Our androgynous heroes of Orgy has been around for about seven years. Since their debut album "Candyass" has managed the band, with its mix of industrial and electro-80s to occupy a unique niche and to compete with cheap copies, eg Necromancer. With "Punk Statik Paranoia" the quintet now presents the third album already, the loose, the predecessor in the shade. To anticipate: Orgy Orgy stay, only at a higher level and also with one or another little surprise up their sleeve. So this self-produced album sounds much fuller and more dynamic than the somewhat cold "Vapor Transmission". This may on the one hand be due to the strongly lowered guitars that now strongly tend concerning the sound in the NüMetal corner. Secondly, one gets the impression that the pace was a little bit screwed up, what seems to be not only at the short running time of just under 38 minutes. That does the usual appearance of the Orgy-overall concept, however no significant demolition. The real surprises are also mainly in the first third of the disc. So presented the opener "Beautiful Disgrace" a less shaky singing as we know him from times gone by, which also alternates in the chorus on typical NüMetal style with aggressive Shouting. In "Vague" and the absolute highlight of the plate "Ashamed" the electronic parts are largely relegated to the background and played aside by massive guitar work on the front lines. This more aggressive side somewhere between Static-X and The Blank Theory is the band but quite excellent to face and is in no way just imitation of promotional Metal mainstream concepts. That leaves the question of whether this sound is the trend for the next silver plate after the songs were asked blocked at the beginning. Easily changed evident towards the end of Mach work as the pop "Inside My Head", the strong tendency in the opposite direction of the Aggro scale in the style of the last Limp Bizkit plate. So Punk Statik Paranoia everything proves total but static, since keeping the progression tendencies of the band with the usual solid Orgy concept beautifully balanced. The artwork deserves a separate hymn of praise and missed the band purely externally a refreshingly different type of paint. The Explicit offered parallel and clean versions differ only in the use of the well-known F-word in "Ashamed". The decision is yours.
