Sending pulsing and building-shaking beats from Norway, Combichrist is hoping to wave the flag for industrial hard rock and metal into the new year. Picking off where groups like Ministry and KMFDM left off, the band has created a big sound and is giving the genre a needed shot in the arm.

Much like industrial mainstream artists like Nine Inch Nails, Combichrist is led by the one man show Andy LePlecua. The band delivers a thumping industrial sound on tracks like the angry “Blut Royale”, and the techno club ready “Today I Woke”. The latter track seems like something that would fit right at home in the “Matrix” movies, if they were still making those.

With song titles like “God Wrapped In Plastic”, and “Lying Sack of S---“, the band doesn’t go down the subtle route, but the marching and head-bobbing incuding tracks gives the band it’s edge.

Their latest release is a 10 song EP for their single “Get Your Body Beat”, which gives six takes on said single, with label mates KMFDM pitching in on one of the better of the remixes on the record.

The band has been tearing up European dance and rock charts for the past three years, with “Get Your Body Beat” reaching the Top 10 of the Billboard Dance charts earlier this year. Now a part of the Metropolis record label, the band recently went on tour with the previously mentioned KMFDM throughout the fall.

The band is constantly touring throughout the U.S., and will be back on tour sometime in the early part of 2007. The band is also gearing up for their next full length release, “What the F--- Is Wrong With You People”, out on Metropolis records in February of 2007.

The album and song titles might be blunt, but with Combichrist’s music hitting you with a driving intensity, you cant go wrong.

Combichrist.com or their MySpace Page