Omen Code release debut album “Alpha State” on Dependent
Omen Code (Photo by Alina Molidan)
Industrial EBM duo Omen Code have released their debut album “Alpha State” via the German label Dependent Records as a digital edition and a 48-page hardcover 2CD artbook including the bonus disc “Beta State”.
Musically the twelve tracks offer mid-tempo industrial EBM. Lyrically and conceptually, the album draws on dystopian science-fiction themes rather than contemporary political commentary, with explicit references to the writings of Philip K. Dick, Alfred Bester and to films by Ridley Scott such as “Alien” and “Blade Runner”.
“Alpha State” is available as a standalone digital album on Bandcamp, while the physical edition is a limited 48-page hardcover artbook containing two CDs: the main album and the exclusive bonus disc “Beta State”, which collects eight extended or alternate versions of album material.
Preceding the album release, the duo issued a sequence of digital singles: “Brutal + Pure” in September 2025, followed by “Ultra Fear” and “Tensor” as further album tasters.
About Omen Code
Omen Code is a London-based industrial EBM duo consisting of programmer and engineer Kevin Gould and vocalist Agi Taralas. The project surfaced publicly in 2025 with the single “Brutal + Pure”, marking the first collaboration between the two musicians under this name and introducing the dystopian, mid-tempo sound that also defines “Alpha State”.
Kevin Gould had already been active in the UK industrial and EBM scenes for decades before Omen Code. In the late 1980s he was part of the English industrial trio Johnson Engineering Co. alongside Sean Bailey and Ian Hicks; the group released the album “Unleash” in 1988. In 1990 he founded the electro-industrial project Electro Assassin, initially with vocalist Ian Taylor and later with Richard McKinlay, issuing the albums “Jamming the Voice of the Universe” (1992), “Bioculture” (1993) and “The Divine Invasion” (1995) through labels including Hyperium, Cyber-Tec, Synthetic Symphony, Fifth Colvmn Records and others.
More recently, Gould has returned to Electro Assassin’s back catalogue with a series of “Omen Code Remaster” editions, including a remastered version of “Bioculture” that presents updated mixes and mastering while retaining the original track sequence.
Vocalist and lyricist Agi Taralas previously collaborated with German electronic musician Stefan Böhm in the project Our Banshee, releasing the album “4200” in 2017.
Omen Code was initially conceived by Gould as a one-off studio project. After Taralas joined, both musicians decided to continue Omen Code as an ongoing collaboration. In August 2025, the duo signed a multi-album deal with Dependent Records.
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