Fredrik Croona – Welcome Home (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, dark future-pop. Background/Info: Swedish artist Fredrik Croona took me by surprise on his debut album “The Grey Line”...
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Adeonesis – Post Mors Vitae (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Adeonesis is Wilger Rodrigo Humerez Rios and his brother Ferry Humerez Rios. I discovered this Colombian formation...
This Grey Hates The Sun – This Grey Hates The Sun (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Based in Milan, This Grey Hates The Sun was set up a few years ago...
Nerva – Nerva (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dubstep, experimental, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Nerva is the meeting between Andrea Bellucci (Red Sector A, Subterranean Source, Dioxide ao)...
Templezone – Neosphera (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Templezone is an Italian solo-project set up a few years ago by Giorgio Ricci who was...
Prioratvm – Adonis (CD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Prioratvm is an Italian solo-project set up in 2007 by Mirko B. A debut album “Those...
Cyclic Amp – Shrapnel In The Toyshop (DCD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave, shoegaze. Background/Info: Cyclic Amp was a UK band active during the 80s and mainly dealt with post-punk...
Apoptygma Berzerk – Exit Popularity Contest (CD Album – Rough Trade/The End Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Apoptygma Berzerk is a band that doesn’t need any further introduction. Founded by Stefan Groth...
Technophobia – Negative Space (Vinyl EP – Working Order Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The title song of this EP is taken from the full length album “Flicker Out” by the...
Technophobia – Flicker Out (Vinyl Album – Working Order Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Technophobia is a Washington-based duo dealing with electro-pop influenced music. Katie Taylor and Steve Petix self-released their...
Romance Disaster – Boy (Digital EP – Space Factory)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-EBM, electroclash. Background/Info: Romance Disaster is a new project set up by Aga Wilk (previously involved in 77TM). This...
Danielle Liebeskind – Little Acts Of Rebellion (Vinyl Album – DEAR Music And Art)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Background/Info: Danielle Liebeskind is a collective from The Netherlands that already released one full length and...
Nietzsche And The Wagners – No Truth (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, cold-wave. Background/Info: Hailing from Leipzig, Nietzsche And The Wagners has been active for a couple of years now...
Signal Bruit – Planisphère(s) (CD Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro, electro-ambient, minimal-electro. Background/Info: “Planisphère(s)” from the French solo-project Signal Bruit is the first release on Meshwork Music. This...
DJ Emerson – Repetitive Music (CD Album – Micro.fon)
Genre/Influences: Techno, d’n’b. Background/Info: Simon Emerson Kidder better known as DJ Emerson is an established techno DJ and producer from...
Diary Of Dreams – reLive (DCD Album – Accession Records)
Genre/Influences: Electronic dark-wave, dark wave-pop. Background/Info: The last year released album “Grau Im Licht” was a (new) successful work for...
Deutsche Bank – Autopop / Deluxe Edition (CD Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Deutsche Bank is not a German, but a Swedish electro-pop formation set up by Mats From. I...
Model1 – The Vocoders Strikes Back (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Isak Rypdal is a name that will immediately ring a bell for numerous electro-pop lovers. Rypdal of...
Arian1 – Integration (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: The brothers Eduardo and Cesar Leiva are the instigators behind Arian1, which is one of...
Aesthetische – We Follow Blindly (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music. Background/Info: Guilherme Pires and Fabricio Viscardi better known as Aesthetische are back on track with new electronic...
Metroland – Brother Remixes (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Next to the ‘regular’ EP of “Brother” Metroland also released another EP with extra remixes. It’s a...
Paradox Obscur – Anucrusis (Vinyl Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, cold-wave electro. Background/Info: “Anucrusis” is the 2nd full length album for the duo Kriistal Ann - Toxic Razor,...
Metroland – Brother (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Brother” is an appropriated title-track to close the homage to Metroland’s ‘Passenger L’ aka Louis Zachert. The...
Shxcxchcxsh – SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Digital Album – Avian)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, ambient-techno, abstract. Background/Info: Shxcxchcxsh is a Swedish experimentalist duo, which have accomplished their 3rd full length on Avian...
Lustmord – Dark Matter (CD Album – Touch)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Brian Williams aka Brian Lustmord is one of those genius artists who definitely put his stamp...
Diarmaid O’Meara – In Your Head (USB Stick – Album – Gobsmacked Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Diarmaid O’Meara is an Irish producer and label owner (Gobsmacked Records) based in Berlin. He released...
Stars Crusaders – Under Attack (Digital EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Italy, Stars Crusaders got signed to WTII Records quite fast after their creation. Inspired by...
Vandal Moon – Teenage Daydream Conspiracy (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Vandal Moon is a California (USA) based formation, which claims to be inspired by cold-wave, dark-wave...
Paradox Obscur – Anucrusis (Vinyl Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, cold-wave electro. Background/Info: “Anucrusis” is the 2nd full length album for the duo Kriistal Ann - Toxic Razor,...
Black Tape For A Blue Girl – These Fleeting Moments (CD Album – Projekt)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave, cinematographic, dream-wave. Background/Info: I realized that this year Black Tape For A Blue Girl celebrates its 30th anniversary....
Prozium – Plastic Planets (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, d’n’b, technoid. Background/Info: Prozium is one of the latest signings to the Alfa Matrix roster. This is one...
Diffuzion – Still Believe (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop, industrial-pop. Background/Info: Diffuzion is achieving their 3rd full length album. It’s now 5 years ago that they released...
Avarice In Audio – Anthracite Nights (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance, techno-body music, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Avarice In Audio is working on their new album, but this EP takes us...
Pixelpussy – Tactical Feline Implant (CD Album – Wicked Wonderland Empire)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, industrial-rave. Background/Info: Pixelpussy is back on track and this after a hiatus of four years. Set up by...
V/A The Sound Of Progress (DVD – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: “The Sound Of Progress” is a documentary, which was originally released in 1988 on VHS format...
Vogue Noir – Vogue Noir (Digital EP – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop, nu-disco. Background/Info: Vogue Noir is a new project set up by Dominique Cologne who’s operating from London....
Synthattack – Club Takeover (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, techno-body, aggrotech. Background/Info: Based in Hannover (Germany) Synthattack is one of the newest sensations from the dark-electro dancefloors....
Phragments – All Towers Must Fall (Vinyl Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Matej Gyarfas is a Slovakian composer hiding behind Phragments. This project has already been busy for...
Franck Vigroux – Rapport Sur Le Désordre (Vinyl Album – D’Autres Cordes)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: French artist and multi-instrumentalist Franck Vigroux likes to work with other artists, but from time...
Model Depose – Splitting Light (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Model depose is a band from The Netherlands I discovered a few years ago now when...
Extize – Redneck Industrial (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, indus-pop. Background/Info: Extize started out as a real hot and promising newcoming band revealing a great body-techno...
Dolls Of Pain – A Silence In My Life (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro & crossover. Background/Info: Dolls Of Pain is a French band based in Strasburg which has been active since...
Dead Man’s Hill – Crossroads (Digital Album – Dead Man’s Hill)
Genre/Influences: Epic, drones, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Bart Piette is the ‘body and soul’ of Dead Man’s Hill, which is a project...
Goatpsalm – Downstream (CD Album – Aesthetic Death)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-ambient, ritual-metal. Background/Info: Goatpsalm is a Russian formation I never heard of before. The 4 head combo has...
Frank Meyer – Spuren (CD Album – Frank Mark Arts)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, cinematographic. Background/Info: Electronic producer Frank Meyer is an artist I discovered on other releases from the Frank...
Eraldo Bernocchi and Shinkiro – In Praise Of Shadows (CD Album – SSSM)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, industrial. Background/Info: This album resulted from a meaningful collaboration between Italian musician Eraldo Bernocchi (who got fame...
Dissociate – Parse/Process (CD Album – Dissociate)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, cinematographic. Background/Info: Diossociate is a Minneapolis (USA) based solo-project set up by producer Jonathan L. Ford. This...
Orphx – Pitch Black Mirror (CD Album – Sonic Groove & Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, industrial-trance. Background/Info: Rich Oddie and Christina Sealey better known as Orphx are back on track. The Canadian duo...
Gnawed – Pestilence Beholden (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, industrial-noise. Background/Info: Grant Richardson is active under the Gnawed moniker for a couple of years now and has...
Black Earth – Diagrams Of A Hidden Order (CD EP – Black Plagve Productions/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, black-noise. Background/Info: Black Earth is a Spanish trio dealing with influences of death-industrial, black-noise and a few metal...
Beyond Enclosure – Dungeon Of Total Void (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ambient-noise. Background/Info: Beyond Enclosure is a Portuguese duo driven by the creative force of Samantha ‘Diabolik’ and ‘The...
Blackhouse – Live In Leipzig (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, minimal-electronics, experimental; Background/Info: Blackhouse is already a real phenomenon for more than 30 years now. Set up in...
Asmus Tietchens – Parergon (CD Album – Stille Andacht/Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract-music. Background/Info: German artists Asmus Tietchens is 69 years old and constantly reinventing his own creation, but maybe...
Words And Actions – All The Joy, All The Pain (CD Album – Detriti Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal EBM. Background/Info: Words And Actions is a Berliner EBM-driven band that has already released a few cassettes,...
State Of The Nation – Departed (Digital EP – State Of The Nation)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: State Of The Nation is a new Swedish formation featuring Erotic Elk members Tomas Gustafsson and...
Noir – The Burning Bridge (Digital EP – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: Noir is the newest band of ex-Spahn Ranch singer Athan Maroulis. This formation released a debut-album “Darkly...
Disharmony – Memorized Skin (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: Lord Sauron (Headdreamer, Oxyd) and Ryby (Oxyd and owner of Aliens Production) better known under the...
Max Million – Monogramma (CD Album – Audiomodern)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Max Million is a Greek producer, sound designer and label owner who released his debut album...
In Aeternam Vale – Pink Flamingos (Digital Album – Dement3d Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, experimental, ambient, technoid, industrial. Background/Info: The French band In Aeternam Vale has been active since the early 80s...
Ancestral Voices – Night Of Visions Remixed Part 1 & Remixed Part 2 (2 Digital EP – Samurai Horo)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, tribal, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Last year Ancestral Voices unleashed its debut full length “Night Of Visions”, which was...
Empusae / Klankdal (CD Album – Consouling Sounds/Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, abstract, experimental. Background/Info: This album is something really unique. It’s a split album between recognized and established dark-ambient,...
Shrine – Ordeal 26.04.86 (CD Album – Cyclic Law)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Behind Shrine is hiding Bulgarian artist Hristo Gospodinov. Shrine has already released several albums and has joined...
Delerium – Mythologie (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Ethereal-electro, ambient-pop. Background/Info: In 2017 Delerium will celebrate their 30th anniversary. What originally started as a side-project by Frontline...
The Wheal – The Wheal (CD EP – Exhibition Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, wave-pop. Background/Info: The Wheal is a French project I never heard of before and which has been signed...
V/A Net.Ware Jester’s Joy (CD Compilation – Electro Arc)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Based in Frankfurt am Main, Electro Arc has already been busy for a couple of years now....
Robert Logan – Flesh Decomposed (CD Album – Slowfoot Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Robert Logan is a London based artist who last year struck back after a hiatus...
