{"id":78,"date":"2007-08-25T17:03:41","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T16:03:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=78"},"modified":"2020-09-30T14:32:32","modified_gmt":"2020-09-30T12:32:32","slug":"michigan-pulse-of-pain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tempelores.com\/?p=78","title":{"rendered":"Michigan – Pulse of Pain"},"content":{"rendered":"

Release date: 24-08-2007, Label: Memento License \/ infacted recordings
\nBy: Nina Mende<\/a><\/em><\/small><\/p>\n

\u00a0 I have seen Michigan live twice now, both times as they were touring with De\/Vision.
\n\u00a0 The first time I just didn’t know what to think of them, and the second time
\n\u00a0 I totally fell in love with their music so I just had to get their new album
\n\u00a0 “Pulse of pain”, and I got it.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 But let me tell you something about Michigan first, before I start telling
\n\u00a0 you about the album:
\n\u00a0 It started out back in the early 90\u00b4s, when Jonas and Peter met up with
\n\u00a0 Jesper to share and talk about “synth-music”. They got together, started
\n\u00a0 writing songs all just for fun, and recorded some demos that they have up to
\n\u00a0 date kept for themselves. They really didn\u00b4t take anything that seriously,
\n\u00a0 they just liked to make some good noise from the keyboards.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 This went on for a couple of years, but in 1999 it was decided that they should
\n\u00a0 go into a studio and make a demo which featured the song “Miseries”
\n\u00a0 among a couple of others. At that stage they haven\u00b4t decided which one
\n\u00a0 of them who would be the lead singer of the band. After a little twisting and
\n\u00a0 turning it was to be found that Peter Ehn was the right choice. And today, Peter,
\n\u00a0 with his warmth and depth, really brings out the best of the songs. Nothing
\n\u00a0 happened with the demo, but they decided to go for it again, at Crimson Productions.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 Jonas had been away for half a year, but came home with some fresh ideas that
\n\u00a0 was put together in the computer. So they recorded “So Astray”, “Want
\n\u00a0 , Need, Me” and “Domination” and came in contact with the record
\n\u00a0 label of Memento Materia. They invited the guys to a contest, where the winner
\n\u00a0 would end up with a contract. And as you can see it turned out well, today they\u00b4re
\n\u00a0 signed by Memento Materia.
\n\u00a0 In autumn 2002, the album was finished, and has been out on the market since
\n\u00a0 the 27th of Jan 2003, and the guys feels really proud of it.
\n\u00a0 Now, since October 5th, their new (and also 3rd studio) album “Pulse of
\n\u00a0 pain” has been released.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 The album doesn’t only have a very interesting cover – it reminds of matrix
\n\u00a0 and some insides of the muscles. The longer you look at it, the more you will
\n\u00a0 discover. And the same do I feel with the band and music itself. The more I
\n\u00a0 look at it or listen to it, the more I discover and the more I really start
\n\u00a0 loving it. As I said before, Peter (the singer) has a wonderful warm and melodic
\n\u00a0 voice that fits perfectly well to the electronic beats and melodies. The smooth
\n\u00a0 melodies enter your head and heart easily, the lyrics are clear and easy to
\n\u00a0 understand and yet deep. Michigan has something mysterious to me, I can’t really
\n\u00a0 describe it, like the horizon that you will never reach. Really amazing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 “Hang on” is their rock song because it contains guitar riffs and
\n\u00a0 sounds a little bit like one. “Mysterious (Infected World)” has some
\n\u00a0 oriental sounds mixed with the synth-music and gives it the strange and mysterious
\n\u00a0 sound that makes the song complete.
\n\u00a0 The song “Pioneers” starts out with a preach about some verses of
\n\u00a0 the Genesis chapter, this doesn’t only “arise the deepest emotions”
\n\u00a0 for Jonas, who wrote all songs on the album, but also means a lot to me. I wouldn’t
\n\u00a0 say it’s a religious song, but a magical, and I guess everybody will have some
\n\u00a0 emotions coming up listening to this song.
\n\u00a0 The closing song “Pulse of Pain” sounds like a song by a hunter and
\n\u00a0 the hunted. Jonas sings the opening and the bridges with a dark, smoky and evil-sounding\u00a0voice, while Peter sings the verses in his melodic, warm and soft voice. Gorgeous
\n\u00a0 how they play with your emotions just like that.<\/p>\n

\u00a0 The first song on the album, which was also the first single released off the
\n\u00a0 album is called “The Nomad”. I tell you about it at last because I
\n\u00a0 also have the single, which contains four remixes of the song, two of them by
\n\u00a0 other bands I heard of before and even saw live: Iris and Frozen Plasma. Further
\n\u00a0 is the song “the Sirens Sounds” on the Cd single, an unreleased song.
\n\u00a0 “The Nomad” is a wonderful song to dance to and very melodic, a song
\n\u00a0 that spreads happiness and joy in my opinion. The remix by Iris is more pop
\n\u00a0 than the album version, great for clubs. The Jack’s Black remix, the 2nd remix
\n\u00a0 on the CD single, is more electronic and they vary with the volume a lot which
\n\u00a0 gives it a funky and spacey sound. The “Frozen Plasma” remix has loud,
\n\u00a0 hard and cold electronic beats, though, which makes it sound more industrial.
\n\u00a0 The next song on the CD is “The sirens sound”, a so far unreleased
\n\u00a0 song with gorgeous vocals, wonderful for cold winternights with all the Christmas
\n\u00a0 decoration I think. The last song on the Single is “the Nomad” Code
\n\u00a0 64 remix by Alchem with fast electronic beats, speeding up the song quite a
\n\u00a0 lot. They also added female backing vocals to it. It sounds interesting, because
\n\u00a0 it’s not much like the original version anymore. But as I said, Michigan IS
\n\u00a0 interesting. A great Synth Band from Sweden!!!<\/p>\n

Michigan are:<\/strong>
\n\u00a0 Peter Ehn, Lead singer
\n\u00a0 Jonas \u00d6berg, Keyboard, Chorus
\n\u00a0 Jesper Ljungberg, Keyboard, programming<\/p>\n\n\n
The single:\n<\/td>\n\u00a0 1. The Nomad
\n\u00a0 2. Decadence
\n\u00a0 3. Juvenile
\n\u00a0 4. Valley of death
\n\u00a0 5. Hang on
\n\u00a0 6. The Gravity
\n\u00a0 7. Shine in Silver
\n\u00a0 8. Mysterious (infected world)
\n\u00a0 9. Love’s a disease
\n\u00a0 10. Demon’s inside
\n\u00a0 11. Pioneers
\n\u00a0 12. Pulse of pain\u00a0 1. The Nomad
\n\u00a0 2. The Nomad (Iris Mix)
\n\u00a0 3. The Nomad (Jacks Back Mix)
\n\u00a0 4. The Nomad (Frozen Plasma Remix)
\n\u00a0 5. The Sirens Sounds
\n\u00a0 6. The Nomad (Code 64 Remix by Alchem) \u00a0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Michigan official
\nMichigan Myspace<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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