Alfa Matrix marks 24 years with a 69-track free label sampler, ‘Matrix+ Downloaded 012’
The Belgian electro label Alfa Matrix releases the twelfth volume in its “Matrix+ Downloaded” series to coincide with the label’s...
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AD:Key – 06.09 (Digital/CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
The newest and seventh album by the German duo AD:Key, comprised of Andrea and René Nowotny, stands out as a...
AD:keY interview on new ‘0609’ album out now via Alfa Matrix
Last September, Alfa Matrix released the 7th studio album from AD:KEY, "0609" (available via Bandcamp): a release full of energy,...
AD:keY releases double CD today, ‘0609’ – Available now
Today the German EBM pop duo AD:keY releases a new double-CD album, "0609", on Alfa Matrix. The duo, recently married...
Click Interview with Kanka Bodewell: ‘We didn´t want to sound like Orange Sector or Armageddon Dildos’
Uwe Kanka (Armageddon Dildos) and Martin Bodewell (Orange Sector) are both part of the collective memory of EBM fans. Imagine...
AD:keY returns with all new 4-track EP: ‘Nackt’ – Out now
The EBM pop duo AD:keY are back with a fresh EP, "Nackt", following their previous single, "Two Souls". With this...
Kanka Bodewell – Stroboscope (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: After the debut work (mini-album) “Herzblut” released in 2022 the duo Uwe Kanka...
Alfa Matrix unleashes new free massive download compilation – Dominates industrial Bandcamp charts overnight!
Alfa Matrix, the renowned Belgian label, commemorates its 22nd anniversary with yet another mastodont compilation on Bandcamp. The latest installment...
Out now: Brand new The Cure tribute 2CD compilation via Alfa Matrix and Spleen+ featuring 27 songs: ‘A Strange Play (Vol. 2) – Tribute to The Cure’
Nine years after the release of their first tribute to The Cure, titled "A Strange Play – Tribute to The...
Kanka + Bodewell – Herzblutt (Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Herzblutt” resulted from the common efforts between two living legends of the German EBM...
Tension Control – Ton Aus Strom (Album – Tension Control)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: “Ton Aus Strom” is the third album by German project Tension Control which is...
Armageddon Dildos – Destruction (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Destruction” is the second EP taken from Armageddon Dildos’ last album “Dystopia” released in 2020....
Click Interview with FleischKrieg: ‘I Don’t Think There’s A More Powerful Form Of Music In The World Than Industrial-Metal’
FleischKrieg is an American formation inspired by the ‘Deutsche Neue Härte’ calling their music ‘Brutal-Wave’. After a few singles they...
FleischKrieg – Herzblut (Album – Fleischkrieg)
Genre/Influences: Metal, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: FleischKrieg is an American formation inspired by the ‘Deutsche Neue Härte’ calling their...
And the best 25 albums of 2021 are…
Over the past 12 months Inferno Sound Diaries' Stéphane Froidcoeur selected nearly 750 productions of which 600 also got a...
Alfa Matrix releases 10 new releases today on all digital platforms
Spotify, Apple Music, Deezer, … all have released 10 new streaming albums and EPs this morning from the Belgian Alfa...
German cult EBM act Armageddon Dildos back with all new EP: ‘Destruction’
Out today via Alfa Matrix is the all new EP by the German cult EBM act Armageddon Dildos. "Destruction" is...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Uwe Kanka / Armageddon Dildos: ‘We Were In The Right Place At The Right Time!’
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
Orange Sector Feat. Armageddon Dildos – War Of The Religions (EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: This new EP by German EBM legend Orange Sector was accomplished together with another legend...
UK electro outfit Inertia returns with all new single ‘Scowl’ including a nice welcome return by Alexys B
After 29 years in existence as a band, the UK act Inertia are back with a brand new single, released...
Implant – Cognitive Dissonance (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-Pop, Electro, Experimental. Format: Digital, 2CD. Background/Info: Belgian Implant duo is back on track, unleashing their eleventh album in...
Labels Interviews: File 3: Seba Dolimont & Bernard Van Isacker / Alfa Matrix: ‘We Keep Anticipating New Trends In Order To Stay Relevant And Future Proof’
Seba Dolimont Alfa Matrix has been set up in 2001 by three friends. Séba Dolimont, Benoît Blanchart and Bernard Van...
Acylum – Kampf Dem Verderb (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD & 2CD. Background/Info: The German band Acylum driven by Pedro ‘Acylum’ Engel and his partner...
Out now – all new Implant album ‘Cognitive Dissonance’ – available in a limited 2CD box edition as well
Implant's 11th album is a fact and officially out since this morning! The Belgian electronic act recently released the “Phantom...
Out now! German harsh electro act Acylum offers brand new ‘Kampf Dem Verderb’ album as a limited 2CD first edition release
After some releases with their side-projects Totem Obscura and Aengeldust, plus the publication of rare early demo material through the...
Alfa Matrix releases brand new free download compilation + exclusive face masks
It has been a hectic year, also for Alfa Matrix, but luckily their bands took the time to work in...
Digital Factor – Come With Me (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: “Come With Me” is for the comeback of the German EBM formation Digital Factor....
‘Click Interview’ with AD: KeY: ‘We Don’t Want To Limit Ourselves‘
Set up in 2007 by René and Andrea Nowotny AD: KEY rapidly became a noticeable band in the ‘old-school’ EBM...
‘Click Interview‘ with Armageddon Dildos: ‘We Are On The Highway To Dystopia!‘
Uwe Kanka and Dirk Krause set up ARMAGEDDON DILDOS in 1990. The German duo from Kassel became an instant successful...
Aidan Casserly – Ballads Of Sorrow (Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Irish singer Aidan Casserly has been very busy during the past few years. Next...
Armageddon Dildos – Dystopia (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Double CD. Background/Info: Armageddon Dildos is back on track unleashing the first ‘new’ studio album since...
AD:Key – Resonanz (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Double CD. Background/Info: Andrea and Rene Nowotny set up AD:Key in 2007. Thirteen years later they...
Digital Factor is back ! The band joins Alfa Matrix and releases brand new single/video ‘Come With Me’ – Out now
"Come With Me" is the title of the newest Digital Factor download EP which holds 10 tracks and which is...
First edition new AD:keY album ‘Resonanz’ out now – launched as ultra limited 2CD set (feat. Collaborations with Schramm, Steril, Armageddon Dildos, Rossi BM, …)
"Resonanz" is the title of the newest 6th full length studio album (and the follow-up to the 2017 album “Reanimator”)...
Armageddon Dildos return with ‘Dystopia’ in 3 formats: CD / 2CD / Download – out now
In March 2020 Düsseldorf's leading EBM act Armageddon Dildos launched a brand new download EP, "Heut Nacht" (available here on...
Alfa Matrix adds 50% discount code on top of Bandcamp Friday – use SUMMER20
Photo by Tim Marshall on Unsplash It's Bandcamp Friday today, which is a great day to support artists, as the...
Armageddon Dildos – Heut Nacht (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Two years ago the EP “Herbstseitlose” saw the German EBM act Armageddon Dildos get back...
Armageddon Dildos and Mona Mur on benefit sampler for live venues in Bonn
To support Namenlos and BLA, two clubs/live venues in Bonn (GER) a sampler has been released to donate towards the...
Armageddon Dildos launch 7-track download EP via Bandcamp: ‘Heut Nacht’
Cult German Electronic Body Music act Armageddon Dildos have launched a new EP and (title)song before the release of the...
Negant – Refuse! (EP – Læbel)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Negant is a Danish trio set up in 2017 by Jens B. Petersen (Neotek,...
Alfa Matrix launches massive download compilation for free – all donations to be used to invest in new bands
Available now for free (or pay-what-you-want) via Bandcamp is the 9th volume in the "Matrix Downloaded" compilation download series by...
A.I. Zero featuring Armageddon Dildos – No Pain Forever (EP – Scentair Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: German duoMaikko Advance (Mind.Area, Human Decay ao) and ‘Flesh Wire’ have been active...
Aiboforcen is back with an all new ‘In My Arms’ EP – 13 tracks incl. covers of New Order and DAF classics
Belgium's cult dark electro act Aiboforcen is back among the living. A teaser was already released online a few days...
A new video of an A.I. Zero track feat. Armageddon Dildos is online now – watch it below.
The track is taken from the E.P. "No pain forever" which will be released (as a free download) on Jan....
Alfa Matrix launches 200 minute-plus compilation for free: ‘Matrix Downloaded 008’
With the 8th edition of their now classic free "Matrix Downloaded" label digital compilation, Belgium's Alfa Matrix label presents a...
AD:KeY – 10th Anniversary (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Ten years after the debut album “Thema Nummer Eins” (2008) the ex Armageddon Dildos live keyboardist Rene...
Struck9 – Ritual Body Music (CD Album – EK Product)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Struck9 is a Colombian EBM project set up in 2008. After a debut album (cf. “Democracy”) released...
Die Robo Sapiens – Teufelskreis / Tanz Mit Dem Roboter (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher aka Die Krupps have set up a new project named...
Armageddon Dildos – Herbstzeitlose (CD EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 1990 Armageddon Dildos definitely became one of the major EBM bands from the 90s....
Empire State Human – Romo (CD Album – ScentAir Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Irish synth-pop formation Empire State Human was set up in 1999 and driven by Aidan Casserly. “Romo”...
Die Robo Sapiens launch first official video, for ‘Tanz Mit Dem Roboter’
Out now is the first official video for Die Robo Sapiens: "Tanz Mit Dem Roboter". The track is taken from...
Die Krupps side-project Die Robo Sapiens launches first download EP: ‘Teufelskreis – Tanz Mit Dem Roboter’
The first EP by the new all-EBM project by the members of Die Krupps is out now under the Die...
Armageddon Dildos prepare new album, but first… the ‘Herbstzeitlose’ EP – listen to 2 brand new tracks
In the middle of the recording process of their forthcoming new album, the band's first since 2011's "Untergrund", Armageddon Dildos'...
AD:Key – Reanimator (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Rene and Andrea Nowotny are back on track unleashing the fifth opus of AD:Key. The German duo...
Out now, 5th album by German cult EBM duo AD:keY – ‘Reanimator’ available in 3 versions
The German EBM act AD:keY has released their newest studio album. On the new 13-track album “Reanimator” the Berlin-based duo...
Ferrochrome – Medusawater (CD Album – Meshwork Music)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: “Medusawater” is the third full length released on Meshwork Music (label set up by Seven Ni-Arb/X Marks...
Female/male oldschool EBM duo AD:keY signs to Alfa Matrix and releases new ‘Shameless’ EP – available for immediate download
In 2007, Rene Nowotny, keyboarder with the EBM-legends Armageddon Dildos, joined up with his wife Andrea to form AD:keY which...
Alfa Matrix launches Record Store Day 30% discount on webstore and Bandcamp – get your code here
It was Record Store Day this past weekend and for the occasion the Belgian label launched a special 30% discount...
It’s EBM day at Alfa Matrix! Use code ebmday242 and get 30% of on all releases (incl. Front 242 vinyls)
"Today he has no means He's alone and anonymous, but written in his cells he's got the marks of a...
Final hours to enjoy 50% off on Alfa Matrix Bandcamp page
We enter the final few hours to enjoy a 50% reduction on all of your purchases via the Alfa Matrix...
Stream the Front 242 tribute ‘Recovery >for you<‘ right now from Side-Line : 32-tracks by Front 242’s label mates on Alfa Matrix
For its 15th anniversary, the Belgian record label Alfa Matrix also celebrated the 35 years of existence of Front 242...
Front 242 gets unexpected 32-tracks tribute from their label Alfa Matrix – listen to the first exclusive previews!
With “Recovery >for you<”, the Alfa Matrix label is closing this double-celebration year 2016 in beauty. For its 15th anniversary,...
Armageddon Dildos’ Dirk Krause and Aidan Casserly (Empire State Human, KuBO) team up for new Ferrochrome project – listen to 3 songs already
Dirk Krause (Armageddon Dildos, DKDENT & Retro Adapter) and Aidan Casserly (Empire State Human, KuBO) have teamed up, to form...
Sacrificial System – D.N.A. (CD Album – Sacrificial System)
Genre/Influences: Industrial EBM. Background/Info: Sacrificial System is a one-man project set up by Keith Kosmopolis. This American artist based in...
In Strict Confidence announce new EP ‘Somebody else’s dream’ with artwork by Heilemania (Rammstein’s Lindemann)
Minuswelt MusikFabrik has a new In Strict Confidence album coming out in the Summer. The album will be the band's...
Astma – 600 Pounds Of Body (DCD Album – Electro Aggression Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Content: Astma is a familiar name at the wider fields of EBM. This Swedish formation is not what...
