Ô Paradis – Eon 1999 – 2015 (DCD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk, ballad, chanson, rock-folk, psychdelic. Background/Info: Set up in the late 90s by Demian Recio, Ô Paradis has released...
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Frank.Wheeler – Longshoreman (CD Album – Frankly Different Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Wouter Jansen aka Frank.Wheeker is hailing from The Netherlands. He’s a good mate of Scheerling and...
First Aid 4 Souls – Trashcathedral (CD Album – Exabyss Records/Electro Arc)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: First Aid 4 Souls is the sonic brainchild of Hungarian artist István Gazdag (aka ‘Vacuum’). Set up...
Rummelsnuff & Asbach – Rummelsnuff & Asbach (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Folk, punk, electro. Background/Info: Ancient bodybuilder and ‘Captain’ of the crew aka Rummelsnuff joined hands with tenor baritone Asbach...
DJVersion666 – Prelude (CD Album – Dark Tunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial & metal. Background/Info: DJVersion666 is an American solo-project set up by Brian Stewart. This band got the opportunity...
Unzucht – Neuntöter (DCD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock & metal-gothic. Background/Info: After having released 3 albums on NoCut Unzucht signed to Out Of Line, probably becoming...
Heimatærde – Ærdenbrand (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, medieval, metal. Background/Info: Heimatærde once started as one of the most atypical dark-electro bands in the scene. They...
The Orb – COW / Chill Out, World! (CD Album – Kompakt)
Genre/Influences: Ambient. Background/Info: The Orb are an English electronic music group known for being the pioneers of ambient (house). They even...
Nyarlathotep : A Cryo Chamber Collaboration (3CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, cinematographic. Background/Info: Cryo Chamber definitely appears to be under the influence of H.P. Lovecraft. The label already...
Hoshin – Path Of Disollutions (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: Xavier Heindrichs aka Hoshin and also known under his alias Esylt is a Belgian artist releasing...
V/A Electronic Saviors Presents: Respect The Prime: 1986 Revisited (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, rock-pop, hard-rock, synth-pop, punk, experimental. Background/Info: Fast forward 30 years. Industrial music scene promoter, cancer survivor and musician,...
Ghostfeeder – World Fameless (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, pop-rock. Background/Info: Hailing from St. Petersburg (Russia) Ghostfeeder is a rather new name dealing with a mix of...
Red Lokust – The Repercussions Of Shedding Your Skin (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Red Lokust is a brand-new duo set up by Lee Lauer (Aslan Faction) and Distortion Productions...
Lucifer’s Aid – New To Reality (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM, industrial-EBM. Background/Info: Lucifer’s Aid was set up in Spring 2016 and immediately got signed to Progress Productions. This...
Grandchaos – Days + Memories (CD EP – New Fabrikk)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, EBM. Background/Info: Tcheleskov Ivanovitch is now already active under the Grandchaos moniker for more than 10 years. Based in...
Covenant – Sound Mirrors (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Background/Info: Covenant is back on track and will unleash their new full length “The Blinding Dark” within...
Beborn Beton – She Cried (CD EP – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The album “A Worthy Compensation” was released last year and it was the first new album in...
Sava.Geo – Zeitgeist (CD Album – In Fact Recordings/Kinetik Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electronics, electronic-soundtrack. Background/Info: Behind Sava.Geo is hidden Savvas Georgiadis. This Greek artist has been involved in many projects and...
Penny Rimbaud’s L’Académie Des Vanités – Yes Sir, The Truth Of Revolution (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Apocalyptic-rock, industrial-punk, experimental-jazz. Background/Info: Penny Rimbaud was one of the creative minds behind punk-legend Crass. The band was active...
Apoptygma Berzerk: Exit Popularity Contest – reinvention by going back to the roots
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange, w/inputs from John-Erik Bye Johansen. Photos by Tarjei Krogh and Jan Ronald Stange)...
Novakill – Head On (Digital EP – RepoRecords)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: The Australian duo Novakill struck back earlier this year with their new album “Danger”, which also was...
Kuta – Blueprint (CD Album – M-Tronic)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: “Blueprint” marks the return of Kuta. It’s the fourth full length album from Sébastien Pietrapiana (ex-Corpus...
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Khost [Deconstructed And Reconstructed By] Godflesh – Needles Into The Ground (CD EP – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise. Background/Info: This is a very special work by Justin Broadrick (Godflesh). He totally reworked the last year...
Dave Ball & Jon Savage – Photosynthesis (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, soundtrack. Background/Info: Behind this collaboration is hiding Dave Ball (Soft Cell, The Grid ao). ‘Sitting in the...
Rave The Reqviem – Mono Heart (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Electro & metal, industrial-metal. Background/Info: Rave The Reqviem actually has their second full length album “The Gospel Of Nil”...
Metatron Omega – Sanctum (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Background/Info: Last year I discovered this Serbian solo-project driven by ‘Scorpio V’ through the debut album “Gnosis...
Enzo Kreft – Dark Matter (Vinyl Album – Walhalla Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Eric Vandamme aka Enzo Kreft is a Belgian artist who was active during the first part...
V/A Underground Wave Volume 5 (Vinyl Album – Walhalla Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, electro-wave, experimental. Background/Info: The Belgian Walhalla Records was set up as an independent record label, which mainly wants...
Doors In The Labyrinth – The Sound Of Her Wings (CD EP – Gnarphlager Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic, psychedelic, soundtrack. Background/Info: Doors In The Labyrinth is a solo-project driven by Josh Loughrey. He gained some...
Daniel Hall – Light & Dark / The Best Of (USB Album – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Hailing from Sydney (Australia) Daniel Hall is an artist who has already released several albums. This...
Daniel Hall – Hope (CD Album + DVD – Daniel Hall)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: “Hope”-album is the seventh full length from Australian artist Daniel Hall. This release is packed in a...
BeNe GeSSeRiT – Eccentric???? (CD Album – EE Tapes)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electronics, abstract, new-wave. Background/Info: Alain Neffe and Nadine Bal better known as the Belgian duo BeNe GeSSeRiT are...
V/A Iran Experimental Underground 016 Survey (Digital Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, electro-ambient, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group is a digital label and platform for mainly dark-ambient music. Next to...
Noise Unit – Agitate / In Vain (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Artoffact Records moves back into history. Together with the re-release of “Deceit / Struktur” we now get...
Noise Unit – Deceit / Struktur (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Noise Unit was set up in the late 80s by two ‘giants’ of the early EBM/dark-electro scene....
We The North – Endemic (CD EP – Space Race Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Space Race Records again seems to have found a new promising band active in the wider...
The Mission – Another Fall From Grace (CD Album – Eyes Wide Shut Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-rock. Background/Info: Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams (both ex-Sisters Of Mercy) set up The Mission in 1985. They rapidly...
Assemblage 23 – Endure (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: No doubt about it, Tom Shear and his sonic brainchild Assemblage 23 belong to the...
Scheuber – The Me I See (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: Dirk Scheuber will always linked to Project Pitchfork and the one behind the keyboards. He got involved...
Rome – The Hyperion Machine (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Folk-rock, chanson, ballad. Background/Info: Jérôme Reuter has gained a serious reputation since his debut work released in 2006 on...
Randal Collier-Ford, Flowers For Bodysnatchers, Council Of Nine, God Body Disconnect – Locus Arcadia (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: We’re used to discovering Cryo Chamber releases featuring multiple bands from the roster working together on a...
Phonothek – Lost In Fog (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial-jazz. Background/Info: Phonothek is one of the latest signings on the Cryo Chamber roster. This is a male-female...
Flowers For Babysnatchers – Love Like Blood (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: After Rosenshaul, Duncan Ritchie set up Flowers For Bodysnatchers. He was immediately signed to Cryo Chamber and...
Foretaste – Space Echoes (CD Album – BOREDOMproduct)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: The French Foretaste duo consisting of ‘XX’ (vocals) and ‘XY’ (machines) has already released so many cool...
Controlled Bleeding – Larva Lumps & Baby Bumps (DCD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, noise, psychedelic-hardcore. Background/Info: Controlled Bleeding was set up in the late 70s. The band hailing from New York...
Def Neon – Def Neon (CD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, punk-pop. Background/Info: The British duo consisting of Emily (vocals & bass guitar) and Mickey (guitar & electronics) was...
V/A AnalogueTrash Label Sampler Vol.2 (CD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Based in Manchester (UK), AnalogueTrash Records is one of the few growing labels from the...
IIOIOIOII – Post Brimstone /Expanded Version (Digital EP – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: IIOIOIOII (pronounced I.O.) was set up by Christopher Gurney in 2012. After a self-released debut-album (cf. “Reflect”)...
Offerings To Odin – Ravenous (CD Album – Forced Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM. Background/Info: Offerings To Odin is a Denver based band consisting of Stephen Bailey and Joel Walker aka...
Vanguard – Never Surrender (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Vanguard is back on track with their 3rd full length album to date. Jonas Olofsson and...
Torul – Saviour Of Love (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Jan Jenko left the band in the beginning of 2016 the band successfully “reset” with their new...
Syntec feat. Blind Passenger – Catch My Fall (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, synth-pop. Background/Info: This is another surprising comeback! Syntec is a band I perfectly remember from their early work,...
Orange Sector – Im Stahlwerk (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1992 Orange Sector received instant success during their first 90s period where they got...
The Firm Incorporated – Veritas (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Set up at the end of 2014 The Firm Incorporated features Jens Kästel (ex-Funker Vogt singer),...
Throbberstalk – From Nought To Nowhere (DCD Album – Monopol Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Throbberstalk is a German band that was mainly active in between 1995 and 1999. They...
Nature Of Wires & CountessM – Cyber Rendezvous (CD Album – AnalogueTrash Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Formed in 1986 by Gary Watts and Andrew Stirling-Brown, Nature of Wires has been active since 1994....
Front 242 – (Filtered) Pulse – Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box (DCD / Vinyl Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: This album apparently is the final opus from the “Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box”-trilogy celebrating the 35th anniversary...
Front 242 – No Comment / Politics Of Pressure – Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box (3CD / Double Vinyl – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: If you’re a fan of ‘242’ this special “Deluxe Anniversary”-box strictly limited to 1242 copies definitely is...
Front 242 – Geography / Deluxe Anniversary Limited Box (CD Album / 2 Vinyl Album / Vinyl 7” – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: There’re not enough adjectives to qualify Front 242, but let’s simply remind the Belgian veterans of EBM...
Rendez-Vous – Distance (Vinyl 12” – Avant! Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Hailing from one of the most beautiful capitals in the world, the Parisian band Rendez-Vous was...
Psykoxyde – Borderline (CD Album – X-Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Psykoxyde is an Italian duo that was set up in 2011 with some metal background. The sound...
Koban – Abject Obsessions (Vinyl Album – Avant! Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop, shoegaze. Background/Info: Hailing from Vancouver (Canada) Koban is a young duo consisting of Samuel Buss and Brittany...
JK Flesh – Rise Above (Digital Album – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental-techno. Background/Info: Justin Karl Broadrick aka JK Flesh is one of those artists who doesn’t really need an...
Jesse Osborne Lanthier & Grischa Lichtenberger – CSLM (Digital EP – Cosmo Rhythmatic)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, glitch, abstract-techno. Background/Info: “CSLM” (cf. “Conversations Sur Lettres Mortes”) is a project by Jesse OsborneLanthier and Grischa Lichtenberger....
Hymnambulae – Orgelhuset (CD Album – Hypnagoga Press)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hymnambulae is a Swedish project created by Pär Boström (Kammarheit, Cities Last Broadcastand) and Åsa Boström....
Headdreamer – Sonic Poetry (Digital EP – Aliens Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM. Background/Info: Robert Gajdos is a Slovakian artist who has already released a respectable number of productions on...
