"Roter Stern" (Red Star) by Centhron is though no new masterpiece like their previous album "Gottwek" was but it is a solid follow up to it. There are 13 tracks on the album which pick up where "Gottwerk" left off.
The beats, the catchy melodies, the loops and the shouting vocals do their job be it morning of a late night. Those who overslept in the morning will be wide awake to start the day after the first tunes right away. And in the night the album offers just what you need for a party to let the steam off. Just make sure you don’t play it in the chill out area; that is not what the album was planned for.
Elmar demonstrates little restraint with his German lyrics as he shouts them. It still provides no guarantee for artistic value, however, but it sounds very aggressive and abrupt which fits the music. Sometime you get an impression the vocalist just screams his head off, main thing being it fits the rhythm.
Dear DJs, with this album you’ve got painful choices to make: the title track, "Bitch of dreams", "Orkan", "Cleopatra" being the most attractive for the dance floor, but the rest is far from being bad either. There is a whole bunch of good stuff on this cheeky CD. "Roter Stern" may not be the most groundbreaking release of this year so far, but industrial and EBM fans have a quality product here.