Geist + Codenys – Minor (Vinyl 12” – Geist + Codenys)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body, experimental. Background/Info: “Minor” resulted from the meeting between Alex Kourelis (Digital Geist) and Patrick Codenys (Front 242)....
Month: December 2019
Syzygyx – Fading Bodies (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, EBM, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Operating from Washington D.C (USA) Luna Blanc and Josh Clark set up Syzygyx (pronounced as...
Empusae – Inter In Tenebris (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, epic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Belgian artist Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe better known as ‘Sal-Ocin’ and still involved as live...
Collection D’Arnell-Andrea – A Recrafted Winter (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: Early 2019 Collection D’Arnell-Andrea unleashed their tenth full length album. This work became the symbol of...
Casually You: 7 Tips Men Should Follow for a Sharper, More Stylish Look
No matter who you are, you want to look your best. Unfortunately, not every man is born with a natural sense...
Black Nail Cabaret launches all new video for the track ‘No Gold’
(Photo by Richard Besenczi) The Hungarian dark pop duo Black Nail Cabaret have launched their new song and video on...
Miseria Ultimas releases first video from upcoming ‘Graygarden’ album: ‘Allegiance’
Miseria Ultimas upcoming album has a release date. The album is called "Graygarden" and it will be released on January...
ASP – Kosmonautilus (DCD Album – Gothic Novel Rock Records / Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, dark-rock. Background/Info: I realized ASP –originally set up and driven by Alexander Spreng, this year celebrates its 20th...
a-ha’s iconic video for ‘Take On Me’ gets the 4K resolution treatment – watch it now
“Take On Me”, a-ha's iconic debut video, has been remastered in 4K for 2020 and beyond. You can watch it...
Anatomy paper writing helps to understand the impact of sound on the health of musicians
Being a musician often feels like a dream job, especially for those who are not musicians themselves. Pretty much everyone...
Benefits of studying at the University of Michigan School of Music
If you are interested in music and want to get a degree in this field, applying to the University of...
Rev Rev Rev – Kykeon (CD Album – Fuzz Club)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock & shoegaze. Background/Info: Rev Rev Rev is an Italian formation influenced by good-old shoegaze music. They self-released a...
Phantoms vs. Fire – My Mind As Your Amusement Park (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: This is the third full length album for this Brazilian project and the second opus...
Krayenzeit – W.I.R. (CD EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, rock-folk, medieval. Background/Info: This EP has been released a few months after Krayenzeit’s fourth full length album. The...
‘Click Interview’ with Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio: ‘“Let’s Play” As I See It, Is The Final Form Of Apocalyptic-Pop’
Just like the Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio fans I was stupefied reading Tomas Pettersson announced after the release of his newest...
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy – The Act Of Falling From The 8th Floor (Digital Album – Whities)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, industrial-world music. Background/Info: Carl Gari is a German trio and Abdullah Miniawy is a recognized Egyptian performer,...
Zonal – Wrecked (CD Album – Relapse Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rap, ambient, hip-hop. Background/Info: Zonal is the meeting –and comeback, of Justin Broadrick (JK Flesh, Godflesh) and Kevin Martin ...
Sysselmann – Ritual Of The Aurora Noir (CD EP – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Sysselmann is a Norwegian solo-project driven by Thomas Narverud. After a few previous releases featuring the full...
Lucifer’s Aid – Panic (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Swedish musician Carl Nilsson released his third full length album since “New To Reality” (2016). He...
Krayenzeit – Saitentänzer (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, rock-folk, medieval. Background/Info: Set up in 2011 and based in Stuttgart (Germany), Krayenzeit previously released three albums on...
Collection D’Arnell-Andréa – Another Winter (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: “Another Winter” is the tenth full length album released by the French collective Collection D’Arnell-Andrea. The...
Angelspit – Bang Operative (CD Album – Black Pill Red Pill)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-punk, cyber-rock. Background/Info: The eighth full length album from Angelspit is inspired by the early synth-wave sound of...
Ozzy Osbourne – A Successful Brand
You might know him as the Prince of Darkness or The Godfather of Metal. We are, of course, talking about...
Ilya Kuryakin – Noisepollution (Digital Album – Ilya Kuryakin)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise. Background/Info: All I know about this production is that it has been composed by a Belgian artist...
Feu Follet – Le Champ Des Morts (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, new-wave, experimental. Background/Info: Feu Follet is a French solo-project from the Lorraine region. That’s important to mention as...
Rasky Sadagr – Sacrifice II (Digital EP – Rasky Sadagr)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: Lukas Barovka is active under the Rasky Sadagr moniker and has released several digital singles &...
Offerings To Odin – Hoc Voluerunt (Digital Album – Offerings To Odin)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Stephen Bailey and Joel Walker aka ‘Svipal’ are back on track unleashing the second album from their...
Broken English Club – White Rats II (Digital Album – L.I.E.S. Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: English DJ/producer Oliver Ho is involved with different projects, Broken English Club being his ‘industrial-techno’...
Ajna & Dödsapparaten – Season (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, Background/Info: “Season” resulted from the common efforts between Chris F. aka Ajna and David Bengtsson aka Dödsapparaten. This meeting...
Wire 13 – Behind The Wire (Digital Album – Digital Dependency Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave. Background/Info: Digital Dependency Records is a British label set up and driven byGraham Rayner (ex-Cubanate) and Christian...
‘Click Interview’ with Psy’aviah: ‘I Don’t Get Why People Are So Hung Up On The Fact A Band Has To Stick To One Genre’
Belgian Psy’Aviah is driven by the creative spirit of Yves Schelpe. The project is already busy for several years now...
Sonologyst – Phantoms (CD Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient, abstract, industrial. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group owner Raffaele Pezzella is back under his artist moniker: Sonologyst....
Quieter Than Spiders – Signs Of Life (DCD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2012, Quieter Than Spiders is a Chinese-Anglo band unleashing their debut album. The songs...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet II (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Polish martial project Jowisz released this album in 2018 as a successor to the “Trench...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Jowisz is a Polish solo-project I earlier this year discovered on the split-album together with...
VelgeNaturlig – Anāhata (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Ivo Santos has already been active for numerous years and has released his dark-ambient stuff on different...
Nairod Yarg – Nairod Yarg (CD Album – Nairod Yarg)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk, dark-rock. Background/Info: Nairod Yarg is a new French formation, which clearly appears to work in the purest...
The Independent Seasons – Songs From The Core Kit II (Digital Album – The Independent Seasons)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, cinematographic, ambient. Background/Info: You probably know Manfred Thomaser as the compositor behind !Distain, but he’s also busy with...
‘Click Interview’ with Deutsch Nepal: ‘I Always Wanted To Create The Music That Wasn’t Yet Around’
Peter Andersson, better known under his nickname ‘Lina Baby Doll’, once started as member of the Swedish industrial project Njurmännen....
Ministry – Prescripture: The Visual History (Book – Melodic Virtue)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, industrial-rock Background/Info: Al Jourgensen is the charismatic pioneer, musical genius, innovator and iconic founder of the industrial-metal genre...
Controversial – Second Genesis (CD Album – Controversial)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, doom, crossover. Background/Info: Controversial is a Belgian solo-project set up by Bart Coninckx. The guy has been involved...
Nermi – In The Creation (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Epic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nermi is one of the newest signing to Aliens Production. This is a Russian solo-project driven...
Will AI Be The Next Big Thing In The Music Industry?
The music industry is an ever-evolving sector, but with the advent of the 21st century, a new era of change...
New Jersey – A Mecca For Live Alternative Music!
If you’re in the Garden State and want to catch some live music, you’re in luck! There’s no shortage of...
Artoffact Records announces the March 6th release of ‘Nostalgia’, the new album by post-punk act Spectres
(Band photo by Lindsay Wallace) Founded in Vancouver in 2005 by vocalist Brian Gustavson, the post-punk act Spectres is one...
Mortiis unleashes new video for ‘A Dark Horizon’
Today Mortiis has dropped a new video for the song “A Dark Horizon” which is taken from his forthcoming "Spirit...
LPF 12 – A Calm Heart Beating (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon is one of those prolific artists unleashing every single year an impressive number of...
KMFDM – Paradise (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cross-over, electro-rock. Background/Info: Sascha Konietzko and his gang, which for this twenty-first full length album, consisted of Lucia...
Elm – Extreme Unspoken Tension / Limited Edition (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Three years after his hard-hitting debut-album “Hardline”, Swedish EBM master and ex-Restricted Area operator, Peter Elm strikes...
First Aid 4 Souls – Keep This World Empty (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Hungarian EBM project First Aid 4 Souls this year joined hands together with Alfa Matrix...
‘Click Interview’ with Hymnambulae: ‘Both Hypnagoga Press And Hymnambulae, Are Intended As Lifelong Projects’
Hymnambulae is one of the multiple projects Pär Boström (Kammarheit, Cities Last Broadcast, Bonini Bulga ao) is involved with. Together...
Psy’Aviah – Soul Searching (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, ambient-pop. Background/Info: “Soul Searching” is the seventh official album for Belgian Yves Schelpe aka Psy’Aviah. The composer again...
Mind Machine – Remix The Machine (Digital Album – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This year Mind Machine released their first album in more than twenty years, this way pleasing all...
Mind Machine – Clouds Of Doubt (Digital EP – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: American electro-pop formation Mind Machine struck back this year, releasing their first album in twenty four years....
Indie Moon – Somewhere Somehow (CD Album – Indie Moon)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Indie Moon is the meeting between two singers established in Paris (France) and fans of 80s electronic...
Killing The Joke: The John Bechdel Story (DVD – Furnace Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, industrial-rock Background/Info: John Bechdel is an American keyboard-player, known for his work with the industrial-metal acts Ministry, Prong,...
Alphaville live in Norway – concert and interview: ‘The most bizarre show? Lebanon, we saw a toy shop, with a Mickey Mouse figure outside, full of bullet holes’
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) November 30th we were a gang of friends going to Sundvolden Hotel, 45...
Shifted – The Light Touch (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, minimal-techno. Background/Info: Guy Brewer aka Shifted is back on track, adding one more EP to his growing discography....
Zeitgeber – Seventeen Zero Four (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno. Background/Info: Zeitgeber is a duo featuring Jochem Paap aka Speey J (The Netherlands) and Luca Mortellaro aka Lucy...
‘Click Interview’ with Mimetic: ‘Techno Is Like Other Styles, Stealing From Others’
Jérôme Soudan is one of those artists I personally consider as a ‘visionary’ artist. His Mimetic project is the best...
Erasure’s Andy Bell releases ‘Variance III – The Queereteria Remixes’ feat. Bronski Beat remixes – check a first track
"Variance III - The Queereteria Remixes" is the latest Andy Bell album which presents remixes of some of the tracks...
Sacha Korn presents new single and video ‘Unsere Kraft’ – check it out
Out now is a brand new music video and single from Germany's Neue Deutsche Härte 'enfant terrible' Sacha Korn: "Unsere...
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Olivia Louvel back after 3 years in the studio with the album ‘SculptOr [Hepworth Resounds]’ – check out the videotrailer
Out via the Cat Werk Imprint label is the new Olivia Louvel album "SculptOr ". The release has been 3...
Early Front 242 style EBM? Check this free download from Bloque Del Sur: ‘Sistema De Autoprotección’ (Face The Beat: Session 5 profile series)
The 11th track on our free (or pay-what-you-want to support our charity work) download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 5"...
Xotox – Paleodisco / Club Edition (Digital EP – ProNoize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, industrial. Background/Info: Andreas Davids, better known under the Xotox moniker has already been active for numerous years and...
Rheingold’s Bodo Staiger is no more – RIP
Bodo Staiger is no more, he died today from an unknown cause. Staiger became famous in the eighties with the...
