Phurpa – Gyer Ro (DCD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, experimental. Background/Info: Phurpa is a Russian collective inspired and driven by the ritual music of BON, which is...
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Echolust – Veldisa (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, dark wave-pop. Background/Info: Echolust is a Californian trio unleashing their official debut album on Cleopatra Records. The band...
Ikon – Everyone, Everything, Everywhere Ends (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, new-wave. Background/Info: Australian gothic pride and living legends of the Australian gothic scene released this album in 2014...
Phallus Dei – Black Dawn (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, drone, experimental. Background/Info: Phallus Dei is not exactly a band releasing new albums on regular basis although they...
Samhain – One Minute To Twelve (DCD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Slovakian trio Samhain saw the light of day back in 1996 and released their official...
Dazed Marrow – Gaeseki Dream Machine (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Dazed Marrow is a musician from South Korea. I never heard of this project before, which...
Blake’s Optimism – These Things & Us (Vinyl 7” – Steelwork Maschine)
Genre/Influences: Martial, neo-folk, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Blake’s Optimism is a new French duo unleashing their official debut work. Both members already...
The Austrasian Goat & Cober Ord – Et Ils Franchirent Le Seuil (CD Album + Vinyl 7” – Steelwork Maschine)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental, drones, ritual. Background/Info: “Et Ils Franchirent Le Seuil” is an album that resulted from the common...
Samuel Rohrer – Range Of Regularity (CD Album – Arjuna Music)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-jazz, abstract. Background/Info: Samuel Rohrer is an artist who doesn’t really ring a bell to me. This Swiss...
30Drop – The Time Of Cruel Miracles (DCD Album – 30Drop Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno. Background/Info: Hailing from Barcelona this project has only been active for a few couple of years while the...
Welle: Erdball – Gaudeamus Igitur (CD Album – Oblivion/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: One of the most unique electro-pop formations from the scene strikes back with a new (mini)-album. The...
Adult. – Detroit House Guests (CD Album – Mute)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, experimental, minimal EBM. Background/Info: Detroit based duo Nicola Kuperus - Adam Lee Miller are back on track unleashing...
Larva – Scars (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Larva officially started in 2003 and has released an impressive number of productions over the years. The...
Instans – Derailed (DCD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Fredrik Djurfeldt got some underground recognition as the instigator of the EBM project Severe Illusion while dark-ambient...
Severe Illusion – Discipline Is Reward Enough (DCD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Severe Illusion was founded in 2000 by Fredrik Djurfeldt and Ulf Lundblad. The band released several albums...
Cynical Existence – Dying Light (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, crossover. Background/Info: Cynical Existence is back on track and has unleashed their fourth full length album to date....
Antibiosis – Hellish Puzzle (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark future-pop, dark-electro. Background/Info: Antibiosis is a Russian duo, which was set up in 2013 and unleashing their...
Homicidal Feelings – Cognitive Disorders (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Set up in the 90s by Brazilian artist Giba Reys, Homicidal Feelings stopped all activities...
Cold Therapy – Figures And Faces (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Polish artist Jacek Wolański set up Cold Therapy as a solo-project in 2012. He quickly started working...
Empusae – Lueur (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, drones, cinematographic, industrial. Background/Info: Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe aka Sal-Ocin is back on track unleashing a new Empusae opus...
Nordvargr – The Secret Barbarous Names (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Henrik Nordvargr Björkk is one of those musicians who doesn’t need any further introduction. From his...
Dødsmaskin – Fullstendig Brent (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Noise-ambient, industrial, neo-classic. Background/Info: Dødsmaskin is one of the newest signings to the American Malignant Records roster. It’s a...
Rasalasad vs. Von Magnet and Wildshores – Magnethism (CD EP – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, dark-ambient. Background/Info: In the “Thisobey”-series we got familiarized with Rasalasad joining hands with other guest projects. This...
Rasalasad vs. Amantra – Thisturbia (CD EP – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, psychedelic, drones, cinematographic. Background/Info: “Thisturbia” is a next release featuring Fernando Cerqueira aka Rasalasad working with another formation....
Rasalasad vs. Shhh… – Apophenia (CD EP – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: This work is collaboration between Portuguese projects Rasalasad and Shhh… The CD is available in...
Rasalasad – Thismorphia (CD Album – Thisco)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Behind Rasalasad is hiding Thisco label owner Fernando Cerqueira, a Portuguese artist who been into...
Kazuya Ishigami – Cleaner 583 (CD Album – Slowdown Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient-noise, abstract. Background/Info: Kazuya Ishigami is hailing from Osaka (Japan) and is fascinated by ‘sound’. He’s a composer,...
Chekarino Project – Zeroes (CD Album – Roaring Disc Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Chekarino Project is a duo hailing from Ukraine and dealing with electro-pop music. They released their official...
Descendants Of Cain – Conversations With Mirrors (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-rock. Background/Info: British formation Descendants Of Cain (D.O.C.) strikes back with their first album in 6 years. Driven...
M.W. Wild – The Third Decade (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Background/Info: M.W. Wild was formerly involved in The Cascades, a band with whom he recorded four albums....
Mirland – Mechanic (CD Album – Raumklang Music)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: I got familiarized with the work of John Mirland by discovering the Holm/Mirland project. This...
Mesh – Runway (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Runway” is the second single/EP taken from the last year released album “Looking Skyward”. It sometimes is...
V/A In Praise Of Shadows (DCD Album – Thank You For The Horse)
Genre/Influences: Hard-techno, hardcore. Background/Info: Thank You For The Horse (TYFTH) is a Japanese label based in Tokyo and specialized in...
Loewenhertz – Echtzeit (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Alex Pfahler and Andy Pfiefer ever started with a synth-pop band called L’Image, but later on moved...
Herzparasit – ParaKropolis (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Metal, rock-metal. Background/Info: The German combo Herzparasit is back on track, unleashing their third full length album. The band...
5TimesZero – ØK (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-rock & pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Last year I discovered the EP “Zero Gravity” released by this German band....
047 – & (Vinyl Album – Killing Music)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2001 by Swedish duo Peter Engström - Sebastian Rutgersson, 047 has released several...
Werner Urban – Dworzec Towarowy (Vinyl Album – Abandoned)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, electronic, industrial. Background/Info: Werner Urban is an artist hailing from The Netherlands. He already released several productions...
Tearful Moon – In The Dark Morning (CD Album – Wave Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Tearful Moon is an American formation featuring two lovers. It’s the fusion between a female poet...
Seraphim System – Luciferium (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, metal, crossover. Background/Info: The new Seraphim System album was released at the end of 2016. After the two...
Freakangel – How The Ghost Became (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Since their set up in 2010 Estonian combo Freakangel didn’t stop terrorizing the electro-underground scene. It...
Cygnosic – Siren (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Cygnosic is one of the numerous talented dark-electro acts from Greece. Driven by Georg Psaroudakis this solo-project...
Lee Simeone – Best Seat In The Dream (CD Album – Vernal Equinox)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Lee someone is a producer and multi-instrumentalist. I never heard of this musician before. “Best...
Jen Gloeckner – Vine (CD Album – Spinning Head Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dream-pop. Background/Info: Jen Gloeckner is an American artist whose name maybe doesn’t say that much although she had...
Lucifer’s Dream – Constellation Of Love (CD Album – Bandcamp)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop/minimal wave. Background/Info: After a long travel through the universe composer/producer Zidonian X and singer/performer Giek found each other....
Holygram – Holygram (CD EP – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dreamy wave-pop. Background/Info: Holygram is a German formation, which wants to compose a sonic bridge between new-wave, post-punk...
Datacode Division – Dissections (CD Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: American formation Datacode Division was set up in 2001, but it took years to achieve...
PreEmptive Strike 0.1 – Through The Astral Cold (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: PreEmptive Strike 01 is back on track unleashing their sixth album to date. It’s an important...
Deconbrio – Hail To The Liar’s Throne (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, electro-metal. Background/Info: Deconbrio is an American formation driven by the creative spirit of its front man Danny Rendo....
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[:SITD:] – Trauma: Ritual (DCD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Shadows In The Dark are back on track unleashing their newest opus featuring 10 songs (for...
Centhron – Allvater (CD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: German formation Centhron strikes back after a hiatus of three years. The line-up has somewhat changed although...
T.Raumschmiere – Heimat (Digital Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electronics, technoid, ambient. Background/Info: Marco Haas better known as T.Raumschmiere is a real phenomenon in techno music. He...
Seven Trees – Trauma Toxicity (CD Mini album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: With the Swedish duo Seven Trees I feel a bit like going back in time....
V/A F.Y.E.O. Selected Frequencies Volume II (Digital Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Swedish label Reverse Alignment is focused on music styles such as dark-ambient-, experimental-, industrial- and...
V/A Belgium Experimental Underground 017 Survey (Digital Album – Unexplained Sound Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient, cinematographic, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Italian label Unexplained Sound Group is used to familiarizing us with compilations based...
LPF12 – Conclusion (Digital EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon’s (LPF12) creativity has no limits. While a new full length album (cf. “Missiles”)...
LPF12 – Missiles (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: LPF12 is back on track with a new addition to the impressive discography of German...
In Vein – Veiled In Pain (CD EP – In Vein)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, dark-rock. Background/Info: I never heard of In Vein before and unfortunately there’s not much information available. It starts...
Clan Of Xymox – Days Of Black (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, wave-pop. Background/Info: Clan Of Xymox has now been active for more than 30 years. The gothic pride of...
Alphane Reality Generator – Music For The Robot Revolution (CD album – Alphane Reality Generator)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, cyber-punk, technoid. Background/Info: Alphane Reality Generator (ARG) is an American formation unleashing their self-released debut opus. They deal...
Dive – Underneath (CD album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial. Background/Info: Dive aka Dirk Ivens (The Klinik, Absolute Body Control, Sonar, Blok 57) is back with his legendary...
Nytt Land – Fimbulvinter (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Ritual, folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nytt Land is a Russian group, which has released several albums in a rather short...
La Breiche – Le Mal Des Ardents (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Medieval, industrial, dark-folk, ambient. Background/Info: La Breiche is a French duo consisting of Stille Volk-members Arexis and Lafforgue. This...
Skullflower – The Spirals Of Great Harm (DCD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise, black-noise, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: Skullflower definitely stands for one of the veterans from the so-called noise and black-noise...
T_error 404 – Vajrabhairava GO (Digital Album – Cyberbuddhism.com)
Genre/Influences: Tribal-techno, industrial-trance, IDM. Background/Info: Vladimir Cherepanov aka ‘Denoizer’ is back on track with a new album featuring 18 (!)...
State Of Being – The Misinformation Age (CD Album – State Of Being)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This album marks the return of State Of Being. Set up and driven by Christopher Foldi, this...
