MEGAHERZ

Komet

NAPALM Rammstein’s industrial contemporaries pack a weightier punch The name might not be familiar, but Megaherz are one of Germany’s original dark industrial metal – or ‘Neue Deutsche

Härte’ – bands. Formed around the same time as Rammstein, they never reached such explosive heights but Komet could help them crash-land outside Deutschland. Bigger, bolder and harder than its predecessors, album number

10 is insanely catchy and packed with foot-stomping anthems influenced by their heavy peers. There are nuances of Pain, Eisbrecher (original frontman Alexander Wesselsky’s current band) and Deathstars, not to mention lashings of Rammsteinness. Megaherz were definitely listening to Mutter when they wrote Horrorclown; frontman

Lex Wohnhaas even borrows

Till Lindemann’s distinctive enunciation on the explosive track, which appears to be about a certain American president. There’s even a hint of The Sisters Of Mercy’s 1959 on the mournful Von Oben.

Komet is a treat for fans of

German ‘hardness’. FOR FANS OF: RAMMSTEIN, LORD OF THE LOST, DEATHSTARS.