FTR – Manners (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, cold-wave, post-punk, gothic. Background/Info: Set up in 2012 FTR is a trio from Paris (France) consisting of Yann...
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Escupemetralla – Fe, Esperanza Y Caridad (CD Album – Novak)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Escupemetralla was mainly active during the 80s and 90s. As a kind of testimony to their...
Der Blutharsch And The Infinite Church Of The Leading Hand – Wish I Weren’t Here (CD Album – WKN)
Genre/Influences: Apocalyptic-rock, psychedelic, industrial-rock, krautrock. . Background/Info: Set up and driven by the creative spirit of Album Julius (formerly involved...
Yvanko – Pluviôse (Vinyl Album – Le Cabanon Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Pluviôse” is the official debut work from French composer Yvan Tekoutcheff. He claims to be inspired...
V/A A Tribute To Depeche Mode Vol.3 (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dark-electro, EBM, gothic, industrial. Background/Info: Alfa Matrix clearly has something with Depeche Mode while the electro-pop masters remain...
Dunkelwerk – Waffengang (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: German solo-project Dunkelwerk is back on track, unleashing its fourth full length album. Dunkelwerk released new work...
Salnikov Borisov Salnikov – Glib (CD Album – Salnikov Borisov Salnikov)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Background/Info: “Glib” resulted from the common efforts between Mikhail Salnikov, Alexei Borisov and Alexander Salnikov. The idea came...
Antoine Panaché – Endling… (Cassette Album – Barreuh Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract. Background/Info: Lilia Scheerder aka Antoine Panaché is back with a new album. This work comes after the...
Nooit – OA-I (Cassette Album – Freak Friendly DIY)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, experimental, power-electronics. Background/Info: Nooit is a Ukrainian solo-project driven by ‘Non’. This album seems to be the debut...
Ethan Fawkes – Hoovers & Stabs (CD Album – Ethan Fawkes No Label)
Genre/Influences: Techno-rave, acid, new-beat. Background/Info: Belgian producer Ethan Fawkes remains a very prolific artist. Next to the constant release of...
Testphasen Negativ – Die Soziale Apokalypse / The Social Apocalypse (CD Album – ContraMusikProduction)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: German project Testphasen Negativ has already released several productions since 2006. This album is however...
Dawn Of Ashes – The Crypt Injection II / Non Serviam (CD Album – Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-metal. Background/Info: Driven by Kristof Bathory, Los Angeles (USA) based Dawn Of Ashes became an established formation in...
Test Dept. – Disturbance (CD Album – One Little Indian Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, tribal. Background/Info: If you like industrial music you can only, but agree that Test Department (Test Dept.)...
Mandelbrot – Zeitsprung (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: Partners in life and active in several music projects the duo Barbara Teichner – Philipp...
Beinhaus – Zaehne (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Industrial. Background/Info: Beinhaus is a German formation active since 1995. They released several productions, but never gained a deserved...
V/A Hyperakusis III (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: IDM, techno-body, dark-ambient, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: This compilation is the third chapter in the “Hyperakusis”-series set up by Audiophob....
Starframes – Nicht Vergessen (CD Album – BulbArt)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, indie-pop/rock. Background/Info: Starframes is an Italian formation which has released their third full length album. It also is...
Hunter Complex – Open Sea (Vinyl Album – Death Waltz Originals)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Hailing from The Netherlands, Lars Meijer (owner of Narrominded Records) strikes back with his Hunter Complex...
Phonseca – Between A Dream (CD Album – Phonseca)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Matthew O’Connor is based in Bristol (UK) and set up Phonseca in 2017. After a previously...
Long Night – Barren Land (CD Album – Swiss Dark Night Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, goth-rock. Background/Info: Norwegian formation Long Night has already been active for a few years now. There was a...
Lobby – Fragrance (CD Album – Solange Endormie Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, shoegaze, dream-pop. Background/Info: Lobby is a French band set up in 2017 and signed to the new label...
Frame – The Journey (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: Eugenio Vatta and Andrea Benedetti are based in Rome (Italy) and involved with sonic projects since...
Flowers For Bodysnatchers – Alive With Scars (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Duncan Ritchie better known as the sonic instigator behind Flowers For Bodysnatchers is back on track...
Dead Melodies – Primal Destination (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Tom Moore active as Dead Melodies remains very prolific, unleashing his fifth full length album since...
Ugasanie & Dronny Darko – Arctic Gates (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: “Arctic Gates” resulted from the common efforts between two familiar artists from the Cryo Chamber label....
Tomb Of Ordeals (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: We welcome the fourth volume of the “Tomb”-series created by Cryo Chamber this time dealing about...
Horologium – Atavistic Americana (Vinyl Album – Sky Burial Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cinematographic, experimental, martial. Background/Info: Set up in 2004 by Polish artist Grzegorz Siedlecki, Horologium became a respected and...
MZ.412 – Svartmyrkr (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Black-industrial, dark-ambient. Background/Info: MZ.412 (formerly known as Maschinenzimmer 412) gained recognition as the so-called inventors of ‘black-industrial’ music. Set...
Viviankrist – Morgenrøde (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, Noise. Background/Info: Some of you might have heard of Vivian Slaughter who was member of the female...
Stillnox – Mercury (CD Album – Seraphin Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Poland, but based in Manchester (UK) Martin Seraphin is already busy with music...
Noisuf-X – Invader (CD Album – Dark Dimensions / ProNoize)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rave, dark-electro-trance. Background/Info: “Invader” is the tenth full length album by Jan Loamfield under the Noisuf-X moniker. The album...
Metroland – Framed + Framed Anew (Vinyl Double Album + CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Belgian Metroland last year unleashed their fourth full length “Men In A Frame”; a conceptual album about...
Form Follows Function – Arsenic (CD Album – E-Noxe Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Form Follows Function (FFF) is a German duo set up in 2017 by Bianca Stücker (lyrics...
Darkness On Demand – Detoxination (CD Album – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Dance Or Die is death, long live to Darkness On Demand. One year after the interesting debut...
Daniel Hall – Elevate (CD Album + DVD – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Australian electro-pop artist Daniel Hall has released his eleventh full length album. It also became a kind...
Daniel Hall – The Collection (USB Key Album – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Daniel Hall celebrates his tenth full length album with a real special production. “The Collection” is partly...
V/A Endzeit Bunkertracks Act VIII (4CD Album + 40 Downloadable Bonus Songs – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, electro-industrial, techno-body, power-noise, IDM. Background/Info: The first ‘act’ from this now legendary compilation was released in 2005....
Vlimmer – XII (CD EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, electro-wave, gothic. Background/Info: The twelfth EP in the series of eighteen set up by Vlimmer comes together with...
Vlimmer – XI (CD EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, electro-wave, gothic. Background/Info: German artist Alexander Leonard Donat, better known under the Vlimmer moniker is back on track...
The Young Gods – Data Mirage Tangram (CD Album – Two Gentlemen Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, ambient, psychedelic. Background/Info: The legendary Swiss formation The Young Gods are back on track, unleashing their first new...
Throbberstalk repowered by Vore Complex – Petrichor / Mastered Version (CD Album – Vore Complex)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-industrial, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: This album was originally released in 2017 and consisted of songs originally composed by Throbberstalk...
Projekt203 – Virus (CD Album – Projekt203)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock. Background/Info: Hailing from Slovakia this trio has been featured on a few compilations, but their self-released “Virus” album...
Lech Nienartowicz – Wzdłuż Pasma (CD Album – Kosmodron)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, soundscape. Background/Info: Lech Nienartowicz is a Polish artist based in Toruń. He’s involved with different projects and is...
Panacea – Beyond All Boundaries (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: Some will remember Mathis Mootz for his great work under the M² (Squaremeter) moniker, but his main...
Crystal Geometry – Red Faith Militia (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Techno, techno-EBM. Background/Info: Crystal Geometry is one of Sonic Groove’s latest signings. This project is hailing from Grenoble (France),...
Darkness On Demand – Detoxination (Digital EP – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: From Dance Or Die to Darkness On Demand not much has really changed in style and...
Pseudokrupp Project – This Is The New Black (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Hailing from Berlin (Germany) Pseudokrupp Project has mainly self-released all its productions since their beginning. The...
Metal Disco – Vade Mecum (CD Album – Detonic Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, minimal-electro, electroclash, body-pop. Background/Info: “Vade Mecum” is the second full length album by the Greek project Metal Disco....
Fiction 8 – The Bleak Disease (CD Album – Fiction 8)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Texan formation Fiction 8 was mainly active during the 90s. The band driven by Michael Smith...
Sonorus7 – Acid Pops (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2017 by Liss Eulenherz (Intent:Outtake, Project Snowflake), Clodi Korzin (La Magra, Mental Defect)...
Morgue Poetry – In The Absence Of Light (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, folk-noir. Background/Info: Morgue Poetry is the solo-project of Konstantin Michaely who’s involved with Wisborg. Wisborg last year released...
Dead Inside – Dead Inside (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Rock-gothic, gothic, death-rock. Background/Info: Dead Inside is a new formation hailing from Italy unleashing their debut work on Danse...
Blutengel – Un:Gott (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: The new Blutengel album comes exactly 20 years after the band’s official debut opus “Child Of...
Art Kinder Industrie – 1988-1990 (CD Album – +Closer²)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-industrial. Background/Info: Art Kinder Industrie is a French duo that was active in between the late 80s and...
Kill Shelter – Damage (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Pete Burns is a multi-instrumentalist and producer operating from Edinburgh (Scotland). “Damage” is the first album...
Nova-Spes – WorldWideWar Zone (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Based in Leipzig (Germany) Nova-Spes has been active since 1999. Their official releases were all released...
Electronikboy – Short Circuit (DCD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Electronikboy originally started as a duo and have been joined later on by a third member....
Ultranoire – Isolation (CD EP – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Based in Frankfurt am Main (Germany) the duo Josef Stapel - Szilard Kun have already released...
Supercraft – Select & Operate (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The Norwegian Supercraft duo is back on track. They previously released two albums: “Things We Do” (2009)...
E-Gens – Prometheus (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Russian E-Gens call themselves a ‘neo-romantic duo'. They started playing music in 1987 as AT-Home. Later on...
Axel Samano – Deus Ex Machina (DCD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, symphonic-pop. Background/Info: The best way to introduce Axel Samano is to read what he has to say: ‘despite...
Apsürde – Inglourious Heroes (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop Background/Info: Apsürde is based in Budapest (Hungary) and has been active since 2006. They released the EP “See...
Blippblopporkestern – Människomusik (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: ScentAir Records is clearly open to international electro-pop bands. With Blippblopporkestern they signed a Swedish project set...
Alien Skin – P.O.P. Pop (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 Alien Skin’s creative spirit George Pappas will be always linked to Reaf...
Frontline Assembly – Wake Up The Coma (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Frontline Assembly have been active for more than 30 years now. They don’t exactly release a...
Myselfson – Memory Park (CD Album – Myselfson)
Genre/Influences: Indie-pop, pop-rock. Background/Info: Myselfson is a French duo based in Paris and which is now active since 2009. “Memory...
