The Venus Fly Trap – Mars (CD Album – Glass Records Modern)
Genre/Influences: Rock-wave, post-punk Background/Info: “Mars” is a re-edition of the Venus Fly Trap-album originally released in 1988 by Danceteria. This...
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V/A Underground Wave Volume 6 (Vinyl Album – Walhalla Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave, electro-wave, minimal-electronics, experimental. Background/Info: Belgium label Walhalla Records is back on track unleashing the sixth volume of...
Golden Apes – Kasbek (CD Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, cold-wave. Background/Info: German formation Golden Apes this year celebrates their 20th anniversary. Instead of releasing a ‘best of’...
Berlin Taxi – Contract (CD EP – Berlin Taxi)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Berlin Taxi is an American trio hailing from New Orleans. This self-released debut EP features five songs....
Mondträume – Lovers, Sinners & Liars (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: The Spanish Mondträume duo strikes back with their second full length, which comes five years after...
Synapsyche – In Praise Of Folly (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Stefano ‘Mannequinetik’ and Marco ‘Katatronik’ (vocals) better known as the Italian formation Synapsyche joined Alfa Matrix last...
Aesthetische – Co3xist3ns3 (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music, IDM. Background/Info: Brazilian duo Guilherme Pires - Fabricio Viscardi were known in a previous sonic life as...
1919 – Futurecide (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock. Background/Info: 1919 were active in between 1980 and 1983. They released one album and one EP. They...
Nice Cold Nation – Life (CD Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave. Background/Info: French project Nice Cold Nation has already released several (self-released) production over the past four years. “Life”...
Tragic Impulse – Echoes Of The Unseen (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: Two years after the excellent album “Devil On Your Shoulder” American artist Paul M. Graham...
Tragic Impulse – Space Force (CD EP – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: The EP “Space Force” marks the return of Tragic Impulse. It’s a teaser to the...
Frontier Guards – You (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, down-tempo. Background/Info: Martin Pavlik is now active under the Frontier Guards moniker for several years. After two...
Dicepeople – One From Many (CD Album – Syndicol Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Background/Info: UK formation Dicepeople has already been active for more than 10 years now. The band now...
Bring Her – Bring Her (CD Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave. Background/Info: Nadine J. and Marcus N. set up Bring Her in 2015. This self-titled album is the official...
Alice Tambourine Lover – Down Below (CD Album – Go Down Records)
Genre/Influences: Psychdelic-wave, Background/Info: TheItalian duo Alice Tambourine Lover saw the light of day in 2011 as a side project of...
Basnia – No Falling Stars And No Wishes (CD Album – Alchera Visions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, shoegaze, rock-wave. Background/Info: Basnia is a Polish project set up in 2017 by songwriter Baśnia Lipińska (vocals, percussion)....
Undertheskin – Negative (CD Album – Alchera Visions)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock, gothic. Background/Info: Four years after the self-titled debut album Polish musician Mariusz Łuniewski is back again unleashing...
Cryo – The Fall Of Man (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: It took five years for the Swedish duo Martin Rudefelt – Torny Gottberg (owner of Progress Production)...
State Of The Union – Industrial Slither / Remixes (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Johann Sebastian moves back to the last year released album of State Of The Union “Indupop”. It...
Joey Chaos And The Ghosts – Elegy (Digital EP – Joey Chaos And The Ghosts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, cold-wave. Background/Info: This Canadian trio previously released an album (cf. “Polarizer”) in 2013 and a single (cf. “Fear”)...
Vidna Obmana – Soundtrack For The Aquarium (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: Belgian artist Dirk Serries got active under the Vidna Obmana moniker in between 1985 and 2009....
Rigor Mortiss – Wbrewny (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, doom. Background/Info: Originally set up in 1990 Rigor Mortiss got their success in the early 90s. They finally...
Fabio Orsi – Uncharted Waters (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, electronic. Background/Info: In a bit more than years Italian artist Fabio Orsi has released an impressive number of...
Dren – Time & Form (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-cinematographic, trip-pop. Background/Info: Dren is a Polish duo set up in 2018 by producers/DJs Natt and Akton. “Time...
Different State – Enormous Components Of Motor Unit Vol.1 (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Marek Xavier Marchoff set up Different State in 1992 and can look back at an...
Slovenska Televiza – Documento (Vinyl 12” – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, wave-pop. Background/Info: Slovenska Televiza is a Spanish duo. I noticed they previously released the single “Bailes Valstīs”. “Documento”...
Naked Lunch – 80s Singles (Vinyl Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Naked Lunch saw the daylight in 1979 (!). They released some production during the early 80s...
Contaminated Intelligence – The Day Before… (CD Album – Contaminated Intelligence)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: American duo Jourdan Turner - Rick Mitchell aka Contaminated Intelligence are back on track unleashing a CD with...
Statiqbloom – Asphyxia (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, EBM. Background/Info: Honestly, I can’t remember to have ever heard of Statiqbloom before. They released a few albums...
Machinista – Anthropocene (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish Machinista duo is back on track unleashing their third full length in history. The first album...
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[:SITD:] – Sturmlicht (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: which released their last work on Frank D’Angelo own label Scanner has now moved to...
Trepaneringsritualen & Nordvargr – Konung Krönt I Blod / Salve Teragmon (Vinyl 7” – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, dark-ambient, doom. Background/Info: The idea of this single is pretty simple; you take two Swedish ‘giants’ dealing with...
Nordvargr – Tantum Melior (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: death-industrial, dark-ambient, drone, industrial, EBM. Background/Info: Henrik Nordvargr Björkk last year released the album “Psychosis”. Seven songs from this...
Franck Vigroux – Totem (CD Album – Aesthetical)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: While most of us already know French artist Franck Vigroux for years now, Aesthetical is a...
Coàgul & Escama Serrada – Sub Luna Regis (CD Album – Grabaciones Sentimentales)
Genre/Influences: Ritual-electro, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: “Sub Luna Regis” resulted from the common efforts between two Spanish –or should I’ve to...
Adsol – Endzeit (Digital EP – Eos .audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Greek musician Stelios Goulas started his activities under the Adsol moniker in 2012. Several EP’s/singles have been...
Massive Ego – Church For The Malfunctioned (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: UK band Massive Ego centered on the charismatic ‘Marc Massive’ is already active for several...
Black Line – Sedition (Digital EP – Black Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Black Line, the project driven by Cyrusrex and Douglas J. McCarthy (Nitzer Ebb) plus the addition of...
Bückle / Vogt – Before We Rise (CD EP – Editions Furioso)
Genre/Influences: Trip-pop. Background/Info: Phillipp Bückle (owner of Tarkovsky Green Records) and Karen Vogt (still involved with Heligoland) met in Paris...
DeepDark / Paranoia Inducta – Mind Games (CD Album Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: DeepDark (Dmitry Vologdin) and Paranoia Inducta (Anthony ‘Armageddon Destroyer’)both have already released several split releases with other...
Mind Machine – Return To The Machine (CD Album – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Originally set up in 1989 and split up in 1995, the American synth-pop formation got back to...
Metatron Omega – Evangelikon (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Serbian artist Scorpio V is back on track unleashing his fourth full length album since 2015....
Alphaxone – Chronosphere (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Iranian composer Mehdi Saleh is already back with a new opus. He released an impressive number...
Ager Sonus – Mithra (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Thomas Langewehr became a very prolific artist since he set up Ager Sonus. One year after...
Aesthetic Perfection – Into The Black (CD Album – Close To Human Music)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop, EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Daniel Graves and his creative exposure Aesthetic Perfection are back on track unleashing a new...
Uncarnate – Reality Breakdown (CD Mini-Album – Uncarnate)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Adam Radziszewski and Wojciech Jarzębak is the Polish duo hiding behind Uncarnate. Nearly four years after their...
Rapoon – Sol Laude / Mercury Rising 3 (CD Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: “Sol Laude” is the final chapter from the “Mercury Rising”-trilogy, which started in 2017 to celebrate...
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Closed Mouth – [One] (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, shoegaze, dream-pop, gothic. Background/Info: Closed Mouth is a French project set up by busy bee Yannick Rault (Triple...
Rune Clausen – Tones Jul (CD Album – Forwind)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Rune Clausen is a Norwegian artist who already released a few previous productions. This album is for...
Tropic Of Coldness – Maps Of Reason (CD Album – Krysalisound)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Background/Info: Tropic Of Coldness is an Italian -American duo who met in Brussels. They already released...
Seetyca – Trances (CD Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: German project Seetyca has released an endless number of productions since 2002. “Trances” is the newest...
Nahja Mora – Final Realization Of Failure (CD Album – Nahja Mora)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Hailing from Baltimore (USA) Nahja Mora is the sonic brainchild of Josef Saint. Nahja Mora already...
Nothing But Noise – Formations Magnétiques Et Phénomènes D’incertitude (DCD Album – db2fluctuation)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Old Front 242 mates Daniel B. (Prothese) and Dirk Bergen are back on track unleashing this...
Kompromat – Traum Und Existenz (CD Album – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno, electroclash, electro-punk. Background/Info: Kompromat is a new project featuring Vitalic and Rebeka Warrior. The sound is inspired by...
Karabine – Octobre Rouge (Digital EP – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, minimal-techno, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Karabine is a new French project, which has been introduced as a ‘seasoned French producer,...
Heathens – Love Songs for Insensitive People (CD Album – Shyrec / Ricco Label)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Heathens is an Italian formation operating from Venetia. Set up in 2012 by the brothers Mattia...
Cubanate – Kolossus (Digital EP – Armalyte Industries)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, crossover. Background/Info: Twenty one years after their last studio work under the Cubanate moniker, core members Marc Heal...
Tomohiko Sagae – Entrainment (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: After having released his debut full length “Sensory Deprivation” on Hands (2017) this Japanese producer joined hands...
New Frames – Schweres Wasser (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: When Mathis Mootz (Panacea, M² ao) and David Frisch unleashed their debut album “Resistance Through Rituals” in...
Monographic – Structures (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock. Background/Info: Set up in 2014 the Hamburger (Germany) based Monographic joined hands together with Cold Transmission Music...
The Bluebeard’s Castle – Beyond The Door (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: The Bluebeard’s Castle is a French duo set up in 2017 by Yannick Rault (Triple Sun,...
La Mécanique – Dernier Voyage (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave. Background/Info: La Mécanique is the sonic brainchild of Canadian musician Francis Nothingwater. He set up this project in...
V/A Zeitgeist Vol.9 (Digital Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave, cold-wave. Background/Info: German label Cold Transmission Music moves on with the “Zeitgeist”-series unleashing the ninth volume. This...
Palais Ideal – Pressure Points (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, rock-wave. Background/Info: Last year I discovered the German duo John Edwards (guitars, vocals, synths, programming) - Richard van...
Rosi – Grey City Life (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Sven Rosenkötter and Mirco Rappsilber set up Rosi in 2014. A first album “Grey City Life”...
V/A Zeitgeist Vol.8 (Digital Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock, post-punk, gothic. Background/Info: This is volume number eight from the “Zeitgeist”-compilation series set up by German label...
