Boytronic returns after 10 years of silence with new single ‘Time After Midnight’ – watch it here
The German trio Boytronic returns with a brand new video, "Time After Midnight", featuring vocals from James Knights (of Scarlet...
Year: 2016
Ennio Morricone collection compiled on “Paura” CD (the first volume) and vinyl (the second volume)
Finally available on CD is the Ennio Morricone album "Paura", which is a collection showing the darker experimental side of...
Side-Line presents Infest 26-28/08 feat. 3Teeth, Dead When I Found Her, Leaether Strip, …
(By Fiona K.) Looming on the summer horizon is the UK's premier electronic music festival, Infest, on 26th - 28th...
Sutcliffe Jugend – Offal (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, power-electronics. Background/Info: Sutcliffe Jugend aka Kevin Tomkins and Paul Taylor belong to the pioneers of an avant-garde...
Merzbow – Life Performance (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise. Background/Info: Masami Akita is the one and only ‘King’ of Japanese noise. He’s one of those visionary, but...
Front 242 announces ‘No Comment’ reissue – full details available now!
(By Nadia Hantuit) It all started this morning when Front 242's official Instagram account posted a picture (which you can...
Common Eider, King Eider – Extinction (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, ritual. Background/Info: Common Eider, King Eider is an American collective featuring members of different projects. Bees, Blaine...
Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta – Yang-Tul (CD Album – Cold Spring )
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, industrial-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: This work is collaboration between Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky and Eric Lanzillotta. These are artists...
Symbion Project premiers brand new song from upcoming album ‘Arcadian’ – listen here
Rather good news comes from the Speed of Dark Music label. Symbion Project premiers a brand new song from the upcoming...
The Way Of Purity – The Majesty Of Your Becoming (CD Album – Epictronic)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock. Background/Info: The Way Of Purity is an interesting formation, with a ‘militant’ side and ‘which doesn't show off...
Stendal Blast – Ein Abschied / Das Letzte Konzert (DCD Album – Schwarzrock)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark-wave & electro. Background/Info: German formation Stendal Blast was set up somewhere in the midst of the 90s....
Amnistia – Dawn (DCD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Dawn is the 5th full length album of German trio Amnistia. Stefan Schoetz, Tino Claus (also involved...
Lacrimas Profundere return with ‘Hope is here’ on 2LP vinyl (and CD)
Lacrimas Profundere took no less than 3 years to complete the new album. But it's here now. While the CD...
Mesh present videoclip for new ‘Kill Your Darlings’ single – watch it now on Side-Line
The new Mesh single "Kill Your Darlings" will be released in 2 days from now, and today we can already...
Rational Youth – Future Past Tense (CD EP – Artoffact)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up and mainly active during the 80s, the Canadian electro-pop formation Rational Youth got reactivated in...
Finkseye – Deadweight (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM; dark-electro. Background/Info: Finkseye is a Swedish one-man project driven by Henrik Fink Nilsson. The band was set up...
The dark electro outfit Gamma10 finally offers us a new album: ‘Listen to me’
The Hungarian project Gamma10 is back with new material! The name which will ring a bell to our "Face the...
Summer Sale continues on the dark ambient label Cryo Chamber
The fine dark ambient label Cryo Chamber has a new selection of albums for this weeks Summer sale focusing on...
Arsenio Archer debuts with ‘Just A Little Time’ single – recommended!
Out since July 1st via the SkyQode label is the debut single "Just A Little Time" from Arsenio Archer, the...
Video premiere: “War” by Silent Wave
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) The Swedish electropop band Silent Wave released their latest single in late May,...
Fixmer/McCarthy – So Many Lies (Vinyl 12” – Planete Rouge Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body-music, minimal-EBM. Background/Info: This is the meeting between one of the living legends of EBM (cf. Douglas McCarthy from...
nTTx – Objective (CD EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop. Background/Info: nTTx is a solo-project set up by Gord Clement who was previously involved in the promising Atomzero....
‘Click Interview’ with Mildreda: ‘I Am Sure We’re All Coward Philosophers Now And Then’
Mildreda is a Belgian project set up during the 90s by Jan Dewulf. Jan became a renowned and established artist...
Ghost & Writer go live (finally!)
Ghost & Writer (the project by Frank M. Spinath from Seabound / Edge Of Dawn and Jean-Marc Lederman from The...
Prozium launches debut single, the electro infested dubstep ‘Plastic Planets’ 7-tracker – listen here
Available exclusively on Bandcamp for now, with a release on all other platforms scheduled in the next few weeks, is...
Paul Kendall announces boxset ‘From The Penman Press’ including a new physical version of his ‘Angleterror’ download album
A few weeks ago Paul Kendall showed us his 10 favourite studio tools, today we can finally announce that there...
Gopota – Knots Of Fear (CD Album – Torga Amun)
Genre/Influences: Post-industrial, noise. Background/Info: Gopota is a duo featuring Antonio Airoldi (Empty Chalice) and Vitaly Maklakov (Obozdur). I recently discovered the...
Double Eyelid – Broken Mirror (CD EP – Double Eyelid)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM, electro-rock, electro-pop. Background/Info: Double Eyelid is a Canadian band, which self-released their debut album “Seven Years” in 2014....
Deutsch Nepal – Dystopian Partycollection II (CD Album – Entartete Musikk)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, ritual, neo-folk, chanson-noir. Background/Info: Lina Baby Doll (Peter Andersson) last year took me by surprise unleashing the...
Terrolokaust – Dissensions (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM, electro-rock. Background/Info: Javi Ssagittar (vocals & lyrics) and Indio (programming & synths) better known under the Terrolokaust moniker...
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Cygnosic – The Key[s] (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body music. Background/Info: One-man project Cygnosic can look back at a considerable discography featuring a few noticeable albums....
Red Mecca – Electricity (CD Album – Massproduktion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Jan Strandqvist & Frida Madeleine are Red Mecca. The Swedish duo caught my attention with their debut-album...
Mildreda – Coward Philosophy (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, epic-industrial, dark-electro. Background/Info: We all know Jan Dewulf from his electro-pop band Diskonnekted, but the Belgian pop-master was...
Spark! – Maskiner (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Last year Spark! struck back with the “Spektrum”-album, which was a particular release as singer Stefan Brorsson,...
‘Star Trek Beyond’ trailer hits the internet – watch it now
You can now watch the new trailer for "Star Trek Beyond" which will be coming to theatres July 22, 2016....
Dark Sounds Festival 2016: Covenant, Electro Spectre, Mondträume, Dark Side Eons
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Poznan, Poland was the host for the Dark Sounds Festival on June 25th....
Dismantled’s Gary Zon launches new project Lizvfer & The Tree – check the first track
Los Angeles-based band Lizvfer & The Tree will make its live debut July 9th at the Southern Gothic Festival in...
Lassigue Benthaus gets 1991 debut album ‘Matter’ reissued as a 2CD set
The fine label Mecanica has something great up its sleeve. They are going to release a 2CD set of the...
Haul – Seperation (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk, shoegaze. Background/Info: Progress Productions is one of those labels that dares to sign real challenging bands. That’s...
‘Click Interview’ with Psy’aviah: ‘I Always Wanted To Incorporate Styles And Not Pin Myself Down To Just One Genre’
Set up and driven by the creative spirit of Yves Schelpe, Psy’Aviah is already active since 2004. The band has...
Eisfabrik – Walking Towards The Sun (CD EP – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Last year Eisfabrik took the electro-pop community with a surprise unleashing of the magnificent “Eisplanet”-album. I...
Dark ambient artist Robert C. Kozletsky aka Apocryphos returns with ‘Stone Speak’ – listen now
Robert C. Kozletsky, previously on Cryo Chamber with the ONYX collaboration, is back with a solo album, "Stone Speak". The...
In Strict Confidence offers 3CD set for reissue ‘La Parade Monstrueuse’, get yours now
In Strict Confidence continue their back catalogue repackaging campaign. Their 2010 album “La Parade Monstruese” now comes reissued with 33...
Founding Bauhaus member Kevin Haskins to release coffee table book on Bauhaus: ‘Bauhaus – The Archives’
Kevin Michael Dompe, better known as Kevin Haskins, is a drummer, best known from the British gothic rock group Bauhaus....
Insane Records to launch ‘Terror Night Vol.2 Sound Of Dead Future’ compilation holding 100% exclusive tracks
The Insane Records label and the Terror Night radio show have joined forces to release "Terror Night Vol.2 - Sounds...
Blutengel forced to rename ‘Omen’ album to ‘Save Us’ due to legal dispute
The latest Blutengel album "Omen" has not been available for a while and that's due to a legal dispute about...
What does the Brexit mean for the music industry?
First of all, like you all know, the Brexit is a fact. The British withdrawal from the European Union, often...
Mario Grönnert and Commonsen5e – Nightmares And Dreamscapes: Silhouettes Of Urbia (CD Album – Audiokult)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts of German ambient artist Mario Grönnert and American electronic...
Servitor – The Forest Crept Back Into The City… (CD Album – Servitor)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, industrial. Background/Info: Behind Servitor is hiding Sean Malley, who is a percussionist, previously involved in iVardensphere. He’s already...
Psy’Aviah – Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, techno-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Psy’Aviah has already been active for nearly 10 years now. The Belgian project driven by...
Jo Quail – Five Incantations (CD EP – Jo Quail)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Jo Quail is an English cello player from London. I got the opportunity to discover her...
New 5-track single for Heimataerde: ‘Hick Hack Hackebeil’
Heimataerde returns with a mix of electro, medieval music and Neue Deutsche Härte on their new single “Hick Hack Hackebeil“....
New Order prepares new ‘People on the high line’ single for July 29 – listen to a first remix
The fourth single to be taken from New Order's "Music Complete" album, "People on the high line", featuring Elly Jackson...
The Illusion Of Silence – Black Rainbow (CD Album – Sulphur Flowers)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, ethereal, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Illusion Of Silence (TIOS) is an Italian project set up by Luca Bonandini. With...
Entrzelle – Total Progressive Collapse (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Glitch-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: David Chamberlin and his sonic brainchild (cf. Entrzelle) last year joined the Alfa Matrix roster unleashing...
‘Click Interview’ with Schonwald: ‘Playing Live Is An Emotional Waterfall’
Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini is the Italian duo behind Schonwald. Their music is inspired by the 80s and more...
No less than 4 formats available for new Mesh album ‘Looking skyward’
The follow-up to Mesh' 2013 album "Automation Baby" is ready for ordering. The 13-track album "Looking skyward" will be released...
PIG returns! ‘The Gospel’ gets a 2LP vinyl/CD treatment!
Raymond Watts aka PIG returns with "The Gospel" album. Watts was assisted by the following people during the recording process:...
Assemblage 23 to prepare new ‘Endure’ album as a deluxe 2CD set, vinyl and normal CD
"Endure" is the newest Assemblage 23 album. The new release will be out as a regular CD, but also as...
New Delerium album ‘Mythologie’ available now in pre-order on 2LP vinyl (and CD) and it’s Metropolis Records 1000th release!
The new Delerium album "Mythologie" turns out to be the 1000th release on Metropolis Records looking at the catalogue number...
Elm – Hardline (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Peter Elm formerly praised as the mastermind behind Restricted Area took us by surprise earlier this year...
Empty Chalice – This Way Is Called Black (CD Album – CVLMINIS)
Genre/Influences: Noise, post-industrial. Background/Info: Empty Chalice is an Italian solo-project, which has found its inspiration in the early noise experiments...
Pride and Fall return with ‘Red for the dead – Black for the mourning’ album in a deluxe set including a 2LP and 2CD
Pride And Fall's fifth album "Red For The Dead - Black For The Mourning" will soon be released. The three...
Covenant releases 4-track EP ‘Sound Mirrors’ on vinyl and CD – order your copy now
Out later this Summer but already in pre-order (and probably quickly sold out) is the brand new Covenant single “Sound...
Venal Flesh – Worshiping At The Altar Of Artifice (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Hailing from Washington DC (USA) Venal Flesh got signed to Alfa Matrix and last year released the...
Helalyn Flowers – Sonic Foundation (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-metal, cyber-goth-metal. Background/Info: Helalyn Flowers are back on track unleashing their 4th full length album, which has been released...
