2methyl – Layer 8 (CD Album – Ad Noiseam)
Genre/Influences: IDM, d’n’b, experimental, dubstep, industrial. Content: Last year 2methyl joined Ad Noiseam to unleash the EP “Orb”. At that...
Reviews
The New Division – Gemini (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-pop, indie-pop. Content: The New Division is an American formation driven by John Glenn Kunkel. ‘New Division’ was meant...
Technolorgy – Dying Stars (CD Album – Digital Audio World)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: This album by Technolorgy was preceded by the rather promising “Crestfallen”-EP. This Greek duo already released a...
Akathartos – First Nightmare (CD Mini-Album – Akathartos)
Genre/Influences: Orchestral electro-industrial, symphonic & electronic. Content: Akathartos is a new Finnish solo-project dealing with a hard to define music...
Deplacement – Carousel (CD Album – Epictronic)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Content: Deplacement is an Italian electro-pop driven duo I recently discovered on a label compilation. The band...
Die Krupps – V – Metal Machine Music (DCD Album – SPV/Steamhammer/ Oblivion Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal. Content: After being active for 30 years in the EBM/industrial-metal scene, it seems nothing has changed for Die...
V/A Digital Infaction Vol.1 (Digital Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, electro-pop, electro-industrial. Bands: Grendel, Frozen Plasma, Reaper, Pre.Emptive Strike 01, Orange Sector, E-Craft, Menschdefekt, Skyla Vertex, Modulate...
Torul – Difficult To Kill (CD EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Torul clearly became one of Infacted’s favorites and that’s a feeling I can only, but share. Even...
Shiv-R – On Blackened Wings (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Content: Lat year Shiv-R released their 3rd full length “Wax Wings Will Burn” featuring 13 songs. “On...
Celluloide – L’Amour Est Géométrique (CD Album – BOREDOM Product)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Last year Celluloide released their album “Art Plastique”, which already featured a few outstanding electro-pop songs with...
Dekad – A Perfect Picture (CD Album – BOREDOM Product)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: This is the 4th full length by the French electro-pop project Dekad, and the first album...
Apocryphos / Kammarheit / Atrium Carceri – Onyx (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: “Onyx” resulted from the common efforts of Robert C. Kozletsky (Apocryphos), Pär Boström (Kammarheit) and Simon...
XmH – Snakes (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, dark-electro, aggrotech. Content: This is the 3rd EP taken from the last year released album “In Your Face”...
Alphaxone – Absence Of Motion (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic, experimental. Content: Iranian composer Mehdi Saleh remains inspired and creative, composing his 2nd full length in less...
The Psychic Force – Traces / Bonus Tracks Version (Digital Album – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: After the “Mutilation” album it’s now time to (re)discover the “Traces”-full length album, which has been...
The Psychic Force – Mutilation / Bonus Tracks Version (Digital Album – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: The Pysychic Force is one of the newest signings to the already impressive Alfa-Matrix roster, but...
Front 242 – Lovely Day (Remastered) Take One (Radical G Remix) (Digital Single – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Can anyone tell me the point to release a remastered version of the song “Lovely Day” (1984)...
The Psychic Force – Relapse:EP (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: Alfa-Matrix already signed an ‘old’ 90s band, but after names like Leather Strip, Pouppée Fabrikk, Armageddon...
I Dream Of Wires (DVD Film/Documentary – Monoduo Films)
Genre/Influences: DVD documentary about history of modular synthesizers. Content: We’re not used to review DVDs and more especially when it...
Atom™ – Riding The Void (Vinyl EP + DVD – Raster-Noton)
Genre/Influences: Technoid, minimal-electro. Content: We don’t often get promo material from Atom™ (also known as Atom Heart) and that’s a...
Acylum – Hate (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-industrial. Content: This newest EP by Acylum has been released nearly at the same time of the “Venom”-EP....
Acylum – Venom (Digital EP – Alfa-Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-industrial. Content: The earlier this year released album “Pest” is still taking the electro underground planet by storm,...
Terrolokaust – Mix The Poison Up (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: Terrolokaust is a band I kept an eye on since their very first album (cf. “Gas”) released...
Admx-71 – Coherent Abstractions (CD Album – L.I.E.S. Records)
Genre/Influences: IDM, minimal-electro, experimental-techno. Content: It always is a real pleasure to discover new work by Adam Mitchell. Mainly known...
Stendeck – Folgor (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
Genre/Influences: IDM, cinematographic, electro-ambient. Content: Alessandro Zampieri, better known as the brain behind Stendeck, strikes back with his first full...
MultiColor – From The Outside (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic. Content: The last year released debut EP “Ciclicity” by MultiColor revealed an interesting mix of influences...
Legiac – The Faex Has Decimated (CD Album – Tympanik Audio)
Genre/Influences: IDM, dubstep, electro-ambient. Content: Legiac was set up began in 2007 as a collaboration of Don and Roel Funcken...
Technolorgy – Crestfallen (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Content: Is Technolorgy one of the best kept secrets of the Greek electro underground scene? Technolorgy has...
vProjekt – Parallel Commands (Digital EP – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark body music, dark-electro. Content: vProjekt has their new album “Wounds In The Age Of Healing” in the...
V/A Covered In Darkness (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Bands: C-Lekktor, Nitro/Noise, Rave The Reqveim, Terrolokaust, Cygnosic, vProjekt feat. Jamie Nova, Technolorgy, Sirus, Cyferdyne, Ruinizer feat....
Ruinizer – Decimation In H.D. (Digital Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Content: This is the 2nd album by Ruinizer, which was already released a few months ago on CD...
C-Lekktor – Radioakktivity (Digital Single – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Content: C-Lekktor became one of the absolute leading formations of the Mexican dark-electro scene. This is...
Sara Noxx – Entre Quatre Yeux (DCD Album – Prussia Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, electro ballads. Content: This is the first new album by Sara Noxx since “In(t)oxxication”, which was released now...
No:Carrier (And Friends) – Ghosts Of The West Coast (CD EP – No:Carrier)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-rock, indie. Content: The American duo No:Carrier is a band we got the opportunity to discover by several different...
Ultra Violent Rays – Wish (Digital EP – Ultra Violent Rays)
Genre/Influences: Electro-rock & pop. Content: We here welcome a rather weird, but promising duo from L.A (USA) featuring Cooper Gillespie...
Vogon Poetry – The Prefect Stories (CD Album – ScentAir)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: The last year debut full length (cf. “Don’t Panic”) by Vogon Poetry showed an interesting and...
Vogon Poetry – Never Too Late (Digital EP – ScentAir)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, electro-wave. Content: This EP by Swedish formation Vogon Poetry is meant as a teaser to introduce their 2nd...
Container 90 – Roller Derby Girls (CD EP – Sham Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-punk. Content: Container 90 is one of those hard-core EBM combo’s with a typical punkish sound on top....
Zeitgeist Zero – Ghosts Of Victory (CD Album – Zeitgeist Zero)
Genre/Influences: Goth-rock & electro; Content: Leeds based Zeitgeist Zero seems to have awakened from hibernation. The band remained pretty busy,...
Seneptika – Eveseneptika (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient. Content: I’ve never hide my fascination for Aliens Production, which remains one of the most visionary labels...
Darkrad – Little Black World (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Content: Jana Komaritsa, better known under her artist name JanaDark is one of the few female artists...
Tyske Ludder – Meskalin (CD EP – Golden Core/Zyx)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Tyske Ludder is back on track with a new EP while the new full length (cf. “Evolution”)...
Psyche & Luminance – Left Out / Passenger Seat (Vinyl 7” – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: This limited vinyl 7” is a meeting between a long time established and electro-pop icon and...
Black Nail Cabaret – Harry Me Marry Me Bury Me Bite Me (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Some of you might have discovered Black Nail Cabaret (BNC) as the supporting act for Covenant and/or...
TV Smith – Gary Gilmore’s Eyes (Vinyl 12” – Tracks & Traces)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk. Content: Timothy Smith is a name, which will instantly appeal to lovers of punk music. Smith was...
Negru Pvlse – Fervere (CD Album – Ur Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Content: There are 13 years separating the debut-album (cf. “Madeira”) of Negru Pvlse and the new work...
Massive Ego – Noise In The Machine (CD EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-pop, EBM. Content: Massive Ego is one of the new and probably hottest bands joining the Out Of Line...
Dear Strange – Lonely Heroes (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, minimal-pop, wave-pop. Content: Dear Strange is a new duo based in Berlin, which caught my attention as they...
AnD – Rmx 02 (Vinyl 12” – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, electro-industrial. Content: This is the next 12” of AnD, which is taken from the “Cosmic Microwave Background” full...
AnD – Rmx 01 (Vinyl 12” – Electric Deluxe)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, electro-industrial. Content: AnD was set up by Manchester based duo Andro (Andrew Bowen) and Dimit (Dimitri Poumplidis). Both...
Sündenrausch – Sündstoff (CD Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: Goth-pop & rock. Content: Sündenrausch is a brand-new duo based in Hamburg (Germany) releasing their debut full length album...
Starving Insect – The Great Nothing (CD Album – Dark Descent)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, industrial-techno. Content: Starving Insect is the artistic exposure for Swedish producer Alexander Kassberg. I honestly never heard of...
Mr.Kitty – Fragments (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Content: Forrest Avery Carney aka Mr.Kitty is a real phenomenon in electro-pop land although he’s not really the...
No More – Silence & Revolt (CD Album – Rent A Dog)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave-pop. Content: No More, and especially their early hit “Suicide Commando”, belongs to the collective memory of the 80s...
Venin Carmin – Glam Is Gone (Vinyl Album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, psychedelic-wave-rock. Content: Venin Carmin is a brand-new project hailing from France. This female artist is mainly inspired by...
ImiAFan + Dario Seraval – Against The Walls (Vinyl Mini-album – Seja Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, minimal-electro. Content: ImiAFan is a Slovakian project set up by Imrich Vegh during the late 90s. The band...
The Girl Who Cried Wolf – Ruins (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Trip-pop, cinematographic. Content: We here welcome a young Belgian formation, which was set up in 2013. They first released...
…Of Tanz Victims – Fighting False Gods (Vinyl 7” – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, electronics. Content: “Fighting False Gods” was originally self-released in 1985 as a single featuring 3 tracks. The...
Of Earth And Sun – Uncoiled (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental, ritual. Content: Of Earth And Sun is a new signing to the Malignant Records roster and the...
The Vomit Arsonist – Only Red (CD Album – Tumor/Malignant Records)
Genre/Influences: Death-industrial, ritual-ambient. Content: Andrew Grant likes to collaborate with other artists, but for his latest opus he strikes back...
Beborn Beton – A Worthy Compensation (CD Album – Dependent)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: German Beborn Beton trio is back with their first full length album in 15 years! Stefan...
Electrosexual – Silver Soul (Digital EP – Rock Machine Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno-pop. Content: Last year Electrosexual released its official debut album “Art Support Machine”, which I think we might say...
Metatron Omega – Gnosis Dei (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, ritual. Content: Metatron Omega is a new discovery by Cryo Chamber and the least I can say is...
Enmarta – Sea Of Black (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, cinematographic. Content: Cryo Chamber has signed a new solo-project called Enmarta, which delivers a debut release featuring 6...
Blindness – Wrapped In Plastic (CD Album – Saint Marie Records)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop & shoegaze, dark-indie. Content: Blindness is one more great band I discovered from the Saint Marie Records roster....
Iron Fist Of The Sun – We Can Yield Our Own Footsteps (CD Album – Cold Spring Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, industrial-noise. Content: Lee Howard has released an impressive number of productions in a rather short lapse of...
