(Photo by Mara von Kummer) hackedepicciotto (Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto) have shared details of a new album, “The Best of hackedepicciotto (Live in Napoli)”, that collates over 20 years of collaboration over two live performances recorded at the Auditorium Novecento, one of the oldest recording studios in Europe.

The album will be released on double vinyl, limited to 500 copies with exclusive signed print, and digitally on 1 November 2024, via Mute.

For over 20 years Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) and artist, musician and filmmaker Danielle de Picciotto (co-founder of Love Parade) have been working together. The album includes reinterpretations of tracks from all of their studio albums: “Keepsakes” (2023), “The Silver Threshold” (2021), “Perseverantia” (2016), “Menetekel” (2017), and “The Current” (2020).

This new collection is a mixture of industrial beats, electronic sounds with classical harmonies and melodies, with some throat singing, Hurdy-gurdy and spoken word. Daniel Miller of Mute goes on to say that “their music is a genre of its own, something new and very intriguing.”

Listen to “The Silver Threshold (Live in Napoli)”, the title track from their 2021 album.

hackedepicciotto Live Dates

• 1 Nov – Parma (IT), Borgo Santa Brigida
• 2 Nov – Pordenone (IT), Astro Club
• 3 Nov – Milan (IT), Arci Bellezza
• 5 Nov – Turin (IT), Blah Blah
• 7 Nov – Pescara (IT), Scumm
• 8 Nov – Campobasso (IT), Circolo Beatnik
• 12 Nov – Lyon (FR), Sonic Lyon
• 29 Nov – Malmö (SW), Inkonst
• 30 Nov – Odense (DK), Klub Golem
• 6 Dec – Athens (GR), Temple
• 7 Dec – Thessaloniki (GR), Eightball
• 12 Dec – Bratislava (SK), Pink Whale
• 13 Dec – Augsburg (DE), Provino Club
• 15 Dec – Bielefeld (DE), Movie Bielefeld
• 18 Dec – Berlin (DE), Berghain Kantine – Album Release Party

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Out now is the second single from Штадт (Stadt) since joining Artoffact Records. “Wild High” holds a broad reach of ingredients including industrial, synthwave/retrowave, and post-punk.

The single follows last month’s label debut single, “Вплив Бездіяльності (Impact of Inaction)” which the band commented “is a song about being trapped in the vacuum cage of darkness and self-destruction.”

Штадт (Stadt) is an EBM/post-industrial project created by Dmytro Filiushyn from Donetsk, Ukraine. Throughout its career, the project has released three EPs and two LPs, performing across Europe at solo gigs and festivals. The latest album, “Мразь” (“Scum”), features a collaboration with the EBM project Qual.

Stadt was founded after Dmytro left Ukraine in 2018. Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the project relocated to Serbia.

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The Lisbon (Portugal) based heavy post-punk/industrial ensemble Louvado Abismo have released a brand new video ahead of the release of their self-titled album, scheduled for 31 May via Half Beast Records on vinyl/digital with a CD release to follow. “Corrida Lenta” is the first preview from the album, and is the album’s third track.

Despite being a new formation, Louvado Abismo boasts seasoned members from diverse artistic backgrounds, including theater actress Patrícia Andrade (ex- Sinistro) on vocals, Hugo Conim (Dawnrider, The Limit, …) on guitars, Pedro Almeida (Scum Liquor, A Tree of Signs, …) on drums, and Hélder Luís (Mozart Meets Chaos, The Sleeper has Awakened, …) on bass.

This is what the band says about the video: “The video ‘Corrida Lenta’ reflects a restless and euphoric inner journey, without time. An amorphous game of shadows and ‘monsters’ hidden within a dysphoric mind. It is a dark, simple, and intense song that varies between a mysterious David Lynchian atmosphere and a tribal ambiance, where the overlapping drums hark back to the ancient traditional Portuguese culture. The melancholic and deep voice envelops the distorted structures, leading them on an intense journey that ends in an apotheosis where a dissonant piano, played by Towkuhsh Razamod, one of the album’s guests, resonates in unison with the entire band, thus solidifying a structure that lives from the breathing of each of the musicians involved.”

Watch the video for “Corrida Lenta” below.

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Genre/Influences: Dark-Electro, Industrial.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: Fredrik Croona (Cynical Existence, Croona) is focusing on a new project. After the “Scum”-single he released this debut-EP featuring four songs plus two remixes.

Content: Fredrik Croona moves back to the harsher work he already explored at Cynical Existence. “O.M.G. stands for a true fusion between Dark-Electro influences mainly emerging at the melody lines and Industrial guitar playing. The vocals are harsh and enraged. Next to the “Scum”-song -plus two remixes featuring one by Tekknovore, you’ll also discover 3 other songs. 

+ + + : Fredrik Croona never stops exploring new paths by setting up new projects. Against I doesn’t bring innovative elements but will please Cynical fans. There’s a similar power and rage emerging at the surface, but which has been masterly created by a harmonious twist between guitar and electronics. The title song and “Disgust” both are cool songs but the best cut is for sure the merciless and dancefloor driven Dark-Electro remix of “Scum” by Teknovore.

– – – : I got the feeling Against I has the potential to do better. And that’s a good thing as new releases are in the pipeline.

Conclusion: Fredrik Croona remains a prolific artist feeling comfortable with different music styles. He shows a darker and more aggressive side with Against I.

Best songs: “Scum – Teknovore Remix”, “O.M.G.”, “Disgust”.

Rate: 7½.

Artist: www.facebook.com/againstIband

Label: www.insane-records.com /  www.facebook.com/InsaneRecordsEU

“O.M.G.” was released on 11 March 2022 through Insane Records as a digital EP. The title stands for Obscene Morbid Gore. It holds six tracks: “O.M.G”, “The Other Half”, “Disgust”, “Scum”, “Scum (Teknovore Remix)” and “Scum (Death Verified Remix)”. Side-Line reported on the release in Swedish industrial act Against I releases new EP: ‘O.M.G.’, which described the four original tracks as conceptually bringing together death, murder, greed and hate.

The EP built on the debut single ‘Scum’, issued in February 2022. The single ‘You And I’ followed in May 2022.

Listen to “O.M.G.”:

About Against I

Against I is a Swedish project fronted by Fredrik Croona. He is also behind Cynical Existence, the solo project Croona and Menschdefekt, and works across dark electro, industrial and futurepop.

Side-Line has followed his output since “We Are The Violence” in 2015. Cynical Existence signed to Advoxya Records in 2016 and released “Dying Light” in 2017 and “Rebirth” in 2020. Under his own name he issued “This Is Goodbye” in 2018, and as Croona “Memento Mori” in 2018 and “Ascend” in 2021, both on Infacted Recordings. He set out his approach to switching projects in the ‘Click Interview’ with Fredrik Croona in 2016.

Against I started in early 2022 with “Scum” and “O.M.G.” on Insane Records. The remixer Teknovore, who appears on this EP, released his own album “The Theseus Paradox” a month later.

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The Swedish industrial act Against I has just released a new EP, “O.M.G.” via Insane Records. “O.M.G.” stands for Obscene Morbid Gore. The four tracks on the EP conceptually bring together the darker parts of humans; death, murder, greed and hate. The red line that goes through all tracks are these things.

Musically the songs continue what the “Scum” single built up, but with some more refinement. The EP also contains remixes by Teknovore and DeathVerified. O.M.G. is available NOW in digital format on all streaming platforms including Bandcamp!

Against I is fronted by Fredrik Croona (Cynical Existence / Menschdefekt).

Here’s the project’s previous single, “Scum”.

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(Picture by Jasyn Bangert – God Module) Out now via Bandcamp is Shane Aungst’s “The Zombietapes (Face The Beat 7 Megamix)”.

Seattle (United States) based DJ Shane Aungst produced this monster megamix featuring a total of 38 tracks from “Face The Beat: Session 7” during long evening sessions in February and March 2022. He soon talked about the zombietapes, hence the title of this megamix. The original compilation is available here. Expect an interview with Shane Aungst in the next days

The release holds 3 parts being just over 49 minutes each totaling just over 147 minutes and holds extensive remix and sampling work by Shane Aungst. The full remix is available for free with all donations going to charity like every release on our Bandcamp page. This is the 3rd time already that Shane Aungst has produced a remix for Side-Line’s infamous compilation series. The two previous megamixes were “Shane Aungst vs Face The Beat 5 – Megamix” and “Shane Aungst vs Face The Beat 6 – Megamix“.

Tracklist

SIDE A

1. Intro By Viscera Drip
2. Midian Dite – Hermosa Sumisa
3. Histeria – Proceso Inquisición
4. Suppressor – Schweigen
5. Sapphira Vee – What Is This
6. Dance My Darling – Love & Hate (Centhron Remix)
7. Preemptive Strike 0.1 – Preemptive Strike (2021 Version – Face The Beat Edit)
8. Khmar – Dampfkraft
9. Reality’s Despair – The Other Side
10. Empyres – The Sirens Call
11. Blut Reaktor – Beneath The Judas Tree
12. Chem – Cieni
13. Sodomy Down The Cross – Zurück In Den Wald

SIDE B

1. Helmynthe – Aromat Ammiaka
2. Ctrl+Cmd+Destroy_Alternis (Oot Mix)
3. Eric Dillon – Come Closer (Soulchasm Mix) Instrumental Master
4. Shadow System – Smile Before The Bullets (Sitd Remix)
5. Fatherless Child – Share If You Like Shave If You Lick
6. Psychosomatik – Damage Done (Original)
7. MATT HART – I Am Overlord
8. Imjudas – Ritual (Reichsfeind Rmx)
9. Sun’s Spectrum – Intrusion
10. Last Activity – Shadows
11. Doktor Foxx – Cold On
12. LCM – Bodies Collide
13. R.I.P. (Roppongi Inc. Project ) – Bazooka

SIDE C

1. Scars Are Soulless – Eyes Of The Deceiver
2. Distoxia – Legiones Invertidas
3. Unidad Obscura – Ni Un Minuto Atras
4. Deadjump – Save Me From My Fear (Burnout Mix)
5. Notstandskomitee_Bitcrash
6. Waijdan – Rotting Gardens
7. John Bérb-Eluha – Fantômas
8. Shinigami Ind – Quiero
9. Atonal – Crash Feat. Anna Soares
10. Escupemetralla – Maldacena Duality
11. Rabbits Wear Boots – We Will Not Become A Number
12. Against I – Scum

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Against I is the all new project of musician Fredrik Keith Croona who you will know from such projects as Cynical Existence, Croona, Rotncore, Empyres or yet Menschdefekt. In this new project Fredrik focused on the symbiosis of aggrotech and industrial metal styles.

Out now via Insane Records is a first single, “Scum”, which can be downloaded right here on Bandcamp. There is also a video available below.

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(Photo by Rosie Alice Foster) Sylph, the solo project of former S.C.U.M founder and vocalist Thomas Cohen, returns with a new 4-track single “Ancient Hole”. For this release Cohen has worked with Terence Fixmer, Regis and Nicolas Bougaïeff as well as composer and singer Anni Hogan.

A short film by director Victor Gutierrez, accompanies the release featuring performances of two tracks from the new EP, “Scripture of Love” with Karl O’Connor aka Regis and “Ancient Hole” alongside “Tears Fall From The Sun” with Rrose.

Watch the film below.

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Here’s a Mortiis curiosum… Out now is the previously unreleased Scum song “Speaking In Tongues” with Mortiis on vocals. This release happens in collaboration with Samoth, Faust, Happy Tom, and the others that were part of the Casey Chaos-driven project Scum, back in 2005. The song was for various reasons, never included on the final album version, and remained sort of lost and forgotten, until recently.

You get the unreleased rough mix track from “Gospels for the Sick” from the 2005 session which was recorded at the Crystal Canyon Studios in Oslo. The recording was engineered by the late Marius Bodin Larsen.

Scum is a Norwegian hardcore punk/black metal band formed in 2002. All members are Norwegian except for the American vocalist Casey Chaos. Their album, “Gospels for the Sick”, was recorded in one single session in 2004, and they have only had a few live performances. The band had guest appearances from several artists, one of which was Mortiis who cowrote and performed on the song “Speaking in Tongues”.

Scum’s band members have played in several other bands. Guitarist Samoth played in the black metal bands like Emperor, Gorgoroth, Satyricon, Zyklon, Thou Shalt Suffer, Arcturus and Zyklon-B, and did sessions for Ildjarn and Burzum. Drummer Faust contributed to the music of Emperor, Aborym, Zyklon, Thorns and several less notable bands like Impostor, Blood Tsunami, Death Fuck, Decomposed Cunt and Stigma Diabolicum. Cosmocrator played for Windir, Zyklon, Source of Tide and Mindgrinder. Vocalist Casey Chaos writes and records everything apart from drums for his band, Amen, and also provides vocals for Damned Damned Damned and Grindhaller XXX. Happy-Tom plays bass guitar for Turbonegro.

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Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, industrial, metal. 

Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl.

Background/Info: Next year Dawn Of Ashes will celebrate their 20^th anniversary. They already can look back to an impressive discography featuring dark-electro albums during the early years and more industrial-metal productions later on. But the last year released album “The Crypt Injection II” was a kind of back to the roots, revealing a move to explicit electronic compositions. So I was wondering how this new opus would sound like, which also is their first album released on Artoffact.

Content: This American formation clearly hates repeating themselves. “Antinomian” sounds definitely electro-like and is carried by dark, impressive EBM bass lines. If you think that the last Pouppée Fabrikk album was your darkest experience in EBM, Dawn Of Ashes clearly will show you what real darkness is all about. But it’s not just EBM! The songs are a constant mix between different influences covering dark-electronics, industrial with a good-old metal flavor on top. This is a hard production, which also comes through in the vocal production.

+ + + : I thought to have already seen and heard all imaginable styles and formats when it concerns Dawn Of Ashes. But front man Kristof Bathory appears to be unpredictable and I like it. He now worked out a powerful and haunting sound hybrid reassembling solid EBM bass lines, doom-like atmospheres, aggressive guitar riffs and unpolished industrial sound arrangements. The songs have something menacing, like announcing a nearby apocalyptic vision. But more than this, Dawn Of Ashes deals with a very own sound DNA. I don’t want to compare this work with the newest Pouppée Fabrikk album, but both releases are extremely dark in their genre, but “Antinomian” clearly gets the award for most tormenting album.

– – – : There are a few rather short duration tracks featured and that’s maybe a pity… because the music is good so you never get enough of it!

Conclusion: Where too many bands are stagnating by repeating themselves, Dawn Of Ashes dares to walk on new paths. That’s what I call a creative formation and this album is a new masterpiece in its unique style of music!

Best songs: “Sleep Paralysis”, “Straight To The Core”, “Pawns Of The Wretched”, “Scum Of The Earth”.

Rate: (8½).

Artist: www.dawnofashesband.com / www.facebook.com/Dawnofashes

Label: www.artoffact.com / www.facebook.com/artoffact Read the news on ‘The Antinomian’.

About Dawn Of Ashes

Dawn Of Ashes is a Los Angeles-originated dark electronic and extreme industrial band fronted by Kristof Bathory. “The Antinomian”, reviewed here, was the project’s first album for Artoffact Records. The band later returned to Metropolis Records, releasing the album “Infecting The Scars” on 6 June 2025 and the remix EP “Reinfecting The Scars”, before pairing with Belgian act Suicide Commando on the 2026 single “Penumbra”, which precedes the album “Anatomy Of Suffering”.

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Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, trance.

Format: Digital, Double Vinyl.

Background/Info: Guilt Attendant is a project driven by Brooklyn (USA) based Nathaniel Young. He’s active as a musician, designer, visual artist, photographer while running the record label Severed Mercies. Guilt Attendant has released multiple EP’s on Severed Mercies, but this debut album has been released by Hospital Productions.

Content: Nathaniel Young is clearly driven by techno music, but he carefully mixes this style with other influences. Several tracks are recovered with trance leads while the global production also reveals a rough and industrial sound approach. Most of the cuts are holding you in their grip for a duration of 5 or 6 minutes long, but a few ones are going even further. “Self-Sacrifice Doctrine” is progressively built up and became a track of nearly 17 minutes. It definitely sounds like the offspring between techno and industrial, but still has an experimental touch.

+ + + : I like this album for its open-minded techno spectrum. The tracks are mainly centered on industrial-techno music with some psy-trance leads above. I like the rough sound treatments, which mainly come through at “Cursed Spawn Of White Flight” and “Self-Sacrifice Doctrine”.

– – – : The album features several cool cuts, but is missing a real climax in the tracklist.

Conclusion: “Suburban Scum” sounds dirty and that’s precisely what this album sounds for; a dirty techno sound!

Best songs: “Cursed Spawn Of White Flight”, “Self-Sacrifice Doctrine”, “The Icon Is God”, “Broken Free”.

Rate: (7).

Artist: www.facebook.com/guiltattendant

Label: https://hospitalproductions.net / www.facebook.com/pages/Hospital-Productions/201203726563450

About Guilt Attendant

Guilt Attendant is the solo project of Brooklyn, New York-based graphic designer, DJ and photographer Nathaniel Young, who also runs the record label Severed Mercies. After early tracks in 2018, Guilt Attendant released the EPs “I Used to Pray to Jesus”, “A Reminder of Discipline” and “Do Your Part New York City!” on Severed Mercies in 2020, the same year Hospital Productions issued the debut album “Suburban Scum”. Young has continued the project since with “Burning the Rural District” (2022, Hospital Productions) and “A Flower Wilts Under the Heat of the Son” (2024, Unimatrix Zero), a label he also co-owns.

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Thrill Kill Kult will release “Sinister Whisperz III: The Rykodisc Years”, the third installment in their retrospective Sinister Whisperz series. The album features 19 previously unreleased mixes highlighting the band’s time on the Rykodisc label (1997 – 2007). The compilation includes songs from the LP’s “A Crime For All Seasons”, “Dirty Little Secrets”, “Diamonds & Daggerz”, “Gay, Black & Married”, “The Resurrection Of Luna” and “The Filthiest Show In Town”.

Previous releases in the series are 2011’s “Sinister Whisperz: The Wax Trax! Years” and 2016’s “Sinister Whisperz II: The Interscope Years”. All albums are distributed via the band’s label, SleazeBox Records.

Track Listing

1. Girl Without A Planet (Lost Satellite Mix)
2. Fangs Of Love (Bite Me Mix)
3. Freaky Fever (Shake ‘N Bake Mix)
4. Untouchable Class (Scum World Mix)
5. My Kinda Guy (Sex Box Mix)
6. Flesh Star (Ooh Ahh Mix)
7. Young Tongue (All Nighter Mix)
8. Dirty Little Secrets (Lonely Lolita Mix)
9. Jet Set Sex (Runway Mix)
10. Lucifer’s Flowers (Blood Money Mix)
11. Operation: Sextrip (Pluto’s Mix)
12. Magic Boy Magic Girl (oXY Mix)
13. Blondes With Lobotomy Eyes (Kandi Kiss Mix)
14. Cadillac Square (Two 4 One Mix)
15. Dope Doll Jungle (Hi Fi Mix)
16. Seduction 23 (Kool Sweat Mix)
17. Covergirl Blues (Return To Tomorrow Mix)
18. Sci – Fi Affair (Pinot Noir Mix)
19. Hard, Fast & Beautiful (Hellza Poppin’ Mix)

Below you can check out the 2 previously released sets.

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The new Depeche Mode album “Spirit” will be released as a 2CD set and 2LP set next to the normal version. You can order this deluxe set right here where you will also have the option to buy it on vinyl.

The 12 track album comes augmented with 5 Jungle Spirit remixes: “Cover Me (Alt Out)”, “Scum (Frenetic Mix)”, “Poison Heart (Tripped Mix)”, “Fail (Cinematic Cut)” and “So Much Love (Machine Mix)”.

In the meantime the band’s first single “Where’s the revolution” is out. You can listen to it below.

Side-Line also covered Depeche Mode’s ‘Where’.

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The 17th track on our free download compilation “Face The Beat: Session 4” (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Swedish combo Cynical Existence. On the – very melodic – track “Wasteful Scum” you get a mix of the typical Cynical Existence electronics with fierce guitars.

The Cynical Existence project was founded in 2011 by the Swedish musician Fredrik Croona but ended up as a trio (George Klontzas, Fredrik Croona and guitarist Erik Gustafsson) with its roots firmly planted in aggrotech. The track we offer you here was originally released back in January 2016 as a New Year’s present. Today it sees a much wider release via the Side-Line compilation.

Listen to “Wasteful Scum” below and download it right here.

Check our “Face The Beat: Session 4” page on Bandcamp to discover the other 91 bands. All donations will go to charity.

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Out now is the newest single from Cynical Existence, “Wasteful Scum”, which is the follow-up to the recently releases “Echoes” EP and is available now on Bandcamp. Also a video has been released for the single and can be viewed below. The band describes their current sound as ‘Trance Core’, a mix of trance and metal core.

In further news, the band announce that they have signed with the Hungarian label Advoxya Records.

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