Omen Code unveil ‘Ultra Fear’ from debut album ‘Alpha State’ (Dependent Records, out December 5, 2025)
Omen Code (Photo by Alina Molidan)
Industrial EBM duo Omen Code release the single “Ultra Fear”, taken from the forthcoming debut album “Alpha State”, due December 5, 2025 via Dependent Records. The track is streaming now including on Bandcamp. Pre-orders for the album are open.
“I had originally planned to use ‘Ultra Fear’ for my previous music project,” mastermind Kevin Gould says. “The pace is quite low key again, but the sequence layers fill it out nicely. The lyrics have an abstract but also quasi-religious feel. Back then, I had put some angry, shouted vocals over the track. Then Agi came along and did his ‘new vocalist’ thing. He basically rescued the track. We wanted the chorus to have a distant and alien tone so used a lot of treatments and vocoder. There is nothing like a machine telling you that ‘God is near’.”
“Alpha State” is confirmed for digital and physical editions, including a deluxe artbook 2-CD.
About Omen Code
Omen Code is an industrial EBM duo from London, UK, comprising Kevin Gould (engineering, programming, track construction, lyrics) and Agi Taralas (vocals, lyrics). The project publicly surfaced in 2025 with the single “Brutal + Pure” ahead of debut album “Alpha State.”
Gould previously co-founded Electro Assassin, releasing three albums – “Jamming the Voice of the Universe” (1992), “Bioculture” (1993) and “The Divine Invasion” (1995). Before that, he was a member of Johnson Engineering Co., known for the 1988 album “Unleash”.
Taralas recorded as one half of Our Banshee, which issued the album “4200” in 2017.
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