Halber Mensch

Vinyl reissue of their 1985 album. Though it's a bit less intentionally noisy than previous Neubaten material, 'Half Mensch' is, in a way, the group's masterpiece. The inspired use of such 'traditional' instruments as a grand piano alongside the band's characteristic blazing percussion make for a record similar more to their compositional influences like Stockhausen than their nearest contemporaries, Throbbing Gristle or Cabaret Voltaire. The record that showed Einstürzende Neubaten could rise above the concept of noise for its own sake to reach another level of noise-oriented post-punk music, 'Half Mensch' is an excellent feat of industrial music.