Plastic Assault utilize heavy EBM styled rhythms with harsh samples and vocals to create an image of shock and violence. Released on the German label Bloodline Plastic Assault would be of high interest to fans of the harder side of Front Line Assembly and bands like Stabbing Westward's Ungod album. The first track "Crackhead" sounds like it could very easily have fit on the FLA album Caustic Grip due to the vocal and sample style as well as the ever riding bouncy synth bassline. It's also reminiscient of earlier FLA as well (aka Initial Command, Total Terror, etc.). This continues through much of the album as Plastic Assault focuses on a little used but highly loved form of early dark EBM which personally I feel should have affected more industrial oriented groups. Sounds of ambulances, military commandos, police ham radio and live arrests, shotgun blasts, screams of terror, cheering crowds and other sounds of chaos, angst, aggression, violence and fascism fill this amazing album. Strangely enough there is a purely Punk-rock sample at the beginning of "Pesticide" but I couldn't say who the band is but it's amusing all the same. It's wonderful to hear another artist expand on the original sound that Bill Leeb created but he himself as left in his past. I've always thought that this style of music would catch on somewhere, somehow and it's nice to see somebody doing it still.
The track "Devotka" sounds more like a DSBP Records band or something like Any Questions? or Eye Kandy with it's heavy use of metal guitar sampling combined with synthetic tones or harshness. Heavy, dark, and aggressive this band succeeds where many have failed in their attempts to create similar audio structures. "Strangled" sounds very much like something from FLA's "Hard Wired" album. I hope to hear more form Plastic Assault in the future.