A Split Second
A Split Second is a Belgian new beat and industrial band. A Split Second's … Read Full Bio ↴A Split Second is a Belgian new beat and industrial band. A Split Second's first American release, the 1987 EP A Split Second, collected highlights from their early European releases, which included Ballistic Statues (which featured the tense masterpiece "Close Combat"), Smell of Buddah as well as their innovative EBM classic, "Flesh".
The second album, 1988's ...From the Inside, remains one of the underappreciated classics of late-80s industrial music. Beginning with the rock-oriented "Bend My Body Armour", the album is remarkably varied for the genre, featuring post-funk-disco ("Choke"), ballads ("The Last Wave", the title track), and muscular club tracks (the dancefloor smash "Mambo Witch"). The album is notable for its peculiarly interesting lyrics, which feature odd, vaguely morbid phrasing ("muscles contorted in atrocity posture") that give the record a depth atypical of the genre. The subsequent single, "The Colosseum Crash" b/w "Muscle Machine", highlighted the Wax Trax! phase of the band's career.
While not as consistantly striking or varied, the followup Kiss of Fury has several songs worthy of its predecessor, notably the tense, moody "Crimewave" and the single "Firewalker". For the most part, the album picks up the rock-oriented direction of "Bend My Body Armour" with tracks such as "The Parallax View" and "Cold War in the Brainbox"; they contiune largely in this direction for their '90s records, Vengance C.O.D. and Megabyte.
Flesh and Fire, from 1991, collects some top-notch remixes of A Split-Second's 80s output. The Koen Tillie remix of "Flesh" is an ace example of early-90s techno; a piano-and-strings "Concerto" version of "From the Inside", newly titled "Taken In", mines the depth and emotion of the original; a dub-ish fusion of "Close Combat" and "Muscle Machine" further demonstrates the band's creativity.
Following a series of mediocre remix CD singles, Chrismarr Chayell left the band, while Mark Ickx continued recording under the A Split-Second moniker.
The second album, 1988's ...From the Inside, remains one of the underappreciated classics of late-80s industrial music. Beginning with the rock-oriented "Bend My Body Armour", the album is remarkably varied for the genre, featuring post-funk-disco ("Choke"), ballads ("The Last Wave", the title track), and muscular club tracks (the dancefloor smash "Mambo Witch"). The album is notable for its peculiarly interesting lyrics, which feature odd, vaguely morbid phrasing ("muscles contorted in atrocity posture") that give the record a depth atypical of the genre. The subsequent single, "The Colosseum Crash" b/w "Muscle Machine", highlighted the Wax Trax! phase of the band's career.
While not as consistantly striking or varied, the followup Kiss of Fury has several songs worthy of its predecessor, notably the tense, moody "Crimewave" and the single "Firewalker". For the most part, the album picks up the rock-oriented direction of "Bend My Body Armour" with tracks such as "The Parallax View" and "Cold War in the Brainbox"; they contiune largely in this direction for their '90s records, Vengance C.O.D. and Megabyte.
Flesh and Fire, from 1991, collects some top-notch remixes of A Split-Second's 80s output. The Koen Tillie remix of "Flesh" is an ace example of early-90s techno; a piano-and-strings "Concerto" version of "From the Inside", newly titled "Taken In", mines the depth and emotion of the original; a dub-ish fusion of "Close Combat" and "Muscle Machine" further demonstrates the band's creativity.
Following a series of mediocre remix CD singles, Chrismarr Chayell left the band, while Mark Ickx continued recording under the A Split-Second moniker.
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A Split Second Lyrics
...From The Inside Against the crushing faith of boredom Your feelings of indif…
Arsenic on the rocks Supper time is over for the cannibal tribes Slice me now P…
Ballistic Statues "The president speaks from the Oval Office" "Good evening. …
Bend my body armour Ripping skin and crushing bones Head-on collision of shallow…
Burn Out See her walking gently down the street Watch her slipping sw…
Burnout See her walking gently down the street Watch her slipping s…
Check It Out Old and sage The mafu cage The reason to target But you know…
Choke Break down, turn it around Hear the sound of laceration The …
Colonial discharge Under the incinerating sun, The sweat of toiling bodies On t…
Drinking Sand The shadow of an inclination Burning down the walls Industri…
flesh This is when your flesh Crimson and pale Withers behind the …
From the inside Against the crushing faith of boredom Your feelings of indif…
Mambo witch A startling sense of dislocation Pushed away by voodoo crap …
Neurobeat Candid impression Obscenties obscured Apologetically turni…
On Command Breath control Sweat control On command, catch and dive Jump…
Rigor Mortis Cold and alone in the vinyard he lies Stained and all…
Scandinavian Bellydance Scandinavian Scandinavian Scandinavian Scandinavian Scandina…
The Colosseum Crash "no more human sacrifice" she said i'll just have a dry…
The Last Wave Two statues in the dark Frozen in time Waiting for the list…