Conquest 3000
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Pick a track, any track off of this album, and turn the volume of your stereo just before the point where it'll cause permanent hearing damage. This album has all the energy of punk, with the power of heavy industrial / EBM behind it.
"The albums themes of corporate greed, ecological disaster and death of society are summed up in this track and presented with a cyberwave soundtrack full of doom sirens, primal percussion and peaking synthesizers" - Altvenger
"Zwaremachine not only confirms its potential revealed at previous works, but even moves a step further. The composition is elaborated and accomplished with real intelligence. Aggressive sequences and solid bass lines have been carried by pumping rhythms, but you’ll also notice a great, dark atmosphere hanging over the songs. There’s also a perfect twist between more explicit EBM songs and pure Dark-Electro cuts. Zwaremachine brings all these influences together, like an imaginary offspring between Nitzer Ebb and Frontline Assembly. I also like the production of the vocals, which is powerful, but not abusing the distortion effect." - Side-Line
"Zwaremachine, are an EBM,Industrial Hybrid and you can clearly hear that.
Conquest 3000 is the title track of their new album of the same name. The album itself tells a story of a future where mankind’s wealthiest have left earth and those left behind can only go out later in the day because of the strong UV light. It is a very Sci-fi themed but the music is a must for fans of bands from Front 242 to Combichrist." - The Darker side Of Music
"Throughout Conquest 3000 are some rather clever production touches, such as the flange and vocoder effects in “Toymaker” creating an almost chiming tonality to the vocals that is rather intriguing, while the singing Theremin-esque sounds on the title track add to its dystopian and cinematic ambience as the laments of “We could have been something else” resound rather poignantly. As well, the bell-like tones and minor chord shifts in the closing “Until Tomorrow” do little to detract from the song’s simplicity, but its true power lies in the lyrics, hitting hard with chants of a dreamstate where authoritarian regimes hold no sway; it’s rather nihilistic, as if to hint that tomorrow will be but a repeat of the grim reality that we can only avoid with fantasy. If nothing else, it ends the album on a perfectly decrepit note. Of course, there are guitars on this album, but they are relegated to the backend of the mix so as not to overtake and descend into chugging metal fury – this works quite well on a song like “Ripping at the Fabric,” but seems a touch impotent on “New Design,” making the song’s inherent aggression feel strained and perhaps more palpable in the live environment. As on the Be a Light debut, Conquest 3000 finds Zwaremachine holding true to the simplistic parameters of industrial/EBM, all the while infusing it with some creative flourishes and a brisk pace, along with a more confident and conceptual approach." - ReGen
"Already, you can see the influence of the newest members in Zwaremachine, which are only going to push these guys into good places if the latest tracks are anything to go by. Zwaremachine was already a cutting edge, industrial act, experimenting in their sound. Would highly recommend listening to the new tracks from Conquest 3000, to get a taste of things to come!" - Onyx Music Reviews
"Zwaremachine have recorded again a work that will delight any EBM/dark electro fans as much as it has done to us." - El Garaje De Frank
"All in all, Zwaremachine have achieved a personal sound which looks at different eras of electro-industrial music in order to conceive a post-internet mixing of genres that actually works. Well done." - Industrial Complexx
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