However, do NOT buy this CD if you are looking for anything more than than stomping music and screaming about war, cuz you're not gonna get it. What you will get are thunderous beats, growled vocals, and all that anger that gives industrial music such a wonderfull sound. It really doesn't get much more intense. Funker Vogt doesn't screw around. The songs are ruminations about pain, death, war, etc. Basicaly what most other industrial bands sing about. They don't push it to the limits that Funker Vogt does, though. This is about the limit at which one can still be taken seriously. Much more and they delve into the realm of the charicature. Luckily Funker Vogt knows just where to stop.


Hearing the Voices of The Dead   January 15, 2003
 4 out of 4 found this review helpful

This is Funker Vogt doing what Funker Vogt does best; commenting on the brutality and the utter futility of mankind and its occupation with war. Simply looking over the names of the songs lent to this work showcases that fact, with the thirteen songs rarely straying from the message they've held high since the beginning. It an odd array that steps outside the typical methodology of approaching this type of message, too, leaning a bit more toward the dance floor than some of the more aggressively pitched songs of the past and coupling harsh vocals to underwrite the meaning behind the music. This paints a bleak picture of sorrorw and suffering, exhibiting with sound what many have painted before in other mediums.

In my opinion, Funker Vogt shows great progress as a band whose work was already seeded with greatness and simply needed polishing in a few areas. They've begun the reengineering of their sound slowly, beautifying it in places and keeping some of the aggression in others, taking the middle ground that drifts further and further into the realm of harsh electronica as the band rediscovers the approach they want to use. This, coupled with the fact that their lyrics, although rough in some ways, still convey the mentality of man and the message that the band wants to get across as it asks you to ponder something, more than makes them worthy of purchase.

Still, listening to the opinion of someone is simply that, and the doubting can listen for themselves here and also look into Metropolis to find out if its for them.


Funker Vogt, it's what the Borg listen to   April 7, 2000
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

From the muck of a post-biological warfare devastated planetrises Funker Vogt....again redefined music and spawned a new explosivegenre. After a decade silence, Germany has again risen to establish an Industrial Fourth Reich. Tacks like "Tragic Hero," "Civil War," and "Shaven" envelops you like a blinding flash delivered from an Anthrax bomb. Funker Vogt successfully replaces heavy guitar with pounding, driving, synth-guitar sound and still maintains a rough edge. "Beyond Your Belief" and "Fortunes of War" are heard in many desheveled, burned down factories, railroad yards, and abandoned churches. Although more accessible than "We Came to Kill," "Execution Tracks" provide the listener with some of Funker Vogt's best work to date. Jens Kaestel still maintains his throaty aggressive vocals that are a cornerstone to Vogt. If you like Rammstein, Wumpscut, and the TRUE future of music, drop the cardboard, baggy jeans, and def-metal, and slam some of Funker Vogt in your player. END


After a year and a half, this album is still my most played   October 11, 2000
 3 out of 3 found this review helpful

Simply put, I've always had a craving for fast and pounding synth songs. I picked up Execution Tracks after reading about FunkerVogt and hearing a partial track on a German industrial/gothic website. So, I ordered the album and was instantly consumed by "International Killer", "Tragic Hero", and "Shaven". The only song I ever tended to skip was "Fortunes of War", because the volume drops dramatically after "International Killer" and seems drab in comparison. I had a hard time finding any industrial bands to compete with this FV album. After a year and a half, I still love driving with this album blasting in my car. If you yearn for synth sound as much as I do, this album is a must-have! =)


Great German Inudstrial!!!!!!   October 25, 1999
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Awesome german industrial music. Mertopolis' best band. Funker Vogt is superb. SUPPORT THE INDUSTRIAL UNDERGROUND!