Depeche Mode – Ultra
Genres: Alternative, Synthrock, Rock
Labels: Mute, Reprise
1997 was a great year for music. Hiphop was getting unprescendented airplay, rock and metal were seeing strong sales, and even country was at a high point.
1997 was a great year for Depeche Mode as well. They released Ultra, an album that is no less than a masterpiece, possibly their best one at the time, and it could still well be the best they’ve done.
Classic tracks are all over this disc, and not just the four singles (“Barrel of a Gun”, “It’s No Good”, “Home”, “Useless”). “Sister of Night” and “The Bottom Line” are phenominal, as is “The Love Thieves”.
Super dancy, rock as fuck, and darker than a black hole, Ultra is in my own personal Music Hall of Fame.
10 out of 10.
The founder of Funeral Rain Records in January 2009 and Funeral Rain Zine in March 2009, Dustin "General Blaspheme" Ekman has been listening to rock since he can remember and metal since 1998, starting with nü-metal then quickly moving on to death, then black, then expanding onwards to what he listens to now: everything. ///
Favorite bands: Darkthrone, My Dying Bride, Cannibal Corpse, Bush. ///
Favorite album: My Dying Bride - A Line of Deathless Kings. ///
First live show: Kittie with Disturbed supporting and Shuvel opening.
General Blaspheme