Rule of Two release a cover of Depeche Mode’s ‘It’s No Good’ on June 4, with official video
Rule of Two release a cover of Depeche Mode’s 1997 single “It’s No Good” on June 4, 2026, with an official music video directed by Kristian Liljan.
Rule of Two
Norwegian darkwave and cyberpunk duo Rule of Two have released a cover of Depeche Mode’s “It’s No Good“. The Rule of Two “It’s No Good” version is accompanied by an official music video directed by band member Kristian Liljan.
The cover is Rule of Two’s fifth single of 2026, following “Afterlife” via Polypiel Records on May 7 and “All Time Low” in February.
‘It’s No Good’: the original
“It’s No Good” was released on March 31, 1997, as the second single from Depeche Mode’s ninth studio album “Ultra” (Mute Records, April 14, 1997). The track was written by Martin Gore and produced by Tim Simenon, recorded at Eastcote Studios in London and Larrabee West in Los Angeles, and mixed at Abbey Road Studios. It reached number five in the United Kingdom and number one in Denmark, Spain, Sweden and on the US Billboard Dance Club Play chart.
About Rule of Two
Rule of Two is a darkwave and cyberpunk duo formed in Oslo, Norway, in 2023 by Ronny Flissundet and Kristian Liljan, both from the Oslo metal and alternative rock underground with prior activity in Damokles, Dunderbeist and Kite.
The project blends eerie synthesizers, mechanical rhythms and glitch textures into a sound the duo describes as taking a darker, more industrial direction with each release. Their debut album “Aiming for the Sun” was announced by Side-Line in November 2025. The “It’s No Good” cover, out June 4, 2026, is their first cover of a Depeche Mode track.
Side-Line also covered Depeche Mode’s ‘s ’.
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