Cornucopia of Sounds
author: rE\dOx
Excellent album! It's hard to classify it under any one category as Dein Schatten (Your Shadow) brings us some dark, gothic rock and at times some more ebm-sounding tunes. I really enjoyed the tracks Das Tier and Woanders Sein (Tino Domati club remix).
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Interview - USA
author: Mikki-USA
We were contacted by Dein Schatten's management with info about this new project by Dieter Bornschlegel, now known as
Bornzero. An interview request was accepted & they even sent us a promo CD. That was so cool! So, vielen dank, Bornzero & Ussi!!!
Everyone must check out his new album, "Ewiges Eis" it's very cool! :)
Mikki
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Review from UK- "EWIGES EIS is a highly recommended listen"
author: Mark Bayross
ein Schatten is the new one-man project of German Dieter Bornschlegel, AKA Bornzero, former
member of seventies rock band Atlantis and cult krautrockers Guru Guru, with a career stretching back
30 years. After two singles, EWIGES EIS is the first Dein Schatten album proper.
Fusing choral arrangements to military beats and, occasionally, heavy guitars, this will have particular
appeal to fans of Witt or Rammstein, especially as Bornzero?s German vocals often sound like Joachim
Witt or Till Lindemann. Highly melodic throughout, at times the oppressive atmosphere and sampled
choirs even evoke the drama of misunderstood Slovenians Laibach.
As with the above-mentioned bands, there is a dark streak of teutonic humour running through this
album - all this doom isn?t really supposed to be taken seriously - so the church organ cover of
Suzanne Vega (MY NAME IS LUC(FI)A) is obviously meant as a joke. There are also some neat
musical touches - the flamenco guitar of the stunning SCHULD UND SÜNDE, the slow-burn backing of
strings and spine-chilling female vocals on RESPEKT! - that clearly show this to be the work of a
production professional.
From the stomping industrial of DAS TIER or the Die Krupps-sounding FREE to the prog electronica of
the title track, this often sounds like a distillation of everything that currently sells on the fringes of the
German mainstream. And, unfortunately, therein lies the problem - while bands like Wolfshiem and Das
Ich regularly enter the charts in Germany, there are very few other markets, outside possibly
Scandinavia, where they have yet to break out of the underground.
The recent signing of Covenant to Sony subsidiary KA2, plus the interest apparently being shown by
the majors in VNV Nation (who, by the way, might want to have a good listen to the keyboard line of
ABSCHIED?) and Apoptygma Bezerk - not to mention the all-conquering explosion of Rammstein -
may give Bornzero some hope that his music will reach a wider audience, but this interest in darkwave
may pass very quickly. After all, ten years ago, everyone wanted to sign the new Ministry.
But so what? If you miss out on this, it?s your loss. Mixing elements of Rammstein industrial, Laibach
pomp and VNV futurepop, EWIGES EIS is a highly recommended listen.
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REVIEW FROM AUSTRALIA "..come up with a fantastic Dark CD."
author: Biodef
After the first listen to this CD you become aware that the production is amazing. On top of
this Bornzero actually manufactures every sound on the CD. Put these two together and you
come up with a fantastic Dark CD.
The CD is different to most in the way the guitar has been used to create a diverse and clear
sound instead of a sampled blur used by most artists. Bornzero is obviously master on the
guitar and this quality shines. However its not just the guitar, the vocals, the Hip Hop beats,
the Jazz and the country style beats are all perfect on this Album. What's more, the vocals are
all in German, a refreshing change.
This demo disk is gloomy (in a good way) and many people looking for a change in the consist
rollout of typical Goth style album would be very impressed. Several tracks on the CD stand
out to me for they clearly could become club hits. ?Dein Schatten? is properly on of my more
favoured tracks for it demonstrates the artist ability to create a flowing gloomy creative track
with many diverse sounds and fantastic production work. While ?Woander Sein?
demonstrates the gloomy country style this artist processes with strong vocals and rhythmic
guitar sound.
Overall this style of music my not be my most favoured, however, people looking for
something different but extremely well created containing gloomy gothic, country, classic
guitar then this would be a excellent addition to your music collecti
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