• Record Label: Mute
  • Release Date: Aug 23, 2005
Metascore
62

Generally favorable reviews - based on 13 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 13
  2. Negative: 1 out of 13
  1. Alternative Press
    50
    Pop's dirty-bassed rock may expand T.'s audience, but it's diminished his art. [Sep 2005, p.170]
  2. The punk-informed material on Blitzkrieg Pop sounds like the missing link between Ministry's earlier, sensitive electro material and its later and more well-known incarnation as the nihilistic buzz-sawing and bile-spewing industrial unit.
  3. Magnet
    70
    Campily butch. [#69, p.110]
  4. It's a career best for T.Raumschmiere and another proud moment in the history of hard-rocking electronica.
  5. Haas has a problem: Let that cartoon tech-metal ramp up (or camp up) just a step too far, and it turns into something kind of, well, uncool-- crossing the line from lovably brutal Germanic electronics into something sub-Rammstein, a kind of mallrat military-industrial metal that doesn't really square with the guy's skill set.
  6. We have a lot of good ideas and a few not-so-good ones, but none of them are developed as fully as one would desire.
  7. This irresistible combination of intelligent production combined with a simple four-four tempo guarantees that this music isn’t just for spiky-haired kids with their fingernails painted black.
  8. Q Magazine
    50
    Differs markedly from 2003's Radio Blackout... with vocals and punk-pop structures replacing the glam-tecnho clunk of yore. [Sep 2005, p.120]
  9. Spin
    67
    [He] veers awkwardly into slickly arranged, radio-friendly verse-chorus-verse. [Sep 2005, p.109]
  10. Many fans may be turned off by the abrupt shifts in pace and style, but engaged listening reveals an overarching sensibility that guides the project from beginning to end.
  11. Uncut
    70
    Prove[s] Haas has more to offer than ear-crunching cacophony. [Sep 2005, p.105]
  12. What keeps Blitzkrieg from descending into petulant shtick is Haas's compositional ear.

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