Nice one. You should have marketed it as power metal/melodic somethingmetal though as then people would listen to it. As it is you probably just scared to death 87.3% of metal storm...

The band name is pretty weird though Mars ON Earth, if it was Martians on Earth it would mean something but...whatever. Concerning the music its weird... fortunately it's a good kind of weird not a bad one, very addictive. I enjoyed reading review XD

Written by Mikyz on 04.11.2010 at 18:43

The band name is pretty weird though Mars ON Earth, if it was Martians on Earth it would mean something but...whatever. Concerning the music its weird... fortunately it's a good kind of weird not a bad one, very addictive. I enjoyed reading review XD

I assume they meant Mars On Earth in the sense that a delegation of Mars visited Earth, in the same way that... uhh.... idunno, they're German, who the hell knows what they were thinking.

The name keeps making think of Life on Mars, some popular TV series in the UK.

I've been searching this thingie eversince it was mentioned somewhere ( ), thank goth the net is vast and i'll find my way out soon enough, at least i hope so

A few of you may be more familiar with Mars On Earth by one of the eccentric Austrian avant-garde metal band's other names: Korova, Korovakill, and/or Chryst - I don't think they've released more than one or two albums under any given name.

I think the relationship of Mars on Earth as a kind of side-project to the usual Korova/Korovakill/Christ sound is very easy to hear in "Bleeding Underwater", where the song sounds like it could have easily appeared on an album released under one of the group's other names... once you finally recognize Christof Niederwieser's unique singing voice and sound in this Mars on Earth song, and compared it to (for example) "Europa in Flammen", it's kind of hard not to accept this as a lost Korova album.

The band's other albums are equally hard to describe - sort of a post-Gothic Voivod (complete with odd song structures and weird chords, coupled with eccentric lyrics that feed back into their own inward-facing pocket dimension) - channeled through Bathory, Laibach, and Disharmonic Orchestra, with a dash of the Butthole Surfers and Monster Magnet, by way of an alien civilization... they're a bit like that in undefinable ways, yet that's not a fair description: they are not quite like anything else I've ever heard, and don't lend themselves easily to the usual metal band marketing pigeon-holes.

I think it's a shame more extreme metal fans haven't heard of Korova in any of its incarnations - it's a very unique sound, and they always feel like they are somehow ahead of or outside their own time and space. (In fact, the unreleased Korova Echowelt album was apparently too extreme and strange for any record label to take a chance on, and now only exists in the wild in the form of fragments floating around as bonus tracks, a couple remixes from a limited-edition promotional CD, and a couple remixes on later albums.)

The only thing I know is that thanks to your comment I discovered this great EP... Shame they disbanded. Some really good ideas here.