Minitel – Abîmes (CD Album – Facthedral’s Hall)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, drone, cinematographic, soundscape, industrial. Background/Info: Minitel is a French solo-project set up by Raphaël Henry. This artist has...
Month: September 2017
Matrixxman & Setaoc Mass – Pitch Black (Vinyl 12” – Figure)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno. Background/Info: “Pitch Black” is the meeting between American techno producer Charles McCloud Duff aka Matrixxman and UK techno...
400PPM – Fit For Purpose (Digital Album – Avian)
Genre/Influences: Techno, minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: American producer Shawn O'Sullivan has already been active under different monikers, but now strikes back...
a-ha releases acoustic version of ‘Take On Me’ – Live From MTV Unplugged, Giske / 2017
Out soon is the forthcoming album/DVD "a-Ha: MTV Unplugged Summer Solstice" which includes 17 tracks by the band in acoustic...
The Birthday Massacre – Under Your Spell (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark cyber-pop. Background/Info: Canadian formation The Birthday Massacre became an instant revelation after their very first full length....
Boytronic prepare November release new album ‘Jewel’
Out on November 3rd is the brand new Boytronic album "Jewel", a good ten years after their previous studio recording...
UCNX returns with ‘Rebellion Ruin Redemption’ – listen to ‘Tasteless Killing Spree’ (feat. The Fourth Man)
Hybrid-industrial act UCNX return to end your summer with their brand new full-length LP "Rebellion Ruin Redemption". The album is...
Seattle darkwave duo Cock & Swan announce new LP ‘Dream Alone’ – listen o the first single “Perg (Honing)”
Seattle-based darkwave, electronic-pop duo Cock & Swan's has released a first track from their forthcoming album, "Dream Alone" out November...
Images in Vogue (Numb, Skinny Puppy, …) sees massive re-release on vinyl + live album
Artoffact Records has announced the first in a series of Images in Vogue reissues. Images in Vogue was a Vancouver-based...
‘Click Interview’ with Gimme Shelter: ‘ I Do Not Know What Is So Funny About Being Named After A Title Of The Rolling Stones’
German duo Robert Grolms - Niko Kötzsch are active under the Gimme Shelter moniker for a couple of years now....
Schema Factor – Plasmavore (CD Album – Schemafactor)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, electro-industrial. Background/Info: Leif Bloomquist has already active since the 90s, but I have to admit I wasn’t that...
Introspect Void – Behind The Fallen Monuments Of Time (CD Album – Latex Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electronics, ambient-electro. Background/Info: I can’t remember to have ever heard of Introspect Void. This work also is a...
Joy Shannon And The Beauty Marks – Aes Sidhe (CD Album – Joy Shannon And The Beauty Marks)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, pagan-folk. Background/Info: Joy Shannon is an Irish artist based in the US. I got the opportunity to discover...
Schwarzschild – Radius (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Schwarzschild is a German duo, which was founded in 2016. It didn’t take them that much...
An Erotic End Of Times – Chapter One (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark-rock, goth-metal. Background/Info: Behind this new formation is hiding Porn singer Philippe Deschemin and ex-Porn member Erwan Frugier....
Sturm Café – Es Geht (CD Mini-Album – SCR)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Swedish duo Jonatan Löfstedt - Gustav Jansson have been into music since 2001. They released several productions...
Juno Reactor And The Mutant Theatre – Our World (Digital Single – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Psy-trance, tribal-trance. Background/Info: Juno Reactor is the creative brainchild of Ben Watkins. He became one of the pioneers and...
iVardensphere – Exile (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, tribal, trance. Background/Info: Canadian iVardensphere is one of those ‘phenomenon’ active at the underground scene. The band became...
‘Click Interview’ with Akalotz: ‘In Our Opinion, “Confront” Has Become One Of The Best EBM Albums Of The Modern Era’
Three years after their debut album “Shift To Evil”, the German EBM formation Akalotz strikes back with its new opus...
Hexheart – Midnight On A Moonless Night (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark electro-wave. Background/Info: Hexheart is a new project set up by God Module’s Jasyn Bangert assisted by...
Ghost Twin – Plastic Heart (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Ghost Twin is a male-female duo from Canada, which after a few EP’s have achieved their...
SPK founder David Virgin launches new album with duets – check the first videos
SPK founder David Virgin has a new album out: the duet focussed "The Beautiful Album". "The Beautiful Album" is a...
You Love Her Coz She’s Dead member launches new synthwave project Def Mod – listen to the 1st single ‘Wish’
UK artist Jay 'Rocky Dead', also known for his project You Love Her Coz She's Dead, launched a new project...
Nitzer Ebb / Depeche Mode / Skinny Puppy personnel powered Black Line to open for Depeche Mode’s forthcoming winter European Global Spirit Tour
Black Line are opening for Depeche Mode for their forthcoming winter European Global Spirit Tour dates passing through Poland, Belarus,...
Sum Of R lands ‘Orga’ on CD, 2LP and digital – available now via Cyclic Law
Switzerland’s dark ambient act Sum Of R (led by Reto Mäder and accompanied by Fabio Costa) sees its new "Orga"...
Machinista launches new single feat. Dirk Scheuber (Project Pitchfork) on guest-vocals
The Swedish act Machinista are working hard on the final tracks for their upcoming album "Anthropocene". But you won't have...
Spray – Children Of A Laser God (DCD Album – Banoffeesound)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, synth-pop. Background/Info: (More than) ten years after the original release of the second Spray-album “Children Of A Laser...
Mesh prepare orchestral live album: ‘Live At Neues Gewandhaus Leipzig’
In late 2015, the UK synthpop outfit Mesh played a live set together with an orchestra of 65 musicians at...
Funker Vogt to land new EP in November: ‘Musik Ist Krieg’
Funker Vogt strike back, barely five months after the release of the album "Code of Conduct". Their new EP "Musik...
for all the emptiness launch video of ‘Hearts against minds’ + behind-the-scenes footage
Toronto-based industrial/synthpop band for all the emptiness has been releasing one video each day on Facebook during the past week...
Sweet William – Time (CD Album – D-Monic)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock, psychedelic. Background/Info: German formation Sweet William released this album for their 30th anniversary. The band was set...
Black Line – Treason, Sedition, And Subversive Activities (CD Album – Black Line)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, EBM, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Black Line is a crazy, but fascinating concept, which was originally set up in...
Click Interview’ with Die Form: ‘I Hope That Freedom Of Expression Will Survive For Future Generations’
Philippe Fichot and Eliane P. strike back with their new opus “Baroque Equinox”, which has been released on Trisol. The...
Ethan Fawkes – Raving Is Still Alive (Digital EP – Herr Zimmerman)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, retro-techno. Background/Info: 2017 is a real prolific year for Ethan Fawkes. The Belgian artist is releasing new EP’s...
Projekt 26 – Violets And Violence (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Nico (drums) and Timo T. (vocals) are brothers based in Augsburg (Germany). Projekt 26 was set up...
Ethan Fawkes – Cruel And Alone (Digital EP – I-Traxx Red Edition)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, techno-body music. Background/Info: This Belgian artist is releasing new EP’s on regular basis. He now strikes back with...
Dead Man Recovering – Panic In Slow Motion (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Kenneth Larsen was born in Denmark, but based in Malmö (Sweden). Active as Dead Man Recovering you...
Gimme Shelter – Kosmodrom (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Two years after their successful debut album “Warnemünde” the German Gimme Shelter strikes back with a...
Carretta & Workerpoor – Acid 90 (Digital EP – Mille Feuilles)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, minimal-electro, acid. Background/Info: French artists David Carretta and Workerpoor have already released previous EP’s together. They’re back on...
Depeche Mode release Anton Corbijn directed ‘Cover Me’ videoclip – view it now
Out now is a brand new videoclip by Depeche Mode, this time for "Cover Me" taken from the band's latest...
R.I.P. Hüsker Dü founder Grant Hart, 56 years old
We keep on getting bad news from the older generation of musicians. News has now leaked out that Hüsker Dü...
Legendary Coil album ‘The Plastic Spider Thing’ gets reissue on transparent vinyl and as a CD+DVD set
Out in a few weeks from now is the re-release of the legendary Coil album "The Plastic Spider Thing", originally...
PJ22 feat. Nico – The End/Swan Lake (CD Single – PJ22)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro. Background/Info: Behind this Swiss solo-project is hiding PJ22 who was previously active in HLM and I Scream...
Vaughn Belak (The Beautiful Destruction / Allegory) releases handbook – the details
Here's an interesting Kickstarter we have been informed about, namely a hardcover book holding a series of beautiful paintings by...
Richard H. Kirk – Dasein (CD Album – Intone)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics. Background/Info: Sheffield based Richard H. Kirk entered into history as founding member and creative spirit behind the...
Depeche Mode chased by Hurricane Irma – forced to cancel gig
Hurricane Irma is after the Depeche Mode fans that live in the Tampa, Florida area so it seems. Depeche Mode...
Red Mecca – Set In Motion (Vinyl 7” – Massproduktion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, dream-pop. Background/Info: Swedish formation Red Mecca is a band I’m keeping an eye on. They released a...
Principe Valiente – Oceans (CD Album – Principe Valiente/AF-Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic, goth-rock. Background/Info: “Oceans” is the third full length album released by the Stockholm-based Principe Valiente. The opus...
Ferrochrome – Medusawater (CD Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Medusawater” is the third full length released on Meshwork Music (label set up by Seven Ni-Arb/X Marks...
Damage Control – Ultranoia (CD Album – Rarefraction Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: “Ultranoia” is the debut album of Damage Control. Set up by Australian artists Bill Barsby and Damian...
Implant newest video ‘The Phone Call’ shot in an existing ghost town – watch it here!
A few weeks ago we announced the release of a brand new extended single by Belgium's longstanding electronic act Implant....
The Weathermen’s 8-track tape that was lost never to be found again…
Jean-Marc Lederman posted a rather funny story on his Facebook profile relating some of the early story of his band...
And Then You Die – Lord Of The Flies (CD Album – Skithund Records)
Genre/Influences: Psychdelic, rock, electronics, industrial. Background/Info: “Lord Of The Flies” is the seventh album by Finnish formation And Then You...
DekaLog – March Of Freedom (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 1996 and hailing from the Republic Of Crimea, DekaLog has been introduced as being...
Nórdika – Ecstasy (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Mexico became a prolific ground for dark-electronic formations, but is maybe a bit less familiar for electro-pop...
After The Rain – The Other Side Of The Crown + Kings Without A Crown (DCD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: After The Rain is a Spanish electro-pop trio hailing from Madrid. I discovered the band by the...
Robots With Rayguns prep vinyl release new album – help them releasing it!
Phoenix, Arizona based Synthpop/Synthwave artist Robots With Rayguns (RWR) will be releasing their new album "Slow Jams" on 2LP vinyl...
Tröika – Tirania De Lo Doméstico (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: “Tirania De Lo Doméstico” is the official debut album of the Spanish trio Tröika. After a...
ManOK – Dies Irae (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, goth-pop. Background/Info: ManOK is a Ukrainian duo, which already released a first album in 2012 on Scentair Records....
2Methyl – Etched (CD Album – Agnost1k Recordings)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dubstep, electro-industrial, industrial-jazz, d’n’b. Background/Info: French solo-artist Nicolas Druoton is back on track unleashing his second official opus....
Ultranoire – Intronaut (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Ultranoire is Hungarian-German duo unleashing their second opus on Scentair Records. They define their music as ‘synth-noir’-music....
Bio + Pavlov & Computers – SynthieScheme (CD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Bio (written БИО) is a Russian synth-pop formation set up in 1990 by Alexander Yakovlev. From...
‘Click Interview’ with 2methyl: ‘I’m Not Stuck In A Kind Of Genre’
2Methyl was previously known as 2methylbulbe1ol. Set up in 2008 by French artist Nicolas Druoton the project developed an intricate,...
R.I.P. Can co-founder Holger Czukay
Can musician Holger Czukay is no more. The Cologne musician and co-founder of the band Can died at the age...
Transponder – Hammer And Anvil (DCD Album – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Transponder is ‘Freund 242’ aka Stefan Rukavina (also known from Rhesus Factor and the industrial formation Bleiburg)...
Opera Multi Steel plans picture vinyl in December, ‘Réminiscences’, feat. revisited classics
"Reminiscences" is the title of a brand new studio album by the French coldwave band Opera Multi Steel (OMS). Brand...
