Deadly Injection – Taste Me! (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: “Taste Me!” is the debut album of the German EBM-duo Deadly Injection. They were previously featured on...
Year: 2018
Ambiguous – The Garden Of Ruins (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Igor ‘Ish’ Senigla is mainly known for his involvement as ISH. You might have discovered this...
Coma Alliance – Weapon Of Choice (CD Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-wave, dark wave-pop. Background/Info: Coma Alliance resulted from the common efforts between Adrian Hates (Diary Of Dreams and...
Daniel & Mikael Tjernberg – The Chronicle Of Black Monks (Digital Album – Venus AEon)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Tjernberg brothers have already been active for years now. they played in different bands, but...
Samhain – Blind Devotion (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, dark-electro, IDM. Background/Info: Slovakian Samhain trio struck back last year with a noticeable work entitled “One Minute To...
Parallel Worlds & Dave Bessell – Dystopia (CD Album – DiN)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: If you’re a bit familiar with the DiN label you definitely have heard some...
Northumbria – Vinland (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: On “Vinland” Jim Field and Dorian Williamson achieve their trilogy dealing with the splendor of the...
Atrium Carceri – Codex (CD Album – Cryo chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Cryo Chamber label owner Simon Heath returned to his Mother-ship project Atrium Carceri releasing the thirteenth...
The Wide – Paramount (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-rock, rock-pop, indie-rock. Background/Info: The Wide is a ‘new’ band set up by experienced musicians who have been involved...
Solitary Experiments – Future Tense (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Solitary Experiments is a band I’m keeping an eye on since their very early years. The...
Solar Fake – You Win. Who Cares? (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, body-pop, EBM. Background/Info: After the acoustic-live album “Sedated” (2017) Sven Friedrich and André Feller are back on track...
Broken Ego – Avenue To Wonderland (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, electro-rock, electro-pop. Background/Info: The Austrian Broken Ego released a debut EP in 2011 and are now back on...
Alfa Matrix releases ‘Sounds From The Matrix 20’ on Bandcamp as well
Those familiar with ordering directly with the Belgian label Alfa Matrix know they will always get a free CD sampler...
Download to release 11th album ‘Unknown Room’ on Artoffact Records – available now
2019 will mark 25 years since the formation of Download, the avant-garde, post-industrial project featuring Skinny Puppy's Cevin Key, and...
Apoptygma Berzerk re-imagine debut ‘Soli Deo Gloria’ on ‘SDGXXV’ – pre-orders available now
Following the releases and shows honouring the 25th anniversary of Apoptygma Berzerk's debut album "Soli Deo Gloria", the Norwegian electronic-rock...
Mirexxx – Vault (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 2007 by Stijn Szin and ‘Posse’ the Belgian Mirexxx duo has now finally...
!Distain – Farewell To The Past (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Ano 2018 German synth-pop formation !Distain became a duo. Alexander Braun and Manfred Thomaser both remain the...
The Cascades – Phoenix (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock. Background/Info: Originally set up in the late 80s, The Cascades released their most significant material during the...
Porn – The Ogre Inside Remixed (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, metal-rock. Background/Info: Porn last year released their third full length album “The Ogre Inside”, which revealed the hard...
Orphx – Learn To Suffer (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: “Learn To suffer” is the first real new work since the last Orphx-album “Pitch Black Mirror”...
Mlada Fronta – No Trespassing (CD Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Body-techno, IDM. Background/Info: Active since the early 90s French musician/producer Rémy Pelleschi went through several music ‘periods’. He ever...
Indarra – Walk On Fire (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-wave, trip-pop, experimental. Background/Info: Some of you might remember Rhea’s Obsession, a Canadian band that was mainly active in...
Frontline Assembly – Eye On You (Digital EP – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: While the Canadian EBM veterans have announced their upcoming album “Wake Up The Coma” for early 2019...
‘Click Interview’ with Train To Spain: ‘Streaming Is There To Stay’
Jonas Rasmusson and Helena Wigeborn are Train To Spain. The name of their band is inspired by a song from...
The Best Electronic Music of 2018
House music has always had a niche in the music industry. Even if you love playing casino games online with...
Radioaktivists – Radioakt One (CD Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: While you maybe heard of this ‘new’ band before (being featured on a label compilation “Dependence...
Grausame Töchter – Engel Im Rausch (CD Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop, experimental, electro-punk, EBM. Background/Info: Areana Peel and her gang are back on track unleashing album number five of...
Metroland returns with brand new single ‘Reframed’
To close this fruitful 2018 year in beauty, Belgium’s vintage synth pop duo Metroland are releasing today the exclusive “Reframed”...
Alfa Matrix launches 200 minute-plus compilation for free: ‘Matrix Downloaded 008’
With the 8th edition of their now classic free "Matrix Downloaded" label digital compilation, Belgium's Alfa Matrix label presents a...
Underworld offers Romford 1998 live rehearsal for free
Up now on the Underworld website is a recently unearthed recording made in late '98 as part of a number...
Top 5 Jazz Songs about Love
Love songs are the way of expression of every composer, lyricist, and performer. The boundaries in love songs are thinner...
On The Floor – Lifetime (CD Album – Dark Dimensions / Alice In…)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop, rock-wave. Background/Info: The last year released album “Made Of Scars” stand for the ‘come-back’ of German formation...
Reactor7x – And Chaos Became The New Order (CD EP – Blackened Art)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Polish dark-electro formation is now active for 10 years. After their album “Illusion Of Chaos” released in...
Synapsyche – Mirror Terror (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 Italian duo Stefano ‘Mannequinetik’ (machines) and Marco ‘Katatronik’ Mantovani (vox) joined hands with Alfa...
Alien Vampires – Evil Twins (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: Next to the new EP “Fuck The Revolution Bring On The Apocalypse” comes this ‘twins’ EP,...
Alien Vampires – Fuck The Revolution Bring On The Apocalypse (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial. Background/Info: ‘Nysrok Infernalien’ and ‘Nightstalker’ are back on track preparing their upcoming full length “London Paranormal” announced...
Are Musicians Switching from Smoking to Vaping?
In some respects, smoking was iconic of the music industry. After all, many published images featuring mega hit bands such...
Funker Vogt- Ikarus (CD EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: “Ikarus” is the second EP taken from the last and successful “Wastelands”-album. We get 2 versions...
Adam X – Recon Mission (Digital Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, techno-body. Background/Info: Brooklyn (New York – USA) born electro-veteran Adam Mitchell is back on track unleashing the sixth...
Culture Kultür returns with brand new album in January, ‘Humanity’, and present first video for the track ‘Refugee’
The much-anticipated fifth album of Culture Kultür will be released in a couple of weeks. The new album is titled...
Samsas Traum – Scheiden Tut Weh (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, metal. Background/Info: Set up and driven since the late 90s by Alexander Kaschte (still involved with Weena Morloch),...
Nachtmahr – Gehorsam (CD EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: The upcoming Nachtmahr-album “Antithese” is the pipeline, but this EP brings us a teaser from what we’ll...
Following your band on an international tour? Here is what you should know
It is not always easy to be a fan, especially if you are incredibly passionate about your favorite band. While...
Yann Tiersen releases video for new track, ‘Koad’, featuring Swedish artist Anna Von Hausswolff
Yann Tiersen has launched "Koad", the latest track to be taken from his tenth studio album release, "All", out on...
Insane Records present 2 new singles by God Destruction and Van Roy Asylum
The Mexican act God Destruction return with a new single, 2 years after the release of the LP "Redentor". The...
Future Lied To Us – Progress (CD mini-Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: The German trio Tom Lesczenski (), Vasi Vallis (Frozen Plasma, Reaper, NamNamBulu) and Krischan Wesenberg (Rotersand)...
‘Click Interview’ with Blakk Harbor: ‘Creatively I Would Say Berlin Is A Stagnant Place For Me’
The Greek artist Angelos Liaros got previously involved with Mobthrow, which he defines as a dubstep project. Especially the second and...
Project Pitchfork – Fragment (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro-wave. Background/Info: 2019 will see Project Pitchfork celebrating their 30th anniversary. The German formation lead by Peter Spilles never...
Valerie Renay – Your Own Shadow (Digital Album – Valerie Renay)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental. Background/Info: The French-Caribbean artist Valerie Renay is based in Berlin. She’s mainly known as one of the...
Circuito Cerrado – Revolution (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Markko B. better known as the sound operator and voice behind C-Lekktor strikes back with his...
Alfa Matrix relaunches e-store with massive 50% discount on complete catalogue (or almost)
The people behind the Belgina label Alfa Matrix have been pretty busy the past few months, not only are they...
Benestrophe – Turner’s All Night Drugstore / Rare & Unreleased 1987 – 1997 (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Set up in the late 80s by the Dassing brothers (Mentallo & The Fixer) and singer...
Metroland – Memorabilia + Memorabilia Remixes (2 Digital EP’s – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, new-beat. Background/Info: Metroland became a band that doesn’t need any further introduction. The Belgian ‘Kraftworkers’ released this new...
Lederman / De Meyer – Atoms In Fury (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: After the promising debut album “Eleven Grinding Sounds” the duo Lean-Marc Lederman – Jean-Luc De Meyer released...
Avarice In Audio – Wolves At The Door (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, dark-trance-pop. Background/Info: Gerry Hawkins, Lawrie Bayldon and Ben Barwick are getting back to their previously released full length...
Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) kicked out of own show in Stockholm after launching a bottle in the crowd
Never mess with a Swedish audience, Peter Murphy is also aware of that now. Murphy, who is touring Europe with...
Porn returns with ‘The Darkest of Human Desires – Act II’
In 2017, Porn released its third album "The Ogre inside.- Act I", the first act of a trilogy based on...
Click Interview’ with Jk Flesh: ‘I Wanted The Machines To Breathe And Appear As If They’re Organisms’
JK Flesh is the electronic- or should I say techno project of Justin Karl Broadrick. Internationally praised and renowned for...
Trash Deity – Cross & Divide (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-rock. Background/Info: Behind this new project and the debut album “Cross & Divide” is hiding the duo ‘Groovie...
Tobias Bernstrup – Technophobic (CD Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Technophobic” must be the sixth full length album by Swedish artist Tobias Bernstrup. Every single album has...
Metroland release double yellow vinyl (+CD): ‘Framed’ – available now via Alfa Matrix
In 2018, the Kraftwerkian act Metroland released their 4th conceptual album “Men In A Frame”. After that album the band...
Techniques Berlin – Breathing (DCD Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, wave-pop. Background/Info: Some of you for sure know Andreas Gregor and Dave Rout from their involvement with bands...
The Shining Path – Basic Training Manual / Expanded (CD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: It all started during the early 80s in Australia when Peter Miller and Andrew...
‘Click Interview’ with Melotron: ‘We Lost The Sense Why We Are Making Music’
Melotron Some of you might remind The Vermin, which was the first band featuring the German trio Andy Krüger, Edgar...
Necromishka – The Space Between Us (CD Album – 999 Cuts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, apocalyptic-rock, neo-folk. Background/Info: Necromishka is the meeting between Israeli musicians Michael Zolotov (Kadaver) and Tamar Singer (Zeresh,...
Siva Six are working on their new (5th) album
Fresh news from the dark electro act Siva Six. The band is currently working on a new (5th) album, with...
