The information that came together with this MCD named electro black metal as the style that Herrschaft plays. I would rather name their style just industrial, it’s true that the singer uses high black metal screams, but the guitar riffs that are played seem to come straight from a KMFDM album, especially the opening riff of ‘Apogee’; this gave me a bit of a feeble feeling. Those high black metal screams are by the way awfully distorted, this is quite usual with industrial, but combined with black metal screams this doesn’t produce a pleasant sound.

 

In ‘Haunting Torture’ Herrschaft manages to create a more sinister, black sound, but still it hasn’t got that great evil vibe what compatriots Tamtrum can produce. In ‘Self Bondage’ another KMFDM rip-off riff passes by, but this time it is compensated with great attractive synths; because of this the song flows really well.

 

Overall I must say that I was disappointed by this MCD, sometimes it manages to create a good vibe, but too many times we hear just all too common riffs. Lets hope they will work on this in the future.