamy “The First Laugh”. It’s “Intense” but extremely satisfying.