The Providence-based post-industrial duo Snowbeasts just released their new 5-track single “Abuse of Power” via Re:Mission Entertainment as the second digital single taken from the 2025 album “Dire Days”.

The title track addresses corruption, authoritarian behaviour and the erosion of basic rights in contemporary power structures. The band adds it’s a direct protest against figures and systems that disregard the people they represent. A political single in other words.

“Abuse of Power” first appeared on “Dire Days”, which the band issued through Re:Mission Entertainment in late summer 2025. The EP holds the album version of “Abuse of Power” and then extends it through four remixes by Hexmaschine, Caustic and Sawtooth, plus a rework by Snowbeasts themselves.

The “Abuse of power” single follows the 2025 lead single “Death Dance”, also lifted from “Dire Days”. “Dire Days” itself remains available on CD and digital formats through Re:Mission Entertainment’s Bandcamp store.

About Snowbeasts

Snowbeasts is a post-industrial and dark electronic duo based in Providence, Rhode Island, founded in 2014 by producer Robert Galbraith (also known as Raab Codec) and vocalist/multi-instrumentalist Elizabeth Virosa (Elizabeth Galbraith). The project began as an experimental modular synth outlet for Galbraith before expanding into a full duo when Virosa joined, bringing in voice and additional electronics.

The band’s early material focused on cinematic modular soundscapes and droning dark ambient textures, see releases such as “Shrine of the Snowbeasts” and “Survival”. Over time the sound shifted towards heavier beat-driven structures, retaining an interest in atmosphere while integrating elements from IDM, electro-industrial, minimal electronics, trance and industrial techno on albums like “Energy” released on the French label M-Tronic. In a 2021 interview with Side-Line, Snowbeasts says that they have a preference for constant stylistic development across successive releases. Not surprisingly that same year saw the collaborative album (Snowbeasts + Solypsis) “Parasomnia” released on Ohm Resistance. That album drew on industrial, electro and industrial-trance influences, showing they were indeed developing their sound.

In April 2021 we reported about the joint release “Dead Voices On Air : Snowbeasts” that was released on Re:Mission Entertainment. A second collaborative album with the dark ambient project Dead Vocies On Air, “—-X—-“, followed in 2022.

The relationship with Re:Mission Entertainment proved to be fruitful and in 2023 the label issued “The Endless“. preceded by the first single “Let’s Be Animals”. That material showed a shift toward more beat-oriented and dance-floor capable material while retaining dense, cinematic electronics. In 2024 the duo returned on the same label with “Devour“, a release accompanied by a video for the title track directed by Luke Haughwout.

By 2025, the band had built a catalogue of more than twenty releases, including collaborations with artists such as Dead Voices On Air, Solypsis, D.U.M.E. and Theologian. “Dire Days” extended this trajectory into explicitly political territory.

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(Photo by Credit Mandi Martini) Out now on the fine Oklahoma City-based label, Re:Mission Entertainment, is the brand new album from Snowbeasts, “Devour”. The release comes hand in hand with a video for the title track, directed by Luke Haughwout.

The post-industrial duo Snowbeasts consists of Robert Galbraith (Raab Codec), Elizabeth Virosa (Elizabeth Galbraith). They are known for their heavy beat-oriented compositions and eerie synthetic atmospheres blending cinematic ambience with powerful modular squelches and heavily distorted beats.

Formed in 2014, initially as an experimental modular synth side project by Robert Galbraith, Elizabeth Virosa later joined, adding ethereal vocals and expanding the project’s scope. The duo has been prolific, with over 20 releases including collaborations with artists like Dead Voices on Air, Solypsis, D.U.M.E., and Theologian.

Here’s the video for the title track.

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“Artifacts” EP by Divider is out now via Re:Mission Entertainment. Vocals on “Artifacts” are by Peter Beal with synths, programming, and mixing by Bryon Wilson.

The EP holds 4 remixes of the title track plus the original version. The ‘Primitive Remix’ was executed by Peter Beal while the ‘DvDSX remix’ includes additional arrangement by Bryon Wilson and Dejan Samardzic. Also included on the 5-track EP are remixes of the title track by Hex Wolves and Snowbeasts.

You can expect hard-hitting rhythmic EBM. The EP is available on Bandcamp, all major digital platforms, and as a limited edition t-shirt as you can see below.

About Divider

Divider is an electronic music project formed by Bryon Wilson and Peter Beal. The project began in the summer of 1995 when Wilson, then 17 years old, started experimenting with electronic music. Divider’s sound encompasses elements of EBM (Electronic Body Music), industrial, and experimental minimal-electro.

Bryon Wilson and Peter Beal have been the primary creative forces behind Divider, with Wilson handling synths, programming, and mixing, and Beal contributing vocals and remixes.

Divider’s work has been featured on various label compilations and has seen them remix tracks for other artists.

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Genre/Influences: Electronic, Dark-Pop, Industrial.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: One year after the last album (cf. “R.O.T.T. (inmyskin)”  Lynette Cerezo strikes back with a new opus of her Bestial Mouths sonic project. This work features seventeen remixes.

Content: Because of the remixes this album is diversified and brings multiple influences together. It sounds definitely Electronic but still evasive, Dark-Pop driven and with an extra, Industrial and bombastic touch on top. Some parts are even evolving towards a transcendental journey. Sometimes danceable and later on dreamy the album is filled with surprises. Remixes have been accomplished by Broken English Club, Actors, Rebeka Warrior, Curses, XTR Human, Modern Men, IV Horsemen, Crune, Carrelle, Daniel Myer, Trace Amount, Gencab, Maduro, Orphx, Snowbeats, Lana Del rabies and Bedless Bones. 

+ + + : I always have reservations about albums filled with remixes. This work however comes as a cool addendum to the last year released album “R.O.T.T. (inmyskin). I like the mysticism running through the excellent opening piece “Vast Murmur” remixed by Broken English Club, the uplifting effect emerging from “Slitskin” remixed by XTR Human and the remix of “Hex” by Snowbeasts. Diversity is the main strength of this work.

– – – : Seventeen remixes is quite a lot when there are a few uninspired pieces included. I expected a bit more from Daniel Myer and Bedless Bones to mention a few.

Conclusion: Not bad at all but I prefer the original work of Bestial Mouths instead of remixes by other artists.

Best songs: “Hex – Snowbeasts Remix”,“Vast Murmur – Broken English Club Remix”, “Slitskin – XTR Human Remix”, “Slitskin – Orphx Remix”, “Only dEad Fish – IV Horsemen Remix”.

Rate: 7.

Artist: www.bestialmouths.com / www.facebook.com/BESTIALMOUTHS

Label: www.negativegain.com / www.facebook.com/NegativeGain Read the news on ‘Backbone’.

About Bestial Mouths

Bestial Mouths is the Sacramento, California-based project led by Lynette Cerezo, who has remained the group’s constant across several line-up changes since its founding. The 2019 EP “Inshroudss” was the first release written and conceived entirely by Cerezo. The sixth studio album, “R.O.T.T. (inmyskin)“, followed the 2020 release “Resurrectedinblack” and was produced by Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Delerium); its title track drew on Cerezo’s ancestry and the Trail of Tears. The remix set “Backbone” gathers seventeen reworkings of that album by artists including Broken English Club, Actors and Daniel Myer.

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(Photo by Elemental Eyes Photography) Negative Gain Productions recording artists Bestial Mouths have an all new remix album, “Backbone”, out tomorrow. But you can already stream it exclusively via Side-Line today.

The release is the follow-up (or rather companion) to their latest LP, “R.O.T.T.(inmyskin)” and offers reworks mixing darkwave-industrial with synthpop elements. The remixes were executed by Broken English Club, Actors, Rebeka Warrior, Curses, XTR Human, Modern Men, Lana Del Rabies, IV Horsemen, Crune, Orphx, GenCAB, Trace Amount, Carrellee, Daniel Myer, Maduro, Snowbeasts and Bedless Bones.

“Backbone” will be available tomorrow on all major digital platforms including Spotify and Bandcamp. Stream the full release below.

Fronted by Lynette Cerezo the band formed in 2009 and has mixed a number of elements in their work, from goth, industrial, post-punk, New Wave, noise, metal, to other underground sounds using live acoustic and electronic drums and analog synthesizers.

In their decade-plus existence, the band has worked with myriad of producers and artists including Zola Jesus, Mick Harvey, Rhys Fulber, Egyptrixx, Boy Harsher, Die Krupps, Mater Suspiria Vision, Zanias, The Horrorist, and Ludovico Technique to name but a few.

Here’s the video for the genCAB remix of “iNNARDS”. Read the review of ‘Backbone’.

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The Oklahoma City-based record label Re:Mission Entertainment is a regular visitor in our news section with their roster of bands.

Out via Bandcamp as a free download (and on a very limited edition CD as well), is “2023 Label Compilation”, holding 23 tracks including material from Dead Voices On Air, The Mystic Underground, Ex-Hyena, Sidewalks And Skeletons, Dread Risks, Suffer Ring, Miss Trezz, Warm Gadget, Kota Kira, BARA HARI, :Waijdan:, Archon Of The Fairlight, Maduro, SINE, Emergency Sequence, Black Agent, Drenched In Fire, Shhadows, Reign Of Roses, SORROWS, Snowbeasts, Dracula Party, and Dedalos.

Re:Mission Entertainment is looking forwards to an abundant release schedule coming 2024: “Confirmed 2024 releases include albums or EPs by the likes of Ex-Hyena, SINE, Reign Of Roses, Fact Pattern, Left Spine Down, RaizdByWolvz, Dread Risks, Sidewalks And Skeletons, Archon Of The Fairlight, SØLVE, Warm Gadget and more. We will also release a brand-new series of compilations simply titled “RE:MX” which will focus on collaborative remixes between fellow label mates and friends.”

You can download the album below from Bandcamp or get the release on CD (only 100 copies).

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Out now is the new Warm Gadget releases single/ video for the track “The Masses”. “The Masses” is the lead single off of the forthcoming Warm Gadget release, “Sorrows”, out this Fall via Re:Mission Entertainment. “Sorrows” features guest appearances by Page Hamilton of Helmet and remixes by artists such as Dread Risks, Lament Cityscape and Witch Eyes.

Musically this new single is a mix of chainsaw guitars, melodic 1980’s flavored synth backing and bombastic vocals. Contextually the track “calls out violence in society, political tribalism and slyly jabs at anyone who thinks that they are ahead of the game as an ‘original, free thinker’, whilst parroting the rhetoric from their in-groups, echo chambers and party affiliations. Lone wolf, anarchistic thought at its best!”

Below is the video for the new single.

Warm Gadget, hailing from Bend, Oregon, is a duo blending alternative metal, noise, and industrial elements. The duo consists of multi-instrumentalist / producer Colten Williams and vocalist / lyricist / sampler Tim Vester with a revolving door of other musicians who come and go (and come back again).

In 2017, Warm Gadget took a three-year hiatus to immerse themselves in the world of film music production. After their hiatus, Warm Gadget returned in 2021 with “Rituals” which marked a return to their industrial sound. This EP featured five original tracks along with remixes by artists like Snowbeasts and Witch Eyes.

Warm Gadget discography

• “Warm Gadget” (EP, 2011): Marking their initial foray into the music scene, this EP features tracks like “Creepy On The Inside” and “Pain By Numbers”, setting the tone for their distinct style.
• “Brides” (2014): This album features tracks such as “I’m Not There” and “Now The Screaming Starts”.
• “Hallomas III” (EP, 2015): A concise EP which includes songs like “Hallomas” and “Nightmare”.
• “Rituals” (EP, 2021): Their latest EP, featuring tracks like “New Industry” and “Symptoms”.

In addition to these, they also released “Lost Weekend”, “Screaming – The Mothman Curse [WARM GADGET RMX]”, and a live version of “Just When I Was Doing Some Good” on Bandcamp.

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The fine Oklahoma City-based label, Re:Mission Entertainment, has just released the brand new album by the Providence-based post-industrial duo Snowbeasts, titled “The Endless”. The latest offering contains 10 tracks, with the band continuing to develop their sound based on the foundations of their previous heavy beat-oriented releases.

Snowbeasts comprises Robert Galbraith and vocalist Elizabeth Virosa, and since the band’s formation in 2014, they have been exceptionally prolific. To date, they have more than 20 releases, including collaborations with Dead Voices on Air, Solypsis, D.U.M.E., and Theologian.

Do take a moment to explore the full album below.

We are also pleased to present the video for “Let’s Be Animals” below. The lyrics express a desire to sever ties with humanity in order to escape war and other self-destructive behaviours that are not typically associated with “beasts”. The video was filmed on a chilly day in Hockomock Swamp, which is an Algonquin term meaning “place where spirits dwell”. This location is also considered part of the Bridgewater Triangle, an area south of Boston known for its paranormal activity and folklore. Some of the footage of wolves shown behind Snowbeasts was captured by Mandi Martini at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge.

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Oklahoma City based fine darkwave label Re:Mission Entertainment has released a name-your-price label compilation with all proceeds from this release going back into the label to fund future releases.

On the compilation we find 18 bands including Bara Hari, Shhadows (feat. Reiya), A Perfect Error, Dedalos (feat. May Rei), Fact Pattern, Dead Voices On Air, Dread Risks, Black Agent, Mentallo & The Fixer, :Waijdan:, Sidewalks And Skeletons (with Cashforgold), Snowbeasts, SET, Reign Of Roses, The Mystic Underground, Suffer Ring, Dracula Party and SØLVE.

Included are previously unreleased tracks by Reign Of Roses, The Mystic Underground and Snowbeasts along with remixes by ESA: Electronic Substance Abuse, Grendel, Blak Emoji and more.

Next to the download compilation you also have the option to get 1 of 100 copies of the compilation on CD and 1 of 50 Silver Logo t-shirts.

Check the compilation out below.

And below are the previous compilations launched since 2019 when the label started.

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Genre/Influences: Industrial, Experimental.

Format: Digital, Cassette.

Background/Info: Mark Kammerbauer released this new opus last year. “Retreat” features seven songs plus one remix.

Content: “Retreat” gets us back to the early days of Industrial/Experimental music. Next to the 80s influences the work also features very personal input; kind of inhibited, intimate atmosphere. The work has been composed by guitar playing manipulated into Industrial sound effects with menacing sound atmospheres on top. Vocal parts accentuate a cellar-like sensation. The last song is a remix by Snowbeasts which sounds pretty different, exploring Electro-Minimalism.

+ + + : This album evokes to me good-old souvenirs. I got the feeling of awakening in the 80s when I discovered the enigmatic Last Few Days. The menacing, icy, atmosphere has a true impact although there also is a more intimate side running through the work. I like the visual strength of the tracks.

– – – : The Snowbeats-remix is totally unexpected. I like this project and its minimalism but it sounds totally different from Fragment King.

Conclusion: This is a great exposure of early Industrial/Experimental music transposed into the 21^st Century.

Best songs: “Devourer”, “Pale Blue”, “Double Infinity”, “Weak Minds Remixed by Snowbeasts”. 

Rate: 7½.

Artist: www.facebook.com/groups/60822702408/user/670376642

Label: www.annihilvs.net / www.facebook.com/apextheologian

About Fragment King

Fragment King is the industrial project of Mark Kammerbauer, who is also a member of Navicon Torture Technologies and co-producer, with percussionist Z'EV, of the site-specific project Critical Void. Kammerbauer’s work under the Fragment King name began with the 1997 recording “Demo That Exploded”, followed by albums including “The Cellmaker’s Sinister Jazz” (2001), “Anatomic Music”, and “Grey Album”.

“Retreat”, released on cassette and digital via Annihilvs Power Electronix in 2022, closes with a remix by Snowbeasts.

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Out today via Re:Mission Entertainment is the second album, “—-X—-“, in an ongoing collaboration between Dead Voices on Air and Snowbeasts. For this release the two bands took a slightly different approach during the recording. Most of the songs were passed back and forth via file transfer until the songs felt finished. “This resulted in a more composed, or thematic feel to the album, which features more lyrical content”, so the label emphasizes.

The release is out as a download and as a limited CD digipak (100 copies) via Bandcamp (where you can order it. A special T-shirt is also available for ordering.

Spybey’s lyrical content continues to be preoccupied by the political challenges of our time, believing that we have entered a new era of autocracy. He believes that we are in danger of being seduced by the incessant barrage of lies, half-truths, trolling and allegations. That we are being wilfully misled by petty tyrants, upper class twits, the filthy rich, pathological liars and narcissists.

The duo says: “We are oppressed through the weaponisation of fear, in a vain attempt to obscure the political and strategic ineptness of our politicians. The enemy is anyone who dares to think or act differently, or who challenges the kind of beliefs that have plagued mankind: hatred of others, hatred of minorities, hatred of those who seek to instil hope and compassion into our societies.”

Spybey specifies even further: “I’m 60 and I’m still pissed off. Perhaps more pissed off than ever. I confess I find it ever so hard to believe that with all of the advances that humans have made during my lifetime, all of the wonderful things we have achieved, that our countries (the USA and the UK) have ended up electing, being led and represented by people like Trump and Johnson. I can’t believe that anyone could be stupid enough to believe that the world is a safer and better place because of their contribution, or lack of it to the maintenance of peace, stability and wellness. To all of you who say that musicians shouldn’t get involved in politics, I have this to say. I make music because I am able to do it. It’s my right to create and by doing so I am afforded a voice and a platform. It’s one of the many privileges of living in a ‘free society,’ (whatever that means). I make music because I want to and if I didn’t think that by doing so that I couldn’t reach out to people and to respectfully challenge the status quo, in an attempt to make some kind of meaningful contribution to society, I’d quit tomorrow, pack up and go away. For Trump and Johnson, you can easily add another dozen or so ‘world’ leaders names to the list by the way. Politicians are not all the same, and if you think that, then I’d like to respectfully suggest that you might want to do something about it. We deserve better. So yeah, when I started to write lyrics for this record, I really couldn’t avoid mining some of these feelings and I’m kind of unapologetic about it. I don’t like to offend people but enough is enough folks, we deserve better.”

Simon Paul, a well known graphic artist from Toronto, Canada provided the artwork, which plays on a number of themes from the album. The CD was mastered by another member of the Dead Voices on Air family, Anatoly Tokee Grinberg from Moscow.

Here’s the album itself.

About Snowbeasts

Snowbeasts is the duo of Robert Galbraith and Elizabeth Virosa. The project was formed in 2014 in Providence RI after a series of heavy snowstorms. Earlier releases were cinematic modular landscapes and droning dark ambient while later tracks can be more beat oriented.

Snowbeasts has numerous releases scattered across their own Component Recordings and Paris’s MTronic. They have also recently completed a trio of albums with beat oriented noise artist, Solypsis including two for Ohm Resistance.

Along with Snowbeasts, Virosa and Galbraith produce techno under the name Obscure Formats and electronic dance as Pattern Behavior.

About Dead Voices on Air

Spybey started his career in the North-East of England with Zoviet France in the late eighties before moving to Vancouver. It was here that Dead Voices On Air were formed. Spybey also worked under the name Propeller and was an original member of Download, who included members of Skinny Puppy. Spybey was the voice of their 1996 release, “The Eyes of Stanley Pain”.

After leaving Download he started a series of collaborations, appearing on over 50 albums in a five-year period. Perhaps his most significant collaboration was being asked to be part of CAN guitarist Michael Karoli’s band Sofortkontakt! and appearing at the CAN 30th anniversary shows in 1999. Spybey was a close friend of Michael Karoli prior to his death in 2001 and had toured with him as part of legendary CAN vocalist Damo Suzuki’s Network in 1998 in North America, appearing in the German TV film by Peter Braatz, “On the Air”.

Spybey has recorded, toured and played live with numerous collaborators including Faust, Michael Rother (Neu!) and Dieter Moebius (Cluster), members of The Legendary Pink Dots, Mick Harris (Scorn, Painkiller), Jarboe (Swans), Simon Fisher-Turner, Richard Sanderson, James Plotkin (Flux, Old, Scorn), Robert Hampson (Loop/Main), Jochen Arbeit (Einzturzende Neubaten), Darryl Neudorf and Sugarpill (Abintra), Not Breathing, Pigface and Martin Atkins.

He has worked with a number of record companies, including Kranky, Nettwerk, Invisible, Cold Spring, U.M.P and Soleilmoon. Spybey was part of the band Beehatch with the late Phil Western of Download, who released three albums and toured Europe. In 2004 he formed Reformed Faction, a duo with founding member of Zoviet France and Rapoon mainstay Robin Storey. The band have released a number of albums and have played live in both Europe and North America. He now resides in his native Yorkshire, in the UK.

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Out now for free, or pay-what-you-want, is “Re:Mission Entertainment – 2021 Label Compilation”. This download compilation offers a good insight on the label offerinf industrial, EBM, witch house and darkpop.

For those who want a physical copy, you can also order a limited edition (100 copies only) CD in cardboard jacket as well via Bandcamp.

Included are the following 18 bands: Fact Pattern, Suffer Ring, BARA HARI, SØLVE, CASHFORGOLD x Sidewalks And Skeletons x Holly Stell, shxde, SET, Dread Risks, :Waijdan:, Sidewalks And Skeletons, Left Spine Down, Bedlam Emotion, Kota Kira, brothel. x Sidewalks And Skeletons , Shhadows, Dedalos, Fektion Fekler and Dead Voices On Air : Snowbeasts.

You can check and download the label compilation below.

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Genre/Influences: Industrial, Electro, Industrial-Trance.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: “Parasomnia” comes as an extension to the last year released album “Fever Dream”, which was a collaboration between American projects Snowbeasts and Solypsis. Seven songs from this album have been exposed to the remix skills of sixteen artists.

Content: The work is a diversified and somewhat versatile rework of album songs. There are many influences, moving from pure Industrial to Minimal-Electro to Trance passages to D’n’B to Industrial-Techno to IDM. Remixes have been accomplished by Luke Lund, Compactor, Skintape, Somatic Responses, Alpturer, Spheric, Skymall, STCLVR, Robert Imhuman, Rekt, The Gothsicles, Cathode Ray Tube, Anatoly Grinberg, Sawtooth, Amantra and Solypsis.

+ + + : The good thing with such an album is that we all will find one or more favorite remixes. It’s hard to give a favorite, but I like the IDM approach of Cathode Ray Tube. I also enjoyed the opening remix by Luke Lund, transforming “The Ultimatum” into an Industrial-Trance driven dance piece. There’s also something to say about the remix of “Reprieve” by Skintape, which is a cool Electro-Industrial cut. The Industrial-Techno bouncing remix of “Modular Cytology” by Alpturer is another noticeable track. Last, but not least I’ll also mention “Artificial Everything” remixed in a more Electro-driven way by The Gothsicles.

– – – : I’ve never been a huge fan of productions filled with an endless list of remixes. I also prefer the original songs although I’ve to admit there are a few cool songs featured.

Conclusion: Remixes often are a good way to bring original songs to life. Here we get an open-minded Industrial driven production.

Best songs: “Dead Skies – Cathode Ray Tube Remix”, “Reprieve – Skintape Remix”, “Modular Cytology – Alpturer Remix”.

Rate: 7.

Artists: www.snowbeasts.audio / www.facebook.com/snowbeasts / www.facebook.com/solypsisnoises

Label: www.ohmresistance.net  / www.facebook.com/ohmresistance    

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Genre/Influences: IDM, Minimal-Electro, Industrial, Ambient-Electro, Experimental.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: Twenty seven tracks to celebrate the 20^th anniversary of the French label M-Tronic. As the title indicates, it also is the fifth volume in the Compilation series “Table Of Elements” which started in 2004 with ten tracks.

Artists: C.H.District, Cathode Ray Tube, Alpturer, Amantra, An Hedonia, Plaster, Mono Peninsula, Valance Drakes, Nearfield, Syl Kougaï, Tineidae + Comforting Darkness, EKS Center, DEF, Obscure Formats, Snowbeasts, Martin Dupont & Philippe Petit, Xorcist, Flint Glass, Ermanspeed, Shizuka, Leitmotiv Rainbow, Lith, Cruise [ctrl], NSP.

Content: The impressive tracklist perfectly stands for the particular and minimal-driven sound of the M-Tronic roster. It’s an avant-garde vision of the Electronic underground scene featuring an intelligent, sophisticated and complex approach of Electronic music. Most bands are familiar names from the label roster although you’ll discover other bands as well.

+ + + : M-Tronic is a label I’ve always respected for its visionary approach. Electronic music is much more than artists repeating each other and music genres without innovation. M-Tronic brings visionary music and always have dared to sign unknown bands with an intelligent sound. But intelligent music often stands for a rather restricted number of fans. I however remain an adherent of this label and this compilation simply confirms the good taste of the French label. And when you realize the label also released albums of bands like Millimetric, Mlada Fronta, Ex_Tension, Displacer, Geomatic ao, which aren’t featured on this compilation, you only, but have to agree this label stands for high tech productions.

– – – : A few more explicit Experimental passages aren’t my favorites one, but you don’t hear me to complaining.

Conclusion: Electronic music with an uppercase E!

Best bands: Tineidae + Comforting Darkness, Ermanspeed, S.H.I.Z.U.K.A., Lith, C.H. District, Leitmotiv Rainbow.

Rate: 8½.

Label: www.m-tronic.com / www.facebook.com/mtroniclabel

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Warm Gadget, the recording trio made up of Colten Williams, Austin Williams and Tim Vester, has self-released a brand new alternative metal/industrial EP entitled “Rituals”. “Rituals” EP holds 5 brand new songs, as well as remixes by electronic artists such as Snowbeasts and Witch Eyes. The EP is out now via the Warm Gadget Bandcamp page.

You can expect a mix of electronic beats, synth melodies and guitars.

The “Rituals” EP also marks the band’s return to writing & recording together after a 3-year hiatus. Check out “If Only I Could” below.

Based out of Bend, Oregon, the band has been writing, recording, and performing since 2009, when Vester and Williams, as the primary members and songwriters, began working together in a converted bedroom/studio/HQ. Since the group’s inception, they have released their initial demo, a full-length album “Brides”, the “Hallowmas” EP and various compilation appearances. They have also written compositions for film and video.

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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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“Dead Voices On Air : Snowbeasts” is the newest album by the dark ambient acts Dead Voices On Air and Snowbeasts. For those who might have forgotten, Dead Voices on Air is Mark Spybey’s experimental and industrial project formed after his departure from Zoviet France. Dead Voices on Air has collaborated with artists such as Not Breathing and cEvin Key of Skinny Puppy.

But back to the joined effort which started out when Dead Voices On Air’s Mark Spybey – who played at a festival in Providence RI – was helped out by Rob Galbraith from the band Snowbeasts. He drove Mark back to Boston to catch his flight home. It resulted in Rob and Mark eventually talking about working together.

During the first Covid lockdown, in the summer of 2020, the duo started working on a new Dead Voices on Air album. Rob and his partner Beth sent so much music to Mark that when he started to assemble the finished project, he worked out that it was at least a double album’s worth of material. He suggested that the bulk of the work that Rob and Beth had contributed might work as a Dead Voices on Air and Snowbeasts joint CD.

Even the artwork seems to have been a collaborative effort as the band’s artwork guy Marco Roberti assembled the sleeve for the CD from photographs by Rob, Beth and Mark. The CD was mastered by another member of the Dead Voices on Air family, Anatoly Grinberg from Moscow.

The album is out now via Re:Mission (inlcuding as a limited CD edition of just 100 copies), you can check it below.

About Snowbeasts

Snowbeasts is the duo of Robert Galbraith and Elizabeth Virosa. The project was formed in 2014 in Providence RI. Earlier releases were cinematic modular landscapes and droning dark ambient while later tracks can be more beat oriented.

Snowbeasts has numerous releases scattered across their own Component Recordings and the fine Paris based label M-Tronic. They have also recently completed a trio of albums with beat oriented noise artist, Solypsis including two for Ohm Resistance.

Along with Snowbeasts, Virosa and Galbraith produce techno under the name Obscure Formats and electronic dance as Pattern Behavior.

About Dead Voices On Air

Spybey started his career in the North-East of England with Zoviet France in the late eighties before moving to Vancouver. It was here that Dead Voices On Air were formed. Spybey also worked under the name Propeller and was an original member of Download, which included members of Skinny Puppy. Spybey was the voice of “The Eyes of Stanley Pain” in 1996.

After leaving Download he started a series of collaborations, appearing on over 50 albums in a five-year period including that of CAN guitarist Michael Karoli’s band Sofortkontakt!. Spybey was a close friend of Michael Karoli prior to his death in 2001 and toured with him as part of legendary CAN vocalist Damo Suzuki’s Network in 1998 in North America, appearing in the German TV film by Peter Braatz, “On the
Air”.

Spybey was part of the band Beehatch with the late Phil Western of Download, who released three albums and toured Europe. In 2004 he formed Reformed Faction, a duo with founding member of Zoviet France and Rapoon mainstay Robin Storey. The band has released a number of albums and have played live in both Europe and North America.

He now resides in his native Yorkshire, in the UK.

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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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Hailing from New England (USA) Rob Galbraith (aka ‘Raab Codec’) and Elizabeth Virosa are now active for several years as SNOWBEASTS. They already released an impressive number of productions and last year unleashed their newest opus “Energy”. The album was released on M-Tronic, revealing an impressive mix of influences; from IDM and Techno to Minimal-Electro, Trance and Electro-Industrial the album is characterized by a very personal approach. “Energy” is an absolute masterpiece and definitely one of my favorites from 2020. I’d a chat with Rob and Elizabeth.

(Picture credit by Lüke Haughwøut / Interview courtesy by Inferno Sound Diaries)

Q: You guys are involved with different music projects like MON<O>TAUR, PATTERN BEHAVIOR, OBSCURE FORMATS and of course SNOWBEATS. Which projects are still active today? How do you make the difference between the projects and is there a different approach? 

Rob: Right now SNOWBEASTS is our primary project and outlet for musical creativity. SNOWBEASTS is spread across several different directions so it can be a bit hard to pin down. Typically we start with an overall concept when we start a new album -is it going to be more atmospheric? Is it going to be more dance oriented? And then go from there. “Energy” was an attempt to bring more of the Dark-Techno that we play live into our recorded works. With SNOWBEASTS we try to bring more organic elements in to the music and use more acoustic  sound sources like waterphone, bone trumpet, and zithers. 

OBSCURE FORMATS is the other active project and the scope is more narrow and Techno-oriented. The three OBSCURE FORMATS albums that came out last year were all done in a very short period of time (a couple weeks each for the first two). For that project I try to keep things a bit more raw and really try to avoid overthinking. 

We are talking about doing some new PATTERN BEHAVIOR tracks in 2021, but that is really just in the planning stages right now. MON<O>TAUR is a bit different in that we were working with our friend, David Dodson, on it so it brings his personality and influence in the mix as well. We have talked about doing more tracks together but nothing yet. 

Q: SNOWBEASTS is now active for several years and has already released an impressive discography. Where does this creativity comes from and how would you analyze the evolution from the early work till the newest album “Energy”?

Rob: For me the creativity comes from all over the place. I really try to keep my ears open to both the music I love and the things that I’m not so into. It could be just a matter of hearing the way a drum loop is processed or a simple click in a sound that gets me thinking about a new track. Emotion also plays into what I put into music. It may not always be completely articulated, but it definitely plays a huge role. 

I think the evolution may be in part due to my short attention span. I get bored easily and as a result, I don’t want to be doing the same thing over and over again. I sort of see three distinct evolutionary points in SNOWBEASTS starting with the Dark-Ambient of the first album, and then moving to the Down-Tempo beats of “Instincts”, and then the third being the more dance oriented tracks on “Energy”. That being said, I totally feel comfortable moving back and forth within those realms.

Q: “Energy” has been released nearly one year ago now. How do you look back at the writing and production process of the album and can you give us more details about the concept, sound and influences? 

Elizabeth: Before working on the album we discussed trying to attempt to create a dark atmospheric sound at a faster BPM and seeing if we could accomplish that. The time it took us to complete the album was a bit slower than it typically takes us to complete albums in the past as this took us about a year to complete. There are a few tracks with lyrics. Those I would write after adding more indistinguishable vocalizations just to come up with a melody or rhythm to go with the drums or other sounds Rob added. Sometimes we kept those if they worked.       

Rob: For influences, I don’t think we can particularly pin it to particular artists, but I was definitely listening to a lot of Techno while writing “Energy”. I wanted to fuse that with more organic elements and the moods and atmospheres we explore with SNOWBEASTS.

Q: How do you guys work together? What makes the complementarity between you both? 

Elizabeth: In general Rob is behind the computer using the daw while I’ll contribute and record vocals or record instrument samples or drones or pads from synths although sometimes I take over while he records drums or baselines or other sounds from Eurorack equipment. We pretty much both work on the arrangements together. I might start it or he will until one of us finishes it.

Typically most tracks begin with a sound from an instrument we might have acquired say a bone trumpet, field  recordings or maybe a Eurorack instrument. Something that is typically new for us to explore and has the characteristics and color we are looking for. 

Where I complement his approach and style is typically in the process of slowing things down enough to analyze things, but without paralysis. Basically, I ask questions and give a lot of feedback while we are working unless it does not need it and sounds amazing. 

Q: I noticed more and more artists are getting back to modular- and analog gear to write their music. What makes the magic of vintage equipment and what did it add to your work? 

Rob: For me analog synths provide a sense of immediacy and tactile interaction. I love to be able to twist and modulate sounds in real time without having to map a controller. With modular, it comes down to the absolute freedom of things and being able to made something new and predictable every time I turn on my modular cabinets. I am by no means an analog purist and mix a fair amount of drum samples and VSTs in to the mix. It really comes down to what works best for you and your workflow. I have heard  people do amazing things with very minimal  computer based setups-so you don’t necessarily need a wall of modular gear to make interesting music. 

Elizabeth: Rob introduced me to Eurorack systems a few years back when we first started working on SNOWBEASTS, when working with these types of tools what I suppose seemed magical was when we created sounds that were unexpected and powerful while playing in the studio. Sometimes the way modules patched together did not seem to fully explain its sound and  that way it seems as if there is something else influencing the final outcome. 

Q: Next to “Energy” you also released 2 albums together with SOLYPSIS. How did this collaboration happened? Was there a specific focus and/or concept in this collaborative work? 

Rob: SOLYPSIS had originally reached out to have Elizabeth’s voice on one of his tracks. We were all really happy with the results and decided to work on the first SNOWBEASTS & SOLYPSIS album together. The first album was written mostly while I was on furlough from my last job. James and I would bounce ideas and files back and forth  during the day and then Elizabeth would add to the tracks when she finished up with work in the evenings. James and I work really well together and he brings a ridiculous amount of enthusiasm to the project. The first album felt like an artistic success and we got a really good response from it so it seemed only natural to do a second album which brought us to “Fever Dream”.  Right now we are compiling a remix album of the track on “Fever Dream” and have some amazing remixers on board. 

Inferno Sound Diaries

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Genre/Influences: Dark-Techno, Techno-Body.

Format: Digital.

Background/Info: Obscure Formats is a side-project of Snowbeasts and mainly of Raab Codec. An impressive number of productions have been released in a very short lapse of time, “Cryptid” being the third album of Obscure Formats for 2020. The title of the work deals about ‘a creature of legend’.

Content: I expected something totally different when I knew what the title of the album is all about; something more Ambient or ritual-like. But Obscure Formats deals with the dark side of Techno music! The songs are driven by heavy beats while the electronic composition is characterized by EBM-inspired bass lines and dark atmospheres. The work has something linear, but that’s what Techno music stands for.

+ + + : “Cryptid” is a powerful production; a dark and perverted Techno format for parties in dark cellars. Pure underground! I like this approach, which is comparable to some Berliner productions in the genre and yet, this is also different. It’s more obscure and underground-like. “Basilisk” and “Ahool” both are very efficient compositions to understand the approach of this artist. I also have to mention “Tatzelwurm” driven by a phenomenal, cold tune and carried by a strong bass line. The repetitive sequences have something exciting creating a trance effect.

– – – : Some passages are a little bit too repetitive creating an unaccomplished effect, but in the end that’s often what Techno reflects.

Conclusion: If you think you’ve already heard the darkest formats of Techno music, Obscure Formats will open a forbidden door to an unknown dimension!

Best songs: “Basilisk”, “Ahool”, “Tatzelwurm”, “Mothman”.

Rate: (8).

Artist: www.facebook.com/snowbeasts

Label: www.m-tronic.com / www.facebook.com/mtroniclabel

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I have been working for over 30 years with Side-line as the main reviewer. My taste is eclectic, uncoventional and I prefer to look for the pearls, even if the bands are completely unknown, thus staying loyal to the Side-Line philosophy of nurturing new talents.

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Genre/Influences: IDM, Electro-Industrial, Trance, Minimal-Electronics.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: Raab Codec and Elizabeth Virosa are now active for several years as Snowbeasts. Bothg American artists are still involved with other common projects such as Obscure Formats, Pattern Behavior and Mon >O< Taur. The band’s discography is already quite impressive while they this year added a new album “Energy” released on M-Tronic.

Content: “Energy” takes off with a rather wafting and mysterious track featuring female chants reminding me of the imaginary call of sirens. Quite progressively the work becomes sophisticated and into pure IDM. Industrial sound treatments and slow rhythms joined by other female chants and spoken-like vocals are noticeable elements of the album. But there also is an explicit Trance-approach, which is created by dark, repetitive sequences and bouncing beats. The work becomes cold and ending a more minimal-like way.

+ + + : “Energy” is an album that took me by surprise leaving me sometimes breathless. The tracklist is meticulously built up, taking off with mysterious spheres, but slowly reaching in the midst of the album a total state of Trance; a pure sonic orgasm emerging at “Rebirth”. This song is a true masterpiece, one of the best tracks I’ve heard this year. The deep, resonating sound blasts, which sound like a horn, create a Trance/Ritual effect. A somewhat similar impression is also reached on the next song “At Least I Have My Heart”. Elizabeth Virosa’s spoken-like and sterile kind of singing accentuate the global sensation of mystery, trance and rite. After these both amazing songs the album moves towards more minimal-like impressions, which are still intelligently written by great vintage sound treatments.

– – – : There are no minus points about this album; it’s just regrettable this project remains pretty unknown for a wider audience.

Conclusion: “Energy” is a fully accomplished piece of intelligent Electronic music composed by artists who still take care to create their own sound and style.

Best songs: “Rebirth”,“At Least I Have My Heart”, “Kanashibari”, “Glass Souls”, “Entity”, “The Storm Inside”.

Rate: (9).

Artist: www.facebook.com/snowbeasts

Label: www.m-tronic.com / www.facebook.com/mtroniclabel

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Genre/Influences: IDM, electro-ambient, cinematographic.

Background/Info: Michael Morton better known as Displacer has already released an impressive number of releases on different labels. His project became an established and renowned name at the wider fields of electro-experimental & ambient music, but still at the more contemporary IDM. This new opus seems to be inspired by some existential themes resulting in 10 new cuts featuring a few guest artists.

Content: Displacer moves on with the familiar electro complexity, which started during the early millennium years. The influences remain pretty similar although every single new album sounds as a further exploration of this very unique sound universe created by Michael Morton. It remains pretty electro-ambient supported with astral atmospheres and carried by slow, broken rhythms.

+ + + : Displacer always sounds like a voyage through futuristic sound galaxies. The artist takes care to create magic sound treatments revealing, deep resonating bass lines, multiple sound effects and refined bleeps. “No Matter Where You Go…” makes me even think of an ambient version of Kraftwerk. There’s a noticeable progression in the song structures, which sometimes reaches a real climax like on “White Tiger” (feat. Brien Hindman). Some tracks are somewhat mystic while other passages are clearly into a cinematographic dimension.

– – – : Displacer always has this little experimental touch, which makes the sound only accessible for the true lovers of this genre.

Conclusion: “The Face You Deserve” only confirms the genius sound approach of Michael Morton. He’s an artist who doesn’t really care about compromises and fashion trends, but simply moves on exploring sound fields of the future.

Best songs: “White Tiger (with Brien Hindman)”, “Out Of Time (with Snowbeasts)”, Shadow Self”, “No More Mr Nice Guy”, “No Matter Where You Go”.

Rate: (8).

Band: www.displacer.ca / www.facebook.com/displacermusic

Label: www.ant–zen.com / www.facebook.com/antzen.official

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