White Birches – When The Street Calls (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, cinematographic-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2013 by the Swedish duo Fredrik Jonasson (synths, drum machines, samplers) - Jenny Gabrielsson...
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Tommi Stumpff – Terror II (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-wave, cinematographic. Background/Info: German artist Tommi Stumpff (real name Thomas Peters) got some fame in the 80s. His...
Pro Patria – Back To Basics (CD Album – PVC Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Belgian EBM formation Pro Patria gained some recognition during the 90s. The consecration of their Front 242-inspired...
Funker Vogt – Aviator / Collector’s Edition (DCD Album + DVD – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Repo Records goes on re-releasing some albums from Funker Vogt’s back catalogue. The so-called ‘collector’s Edition’ is...
Ugasanie – Ice Breath Of Antarctica (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-soundscape. Background/Info: Pavel Malyshkin is an artist hailing from Belarus and who next to Ugasanie –which can be...
Silent Universe – The Infinity Coordinates (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: This Belarus project driven by Pavel Malyshkin (still involved in other projects such as Ugasanie, Polterngeist ao)...
Dronny Darko – Black Hive (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: Oleg Puzan aka ‘Dronny Darko’ is one of those artists who never sleep. The Ukranian...
Ager Sonus – Necropolis (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: After having released the very successful debut album “Book Of The Black Earth”, Thomas Langewehr aka...
Undermathic – Living Holograms (Digital Album – Undermathic)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, laidback, cinematographic. Background/Info: Polish artist Maciej Paszkiewicz got some recognition by his four albums released on the...
Amautica – Rectificando El Sueño (CD Album – Sonorium)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-rock. Background/Info: Amautica is an Argentinean formation that was set up in 2008. Most of their work was...
ProtoU – The Edge Of Architecture (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: Ukrainian female artist Sasha Cats is a real prolific artist who unleashed her third full length...
Atrium Carceri & Herbst 9 – Ur Djupan Dal (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: “Ur Djupan Dal” resulted from the common efforts between Simon Heath (Atrium Carceri and Cryo...
Wordclock – Heralds (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Minimal dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Pedro Pimentel better known as the operator behind Wordclock has released his third solo-work. It’s...
Sea Of Sin – Twilight (Digital EP – Sea Of Sin)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Some of the ‘older’ synth-pop lovers and especially German people will probably remember Sea Of Sin. I...
Robert Logan – Sculptor Galaxy (CD Album – Projekt)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: London based artist Robert Logan strikes back with a new solo-work, which was produced by...
Raison D’Être – Alchymeia (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: One of the absolute leaders and most influential artists of contemporary dark-ambient music Peter Andersson aka Raison...
Paradox Obscur – Artifact (Vinyl Album – Young & Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electro-wave. Background/Info: Greek duo Kriistal Ann – Toxic Razor is back on track unleashing their third album. “Artifact”...
Mazut – Atlas (CD Album – BDTA)
Genre/Influences: Techno, IDM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Hailing from Warsaw (Poland) Michał Turowski and Paweł Starzec have already released several productions under...
V/A The Invisible And Divided Sea (CD Album – Bearsuit Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, electronic, psychedelic, trip-pop. Background/Info: Based in Edinburgh, Capital of Scotland, Bearsuit Records has already been active for...
Moaan Exis – Transcendence (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, experimental. Background/Info: French label Audiotrauma already released and revealed some real interesting and original bands so I was...
Jotunspor – Gleipnirs Smeder (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Black-metal, death-industrial. Background/Info: The album “Gleipnirs Smeder” by Jotunspor was originally released in 2006 (!) on Satanas Rex (UK)...
Colossloth – Heathen Needles (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: After a few albums released on CDR and vinyl, this is the second official CD...
Shedir – Falling Time (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: This is the debut album of Shedir. Behind this name is hiding a solo-project set up...
Hesychia – Metanoia (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-soundscape. Background/Info: Arthur Rosar is an Austrian musician who has been formerly involved in many projects such as...
Martyria – Martyria (CD Album – Tumor / Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, dark-ambient, drone. Background/Info: Martyria is a Greek male-female duo and one of the latest signings on Malignant Records....
Stromstad – New Devoted Human (CD Album – Tumor / Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, death-industrial. Background/Info: You take Jasse Tuukki and Toni Myöhänen of STROM.ec and Kristoffer Oustad of Plague Machinery, Kristoffer...
Shock Frontier – Tumult (CD Album – Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Tumult” is the second opus by the Shock Frontier duo. Driven by Robert C. Kozletsky (mainly...
Darkness On Demand – Post stone Age Technology (CD Album – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: The EP “City Of Dreamers” was an appetizer for the debut full length of the German trio...
B°tong – The Long Journey (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, soundscape. Background/Info: Next to the “Monastic” album Chris Sigdell released another work on Reverse Alignment. “The Long Journey”...
Rinpoče Roberto – Twenty Years From Now (Digital Album – Surface Tension Records)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: I never heard of this Slovakian artist before, but the least I can say is...
B°tong – Monastic (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: After his activities under the NID moniker Chris Sigdell set up B°tong in 2005. He released...
Kirlian Camera – Hologram Moon (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Elena Alice Fossi and Angelo Bergamini truly are veterans of the electronic underground scene. Active since the...
First Aid 4 Souls – Dark Tunnel (CD Album – Digital Absynthe)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: This Hungarian formation is maybe not the most familiar name active in the wider fields of...