Apoptygma Berzerk double release for the 25th anniversary of ‘Soli Deo Gloria’
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange) In 1993 Apoptygma Berzerk released the very first Norwegian EBM album, “Soli Deo...
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ArtOfFact launches mega deal on Bandcamp (1$ releases) – here’s what you can expect!
The fine Canadian label ArtOfFact records has launched a mega-sale with tons of releases priced at just 1$. You can...
Front Line Assembly – WarMech (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electronic, experimental. Background/Info: After the “AirMech”-album released in 2012 FLA is back on track with a new soundtrack....
Artoffact Records launches massive Bandcamp merch sale – check it out
The fine Toronto based label Artoffact Record has launched a massive merch sale on Bandcamp. Most CDs available are priced...
Artoffact Records to re-issue collected works of Cyberaktif (feat. Skinny Puppy, FLA members)
Toronto-based Artoffact Records has announced that it will re-issue a deluxe double-CD edition of the collected works of Cyberaktif. This...
Solveig Matthildur sees 2016 debut released on vinyl (2 colours) and CD as well
"Unexplained miseries & the acceptance of sorrow", the debut album by Sólveig Matthildur (one-third of the Icelandic post-punk outfit Kælan...
Artoffact Records reissues 3 Decree albums on vinyl – finally!
Excellent news for the Decree fans worldwide. The fine Canadian label Artoffact Records is reissuing all 3 Decree album on...
Legend issue remastered ‘Fearless’ debut album on (red) vinyl
Out in August is the all-new remastered double vinyl heavy-weight 180 gram edition of Legend's smashing debut album "Fearless". The...
Listen to first new Front Line Assembly track ‘Mechvirus’ taken from OST Carbon Games’ latest game, WarMech!
Out later this Summer on Artoffact Records (and already available for ordering via the label's mail-order in various vinyl versions)...
Front Line Assembly to release all-new soundtrack for Carbon Games’ ‘Warmech’ – vinyl versions available
Out later this Summer on Artoffact Records (and already available for ordering via the label's mail-order in various vinyl versions)...
‘Click Interview’ with Encephalon: ‘The New Album Was An Intentional De-Evolution’
Set up in 2005 by Matt Gifford, Encephalon deals with a sophisticated electronic format featuring multiple influences like EBM, dark-electro...
Top 10 best-selling labels in the industrial music world in 2017 were…
The biggest distributor for the industrial electro scene, Audioglobe, has announced its Top 10 in best selling industrial music labels....
Massive Controlled Bleeding 10CD/book set expected – pre-orders available now
The period between 1985 and 1988 was the most productive in the long history of Controlled Bleeding. No fewer than...
Die Krupps ‘Volle Kraft Voraus’ gets vinyl treatment including… pink!
Die Krupps' second album, "Volle Kraft Voraus", released in 1982, and featuring such cult tracks as "Wahre Arbeit, wahrer Lohn"...
Encephalon – We Only Love You When You’re Dead (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, industrial-body-music. Background/Info: Canadian formation Encephalon is back on track unleashing their third official album. They already released...
Artoffact Records signs Vancouver-based post-punk band Actors
Artoffact Records has signed the promising Vancouver-based post-punk group Actors which formed in 2012. The debut full-length album, "It Will...
‘Click Interview’ with Ghost Twin: ‘Surviving Together’
Ghost Twin is a Canadian duo set up and driven by Karen- and Jaimz Asmundson. The debut full length “Plastic...
Artoffact Records announces the signing of Mexican elecronic musician, Ritualz
Ritualz is a music project started by JC Lobo from Mexico City in 2010 and with a handful of self-released...
Legendary radio sessions finally made available from Psyche, Severed Heads and The Jazz Butcher
Here's a release series available via Artoffact Records which will please many: the Brave New Wave radio sessions! But first...
Images in Vogue (Numb, Skinny Puppy, …) sees massive re-release on vinyl + live album
Artoffact Records has announced the first in a series of Images in Vogue reissues. Images in Vogue was a Vancouver-based...
Ghost Twin – Plastic Heart (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Ghost Twin is a male-female duo from Canada, which after a few EP’s have achieved their...
Controlled Bleeding gets 2 vinyl versions for November re-release of ‘Headcrack’ – these are the details
Out via Artoffact Records in November is the re-release of Controlled Bleeding's "Headcrack", which was originally released as a vinyl-only...
Die Krupps’ 1981 album ‘Stahlwerksynfonie’ also gets the 2LP treatment
Originally put out on the famous Zick Zack label in Germany in 1981 as a 12", the Die Krupps album...
3TEETH re-issues debut on yellow and black vinyl + on tour with Rammstein
Out in July is already the 3rd pressing of the self-titled debut from LA foursome 3TEETH, on x-day yellow vinyl...
Skinny Puppy fans, attention! Massive reissue campaign for Download (Skinny Puppy’s Cevin Key) and Phil Western on ltd ed. coloured vinyl – pre-orders available now
ArtOfFact Records has just unloaded a massive reissue campaign on coloured vinyl for Cevin Key's post-Skinny Puppy project Download. And...
Pankow sees 2 oldest and 2 previously unreleased tracks united on super limited 10 inch vinyl ‘Times’ – order here
The two earliest Pankow recordings to see a release were “We Are the Joy” on one of the first Italian...
April 22 is Record Store Day – here’s a list of release which darkwave/postpunk fans might dig including The Cure, Pink Floyd, …
We have again found some real gems in the list of releases especially produced for the upcoming Record Store Day...
Artoffact Records reissues underground classic ‘Nocturnal Earthworm Stew’ by David Pritchard on CD, 2LP (in 2 vinyl versions)
The electronic avant garden artist David Pritchard was the first Canadian signed to Island Records, and his groundbreaking LP "Nocturnal...
v01d – Greeted As Liberators (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, electro-rock, pop-rock. Background/Info: Joe Byer got some name as live keyboardist for Ayria. But he also is the...
Out Out – Swan/Dive? (CD Album – Artoffact Records/Radio Valkyrie Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-rock, crossover. Background/Info: We here can speak about a surprising comeback. Driven by Mark Alan Miller, Out Out...
Glass Apple Bonzai – In The Dark (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, wave-pop. Background/Info: Glass Apple Bonzai is a Canadian synth-pop project set up and driven by Daniel X. Belasco....
Dead When I Found Her – Eyes On Backwards (CD Album – Artoffact)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Behind Dead When I Found Her is hiding the creative outlet of Michael Arthur Holloway. Based in...
Artoffact store offers 35% off vinyl today Cyber Monday – here’s your discount code !
The fine label Artoffact returns with a rather delicious offer - and it has made the label's CEO rabies mad...
5 albums that inspired ‘In the Dark’, the newest album from the synthpop sensation Glass Apple Bonzai
Synthpop act Glass Apple Bonzai aka the solo creative output of Daniel X. Belasco, is back with a new album,...
Artoffact Records to reissue Nash the Slash’s ‘And You Thought You Were Normal’ and ‘Decomposing’ – vinyl sets etc. available here!
Toronto-based label Artoffact Records announces today (and already makes them available here) 2 additional reissues from the Nash the Slash...
Out Out: the 5 Songs that influenced the new album ‘Swan/Dive?’
The American industrial project Out Out (aka Mark Alan Miller) is about to release their newest album "Swan/Dive?" on Artoffact...
Stock from defunct Flesh Eating Ants Records label (and Dehausset) found back and back available (albeit in very limited quantities)
The Canadian industrial music mailorder Storming The Base had a nice surprise for us earlier this week when they sent...
V01d finally has new album out after 6 years + releases long lost 1st album as bonus disc
Toronto-based musician Joe Byer, aka V01d, is releasing his second album, "Greeted As Liberators", this Friday - yep, that's tomorrow...
Rational Youth sees ‘Future Past Tense’ reissued on CD including 6 bonus tracks – available now for ordering
Remember this 6-track vinyl 10 inch that was released a while back for Rational Youth's "Future Past Tense" release? Well,...
Noise Unit – Agitate / In Vain (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Artoffact Records moves back into history. Together with the re-release of “Deceit / Struktur” we now get...
Noise Unit – Deceit / Struktur (Digital Single – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Noise Unit was set up in the late 80s by two ‘giants’ of the early EBM/dark-electro scene....
Controlled Bleeding – Larva Lumps & Baby Bumps (DCD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock, noise, psychedelic-hardcore. Background/Info: Controlled Bleeding was set up in the late 70s. The band hailing from New York...
Incredible – and we mean it – vinyl sale at ArtOfFact on Marsheaux, Cevin Key, … 50% and more off! – here’s the link!
The Finnish/Canadian label ArtOfFact has a sale up with incredibly low prices including excellent releases from such great bands as...
Please… don’t shave with CDs
Storming The Base has launched a really funny campaign to push their sale campaign - which actually offers a good...
Controlled Bleeding interview: ‘It was hard finding my bearings after losing my two long time collaborators’
The fine Toronto-based label Artoffact Records is not only reissuing a significant portion of the Controlled Bleeding catalogue (check here...
Controlled Bleeding hits Wall Street Journal with new studio album ‘Larva Lumps & Baby Bumps’ – order your vinyl copy now
The experimentalist project Controlled Bleeding will return with its first proper studio album since 2002, entitled "Larva Lumps and Baby...
New Out Out single ‘Look Up, Hannah’ premiers exclusively on Side-Line
Coming up soon is a brand new Out Out album, but before that Artoffact has launched a digital single, "Look...
Preview first track new Rational Youth vinyl release + TOP 6 80s albums according to the band
Returning in 2016 as a duo (Tracy Howe and wife Gaenor), Rational Youth is set to release its first original...
First 3 Psyche albums re-released with lots of extra rare material – we talked with Darrin Huss
The fine label Artoffact Records has announced the authorised reissues of the three 1980s albums that introduced the Canadian electropop...
Final days for ArtOfFact vinyl sales action – here’s the link!
The fine label ArtOfFact has launched a sales action for their vinyl releases slashing prices with 20 to 50% releases...
Cult classic remix wars (Wumpscut, Haujobb, FLA, Die Krupps, 16 Volt, Hate Dept.) reissued on vinyl in very limited editions – get yours now!
Twenty years ago, the 'The Remix Wars' concept was born. The concept was simple enough: two artists remix one another...
Pankow – Throw Out Rite (CD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental EBM. Background/Info: Pankow is a band EBM heads all know as one of the absolute pioneers in the...
Tool dress up as bunnies and invade 3TEETH live set in New Orleans – life footage pops up online
As you know, 3TEETH have supported Tool on their US tour in January. Tool apparently appreciates 3TEETH quite a lot,...
Massive Front Line Assembly reissue campaign on vinyl (featuring bonus tracks) to celebrate the band’s 30th year anniversary – you can stream the remastered releases right here!
ArtOfFact Records is on a new reissue spree of Front Line Assembly releases to celebrate the band's 30th year anniversary....
Pankow reveals TOP 10 album from 1981-1984 + offers FREE exclusive download of ‘Das Wodkalied’ (remastered) via Side-Line
Pankow's Maurizio Fasolo has sent us his TOP 10 albums from the period 1981-1984. The TOP 10 comes hand in...
3TEETH ready to start tour with Tool and Primus tomorrow + debut vinyl re-edition almost sold out!
The vinyl re-edition of the debut album by the LA based foursome 3TEETH on blood red with black haze vinyl...
Double black vinyl for new Haujobb album ‘Blendwerk’ including 4 extra bonus tracks not available on CD version
Out now via Artoffact Records is the newest Haujobb album "Blendwerk" as double black vinyl. "Blendwerk" is Haujobb's 8th studio...
Dead When I Found Her – All The Way Down (DCD Album – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, apocalyptic-pop, industrial-ambient. Content: Dead When I Found Her unleashes its 3rd full length album, which features 10 new...
TOP 5 albums from Dead When I Found Her
The last album by the ArtOfFact signed act Dead When I Found Her, "All The Way Down", was such a...
Obscure 80s Canadian synth-punk trio Mobile Clones gets ‘Abrasive Air’ reissued on 10 inch vinyl
Vancouver-based Mobile Clones' 1980 release "Abrasive Air" gets a new life as an expanded re-issue. The news was confirmed just...
3TEETH will support Tool on a US tour in January – ain’t that sweet?
This is probably the biggest move from any band in this scene since Combichrist toured with Rammstein. The LA-based industrial-metal...
Dead When I Found Her to unleash CD/2CD sets of ‘All the way down’ in a few days – including Ministry cover
Out this Friday on Artoffact Records is Dead When I Found Her's newest album "All the way down". "All The...
Storming The Base launches Halloween sales in 3, 2, 1…. go! + Artoffact is now shipping from the EU too – cheaper for EU residents!
The Canadian online mail-orderStorming The Base has launched its Halloween sales on all Artefact releases (in a tongue-in-cheek way if you...
Psyche & Luminance – Left Out / Passenger Seat (Vinyl 7” – Artoffact Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, body-pop. Content: This limited vinyl 7” is a meeting between a long time established and electro-pop icon and...
v01d debut LP ‘This Is Not A False Alarm Anymore’ available again after years of being sold out
One of the biggest regrets Artoffact has had as a label is that they started to do short-run CDs about...
Psyche gets 30th anniversary reissue of first 12 inch release ‘Thundershowers (In Ivory Towers)’ – 2 versions available
Out via Artoffact Records on September 25 is the 30th anniversary reissue of Psyche's first 12" release, "Thundershowers (In Ivory...
