Bückle / Vogt – Before We Rise (CD EP – Editions Furioso)
Genre/Influences: Trip-pop. Background/Info: Phillipp Bückle (owner of Tarkovsky Green Records) and Karen Vogt (still involved with Heligoland) met in Paris...
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DeepDark / Paranoia Inducta – Mind Games (CD Album Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: DeepDark (Dmitry Vologdin) and Paranoia Inducta (Anthony ‘Armageddon Destroyer’)both have already released several split releases with other...
Mind Machine – Return To The Machine (CD Album – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Originally set up in 1989 and split up in 1995, the American synth-pop formation got back to...
Metatron Omega – Evangelikon (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Serbian artist Scorpio V is back on track unleashing his fourth full length album since 2015....
Alphaxone – Chronosphere (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Iranian composer Mehdi Saleh is already back with a new opus. He released an impressive number...
Ager Sonus – Mithra (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Thomas Langewehr became a very prolific artist since he set up Ager Sonus. One year after...
Aesthetic Perfection – Into The Black (CD Album – Close To Human Music)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop, EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Daniel Graves and his creative exposure Aesthetic Perfection are back on track unleashing a new...
Uncarnate – Reality Breakdown (CD Mini-Album – Uncarnate)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Adam Radziszewski and Wojciech Jarzębak is the Polish duo hiding behind Uncarnate. Nearly four years after their...
Rapoon – Sol Laude / Mercury Rising 3 (CD Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: “Sol Laude” is the final chapter from the “Mercury Rising”-trilogy, which started in 2017 to celebrate...
Closed Mouth – [One] (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, shoegaze, dream-pop, gothic. Background/Info: Closed Mouth is a French project set up by busy bee Yannick Rault (Triple...
Rune Clausen – Tones Jul (CD Album – Forwind)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Rune Clausen is a Norwegian artist who already released a few previous productions. This album is for...
Tropic Of Coldness – Maps Of Reason (CD Album – Krysalisound)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, ambient. Background/Info: Tropic Of Coldness is an Italian -American duo who met in Brussels. They already released...
Seetyca – Trances (CD Album – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: German project Seetyca has released an endless number of productions since 2002. “Trances” is the newest...
Nahja Mora – Final Realization Of Failure (CD Album – Nahja Mora)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Hailing from Baltimore (USA) Nahja Mora is the sonic brainchild of Josef Saint. Nahja Mora already...
Nothing But Noise – Formations Magnétiques Et Phénomènes D’incertitude (DCD Album – db2fluctuation)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Old Front 242 mates Daniel B. (Prothese) and Dirk Bergen are back on track unleashing this...
Kompromat – Traum Und Existenz (CD Album – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-techno, electroclash, electro-punk. Background/Info: Kompromat is a new project featuring Vitalic and Rebeka Warrior. The sound is inspired by...
Karabine – Octobre Rouge (Digital EP – Citizen Records)
Genre/Influences: Techno, minimal-techno, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Karabine is a new French project, which has been introduced as a ‘seasoned French producer,...
Heathens – Love Songs for Insensitive People (CD Album – Shyrec / Ricco Label)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, indie-pop. Background/Info: Heathens is an Italian formation operating from Venetia. Set up in 2012 by the brothers Mattia...
Cubanate – Kolossus (Digital EP – Armalyte Industries)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, crossover. Background/Info: Twenty one years after their last studio work under the Cubanate moniker, core members Marc Heal...
Tomohiko Sagae – Entrainment (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: After having released his debut full length “Sensory Deprivation” on Hands (2017) this Japanese producer joined hands...
New Frames – Schweres Wasser (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: When Mathis Mootz (Panacea, M² ao) and David Frisch unleashed their debut album “Resistance Through Rituals” in...
Monographic – Structures (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock. Background/Info: Set up in 2014 the Hamburger (Germany) based Monographic joined hands together with Cold Transmission Music...
The Bluebeard’s Castle – Beyond The Door (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: The Bluebeard’s Castle is a French duo set up in 2017 by Yannick Rault (Triple Sun,...
La Mécanique – Dernier Voyage (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave. Background/Info: La Mécanique is the sonic brainchild of Canadian musician Francis Nothingwater. He set up this project in...
V/A Zeitgeist Vol.9 (Digital Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave, cold-wave. Background/Info: German label Cold Transmission Music moves on with the “Zeitgeist”-series unleashing the ninth volume. This...
Palais Ideal – Pressure Points (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, rock-wave. Background/Info: Last year I discovered the German duo John Edwards (guitars, vocals, synths, programming) - Richard van...
Rosi – Grey City Life (CD Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, gothic. Background/Info: Sven Rosenkötter and Mirco Rappsilber set up Rosi in 2014. A first album “Grey City Life”...
V/A Zeitgeist Vol.8 (Digital Album – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock, post-punk, gothic. Background/Info: This is volume number eight from the “Zeitgeist”-compilation series set up by German label...
The New Blockaders – Live At Sonic City (CD + DVD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Noise. Background/Info: The New Blockaders are commonly considered as one of the noise pioneers. They were inspired by the...
Anni Hogan – Lost In Blue (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, jazz, cabaret. Background/Info: Anni Hogan belongs to this list of mythical artists from the 80s underground movement. She...
Stahlgeist – Escape Reality (Digital Album – Stahlgeist)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Stahlgeist is a new Hungarian EBM duo set up in 2017. The band is driven by Istvan...
Jowisz / H.ø.s.t. – Ages Of Determination (CD Album – Spatha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: “Ages Of Determination” is a split release featuring two Polish projects dealing with dark-military music....
Mr.Kitty – Ephemeral (DCD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: ‘Forrest LeMaire’ aka Mr.Kitty is without a shadow of a doubt one of the hottest electro-pop...