Album lore

The Damage Manual, released in 2000 on Invisible Records, assembles a cadre of industrial rock and metal veterans into a terse, abrasive artifact. The lineup, including luminaries associated with metallis and Bill Laswell’s production orbit, channels industrial, EBM, and noise rock into thirteen tracks marked by mechanical rhythms and dense textures. The album’s selections, such as “Damage Addict (Laswell Mix)” and “Sunset Gun (303 edit),” bear witness to the late-’90s fusion of electronic subgenres with a metallic edge.The record’s resonance lies partly in its collaborative genesis, with Laswell’s touch evident in the hybrid edits and mixes. Tracks like “Blame and Demand (Wobble/Laswell Hybrid edit)” reveal a layering of dub-influenced bass and industrial clatter, a signal of the era’s cross-pollination. The Damage Manual remains a compact document of a scene where industrial’s harshness met studio experimentation, preserved here as a solid piece of Invisible Records’ catalog.

Album lore

The Damage Manual, released in 2000 on Invisible Records, assembles a cadre of industrial rock and metal veterans into a terse, abrasive artifact. The lineup, including luminaries associated with metallis and Bill Laswell’s production orbit, channels industrial, EBM, and noise rock into thirteen tracks marked by mechanical rhythms and dense textures. The album’s selections, such as “Damage Addict (Laswell Mix)” and “Sunset Gun (303 edit),” bear witness to the late-’90s fusion of electronic subgenres with a metallic edge.The record’s resonance lies partly in its collaborative genesis, with Laswell’s touch evident in the hybrid edits and mixes. Tracks like “Blame and Demand (Wobble/Laswell Hybrid edit)” reveal a layering of dub-influenced bass and industrial clatter, a signal of the era’s cross-pollination. The Damage Manual remains a compact document of a scene where industrial’s harshness met studio experimentation, preserved here as a solid piece of Invisible Records’ catalog.