At last; 6 years after the album Release there is a new studioalbum of industrial noise pioneer Christian Pallentin aka P.A.L. It has already been 10 years ago that the clubhit ‘Gelobnis’ was released on the Signum album as well. In recent years it was pretty quiet around P.A.L regarding releases, of course with the exception of the compilation cd Retro and two years before that the live cd. This new album, entitled Modus, has a truly delicious atmosphere with which classical and jaaz avantgarde-ambient atmopsheres combine excellent with cold industrial sound. Listen for instance to ‘Overlap’. P.A.L doesnt need to keep the crowd going on a dancefloor with fast pounding tracks but just does what he likes and this is creating great industrial soundscapes. Sometimes with an ambient character and sometimes ritual. This does not mean there is nothing to gain here regarding the dance factor. Jobs’ has a plain bass line, driving 4/4 beats and sligtly distorted synths and this is usable in clubs a bit. The same goes for the rhythmic industrial track ‘Agentenfister’. Most of the tracks on Modus however are slow and ominous, such as the ambient piece ‘DL7VDX V2.0’, the climaxing ‘Flood’ and the symphonic melancholic sounding ‘Delusion’. There are however even more devious influences here on this new P.A.L release. ‘Playtime’ is a song build on guitar sounds. And ‘Artist’ is a slow, yet forceful industrial vehicle based on rockmusic. ‘Gone’ has pretty interesting different kind of beats for P.A.L standards. Modus is a mature sounding industrial album with which P.A.L says fuck you to all of those who had expected a rhythmic industrial club album.