Chrome – Techromancy (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock. Background/Info: More than 40 (!) years after their original set up the legendary punk formation Chrome unleashed...
Month: August 2017
Morrissey & David Bowie fans, attention: ‘Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story’ coming to theaters September 1st and home video on October 27th
The documentary "Beside Bowie: The Mick Ronson Story" featuring exclusive voice-over contributions from David Bowie, is coming to theaters September...
Bvdub – Epilogues For The End Of The Sky (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Ambient Background/Info: Brock Van Wey aka Bvdub is back on track unleashing a new opus in addition to his...
Throbbing Gristle announce catalog reissue series on the 40th anniversary of their debut album release
Throbbing Gristle and Mute have just announced a series of reissues, set to start on the 40th anniversary of their...
Slow but hard electro, that’s what Avarice In Audio offers on their brand new single ‘Lie to me’ – listen here
Launceston (Australia) based hard electro/industrial act Avarice In Audio have debuted the first single from their forthcoming 3rd album on...
Wumpscut is no more – R.I.P. : ‘I am finished with making music for (more or less) nothing’
Rudy Ratzinger aka Wumpscut has informed us a few minutes ago during a chat session that his Wumpscut project is...
Borg Queen – Sex, Drugs & Shiny Bass Poles (CD Album – Borg Queen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-gothic, goth-pop. Background/Info: Borg Queen is Vancouver (Canada) female artist Jenny Kirby. She introduced Borg Queen as ‘an alcoholic...
Debut by Portuguese dark ambient / industrial act Iurta out now via Cyclic Law label – preview the album
The joint project of Portuguese J. A. (Wolfskin, Karnnos) and A. Coelho (Sektor 304), aka Iurta, has readied its debut...
Belgium’s industrial act Implant returns with 8-track single after 4 years of absolute studio silence – listen here
Four years after “The Productive Citizen” album, Implant returns with a brand new single, "The phone call", which is a...
Black Wine Order – VVVVV (Digital Album – Black Wine Order)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, industrial new-wave & rock, experimental. Background/Info: I didn’t get any relevant information from this French formation. “VVVVV” seems...
Dark Synthwave artist 20SIX Hundred reaches vinyl release pre-order goal – still available for a limited time
Vancouver, British Columbia based Industrial / Dark Synthwave artist 20SIX Hundred and California-based record label Sofa King Vinyl have successfully...
Antipole – Getting Frequent Now feat. Paris Alexander & Mats Davidsen (Digital Album – Antipole)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, guitar-wave. Background/Info: Norwegian artist Karl Morten Dahl is the creative spirit behind Antipole. This is the second self-released...
Alphamay – The Simulation Hypothesis (CD Album – Timezone Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: German duo Cris Frickenschmidt - Henning Hammoor is a German duo, which last year released the...
Side-Line introduces Unity One – listen now to ‘Tomorrow’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 85th track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Russian...
Swedish oldschool EBM sensation ELM hits back hard with excellent ‘Wapenrustning’ EP – check the tracks
"Wapenrustning" is the title of a brand new - super strong - 5-track download single/EP by the Swedish oldschool EBM...
Atonalist feat. Gavin Friday – Atonalism (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, free-jazz. Background/Info: Atonalist is a French duo consisting of multi-instrumentalists Renaud-Gabriel Pion (collaborator of John Cale, Dead Can...
Horskh – Gate (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, cyber-industrial music. Background/Info: I discovered the French Horskh- duo (Bass and Briou) by the extended version of the...
Controlled Bleeding gets 2 vinyl versions for November re-release of ‘Headcrack’ – these are the details
Out via Artoffact Records in November is the re-release of Controlled Bleeding's "Headcrack", which was originally released as a vinyl-only...
Bronski Beat – The Age Of Reason (DCD Album – Cherry Red Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “The Age Of Reason” is the first ‘new’ Bronski Beat album in 22 years. It all started...
‘Click Interview’ with Kaibun: ‘Kaibun Is A Cure For My Chronic Depression And Black Ideas’
‘Kaibun’ is a Japanese word, which means ‘palindrome’. The word or phrase can be read in both directions as ‘lepers...
Launch Netflix original film ‘Death Note’ also offers fresh music by Nine Inch Nails collaborator Atticus Ross
"Death Note" is an American supernatural horror-thriller film directed by Adam Wingard, based on the (excellent!) manga series of the...
Model1 releases Depeche Mode tribute album
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Isak Rypdal, producer, keyboard player and one half of the Norwegian synth-pop act...
Rlyeh1 – Memories (Digital EP – Mindtrick Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, dubstep, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: Born in Italy, but operating from Vienna (Austria) you might have discovered Samuele Daccò...
Khost – Governance (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-doom, death-industrial, industrial-metal. Background/Info: Hailing from Birmingham (UK), Khost has gained a serious reputation in a rather short lapse...
Kaos! – Never Ever Me (CD Single – Shortlist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Stockholm based duo Eva Kaxe - Kristian Oscarsson are back on track unleashing a new single. The...
Icelandic act Katla debut ‘Móðurástin’ out on CD, 2xLP vinyl and as a 2CD hardcover artbook
Katla is an Icelandic band featuring the ex-Sólstafir drummer and visual artist Guðmundur Óli Pálmason plus the singer/multi-instrumentalist Einar Thorberg...
Deison / Mingle – Innersurface (CD Album – St.An.Da)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, ambient. Background/Info: “Innersurface” is a new collaboration between Italian composers Cristiano Deison (Deison) and Andrea Gastaldello (Mingle)....
TeHÔM offers special live recording of their set at 2016’s Brutal Assault Festival: ‘Live Assault’
Great news from the Cyclic Law, the label has released a special live audio recording of the unique TeHÔM performance...
Noisuf-X – Banzai (CD Album – ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music, industrial-rave. Background/Info: Jan Loamfield is back on track, unleashing the ninth full length album of his Noisuf-X...
ARGH releases “Wonderful life”, Black tribute video
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) Synthpop band ARGH from Tønsberg, Norway, just released a tribute music video to...
Mechanical Moth – Neverything (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Gothic. Background/Info: Mechanical Moth became an established formation from active on the wide roster of Scanner/Dark Dimensions. The German...
This horror film cost 15 years to produce – a first trailer is out now – you can watch it here!
"The Evil Within" is a 2017 American horror film written and directed by Andrew Getty, an American oil heir. Originally...
Bloody Dead And Sexy – Crucifixion, Please! / An Incomplete Guide To Psychedelic Deathrock (CD Album – Alice In…)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave. Background/Info: To celebrate their 20th anniversary Bloody Dead And Sexy together with their label Alice In… has...
Post-punk act The Jezabels launch ‘The Others’ video – watch it here
Australian post-punk four-piece, The Jezabels have released the video for their new single "The Others" to coincide with their seven...
R.I.P. Felix Flaucher (18 Summers / Silke Bischoff ) – musician dies after a long illness
Bad news reaches us from Germany. Felix Flaucher (18 Summers / Silke Bischoff) died last night. The musician died last...
Scheuber – Changes (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop, electro-rock. Background/Info: Dirk Scheuber (Project Pitchfork) last year took numerous music lovers by surprise unleashing his solo-debut...
Rome – Hansa Studios Session (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, folk, chanson, ballad. Background/Info: When Rome finished their last tour in Berlin they got the opportunity to visit...
Die Form – Baroque Equinox (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract-electronics, dark electro-pop. Background/Info: Philippe Fichot and Éliane P are back on track unleashing their newest full length...
Neo-folk act Camerata Mediolanense to release new LP ‘Le Vergini Folli’ as a 2CD hardcover book as well – check first track
Camerata Mediolanense is an ensemble of Italian musicians who gained recognition in the Neofolk/Neoclassical scenes by blending darkwave and post-punk...
Watch the newest video by LCD Soundsystem: ‘Tonite’
Taken from the upcoming album "American Dream" (out 1 September via DFA / Columbia) is the newest LCD Soundsystem video...
Kirlian Camera’s ‘Sky Collapse’ CD Single and vinyl (feat. Covenants’ Eskil) now available for preorder
"Sky Collapse" isthe first single from Kirlian Camera's new album "Hologram Moon" and marks the collaboration of Kirlian Camera with...
Triphop artist Iskwé launches new single ‘Soldier’ – and it’s kinda hot
Out now is the newest single by Iskwe: "Soldier". The single comes from my new album The Fight Within, out...
OMD launch brand new track ‘The View From Here’ – listen here
A new OMD track entitled "The View From Here" from the band's forthcoming album "The Punishment of Luxury" has been...
Headless Horseman – 47009 (Digital EP – 47)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, experimental, techno. Background/Info: William J. Youngman is already active for numerous years in the most sophisticated and...
Marco Shuttle – Systhema (CD Album – Spazio Disponibile)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, techno-ambient, mystic-electronics. Background/Info: Marco Sartorelli aka Marcho Shuttle is born in Italy, but based in London (or Berlin)....
Les Anges De La Nuit – Darkness Looms (CD & Digital Album – Static Cold Media)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Richard Abdeni and Anthony Stuart set up Les Anges De La Nuit in 2003. This American...
Hand In Waves – Hover In Remedy (Digital EP – Hands In Waves)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hand In Waves is a German electronic music project mainly inspired and driven through electro-pop music. A...
Controlled Collapse – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CD Album – Alchera Visions/Machineries)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2003 Polish formation Controlled Collapse got some instant recognition releasing their debut album...
Bio-Dread – Parasite War (Digital EP – Pakapi Records/Industria Tropical Series)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-ambient, industrial-dub, experimental. Background/Info: “Parasite War” is the ninth and final chapter of the Industria Tropical series of...
Adam Probert – The Battle For Tomorrow (CD Album – Sonic Entrails Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial/punk poetry, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: I never heard of Adam Probert before. I found out that the artist is...
Glenn Main – Tribute To Jean Michel Jarre (CD Album – AD Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, space-electronics, synthesizer music. Background/Info: Norwegian artist Glenn Main has been inspired by the greatest and most legendary synthesizer...
Svartsinn – Collected Obscurities (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hailing from Norway Svartsinn is back on track unleashing an album filled with tracks that were originally...
S.K.E.T. – Capitalism-Continuing Crisis (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, power-noise. Background/Info: It took 8 years to S.K.E.T. to accomplish their fourth full length album. The German project...
Reissue of two 1980 cult releases by Basement 5 imminent – both produced by Martin Hannett (Joy Division)
Here's something for those Factory Records fans who want to collect everything related to the label and its personnel. "1965-1980"...
Listen to the first excerpts of new Liars album ‘TFCF’ – IDM fanfood!
Australian electronica/punk act Liars aka the project of Angus Andrew, is back with the first excerpts of the project's upcoming...
Bel Canto live review and Anneli Drecker interview
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) After walking through the pouring rain towards Tøyenparken and the opening day of the...
The Knife announce ‘Shaking the Habitual: Live at Terminal 5’ film, album & photobook – watch the trailer
Due for Release 1 September via Rabid Records is The Knife's “Shaking the Habitual: Live at Terminal 5” film, album...
KMFDM ready to release first album in 3 years on vinyl and CD – check the full details
KMFDM are preparing to release their first new studio album in over 3 years. "Hell Yeah" will be released on...
Nine Inch Nails to land new EP ‘Add Violence’ in September on CD as well – get your copy now
"Add Violence" is the newest EP by Nine Inch Nails to be released in September. It was released digitally on...
Frame Of Mind – Resurrected (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in the late 80s by German duo Michael Friedrich - Marko Hein, Frame Of Mind...
Ruined Conflict – Triumphant (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: American artist Xavier Morales, better known as Ruined Conflict, is already back on track. This is...
New Frames – Resistance Through Rituals (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: New Frames is one of the latest signings on Hands although featuring an old servant from the...
Last Days Of S.E.X. – Sabotage Normality (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, electro-industrial. Background/Info: It took 8 years for Manos Chrisovergis to kick back with the third full length...
Bel Canto live in Norway yesterday at Øyafestivalen 2017 – watch the complete concert again right here!
Yesterday, August 10, the Norwegian electropop act Bel Canto played live at the completely sold out Øyafestivalen 2017 in Oslo's...
Tomohiko Sagae – Sensory Deprivation (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, techno-noise. Background/Info: Japanese producer Tomohiko Sagae is one of the newest artists who have joined the Hands roster....
Eisbrecher send out their submarine ‘Sturmfahrt’ in September – check the first preview
Eisbrecher are a German Neue Deutsche Härte band that consists primarily of Alexander Wesselsky (vocals) and Noel Pix (lead guitar/programming),...
