Travel Beyond The Bow Shock is the third and last album by Wertstahl in the known band concept. After this, WS will revert back to its initial state, which was based more on collaboration work. deDokter and W.A.Mossad have created a brilliant finale to the legacy WS series, pushing the interim classical band concept to its maximum while remaining truthful and compliant to the original idea. Nevertheless, WS is and never was and never will be a popular music project. WS faces a limited, well-selected audience.

Travel Beyond The Bow Shock strongly underlines the desire of the producers to getting away from usual concepts that aim at emotional common denominators. Although the album itself is way less theatrically fragmented than the EP, which very intensely thematizes a departure process in the accustical way, still there will be the well known abrupt changes and fractured arcs of suspension, as well as techno and trance-influenced meditative ranges, often criticised as seeming unintended. As an unmistakeable precursor of what is to expect from future WS works, the tone of the album is distinctly less harsh and less " industrial-style " than ever before. For those seeking the agressive techno-industrial side of WS, here be underlined that due to his joining, such can be sought in the future works of Tyske Ludder.
Enough with the theory now, create your own impression if you´re targeted by the album, on the WS Myspace Page. Non-iTunes Option.