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...
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Gimme Shelter – Friedensfahrt (CD Album – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: “Friedensfahrt” is the third official album for the German duo Robert Grolms - Niko Kötzsch. I...
Empirion – ADSR (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, techno-body-music, techno-rock, breakbeats. Background/Info: “ADSR” –which stands for ‘Attack, Decay, Sustain, Release’ is the second EP taken from...
Blutengel – Damokles (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Blutengel started the year with the “Un:Gott”-album, which by the way was a truly masterpiece, and...
Mills – Verletzt (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Rock-goth, dark-wave. Background/Info: Walter Glatz, Alexander Steiner and Eva Böhler are Mills ano 2010. “Verletzt” is their second full...
Inadream – No Songs For Lovers (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock. Background/Info: Inadream is a brand-new name based in Bochum (Germany). This year they released their debut album...
The Anti Group – 4×12 (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics. Background/Info: Behind The Anti Group (TAG) is hiding Adi Newton. He was previously involved in The Future...
Chmcl Str8jckt – Wrtchd Thngs (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover Background/Info: After a promising self-titled and self-released album released in 2017, this American formation went on with...
Netherworld – Algida Bellezza (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Italian composer and Glacial Movements label owner Alessandro Tedeschi has released a very particular work. It’s...
Rroyce – Parallel Worlds (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Parallel Worlds” is a teaser to the third full length (cf. “Patience”) from the German Rroyce trio....
Sieben – Kickstart The Empire! Extended EP (Digital EP – Redroom)
Genre/Influences: Rock, folk, experimental, chanson. Background/Info: Matt Howden is back on track unleashing this EP, which is the extended edit...
V/A Anthology Of Contemporary Music From Middle East (CD Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, cinematographic, mystic. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group moves on exploring different kinds of experimental/ambient/industrial music from very different...
Signalstoerung – UU (Digital Album – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic electronics. Background/Info: The German project Signalstoerung is back on track unleashing its second full length album....
Rhys Fulber – Ostalgia (CD Album – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM, minimal-electro. Background/Info: One year after the successful album “Your Dystopia, My Utopia”, Canadian electro veteran Rhys Fulber...
Stoneburner – Technology Implies Belligerence (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, dark-electro. Background/Info: This is Stoneburner’s (aka Steven Archer from Ego Likeness) sixth full length album (the second one...
Stoneburner – The Structure Itself Is In Pain (Digital EP – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, dark-electro. Background/Info: Steven Archer (Ego Likeness) has released an impressive number of productions since his debut album “Songs...
Je T’Aime – Je T’Aime (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Je T’Aime is a new name active in the cold-wave/post-punk fields. Hailing from Paris the band...
Ground Nero – Divergence (CD Album – Danse Macabre Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic rock, cold wave, post-punk Background/Info: Third release (but first full album release on Danse Macabre Records) for the...
Bysmarque & Snowwhyte – Once Upon A Time… (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Bysmarque & Snowwhyte is a German male-female duo set up in 2017. After having released two...
Projekt Ich – By Train Through Countries (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Projekt Ich is a German solo-project driven by Ulf Müller. He’s been active for more than ten...
DIE KRUPPS – Vision 2020 Vision (CD Album – SPV/Oblivion Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, Neue Deutsche Haerte, EBM Background/Info: DIE KRUPPS are a phenomenon in the German music scene, active since 1980...
Pos.:2 – Sounds Like Real Life (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: I personally consider Thorsten Krüger and Matthias Grod as one of the most promising electro-pop formations in...
Plexiphones – Break In The Clouds (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, pop-rock. Background/Info: Plexiphones is a German formation featuring six (!) members. They joined hands together with Echozone to...
MonoSapien – In Eigener Sache (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave, EBM. Background/Info: “In Eigener Sache” (translated ‘on my own account’) is the debut album of the German...
Loewenhertz – Traumfaenger (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: German synth-pop duo Alex Pfahler – Andy Pfiefer are back on track unleashing their third full length album....
Hymnambulae – Nausikaa (CD Album – Hypnagoga Press)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, ritual. Background/Info: Hymnambulae is a Swedish project set up and driven by the siblings Pär Boström and...
Arctic Sunrise – Across The Ice (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: It took three years for the German duo Torsten Verlinden (vocals) - Steve Baltes (electronics) to achieve...
MediaData – Adore Resurrect (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient, IDM, experimental. Background/Info: 2019 clearly appears to be a prolific year for Denis Vasiliev. He released several...
MediaData – Impulsiveness (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Russian composer Denis Vasiliev has already been active since 2008. He released an impressive number...
Jérôme Chassagnard – Wind (Digital EP – Hymen Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: French artist Jérôme Chassagnard already released four albums on Hymen Records and started last year...
2Methyl – Antlia (Digital EP – Subtrakt)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, experimental, dark-electro. Background/Info: French artist Nicolas Druoton has already released impressive productions and is now back on...
Alberich – Quantized Angel (CD Album – Hospital Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-trance. Background/Info: Behind Alberich is hiding American producer Kris Lapke. He’s involved with numerous projects and moved back...
Agonoize – Midget Vampire Porn (DCD Album + EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: “Midget Vampire Porn” is the sixth full length album by Berliner (Germany) dark-electro act Agonoize. It also...
Agonoize – Blutgruppe Jesus / Schmerzpervers 2.0 (CD EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Five years have passed since the release of the last Agonoize album “Apokalypse”. The Berliner (Germany) formation...
Sweet William – Laughter Filled With Pain (CD Album – Datakill Records)
Genre/Influences: Acoustic, ballad, chanson, gothic. Background/Info: The German formation Sweet William has been driven since 1986 by Oliver Heuer. The...
