Combichrist’s ‘Making Monsters’ turns 16 on 27 August
Combichrist, the American aggrotech and industrial metal project built around Norwegian vocalist Andy LaPlegua, released its fifth studio album "Making...
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Combichrist release ‘The Venom In The Mouth Of God’ album via Out Of Line Music
Combichrist released their eleventh studio album, The Venom In The Mouth Of God, on July 24, 2026 via Out Of...
Combichrist release ‘Only Here For A Good Time’ single and video
Combichrist have released "Only Here For A Good Time", a new industrial metal single, via Out Of Line Music. The...
Combichrist announce new album ‘The Venom In The Mouth Of God’ via Out Of Line Music
Combichrist will release the new industrial metal album "The Venom In The Mouth Of God" on July 24, 2026 via...
Ray Noir to release ‘Scorpio’ in a deluxe edition this Thursday
(Photo by Esme Bones) To celebrate hitting the 100.000 streams milestone London-based alt.goth and electro-metal act Ray Noir will release...
Combichrist – Cmbcrst (Double album-Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette – Out Of Line)
Five years after the last album, “Cmbcrst” stands for a fierce and brutal experience. This is pure Industrial/Electro-Metal with a...
Glis interview with Shaun Frandsen on industrial sounds and future pop fusion
Glis, the electronic music project founded by Shaun Frandsen in 2001, made an unexpected triumphant comeback with the release of...
Combichrist returns with all new double-album ‘CMBCRST’, also on zoetrope vinyl
Out on May 17 is the all new Combichrist album "CMBCRST". The CD edition comes in double-digipak and in addition...
Esoterik release ‘Trickster’ single / video ahead of new EP ‘Archetypes’
The Oklahoma City-based 'pagan synth' duo Esoterik have unveiled their latest single, "Trickster". This track precedes the release of their...
Click Interview with Monospore: ‘We Are Very Much Into Very Hard Music’
Monospore is a Danish duo set up in 2009 by Jannik Vittrup and Søren Brandstrup. They last year released their...
New release: Ray Noir’s ‘Pity Party’ out now, stay tuned for Gothminister’s club remix – October 2023
(Photo by Simon Marter) London-based goth artist Ray Noir is gearing up to launch his latest single "Pity Party" on...
Dark electronic act Twin Rattler launches debut album ‘Defiance’
Out now is the debut album by Twin Rattler titled "Defiance". Twin Rattler merges the harsh electronic music of the...
The True Union interview: ‘An order amongst the chaos!’
The American (Denver-Colorado) female fronted industrial metal act The True Union, aka Azul Far, released the “Love Me Now” mini-album/EP...
The True Union – Love Me Now (Not) (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Metal, Electro. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Belgian label Alfa Matrix from time to time likes to think out of...
US dark electro act MissFit Toys returns with all new album, ‘The Nine’
December 9th marked the release of “The Nine”, the new album by MissFit Toys on the Pittsburgh-based Distortion Productions label....
The True Union hits back with all new video ‘Love Me Now’ and Sebastian Komor produced EP ‘Love Me Now (Not)’
The female fronted industrial metal act The True Union is back with an all new video, "Love Me Now", and...
VampireFreaks announces US festival, Dark Force Fest, a three-day goth-industrial music festival
From March 31 until April 2, 2023 included you will be able to attend the US festival, Dark Force Fest,...
Too Dead To Die – In The Dark (EP – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Pop, Body-Pop. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Two years after the last album "Tropical Gothic", Too Dead To Die revisited songs...
Legendary goth club ‘The Church’ featured in documentary film – crowdfund
"Dark Sanctuary: The Story Of The Church" will be a feature-length documentary about the historic Dallas goth club The Church....
Combichrist shares new single ‘Modern Demon’ + lyric video
Combichrist has released their third new single "Modern Demon", after their 2019’s "One Fire" album. Andy LaPlegua comments on the...
Side-Line presents: Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2022 – Leipzig (DE)
Photo: picture alliance/dpa, Alexander Prautzsch After a two years break, due to Covid-19, the annual Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2022 (29th edition) will...
Neuroklast – Beyond The Blackwall (Album – Pro Noize / Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, Industrial-Trance, Techno-Body Music. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Neuroklast is a new German project set up by Kay S. (previously...
Combichrist launch new single ‘Compliance’, check out the video
Combichrist have revealed a new single and music video for the track "Compliance". This is their second new single since...
Clicks – G.O.T.H. (Album – Dependent Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-Electro, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Clicks is back on track, unleashing the second full length album of the...
Brooklyn, New York based goth/darkwave act Abbey Death return with all new single on July 27: ‘Death is for the Living’
Projekt Records is gearing up to release a name-your-price single from the Brooklyn, New York based goth/darkwave act Abbey Death...
Out now on Spotify and other platforms: reissue 2016 album by Italian dark electro act Synapsyche with bonus track
While the Italian dark electro act Synapsyche are currently locked in the studio to record all new material, the band's...
The Italian dark electro act Synapsyche reissues 2016 album ‘The Abyss Effect’ with extra bonus track, a cover of Moby’s ‘Lift me up’
While the Italian dark electro act Synapsyche are currently locked in the studio to record all new material, the band's...
Labels Interviews: File 2: Dave Heckman / Metropolis Records: ‘The Bottom Line Is To Adapt Fast To A Changing Industry’
Metropolis Records was set up in 1994 by Dave Heckman. In no time the American label became a truly reference...
Sun’s Spectrum – Don’t Chase The Light (Album – FinalMuzik)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, Industrial. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Set up in 2016 by Livio Caenazzo (voice, guitars, programming) and Daniele Iannacone...
9th volume in the ‘Electrostorm’ series out now
The 'Electrostorm'-sampler is back. On volume 9 Out Of Line unifies the best of its dark electronic acts on one...
Industrial electro artist Danny Blu launches ‘Sanctuary (Moris Blak Remix)’ – stream here
Released originally In September last year, industrial bass upstart Moris Blak delivers a dance floor remix of the Danny Blu...
Zwaremachine – Ripping At The Fabric (EP – Brutal Resonance Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Format: Digital, cassette. Background/Info: Two years after the successful “Be A Light”-EP Zwaremachine strikes back with new...
The Silverblack – Prototype 6:17 (Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, crossover. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: The title of the Italian combo The Silverblack is clearly inspired by the...
Best EBM Albums Of All Time
Electronic body music (EBM) is a dance floor-oriented industrial music style that requires the artist to have a healthy obsession...
Nitro/Noise – NN: Echoes (Digital EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Crossover, industrial, dark-electro. Background/Info: Canadian formation Nitro/Noise gained some recognition releasing a few EP’s and three albums on Deathwatch...
Interview with Bernard Van Isacker on the ‘Face The Beat’ series: ‘Charting with smaller bands? It’s possible, this compilation has proven it.’
(Interview / photo by Eldrina Mich) While the charity download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 5" is still reigning the...
Combichrist – One Fire (CD Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-metal. Background/Info: Combichrist once started as a solo- and side-project of Icon Of Coil singer Andy La Plegua....
Aesthetic Perfection – Into The Black (CD Album – Close To Human Music)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-pop, EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Daniel Graves and his creative exposure Aesthetic Perfection are back on track unleashing a new...
Side-Line presents: M’era Luna festival 2019 – Hildesheim (DE)
On 10th and 11th August 2019 the annual M’era-Luna festival takes place in the area of Hildesheim-Drispenstedt, Germany. M’era Luna...
Combichrist gets vinyl back catalogue treatment: 3 double coloured vinyl reissues
Combichrist, the aggrotech/industrial metal band formed in 2003 by Norwegian vocalist Andy LaPlegua (Icon Of Coil, Pnazer AG, …), has...
All new Combichrist album ‘One Fire’ comes in 3 formats: 3CD boxset, 2CD and a 2LP (incl. picture disc) vinyl – more details here
"One Fire" is the title for the newest Combichrist album. The band's ninth studio album will be released on 7th...
V/A Awake The Machines Vol. 8 (3CD – Album – Out Of Line)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro, future-pop, electro-pop, gothic, industrial-rock, industrial-metal. Background/Info: The latest volume of the Out Of Line compilation “Awake The...
Synapsyche – Mirror Terror (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2008 Italian duo Stefano ‘Mannequinetik’ (machines) and Marco ‘Katatronik’ Mantovani (vox) joined hands with Alfa...
Mortiis reveals further details on reissie ‘Perfectly Defect’ album and free remix album – check out 3 free tracks already
Mortiis' "Perfectly Defect" album, which was originally released as a time limited download album only in 2010 during the European...
Bleeding Corp. – Ex Machina (CD Album – Advoxya)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal. Background/Info: “Ex Machina” is the third album by Ecuadorian formation Bleeding Corp. Nearly 3 years after their previous...
Mortiis set to re-release ‘Perfectly Defect’ album on vinyl (3 versions) and CD
Mortiis' "Perfectly Defect" album (out of print since years) which was originally released in 2010 during the European comeback tour...
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....
X-RX – Gasoline And Fire (CD Album – ProNoize/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, techno-body music. Background/Info: Set up by Pascal Beniesch (and later on joined by live member and backing vocalist)...
Chainreactor – Decayed Values (CD Album – ProNoize/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, industrial-trance, power-noise. Background/Info: Jens Minor and singer Kay Schäfer (who now became a full time member) are back...
‘Click Interview’ with Root4: ‘When You Release Two Or Three Singles, The Album Has A Bigger Chance To Be Heard’
Root4 is not exactly the most famous and renowned underground electro band. Set up in 1990 the German formation went...
Exclusive : Mark Jackson leaves VNV Nation. Read full statement.
VNV Nation as we know it is no more. The band has announced that England born Mark Jackson is no...
Horskh – Gate (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-EBM, cyber-industrial music. Background/Info: I discovered the French Horskh- duo (Bass and Briou) by the extended version of the...
Controlled Collapse – Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (CD Album – Alchera Visions/Machineries)
Genre/Influences: EBM, industrial-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2003 Polish formation Controlled Collapse got some instant recognition releasing their debut album...
The 8th volume of Electrostorm to hit the stores in May – pre-orders accepted here
The 8th instalment in the Electrostorm electro-sampler-series will be released in early May. This new volume will hold 17 tracks...
‘Click Interview’ with The Psychic Force: ‘We Don’t Need A Professional Production To Sound Polished And Commercial Like Tons Of Other Bands’
The Psychic Force is back alive! Twenty one years after their last album they earlier this year unleached their third...
Mortiis releases remix album and announces UK tour
(By our Norwegian correspondent Jan Ronald Stange. Band photo by Sebastian Ludvigsen) As a followup to last year’s long-awaited 'The...
Synapsyche – The Abyss Effect (CD Album – SkyQode)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Italian formation Synapsyche was set up in 2008 by Stefano Mannequinetik and joined by singer Marco Katatronik....
PIG and Mortiis co-headline UK-tour
Raymond Watts's PIG and Mortiis are to co-headline a UK-tour in March. PIG are promoting their recently released album, "The...
The industrial music mail order Storming The Base launches massive Black Friday sales – here’s the link
Storming The Base has announced its Black Friday sale. The online mail-order offers huge discounts on a very wide selection...
‘Click Interview’ with Horskh: ‘We Want To Exchange A Strong And Powerful Energy With The Audience’
Horskh is a French duo hailing from Besançon. I discovered this band by their dynamic and merciless EP “Dawn”, which...
Horskh – Dawn / Extended Version (CD Album – Audiotrauma)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, cyber-industrial. Background/Info: Horskh is a French duo, which released a debut EP “Dawn” in 2014 on Audiotrauma. Because...
Terrolokaust – Dissensions (CD Album – Digital World Audio)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark-EBM, electro-rock. Background/Info: Javi Ssagittar (vocals & lyrics) and Indio (programming & synths) better known under the Terrolokaust moniker...
Side-Line presents: M’era Luna festival – Hildesheim (DE)
On 13th and 14th August 2016 the annual M'era-Luna festival takes place in the area of Hildesheim, Germany. M'era Luna...
Ruined Conflict – A Voice For The Voiceless (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Future-pop, industrial-pop-rock. Background/Info: Xavier Morales is the hidden force behind Ruined Conflict. This American artist has released his 3rd...
Goth rock stars united on solo debut Mark Gemini Thwaite (The Mission, Peter Murphy, Tricky, …) incl. Wayne Hussey, Ville Valo (HIM), …
Here's a release which should please many gothic rock fans. Out in Summer, but available in pre-order now is the...
Combichrist to release ‘This Is Where Death Begins’ in various editions including a 2LP+CD set – pre-orders available here
Norwegian-American group Combichrist returns with the new long player "This Is Where Death Begins" again mixing guitars, electronica and drums....
