Fun With Knives
Encyclopedia
Fun With Knives is an electro-industrial
album
by Velvet Acid Christ
. Several of the songs feature samples from contemporaneous films; notably, "Fun With Drugs" features audio from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "Decypher" samples from Starship Troopers
, "Fun With Knives" and "The Dark Inside Me" contains samples from Event Horizon
. Speedball O.D. features samples from Enter The Dragon
. Velvet Acid Christ's website calls Fun With Knives their best selling album.
Electro-industrial
Electro-industrial is a music genre drawing on EBM and post-industrial that developed in the mid-1980s. While EBM has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial has a deep, complex and layered sound. The style was pioneered by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, and other groups,...
album
Album
An album is a collection of recordings, released as a single package on gramophone record, cassette, compact disc, or via digital distribution. The word derives from the Latin word for list .Vinyl LP records have two sides, each comprising one half of the album...
by Velvet Acid Christ
Velvet Acid Christ
Velvet Acid Christ is an electro-industrial band based in Denver, Colorado. The band was formed in 1990, gaining limited popularity in Europe's underground nightclub scene during the mid-1990s before expanding into other markets in the goth and industrial subcultures...
. Several of the songs feature samples from contemporaneous films; notably, "Fun With Drugs" features audio from Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, "Decypher" samples from Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers
Starship Troopers is a military science fiction novel by Robert A. Heinlein, first published as a serial in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction and published hardcover in December, 1959.The first-person narrative is about a young soldier from the Philippines named Juan "Johnnie" Rico and his...
, "Fun With Knives" and "The Dark Inside Me" contains samples from Event Horizon
Event Horizon (film)
Event Horizon is a 1997 science fantasy horror film. The screenplay was written by Philip Eisner and directed by Paul W. S. Anderson. The film stars Laurence Fishburne and Sam Neill...
. Speedball O.D. features samples from Enter The Dragon
Enter the Dragon
Enter the Dragon is a 1973 Hong Kong martial arts co-production with Golden Harvest and Warner Bros. studios, directed by Robert Clouse; starring Bruce Lee, Jim Kelly and John Saxon. This is Bruce Lee's final film appearance before his death on July 20, 1973...
. Velvet Acid Christ's website calls Fun With Knives their best selling album.
Track listing
- "Decypher"
- "The Dark Inside Me"
- "There is No God"
- "Icon"
- "Fun With Drugs"
- "Speedball O.D."
- "Psycho"
- "Slut"
- "Apflux"
- "Fun With Knives"
- "Caught"
- "Futile 98" (US Only)