Freaks is the debut full-length release by German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 industrial music

Industrial music

Industrial music is a style of experimental music that draws on transgressive and provocative themes. The term was coined in the mid-1970s with the founding of Industrial Records by the band Throbbing Gristle, and the creation of the slogan "industrial music for industrial people". In general, the...

 band X Marks the Pedwalk

X Marks the Pedwalk

X Marks the Pedwalk ) is a German band whose styles range from post-industrial dance to electronic body music...

. It was originally released by Zoth Ommog in Europe as both an LP

Gramophone record

A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

 and CD, and was later released by Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres....

 in North America with slightly different artwork and tracklist.

Summary

Freaks, which was preceded by the "Abattoir" single, expanded on an already well-established sound for the band. Although it was their first full-length LP

Gramophone record

A gramophone record, commonly known as a phonograph record , vinyl record , or colloquially, a record, is an analog sound storage medium consisting of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove...

, the duo of Sevren Ni-arb and Regan Eracs had released three non-album singles

Single (music)

In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...

 plus "Abattoir", all through Germany's Zoth Ommog record label. However, this is the only full-length X Marks the Pedwalk release to feature Regan Eracs, who left after the production of "Cenotaph", a single which followed Freaks.

Freaks, is arguably monumental in developing a sound for which X Marks the Pedwalk. The song "Abattoir" is hailed by Sevren Ni-arb as the "breakthrough for XMTP" http://www.xmtp.de/output_releases.html, and the album as a whole has been described as a "unique fusion of industrial and techno..." http://www.xmtp.de/output_releases_x5.html

Zoth Ommog version

1. "Abattoir
   Abattoir (single)
   "Abattoir" is the name of a single by German industrial music band X Marks the Pedwalk. It was released by Zoth Ommog in Europe in LP and CD format.The song Abattoir is sometimes credited as "Abbatoir" on subsequent compilations...
   
   " – 4:07
2. "Zest" – 3:36
3. "Repression" – 5:19
4. "Swastika" – 4:08
5. "Express My Sentiments Exactly" – 3:43
6. "The Shot" – 4:09
7. "Helpless" – 3:40
8. "Battered Babies" – 3:56
9. "Church for Snow White" – 3:37
10. "Epilogue: Desert In Dawn" – 2:15
11. "Feast of the Resurrection" – 5:23 (CD Only)

Metropolis Records version

1. "Zest" – 3:36
2. "Repression" – 5:19
3. "Swastika" – 4:08
4. "Express My Sentiments Exactly" – 3:43
5. "The Shot" – 4:09
6. "Helpless" – 3:40
7. "Battered Babies" – 3:56
8. "Church for Snow White" – 3:37
9. "Epilogue: Desert In Dawn" – 2:15
10. "Feast of the Resurrection" – 5:23
11. "I See You (Second View)"
12. "No Premonition (Re-edit
    Re-edit
    In popular music, a re-edit is an altered version of a recorded song created by repeating, reordering, or removing sections of the original recording - for example, making a chorus repeat several times in a row, or extending the length of a break section. Like remixes, re-edits are especially...
    
    )"
13. "Paranoid Illusions (Sky Mix)"
14. "Interruption"

External links

• Entry at official X Marks the Pedwalk website.
• Entry at Discogs.com