V/A Hypotaxia (CD Album – Aliens Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, experimental. Background/Info: Peter Rybar commonly known as ‘Ryby’ not only is involved into great electronic bands like...
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Polygon – Einzelheiten (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, minimal-electronics, IDM. Background/Info: Former Mortal Constraint-member Ingo Lindmeier has already been active under the Polygon moniker for several...
Neronoia – Mi Piaceva Una Vita (CD Album – Eibon Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Background/Info: Mauro Berchi (Canaan and Eibon Records owner) and Gianni Pedretti (Collquio ao) are back on track...
Heretics In The Lab – Exit (CD Album – Heretics In The Lab)
Genre/Influences: Cross-over, industrial. Background/Info: Operating from Norfolk Virginia (USA) Heretics In the Lab was set up by Thomas Morgan and...
Contemplatron & Shentz – Transmission Code (CD Album – Wrotycz Records)
Genre/Influences: Soundtrack, experimental, abstract, noise, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Transmission Code” is the meeting between 2 Polish bands. Contemplatron is a rather...
Norma Loy – Baphomet (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave, experimental, EBM. Background/Info: “Baphomet” is the first new studio album of Norma Loy since 2009. This French...
Növö – The Shortwaves (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-electronics, experimental. Background/Info: Laurent Boudic aka Növö is back on track unleashing his second full length on Alfa...
Avarice In Audio – Crystal Tears (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-dance music, body-techno. Background/Info: Lawrie Bayldon (Studio-X, Cryogenic Echelon), Ayax (Ascension Ex, Cryogenic Echelon) and Gerry Hawkins earlier this year...
The Tempest – 5 Against The House (CD Album – Optic Nerve)
Genre/Influences: New-wave. Background/Info: This album is a re-issue of the original vinyl released in 1984 on Anagram Records. The Tempest...
V/A Forms Of Hands 16 (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise, experimental, IDM. Background/Info: The compilation series “Forms Of Hands” has been each year again released to celebrate...
Greyhound – Inner Noise Level (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, industrial. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann and his Greyhound project became one of the veterans of the Hands label. This...
Naurea – I Am A Monster (CD Album – Cinderella Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial-metal. Background/Info: Naurea is a Swiss project set up and driven by Olimann. This band released a debut production...
Hysteresis – Hegemonia Cultural (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, d’n’b, industrial-techno, industrial-trance, hard-core. Background/Info: Hysteresis is back on track unleashing their 5th full length album. After 2...
Wieloryb – Semantik (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, industrial, industrial-tribal. Background/Info: Wieloryb definitely is one of the most noticeable projects in the industrial avant-garde style. Hailing...
The Elderbranch Campaign – Secret Songs Of The Field (Digital Album – Elderbranch Rain Label)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: The Elderbranch Campaign is the meeting between American artist G M Slater and UK artist Stephen Surreal....
Trackologists – No Surrender, No Retreat (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial. Background/Info: Trackologists is a brand-new sound project consisting of Mike Erkau (the_empath) and André Matthes plus Thomas...
Le Moderniste – Desistere Mortem Timere (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, rhythmic-ambient & noise. Background/Info: Laurent Delogne aka Le Moderniste belongs to a selected number of renowned Belgian artists...
Morbus M. – Fight Or Die (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-industrial, cinematographic. Background/Info: Morbus M. is a German solo-project driven by René Klimaczewski aka Klima aka Exocet. After...
Stoppenberg – I Am The Danger (Digital EP – X-Beats)
Genre/Influences: Hard techno-body-music. Background/Info: Stoppenberg is Jan Loamfield who we all know as one of the most famous and renowned...
Exponentia – Abend (CD Album – Neris Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, neo-classic. Background/Info: Ludovic Dhenry is French artist who set up Exponentia in 2012. “Abend” is the 4th full...
Sacrificial System – D.N.A. (CD Album – Sacrificial System)
Genre/Influences: Industrial EBM. Background/Info: Sacrificial System is a one-man project set up by Keith Kosmopolis. This American artist based in...
Atomic Neon – The Bodanegra Session (CD Album – Holy Hour Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: Atomic Neon is a German band, which gained some recognition for their pure new-wave/cold-wave albums...
V/A Sore (Vinyl Compilation – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-electro, dream-pop. Background/Info: Seja Records is a small, independent label from The Netherlands. “Sore” is the 13th release...
Mourning Elektra Slangwitch – Messy Riot (Vinyl Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, cabaret, cinematographic, electro-pop. Background/Info: Behind Mourning Elektra Slangwitch is hiding Messy. This female multi-artist has already benen active...
Invoke The Insult – You Can Trust (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Invoke The Insult (ITI) is a Swedish duo I discovered by their self-released CDR-album “Let The Greedy...
Reutoff – No One’s Lullabies (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, industrial-ambient. Background/Info: Reutoff is probably one of the most famous and renowned industrial formations from Russia. They’ve been...
Hattifnatter – Barometrizm (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: Hattifnatter is a project of Evgeniy Savenko (Lunar Abyss) and M.M. (Kryptogen Rundfunk). The project has...
Bardoseneticcube & Shinkiro – Inner And Outer Space (CD Album – Zhelezobeton)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This work resulted from the common efforts of Bardoseneticcube (Russia) and Shinkiro (Japan). Both artists are...
Plastic Noise Experience – Push And Punish (Vinyl + CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body-music. Background/Info: Plastic Noise Experience is one of those legendary 90s EBM bands from Germany, which needs no...
Sølve – The Negative (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-industrial, ambient. Background/Info: Behind this project is hiding Brant Showers who’s mainly renowned for his involvement in ∆Aimon....
Horskh – Dawn / Extended Version (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, cyber-industrial. Background/Info: Horskh is a French duo, which released a debut EP “Dawn” in 2014 on Audiotrauma. Because...
Terrabeats Concept – Concept 3004 (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Dub-step, glitch, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: Terrabeats Concept is a Serbian solo-project set up by Marijan Stancic. This artist was...
Mental Discipline – Precious Paradise (CD Album – SkyQode)
Genre/Influences: Dance-pop, electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: Alexandr Krivoruko aka Alex Mental is the artist behind the Russian band Mental Discipline. I...
Daniela Savoldi – Trasformazioni (CD Album – Daniela Savoldi)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Daniela Savoldi is an Italian-Brazilian artist who studied and played cello since the age of ten...
A★I – Le Chant Du Cygne Noir (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop. Background/Info: My first feeling was that this band was the logical new project of Pedro Peñas Robles after...
Cold In May – Холодный Мир (CD Album – SkyQode)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock, pop-rock, electro-wave. Background/Info: Hailing from Belarus, Cold In May has already released 2 previous albums and a few...
Ethan Fawkes – In The Desert (Digital EP – Morforecs)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music, minimal EBM. Background/Info: The Belgian techno-body artist Ethan Fawkes has released an impressive number of EP’s in...
Sutcliffe Jugend – Offal (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, noise, power-electronics. Background/Info: Sutcliffe Jugend aka Kevin Tomkins and Paul Taylor belong to the pioneers of an avant-garde...
Merzbow – Life Performance (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise. Background/Info: Masami Akita is the one and only ‘King’ of Japanese noise. He’s one of those visionary, but...
Common Eider, King Eider – Extinction (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, ritual. Background/Info: Common Eider, King Eider is an American collective featuring members of different projects. Bees, Blaine...
Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky & Eric Lanzillotta – Yang-Tul (CD Album – Cold Spring )
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, industrial-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: This work is collaboration between Andrew Chalk, Ralf Wehowsky and Eric Lanzillotta. These are artists...
The Way Of Purity – The Majesty Of Your Becoming (CD Album – Epictronic)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock. Background/Info: The Way Of Purity is an interesting formation, with a ‘militant’ side and ‘which doesn't show off...
Stendal Blast – Ein Abschied / Das Letzte Konzert (DCD Album – Schwarzrock)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock, dark-wave & electro. Background/Info: German formation Stendal Blast was set up somewhere in the midst of the 90s....
Amnistia – Dawn (DCD Album – Scanner)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Dawn is the 5th full length album of German trio Amnistia. Stefan Schoetz, Tino Claus (also involved...
Rational Youth – Future Past Tense (CD EP – Artoffact)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up and mainly active during the 80s, the Canadian electro-pop formation Rational Youth got reactivated in...
Finkseye – Deadweight (CD Album – Razgrom Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM; dark-electro. Background/Info: Finkseye is a Swedish one-man project driven by Henrik Fink Nilsson. The band was set up...
Fixmer/McCarthy – So Many Lies (Vinyl 12” – Planete Rouge Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body-music, minimal-EBM. Background/Info: This is the meeting between one of the living legends of EBM (cf. Douglas McCarthy from...
nTTx – Objective (CD EP – WTII Records)
Genre/Influences: Body-pop. Background/Info: nTTx is a solo-project set up by Gord Clement who was previously involved in the promising Atomzero....
Gopota – Knots Of Fear (CD Album – Torga Amun)
Genre/Influences: Post-industrial, noise. Background/Info: Gopota is a duo featuring Antonio Airoldi (Empty Chalice) and Vitaly Maklakov (Obozdur). I recently discovered the...
Double Eyelid – Broken Mirror (CD EP – Double Eyelid)
Genre/Influences: Dark-EBM, electro-rock, electro-pop. Background/Info: Double Eyelid is a Canadian band, which self-released their debut album “Seven Years” in 2014....
Deutsch Nepal – Dystopian Partycollection II (CD Album – Entartete Musikk)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, ritual, neo-folk, chanson-noir. Background/Info: Lina Baby Doll (Peter Andersson) last year took me by surprise unleashing the...
Terrolokaust – Dissensions (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM, electro-rock. Background/Info: Javi Ssagittar (vocals & lyrics) and Indio (programming & synths) better known under the Terrolokaust moniker...
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Cygnosic – The Key[s] (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-body music. Background/Info: One-man project Cygnosic can look back at a considerable discography featuring a few noticeable albums....
Red Mecca – Electricity (CD Album – Massproduktion)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Jan Strandqvist & Frida Madeleine are Red Mecca. The Swedish duo caught my attention with their debut-album...
Mildreda – Coward Philosophy (Digital Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-industrial, epic-industrial, dark-electro. Background/Info: We all know Jan Dewulf from his electro-pop band Diskonnekted, but the Belgian pop-master was...
Spark! – Maskiner (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Last year Spark! struck back with the “Spektrum”-album, which was a particular release as singer Stefan Brorsson,...
Haul – Seperation (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk, shoegaze. Background/Info: Progress Productions is one of those labels that dares to sign real challenging bands. That’s...
Eisfabrik – Walking Towards The Sun (CD EP – NoCut/SPV)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, electro-pop. Background/Info: Last year Eisfabrik took the electro-pop community with a surprise unleashing of the magnificent “Eisplanet”-album. I...
Mario Grönnert and Commonsen5e – Nightmares And Dreamscapes: Silhouettes Of Urbia (CD Album – Audiokult)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: This album resulted from the common efforts of German ambient artist Mario Grönnert and American electronic...
Servitor – The Forest Crept Back Into The City… (CD Album – Servitor)
Genre/Influences: Tribal, industrial. Background/Info: Behind Servitor is hiding Sean Malley, who is a percussionist, previously involved in iVardensphere. He’s already...
Psy’Aviah – Seven Sorrows, Seven Stars (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, techno-pop, body-pop. Background/Info: Psy’Aviah has already been active for nearly 10 years now. The Belgian project driven by...
Jo Quail – Five Incantations (CD EP – Jo Quail)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Jo Quail is an English cello player from London. I got the opportunity to discover her...
The Illusion Of Silence – Black Rainbow (CD Album – Sulphur Flowers)
Genre/Influences: Neo-classic, ethereal, cinematographic. Background/Info: The Illusion Of Silence (TIOS) is an Italian project set up by Luca Bonandini. With...
Entrzelle – Total Progressive Collapse (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Glitch-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: David Chamberlin and his sonic brainchild (cf. Entrzelle) last year joined the Alfa Matrix roster unleashing...
Elm – Hardline (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Peter Elm formerly praised as the mastermind behind Restricted Area took us by surprise earlier this year...
Empty Chalice – This Way Is Called Black (CD Album – CVLMINIS)
Genre/Influences: Noise, post-industrial. Background/Info: Empty Chalice is an Italian solo-project, which has found its inspiration in the early noise experiments...
