It's been long enough to ride the nostalgia train. Some industrial
bands of the late '80s and early '90s such as KMFDM and Nine Inch Nails
have just kept chugging along to varying degrees of fame. Nitzer Ebb
took a long breather after interest in the genre waned, but they're
back, and they're on tour, still with Bon Harris, Douglas McCarthy and
Some Other Guy on percussion. Their Teutonic name and sound implied
that they're German, but they're British; their moniker is the
equivalent of Häagen-Dazs, foreign-sounding but meaningless.
But that Teutonic sound was great, taking the spareness of synth-pop
but adding an aggressive edge with hits like "Control I'm Here," (but
not "Strike to the Body" by sound-alike Chicago duo Die Warzau). They
honed their live act opening for the likes of Depeche Mode and working
the summer festival circuit.
Catch them now before they relive the old days, opening for Depeche
Mode in Europe early next year.
Nitzer
Ebb play with Provocateur, DJ Chris Ewen at the Paradise
Rock Club, 967 Commonwealth
Avenue, Boston, 617-562-8800 at 9:00 p.m. on Thursday, December 3.
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