Nhova – Eponymous (Digital Album – Nhova)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: French artist Jerome Lagueyte has already been in the music business for a couple of years...
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Mondkopf – They Fall, But You Don’t (CD Album – In Paradisum)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, electronics, cinematographic. Background/Info: French musician Paul Régimbeau has now been active for many years under the Mondkopf moniker....
Matt Sprinfgield – Erase All Data (CD Album – AKA Music)
Genre/Influences: Rock-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Matt Springfield is a French artist inspired by different artists from the 90s. It’s not that...
Kentin Jivek – No Age (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, neo-folk, cinematographic. Background/Info: Parisian based artist Kentin Jivek has already been active for a couple of years now...
Kangding Ray – Hyper Opal Mantis (CD Album – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: IDM, techno. Background/Info: French producer David Letellier aka Kangding Ray is operating from Berlin, which is the right town...
V/A Synthétique: A French Synthwave Compilation 1982-2016 (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: “Synthétique” is a kind of sonic ‘documentary’ featuring 13 French formations dealing and/or inspired by electro-pop....
Im Namen Des Volkes – Aus Des Anti-Imperialistischen Tagebüchern (CD Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, EBM. Background/Info: Im Namen Des Volkes is a German solo-project set up by Matthias Schuster (also known from...
Sweet William – Organic Shades (CD Album – Datakill Records)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, folk-wave. Background/Info: Sweet William has already been active since the 80s and can look back at a serious...
Orphx – Archive 1993-1994 (CD Album – Hospital Productions)
Genre/Influences: Noise, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Orphx was set up in 1993 by Richard Oddie, Christina Sealey and Aron West (Tropism)....
Level 2.0 – Moonlit (Digital EP – Level 2.0)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Based in Florida (USA) Level 2.0 was set by Mike Hoffman (vocals & lyrics) and Matt Clennan...
Grebenstein – Gloss (Vinyl 12” – Horo)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, techno. Background/Info: German artist and producer Jan Grebenstein has already been in the music business for numerous...
Cats Soiled – Weird Bestiary (Vinyl 12” – Tripalium Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, techno, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: Cats Soiled is a French duo from Rennes driven by ‘Little’ and ‘Steve Alibi’....
Blush Response – Human Augmentation (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno. Background/Info: Joey Blush is an American producer who became ‘ein Berliner’. He released his work on different labels...
Architectural – Metropolitan Opera (Vinyl Mini-Album – Architectural)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Operating from Barcelona, Juna Rico has released an impressive number of productions in a...
Zos Kia/Coil – Transparent (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: The “Transparent”-album is more than simply history. It brings artists and friends with a common passion...
Trepaneringsritualen – Deathward To The Womb (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Behind this obscure Swedish project is hiding Thomas Martin Ekelund (aka Th. Tot). Trepaneringsritualen became a...
Alec Empire – Volt (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, electronics. Background/Info: Alec Empire will be always linked to Atari Teenage Riot, but this German artist has been...
Solarrio – Solarrio (Digital EP – Solarrio)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Solarrio is a new solo-project from a French artist living in Berlin (Germany). This self-titled debut EP...
Roman Leykam – The Eternal Cycle (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract music, ambient. Background/Info: Roman Leykam is one of the most familiar artists from the Frank Mark Arts...
Phenotract – It’s All We Feel Every Day (Digital Album – Phenotract)
Genre/Influences: Ambient-pop, cinematographic. Background/Info: This is the fourth full length released by Eric Shans. Phenotract does not release new work...
Filth Pig – Youthful Nihilism (Digital Album – Filth Pig)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Background/Info: Filth Pig is a German solo-project dealing with industrial-metal. The name of the band sounds clearly...
Echostep – Pictures In The Sky (CD EP – Echostep)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Echostep has been introduced as ‘the alternative music adventure of Cleveland, Ohio based songwriter James Patrick Young’....
Anti-Terror – Humanterror.com (CD Album – Anti-Terror Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Anti-Terror is a Polish duo dealing with a dark-electro & EBM format, which was previously active...
Sine Silex – Schachmatt (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave & pop. Background/Info: Sine Silex is the meeting between Greek artist Kriistal Ann (also active under her own...
Kongo – Blubber (CD Album – Ur Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics, glitch, industrial. Background/Info: Kongo is a new project featuring Henrik Nordvargr Björkk (Pouppée Fabrikk, Nordvargr, MZ.412, Folkstrom...
Daniel Hall – Together Again (CD + DVD – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Last year I discovered Daniel Hall who is based in Sydney (Australia). This musician is a prolific...
Bestial Mouths – Heartless (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, electronic. Background/Info: Bestial Mouths is a formation driven by the charismatic female singer Lynette Cerezo assisted by Christopher...
Strugg – Flood (CD Album – DarkSun Productions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, crossover. Background/Info: Strugg is a French combo, which previously released one album and one EP. “Flood” is their...
Roya – Trax (CD EP – Roya)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Background/Info: Roya is an American female solo-project with Iranian roots and based in Stockholm. After having released...
Josy & The Pony vs The Poneymen – Hippodrone Club (CD Album – Rockerill Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock, punk-pop. Background/Info: “Hippodrone Club” resulted from the common efforts between Josette Ponette (Josy & The Pony) and...
Hexenschuss – Gobbledegook (CD Album – Hexenschuss)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, psychedelic, shoegaze. Background/Info: “Gobbledegook” is the second album of Hexenschuss. This duo consists of Gil Luz (The Netherlands)...
FLeUR – The Space Between (CD Album – Bosco Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Background/Info: We here welcome the debut album of the Italian duo FLeUR. The band is driven...
BeWider – Dissolve (CD Album – BeWider)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, cinematographic, ambient-pop. Background/Info: BeWider is a solo-project from Italian musician/producer Piernicola Di Muro. He’s an experienced musician/composer who...
Ultra Arcanum – The Silence Inside (CD Album – Nadanna)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-pop. Background/Info: Ultra Arcanum is a London based formation consisting of Mark Thirkell (vocals) and Konstandinos Dorlis (electronics)....
Proxies – Groovin’Over Beirut (CD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop & new-wave. Background/Info: Anna Logue Records takes us back in time to Greece. Proxies was originally set up...
Car Crash Set – Join The Car Crash Set / Expanded Edition (CD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, new-wave. Background/Info: The main aim of Anna Logue Records (Germany) is to recover old 80s electro bands from...
Black Nail Cabaret – We Like To Suffer (CD EP – Basic Unit Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, noir-pop. Background/Info: Hungarian female duo Black Nail Cabaret is back on track unleashing the EP “We Like To...
Kill Your Boyfriend – Ghosts (Digital EP – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ritual, shoegaze. Background/Info: Kill Your Boyfriend has been active since 2011 and now consists of the duo...
In Between – In Between (CD Album – PMS Studio)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Background/Info: In Between is the solo-project of Italian artist Luca Maria Baldini. This self-titled debut work...
Sigha – Metabolism (CD Album – Token)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: Berliner James Shaw has released an impressive number of productions under the Sigha moniker since...
She Pleasures Herself – Fetish (CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Hailing from Lisbon (Portugal) She Pleasures Herself is a trio featuring members who already gained...
Mænifesto – Veni Vidi Vici (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro, rock. Background/Info: Mænifesto is an Italian solo-project operating from Rome and conducted by Augustus Gregorio-Rossi. I never...
Extramensch – II (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Pop-rock, rock-metal. Background/Info: The German formation Extramensch strikes back with their second full length and this 7 years after...
This Morn’Omina – Kundalini Rising (DCD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, electronics, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: It took 6 years for This Morn’Omina to strike back with a new album....
Tragic Impulse – Devil On Your Shoulder (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body-music. Background/Info: Tragic Impulse is an American solo-project set up and driven by Paul M. Graham. He started...
The Chainsmokers – Сloser
Genre/Influences: electronic dance music Background/Info: A native New Yorker Alex Poll and a native of Maine Andrew Taggart met in...
En Esch – Trash Chic (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro, industrial, rock. Background/Info: Klaus Schandelmaier better known under his artist name En Esch and his involvement in bands...
Am Tierpark – April Fool’s (Digital EP – Læbel)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Am Tierpark is back on track with a surprising EP, which has been released on the brand-new...
Stoneman – Steine (CD Album – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, metal-pop. Background/Info: The Swiss Stoneman formation is back on track unleashing their fifth opus to date and the...
Palast – Hush (CD EP – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, psychedelic-pop. Background/Info: Palast is a German formation I remember from the last year released sampler “Electrostorm Vol.7” (Out...
Mono Inc. – Together Till The End (DCD Album – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, metal, gothic. Background/Info: Singer Martin Engler and his acolytes are back on track unleashing the ninth studio album...
La Main – L’Heure De Salir (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dark-pop. Background/Info: After a few self-released production French formation La Main (translated ‘The Hand’) joined hands together with...
Fixmer / McCarthy – Chemicals (Vinyl 12” – Sonic Groove)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-EBM, techno-body. Background/Info: Minimal techno-body guru Terence Fixmer and Nitzer Ebb vocalist Douglas McCarthy are back on track...
Alphaxone & ProtoU – Stardust (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: “Stardust”-album resulted from the common efforts of Mehdi Saleh (Alphaxone) and Sasha Cats (ProtoU). It also...
Aegri Somnia – Endtime Psalms (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Croatian solo-project Aegri Somnia is back on track unleashing its third album in history, which also is...
SiJ – The Time Machine (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Ukrainian artist Vladislav Sikach has released an impressive number of productions in a rather short lapse of...
Council Of Nine, Alphaxone, Xerxes The Dark, Wolves And Horses – Tomb Of Seers (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Tomb Of Seers” is a new opus released on Cryo Chamber bringing different ambient artists together....
Apocryphos, Kammarheit, Atrium Carceri – Echo (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Two years after the “Onyx”-album Robert C. Kozletsky (Apocryphos), Pär Boström (Kammarheit) and Cryo Chamber label...
Sect 37 – Ausländer (CD Album – Aesthetic Death Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Sect 37 or Section 37 is an English music project that was set up in...
Grandchaos – Tempest (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, EBM. Background/Info: Belgian based artist Cheleskov Ivanovitch is back on track with a new album full of remixes....
KIFOTH – Extensive Report (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Kneel In Front Of The Executioner, better known as KIFOTH is back on track with their seventh...
X Marks The Pedwalk – Secrets (CD Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, ambient-pop. Background/Info: X Marks The Pedwalk became one of the main EBM formations during the 90s and struck...
Desiderii Marginis – Songs Over Ruins (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Desiderii Marginis became without a shadow of a doubt the most successful formation of Johan Levin. The...
Peter Bjärgö – Animus Retinentia (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, neo-classic, neo-folk. Background/Info: Peter Bjärgö will always and instantly linked with formations like Arcana, Sophia and Karjalan Sissit...
Funker Vogt – Navigator Collector’s Edition (DCD Album + DVD – Repo Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: There has been a lot of commotion since Jens Kästel left Funker Vogt. By the end...
Elegant Machinery – I (CD EP – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Swedish electro-pop band Elegant Machinery became one of the most praised and famous bands in the genre...
