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Aengeldust is an electro-industrial solo-project set up and driven by Nadine ‘Cooraz’ Engel. She’s one of the few women involved with this ‘hard’ kind of music revealing a sound, which is much harder than the other projects she’s been involved with. You maybe remember her from HausHetaere, but you for sure know her from Totem Obscura and especially Acylum, which are all projects she’s running together with her husband Pedro Engel. Aengeldust has now unleashed her second album “Agent Orange” on Alfa Matrix while there also is a new EP entitled “Zucht”. Nadine ‘Cooraz’ Engel’s new work has been introduced as ‘the bitch is back’ and this is what she has to say.

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Q: Nadine, we all know you from you involvement with Acylum and Totem Obscura, which are bands you’re running together with your husband. So what means Aengeldust to you as an artist and as a woman?

Nadine: Aengeldust is my own baby. I can realize this project and do all the crazy things I always wanted to do.

Q: Aengeldust clearly sounds more into industrial influences although I noticed an evolution from “Freakshow” towards “Agent Orange”. How do you see this evolution and tell us a bit more about this new opus?

Nadine: It always depends on my mood, as the song sounds at the end of the day. It is important to me that I continue to develop. I think that I succeeded well.

Q: What can you tell us about the song writing referring to your way of working, sound research/creation, favorite equipment and potential sources of inspiration?

Nadine: It always comes out of my stomach. No rules. That’s the difference to Acylum and Totem Obscura.

Q: The title of your album is pretty intriguing, referring to chemical/herbicidal warfare used by the US during the Vietnam war. What did you try to express on “Agent Orange” and tell us a bit more about the numerous spoken samplings you’re using (instead of vocals)?

Nadine: I am a big fan of Asia, the culture and architecture and people as well. “Agent Orange” is the worst war crime of our time and therefore it should never fall silent.

Q: Next to the “Agent Orange”-album you’ve just released the “Zucht”-EP featuring new songs that haven’t been featured on the album. What did you want to accomplish with this extra release and tell us a bit more about the choice of the remixes?

Nadine: I had the need to tell and finish the story a bit further. Since I deliberately had no remixes on the album, they were realized on the EP. Cool bands like Acylum, Siva Six, Parasite of God and some more have made really good remixes.

Q: Why are there less women involved with industrial music and do you notice any form of macho attitude against the women (like you) who are involved?

Nadine: I do not care who does industrial music. Woman or man, it does not matter to me. It just has to sound different from others and only that counts to me.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, techno-body, aggrotech.

Background/Info: Based in Hannover (Germany) Synthattack is one of the newest sensations from the dark-electro dancefloors. Martin Schindler is the hidden force behind this band, which last year self-released the debut-album “To The Floor”. Synthattack now joined Dark Tunes to unleash their new opus featuring 9 new songs and 8 remixes.

Content: “Club Takeover” reveals many influences, which can be outlined as dark and electronic, technoid and EBM while we also can speak about aggrotech. The songs are driven by heavy dance kicks and carrying choruses with solid leads. Martin’s vocals inject some extra rage, which perfectly matches with the powerful production. You’ll also notice some trance-minded leads and breaks. “Club Takeover” is a title indicating its dance floor orientated goal.

The remixes have been made by great bands from the dark-electro scene. There are great contributions from C-Lekktor, Chainreactor and Stahlnebel & Black Selket while you’ll also discover remixes by Reaper, Binary Division, Parasite Of God and Suppressor. Last, but not least there’s also a “Single Edit” of “Unbreakable”.

+ + + : If you like hard and danceable dark-electronics, this album will for sure make you move! But it’s not only an album filled with pumping dance kicks and great, transcendental vibes, but still an opus revealing great sound treatments and I especially refer to “One Love, One Pain”, which is an absolute topper carried by a monstrous lead.

– – – : The main point that hurts is the somewhat repetitive sound formula the band is somewhat abusing from while a few passages are a little bit too techno-dance like.

Conclusion: Synthattack has created a real dance elixir mixing multiple influences. “Club Takeover” is a successful production in its genre and definitely one of the good productions of 2016!

Best songs: “One Love, One Pain”, “Club Takeover”, “Shut Up”, “Unbreakable feat. Luca Riese”, “My Hell – C-Lekktor Rmx”, “Club Takeover – Chainreactor Rmx”.

Rate: (8).

Band: www.facebook.com/synthattack

Label: www.darktunes.com / www.facebook.com/darkTunesMusic

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Out by March 30 via the Xperiment XIII label is the newest 2CD album by Parasite of God, “Outcasts and Freaks”. The limited 2CD deluxe gatefold edition package can be ordered right now from Bandcamp (as well as the digital album, which only has the tracks from CD1). The complete trackless for the 2CD can be found here.

The package also includes this:

• 1x Band Autographed A6 Postcard
• 5x POG A6 Fridge Magnets with Artwork [High-quality | Vinyl material]
• 2x POG Stickers [Different Artwork on each]
• 1x POG Keyring Torch for First 30 orders ONLY

The material was mastered by X-Fusion Music Production with artwork by Tomoki Hayasaka of Sheerheart, who also made some lovely designs for recent releases by bands such as Acylum, Suicidal Romance, Avarice In Audio, Ayria, the Endzeit Bunkertracks series, Zombie Girl etc..

You can already listen to 5 tracks from this album below:

We quickly spoke to Parasite of God who have this to say about the album: “This album was made over a longer time. Our goal has always been to make music we enjoy ourselves. We have a wide range of musical influences and the result is here. We don’t make music to fit in a genre or to tie us down to certain rules, we simply do what we want. The lyrics on this album mainly follow the same spirit! Stand up proud never bow, follow your own heart and be yourself, leave the judging to the weak ones. If u enjoy this album it makes us proud; if u don’t just Keep searching for the things that makes your life richer!”

The band clearly is getting its momentum as both the videos for “Outcast” and “Through Sorrows” are getting thousands of view on YouTube. You can watch them below.

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Chief editor of Side-Line – which basically means I spend my days wading through a relentless flood of press releases from labels, artists, DJs, and zealous correspondents. My job? Strip out the promo nonsense, verify what’s actually real, and decide which stories make the cut and which get tossed into the digital void. Outside the news filter bubble, I’m all in for quality sushi and helping raise funds for Ukraine’s ongoing fight against the modern-day axis of evil. Besides music I’m also an SEO and AI content flow specialist and have an interest in everything finance from stocks to crypto. There is music in everything!

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