(Translated from my original Italian text by ChatGPT and Piero Scaruffi)

Gravity Kills were launched into the stratosphere of industrial and aggro music by the dizzying single Guilty, one of the masterpieces of the genre. Their self-titled 1996 album (for TVT) ups the ante, firing off Blame (bordering on a Native American war dance), Enough (bordering on speed-metal), Never (bordering on the alienation of Nine Inch Nails). The formula is always the same: crushing rhythms (Kurt Kerns), ferociously screeching guitars (Matt Dudenhoeffer), angry vocals (Jeff Scheel). The same elements are used to build terrifying frescoes of post-industrial neurosis such as Goodbye. Douglas Firley’s keyboards are only really noticeable in the more danceable tracks, such as Inside, but are almost always buried under the noise of the other instruments.

Five tracks from the album were remixed by thirteen guests on Manipulated (TVT, 1997).

Gravity Kills dramatically raised the stakes at the Ministry and Nine Inch Nails table.

But Perversion (TVT, 1998) was a major disappointment. Wanted tries in vain to repeat the miracle of Guilty.