Certainly one of the best bands to come out of Bremen. (John Peel 17/1/93)
Although I have no recollection of hearing Peel play anything by Party Diktator before this show, his support for the band in the early 90s led to him being included in the acknowledgements on the band’s debut album, Worldwide.
There's nothing in Road which could be filed under "Chilly Germanic Cliches". With its clattering, propulsive drumming, a guitar sound which evokes the loudest car engine imaginable and an increasingly anguished vocal by Nick Neumann, who sounds like he's not only trying to race with the devil but has it threatening him from the back seat, this is pure Black Metal/noisecore brilliance. Some songs paint the Open Road as a chance for escape and freedom, but this song captures the mood of someone who has been driving all night and can only stop either when they crash or run out of road and plunge off the precipice. I wonder if the band had been binge-watching nihilistic road movies such as Vanishing Point or Two Lane Blacktop. They drive because to stop would be to cease existence and the closing purrs of dying guitar mixed with a snatched scream of harmonica sound like the collision of mangled metal against the crushed ideals of Americana on a hellscaped autobahn.
Video courtesy of Irresponsableful.
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