Everything goes cold (EGC) is the latest project by Eric Gottesman, familiar from projects such as Deathline International and others, even though this doesn’t seem like an own album because of the versus word in its title, this is the debut of Gottesman’s new act. Gottesman collaborated with a large number of musicians on this album. His standard outfit is together with James Webb as guitarist and Kenny Pardo as the drummer. Aside of that this album features guest musicians: James Perry from Deathline International, Dasid Din from Informätik, J. Ned Kirby from Stromkern and another nine collaborators. The formation altogether is called “The Ice Brigade Junior Officers’ Club Boy’s Choir”. Something making me grin, but enough about that, let’s talk about this project its sound.

  EGC is an industrial rock/ industrial metal project lending elements from futurepop and modern EBM (no, not Combichrist, but EBM like Leaether Strip). Mainly, EGC uses an US-industrial rock sound somewhere along the lines of KMFDM and Skinny Puppy. Gottesman’s vocals are a clean shout that remind to these projects. For those familiar with Deathline International, Gottesman’s vocal sound would be absolutely recognizable. Just like every US-industrial project there is a strong emphasis on lyrical content, Gottesman himself states he lacks any talent in this, the six years he took to write on this album do give fine results though. I find it having a piece of personal content, a bit of sociocriticism, but also a nice dose of humor, for instance the lyric “The demand is at hand for a transplant” on the track “I’ve sold your organs on the black market to finance the purchase of a used minivan”.

EGC utilizes explosieve guitar riffs, drums and sampling familiar in the genre, but never losing its charm. Original lyrics are blown through your speakers at wind force 11 if you put the volume right. For fans of US-Industrial rock like KMFDM I would definitely recommend a listen, also fans of Front Line Assembly are invited. Personally, I most enjoy the tracks “Don’t Quit Your Day Job” and “Bitch Stole My Time Machine”, upbeat songs with a catchy sound. Half way through the album it features “The Droids You’re Looking For” a hilarious Beastie Boy “Intergalactic” mockup.

One thing that’s harder to swallow on this release is the constantly shifting pace of the tracks. The songs themselves spin themselves away quite fair enough, also listening to the album at its whole is tempting to put the record on repeat. The thing is, there’s almost no song whatsoever on this release that is well mixable with standard EBM. The songs BPM pace is featured next to the titling on the CD though, so a creative DJ SHOULD be able to do something with that. In total, I find this a perfect CD for listening at home, it has less club potential, even though the track “I've sold your organs on the black market to finance the purchase of a used minivan” is a crown jewel, and that at 130 BPM.