Freaks (X Marks the Pedwalk album)

Infobox Album | Name = Freaks
Type = Album
Artist = X Marks the Pedwalk


Released = 1992 | Recorded = 1992
Genre = Industrial
Length = ??:?? (US Version)
Label = Zoth Ommog, Metropolis Records

Producer = Sevren Ni-arb (André Schmechta) and AL/X/S

Reviews = "E.S.T." [http://www.xmtp.de/output_releases_x5.html]
Last album =
This album = "Freaks"
(1992)
Next album = "Human Desolation"
(1993)

"Freaks" is the debut full-length release by German industrial music band X Marks the Pedwalk. It was originally released by Zoth Ommog in Europe as both an LP and CD, and was later released by Metropolis Records in North America with slightly different artwork and tracklist.

ummary

"Freaks", which was preceded by the "Abattoir" single, expanded on an already well-established sound for the band. Although it was their first full-length LP, the duo of Sevren Ni-arb and Regan Eracs had released three non-album singles plus "Abattoir", all through Germany's Zoth Ommog record label. However, this is the only full-length X Marks the Pedwalk release to feature Regan Eracs, who left after the production of "Cenotaph", a single which followed "Freaks".

"Freaks", is arguably monumental in developing a sound for which X Marks the Pedwalk. The song "Abattoir" is hailed by Sevren Ni-arb as the "breakthrough for XMTP" [http://www.xmtp.de/output_releases.html] , and the album as a whole has been described as a "unique fusion of industrial and techno..." [http://www.xmtp.de/output_releases_x5.html]

Track listing

Zoth Ommog version

# "Abattoir" – 4:07
# "Zest" – 3:36
# "Repression" – 5:19
# "Swastika" – 4:08
# "Express My Sentiments Exactly" – 3:43
# "The Shot" – 4:09
# "Helpless" – 3:40
# "Battered Babies" – 3:56
# "Church for Snow White" – 3:37
# "Epilogue: Desert In Dawn" – 2:15
# "Feast of the Resurrection" – 5:23 (CD Only)

Metropolis Records version

# "Zest" – 3:36
# "Repression" – 5:19
# "Swastika" – 4:08
# "Express My Sentiments Exactly" – 3:43
# "The Shot" – 4:09
# "Helpless" – 3:40
# "Battered Babies" – 3:56
# "Church for Snow White" – 3:37
# "Epilogue: Desert In Dawn" – 2:15
# "Feast of the Resurrection" – 5:23
# "I See You (Second View)"
# "No Premonition (Re-edit)"
# "Paranoid Illusions (Sky Mix)"
# "Interruption"

Personnel

*Sevren Ni-arb
*Regan Eracs

Alternate artwork

*Metropolis Records' version of "Freaks".

ee also

*X Marks the Pedwalk
*Zoth Ommog
*Metropolis Records

Full-length releases by X Marks the Pedwalk

*"Freaks"
*"Human Desolation"
*"The Killing Had Begun"
*"Meshwork"
*"Drawback"

External links

* [http://www.xmtp.de/output_releases_x5.html Entry at official X Marks the Pedwalk website] .
* [http://www.discogs.com/release/34060 Entry at Discogs.com]