Now The Electric Hellfire was actually an industrial metal act for only two years before going on hiatus in 2002. I am actually a fan of The Electric Hellfire Club's bizarre discography, and it is quite interesting to experience the identity transformation they underwent during their decade of activity. The Electric Hellfire Club started out as an industrial gig during the early 1990's before acquiring a metallic edge with the critically-acclaimed Witness the Millennium in 2000. The group's anomalous theorem of industrial-laced heavy metal was certainly an absorbing metamorphosis, but The Electric Hellfire Club had no sign of stopping their special blend of electronic heaviness. In 2002, the futuristic faction had opened the metal aqueducts, and the unearthly liquid once again flowed into industrial streams on their final record entitled Electronomicon.

Now this album might seem like an ordinary pseudo-Ministry plunder at first gaze, but it's actually one of the best industrial metal albums ever made on several levels. It has everything that makes industrial metal fantastic: heavy riffs, crushing drums, strange vocals, amazing samples, trippy keyboards, and a unique atmosphere that only computerized effects could make.

Anyone looking for insight about Electronomicon can obtain a decent understanding of its ingredients by viewing the image on the record's cover. The art is simply a demon with a normal half and a robotic half, but each hemisphere gives key indications about this CD's sound.

On the right side, we have the beast's normal skin that clearly represents the metallic nature of The Electric Hellfire Club. Fantastic riffs and solos that intact with traditional heavy metal are commonly used with a clear emphasis on crushing guitar distortion while great double bass hits and steady snare beats echo underneath the guitars. Everything sounds heavy, and powerful, which is good, but it is also the most formulated recording this band has ever done, and that shows a huge evolution from their earlier works in which no stability was found at all.

Our illustrated demonic friend also seems to have some mechanical attachments adjacent to his diabolical flesh. Such hybrid qualities unquestionably represent The Electric Hellfire Club's method of covering electronic properties over their interesting version of heavy metal, and how each entity is still connected at its core. Psychedelic keyboard compositions and creepy samples of rituals, demons, cartoons, movie clips, and evil chants are eternally spewed at the metallic front of Electronomicon in many entertaining ways. These effects are placed in atmospheric situations to add haunting elements, and areas in which the electronic efforts match instrumental paces for an extension on musical variation. This here may sound like a typical industrial structure, but The Electric Hellfire Club applies these ideas in ways one would never imagine. The number of superb periods in which dark allegories and conversation recordings are used is simply infinite, yet other instances of abnormal specimens, like vocal alterations and folk sections, appear quite frequently too. It is certainly strange, but very entertaining nonetheless.