Croc Shop – Resist (Album – DAMn!)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Set up in the late 80s in Berlin (Germany) Crocodile Shop (later on renamed Croc...
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2methyl – Drowned Landscapes (Album – Murder Channel Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Jazz, Experimental, Glitch, D’n’B. Format: Digital. Background/Info: French artist Nicolas Druoton aka 2methyl strikes back with the third...
Svønd – Hate Included (Album – Kammer Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Soundscape. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: I never heard of this German project and unfortunately, there’s not a...
Seatemples – Trópicos (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Post-Punk, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Seatemples is a Chilean formation active since 2014. Three years later they...
Parking Dance – Can’t Explain (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Parking Dance is a French project driven by Matthieu Bonnécuelle. This is the...
French Police – Haunted Castle (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dream-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The name of this band refers to France although this is an American...
Closed Mouth – Conversation Piece (Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Yannick Rault strikes back with a new album of his sonic alter ego...
Bling Rodent – Constant Smile (EP – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Indie-Pop/Rock, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Bling Rodent is a Swedish project driven by a handful of musicians from prominent Swedish pop...
Chthonic Force – Delirium Tremens: The Best Of Chthonic Force (Album – Discriminate Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Vadge Moore (previously involved with Dwarves) and Wendy Van Dusen (Neither...
AimA & The Illusion Of Silence – Music For Certain Ritual (Album – Indiestate)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal, Cinematographic, Neo-Classic. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This album resulted from the fusion between singer AimA –known as Aimaproject...
V/A Music for Abandoned Cold War Places (Album – ZeroK)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Cinematographic, Dark-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: ZeroK is a sub-division of the Italian label Unexplained Sounds Group. This...
Pig – Pain Is God (Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: British born Raymond Watts is what you can call a phenomenon. He collaborated...
Alien Vampires – Destrudo (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Destrudo'' and “World In Denial” are twin productions. They both have been released the...
Yura Yura – Substance Noire (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Trance, Rhythmic-Noise, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: French solo-project Yura Yura is driven by Grégory Mousselle. Grégory doesn’t...
Siamgda – Here And Now (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Trance, Tribal, Industrial-Techno, IDM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German Marc Fisher aka Siamgda is back on track unleashing his...
Mono No Aware – Shinshoo (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise, Industrial, Industrial-Trance, Industrial-Techno. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: The ninth full length album by Mono No Aware is a...
Maschinenkrieger KR52 – Stroke Unit (Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-Noise. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The work of Maschinenkrieger KR52 always happened in collaboration with Disraptor. Both projects self-released...
Agitprop 666 – Corruption (Album – Agitprop 666)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Ambient-Body Music. Format: Digital. Background/Info: American solo-project Agitprop 666 is back on track unleashing a new work featuring...
Real – Avalon (Album – Nagelwork)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electronics, EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Real is a German solo-project set up in 2019 by Jens Nagel....
Kill Your Boyfriend – Killadelica (Album – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, Industrial-Rock. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Italian formation Kill Your Boyfriend has been active since 2011. The band...
Scorched Earth Policy Lab – Escape From Hyperreality (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Scorched Earth Policy Lab is a rather new side-project by French artist Thierry...
EKS.Center – Murmurations (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 by David Vallée, this French artist gained some recognition with...
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Cruise [Ctrl] – It’s Happening Again (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Ambient, Minimal-Electronics, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Belgianduo of Cruise has been active since 2006. Driven by John...
Obscure Formats – Cryptid (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Techno-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Obscure Formats is a side-project of Snowbeasts and mainly of Raab Codec. An impressive...
Snowbeasts – Energy (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Industrial, Trance, Minimal-Electronics. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Raab Codec and Elizabeth Virosa are now active for several years...
Cathode Ray Tube – Katabasis (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, IDM, Electro-Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Charles R. Terhune is a French artist who’s already busy for a...
Amantra – Alteration (Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Techno, Experimental. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Amantra is another solo-project driven by Thierry Arnal (TH.A, Scorched Earth Policy Lab ao)....
Kreign – Kreign II (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Kreign is an American duo set up in 2010 by Ryan Hutman (still...
Twins In Fear – Unification (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Electronic, Punk-Pop, EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: We welcome the Ukrainian-Swiss project Twins In Fear. The female duo driven...
V/A A Human Scan(ner) – The 20th Anniversary Compilation (Album – Scanner / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro, Electro-Pop, Body-Pop, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Scanner is a subdivision of Dark Dimensions, which this...
Dive – Where Do We Go From Here? (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro-Industrial, Industrial-Ambient. Format: Digital, CD, Box (CD, Vinyl, Vinyl 7”) Background/Info: Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control,...
Rave The Reqviem – Stigmata Itch (Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Stigmata Itch” is the fourth full length album by Swedish power band Rave The...
Blutengel & Massive Ego – Nothing But A Void (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: This EP is the result of a friendship collaboration between Chris Pohl and...
BlakLight – Music In A Time Of Uncertainty (Album – BlakLight)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: BlakLight in a brand-new duo hailing from Los Angeles (USA). The band is driven...
Tokee & Tapage – The Collider Circle (Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Glitch, Ambient, Experimental, Cinematographic. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Anatoly Grinberg (Tokee) and Tijs Ham (Tapage) both are artists who like...
Philipp Münch – Plays Ars Moriendi (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Trance, EBM, Experimental, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, Cassette. Background/Info: Philipp Münch –known from so many bands and projects, moves...
LivingTotem – Surreal Existence (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Trance, Tribal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: LivingTotem is back on track unleashing its fourth full length album; the...
Synapscape – A Journey Through Concern (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Minimal-Electronics, EBM, Technoid. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Philipp Münch and Tim Kniep are back on track unleashing a...
Noiseconcrete x 3CHI5 – Trip For Mystery And Pursuing / With Our Own Words (Single – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Glitch, IDM. Format: Digital, Vinyl (7”). Background/Info: This work is a collaboration between Japanese artists; there’s the music created...
Frett – The World As A Hologram (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Industrial, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Behind Frett ishiding Maciek Frett, a Polish artist who you may know...
Anatoly Grinberg & Mark Spybey – The Failure Of Language (Album – Ant-Zen)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Cinematographic, Neo-Classic, Glitch. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “The Failure Of Language” is the third album of Russian experimentalist...
Coil – A Guide For Beginners – The Voice Of Silver / A Guide For Finishers – A Hair Of Gold (Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Cinematographic, Ambient. Format: Digital, 2 CD. Background/Info: Cold Spring brings us a re-release of this Coil-compilation, originally...
Pulse – Adjusting The Space (Album – NRT-Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Cyber-Metal. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Pulse is an Austrian formation, which this year their second full length album....
Pouppée Fabrikk – EKM Anthology 1989-2019 (Box – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, 6 CD Box. Background/Info: Swedish cult EBM formation Pouppée Fabrikk struck back earlier this year...
Implant – Phantom Pain (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Implant is back on track! Three years after –what was maybe their best album...
Alien Vampires – World In Denial (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Italian gang Alien Vampires is back on track. They this year first launched their...
808 Dot Pop – Kelvin 7300 + Kelvin 5600 (EP + Single – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Metroland’s ‘Passenger S’ this year released his first solo-album under the 808 Dot Pop moniker....
Acylum – Sieg Oder Walhalla (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the last Acylum album “Pest”. The German duo Pedro- and...
Digital Factor – Come With Me (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Come With Me” is for the comeback of the German EBM formation Digital Factor....
Reichsfeind – Chasm Walk (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Trance-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Chasm Walk” is the second full length album from German solo-artist Timo Revna. The...
The Search – Heart’s Racing (Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Pop-Rock, Indie-Rock. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Swedish project The Search is active for more than twenty years and has...
Twelve Thousand Days – Field’s End (Album – FinalMuzik)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Chanson, Psychedelic, Neo-Folk. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The duo Martyn Bates - Alan Trench is back on track...
V/A Sonic Groove: 25 Years / 1995 – 2020 (Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Techno, Dark-Techno. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: Sonic Groove is celebrating its 25th anniversary with a compilation featuring 12...
6th Circle – The Idle Construct (Album – Sonic Groove Experiments)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Based in Columbus, Ohio (USA), Matt Auxier has been involved with different bands and music...
Maedon – Escape To Berlin (EP – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno-Body, Industrial-Body. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Maedon (Maeghan Donovan) last year released the promising debut EP “Against His Will”. The...
Kotra & Zavoloka – Silence (Single – Kvitnu)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Abstract. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: “Silence” is a collaboration between Ukrainian artists Kotra and Zavoloka who are both...
Pascal Le Gall – Dreams (Album – Warm Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: French artist Pascal Le Gall strikes back with his third work released...
Blood Rhythms – The Universe Spilling Out Of A Spider’s Bowels (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient, Experimental, Industrial. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Arvo Zylo aka Blood Rhythms has been very prolific in 2020,...
Wax Fruit – Drowned by The World We Live In (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Minimal-Electro. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Michaella and Dom are hailing from St. Louis (USA). They were previously active...
Sterile Garden – Acidosis (album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Industrial. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: No Part Of It welcomes Sterile Garden for its newest work entitled...
Nital Etch – Simulacrum (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Dark-Ambient, Cinematographic. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Nital Etch is a solo-project driven by American artist Kevin Lewis. “Simulacrum”...
Credo In Deum – Blood Soaked Sand (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Credo In Deum is a new project driven by Robert LaBarge. This...
156 – An Accidental Exorcism (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental, Ambient. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Cuban born artist Adel Sauto has been involved with different projects, bands...
Blood Rhythms – Zerrissenheit (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, Noise, Ambient, Abstract. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: Arvo Zylo aka ‘Mister Fuckhead’ is running No Part Of It...
Trou – Grjòthaugr (Album – No Part Of It)
Genre/Influences: Noise, Ambient, Experimental. Format: Digital, CDR. Background/Info: The album “Grjòthaugr” from the French project Trou was originally self-released on...
Schonwald – Abstraction (Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-Pop, Dark-Pop, Cold-Wave, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Alessandra Gismondi and Luca Bandini are now active under the Schonwald...
