(Photo by Paul Heartfield) Goldfrapp co-creator Will Gregory has shared another track, “Parabolic Sleuth”, from the upcoming deluxe edition of the Will Gregory Moog Ensemble album “Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project” inspired by Archimedes’ work. “Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project” has been completely performed on analogue synths, with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales.

“Heat Ray: The Archimedes Project” is set for release on Mute on 27 September. The deluxe edition features insights from the recreational mathematician, comedian and author Matt Parker, best known for his YouTube series, “Standup Maths”. The nine pieces written and presented by Parker each introduce a track from the album.

The album has been augmented with two bonus tracks, “Heavy Logic” and the track we present today, “Parabolic Sleuth“.

A series of live dates will coincide with the release – starting with Hidden Notes festival in Stroud before three performances with the Britten Sinfonia at the Barbican, London Basingstoke and in Saffron Walden and a further date in Southampton for the ensemble.

The Will Gregory Moog Ensemble members include Portishead’s Adrian Utley, a longtime collaborator of Will’s, who co-produced and plays on the album. Mute’s Daniel Miller is its “kind of executive producer”, and he even played on one of the tracks. “Given he’s been into synths right from his early days, and is a genius with them, that was a good moment”, alongside John Baggott, Graham Fitkin, Simon Haram, Vyvyan Hope-Scott, Ross Hughes, Hazel Mills, Daniel Moore, Hinako Omori, Eddie Parker, Harriet Riley and Ruth Wall. Their instruments include Minimoog, Moog Voyager, Korg 700s, Prophet 6 and Roland JX3P.

Will Gregory Moog Ensemble dates

• 21-22 Sep – Hidden Notes Festival, Stroud
• 8 Oct – Barbican, London – with the Britten Sinfonia
• 9 Oct – Basingstoke, The Anvil – with the Britten Sinfonia
• 10 Oct – Southampton, Turner Sims
• 11 Oct – Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden – with the Britten Sinfonia

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The Greek dark electro band Inline Sex Terror (IST) has announced the release of its third full-length album, “Re:boot”. The new album is set to launch on November 1, 2024, via the German Minusbeat label.

The album marks the band’s return after a 13-year hiatus, bringing a fresh take on old-school industrial EBM. The 11-track album, including titles like “No Regrets (No Rewind),” “Pulse of the Machine,” and “Grime and Gears”, explores themes of restarting, reflecting on past decisions, and embracing the inevitable changes that shape the future.

To support the album, Inline Sex Terror is preparing to release two music videos ahead of the album’s release and is planning a tour—their first in over a decade. You can already check out the title track below.

About Inline Sex Terror

Inline Sex Terror, originally formed in 2002 under the name Zerstorwut, began as a solo project by George.h, a DJ and promoter in Athens, Greece.

After five years, DV/h shifted his focus to music production and in 2008, the project was rebranded as Inline Sex Terror (IST), and the debut album “11:11” was released. The album, signed under the German label Danse Macabre Records, was followed by a first European tour, opening for Das Ich. The project also remixed the Das Ich song “Kannibale” for the Kannibale EP in 2008.

In 2010, Inline Sex Terror released the “Distorted Life” EP, which featured three new tracks and ten remixes by various artists, including Leather Strip and C-Lekktor. A second album, “The Architecture of Madness”, followed the next year and was released under the labels DSBP and Minusbeat.

In 2011 the project took a break largely due to personal issues DV/h faced and only two new songs were released during this period. In 2024 the project was revived the new album “Re:boot”. It will be followed by a European tour.

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After a hiatus of 13 years, the Greek dark electro act Inline Sex Terror is making a comeback with a new album and a European tour scheduled for this winter. These upcoming shows will mark the band’s first performances in 15 years.

The band was formed in 2002 under the name Zerstörwut as a solo project of DV/H alias George.H, who was a resident DJ and promoter in Athens, Greece, at the time. After 5 years, DV/H decided to make fewer appearances in the club scene and focus on creating and producing music for Zerstörwut.

In 2008, the project changed its name to Inline Sex Terror. The band signed to the German label Danse Macabre Records to release their debut album in August of the same year: “11:11”. Two years later, the project returned with the “Distorted Life” EP holding three new tracks and ten remixes from bands such as Leaether Strip, FabrikC, Supreme Court, Beati Mortui, Implant, C-Lekktor, Kadaver Acht, V2A, Without Recognition, and Concrete Rage.

Shortly after releasing the EP, DV/H returned to his own studio to begin working on the next album. In 2011, the project released the album “The Architecture of Madness” under a new label (DSBP/Minusbeat). Over the following years, Inline Sex Terror became dormant due to personal problems of DV/H. Only two new songs were created and released on compilations, and in 2017, DV/H declared Inline Sex Terror inactive.

Fast forward to 2024, DV/H has brought Inline Sex Terror out of its coma and is working on a new album. After the album is released, a European tour will follow, marking IST’s return to the stage after 15 years.

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The Porta Nigra Festival 2024 is scheduled at the Stadsfeestzaal Aarschot on the 1st and 2nd of March. This event features quite a varied lineup of electronic and industrial music acts.

First Day – 1 March 2024: The festival begins with Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, The Juggernauts, and Mirexxx. An afterparty follows, hosted by DJ Borg, with DJ sets by The Black Widow between performances.

Second Day – 2 March 2024: The lineup includes VNV Nation, Kosheen, The Arch, and The Obscure, with an afterparty by DJ Wildhoney. The Black Widow provides music between the day’s performances.

Entrance to the afterparties is included with each festival ticket.

Tickets for the event are available for purchase, offering access to both days of performances.

For more on VNV Nation, see VNV Nation launches extra North American tour dates with Traitrs on Side-Line.

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The 2021 edition of the Sinner’s Day Festival will take place from 30th October until 1st November 2021 at The Max in Heusden-Zolder, Belgium. About 53 new wave, EBM, industrial, post-punk, synth-pop and eighties bands are featured on 2 stages.

This year the line-up includes: Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft (Robert Goerl & DAF world premiere), Gary Numan, Clan Of Xymox, Praga Khan, Covenant, Fields Of The Nephilim, Suicide Commando, Funeral Dress, The Arch, The Bollock Brothers, Your Life On Hold, Ground Nero, Absolute Body Control, A Slice Of Life, Astrasonic, Blancmange, Diary Of Dreams, Agent Side Grinder, Red Zebra, Siglo XX, The KVB, And Also The Trees, La Muerte, UK Subs, Glen Matlock, IAMTHESHADOW, A Split Second, BFG, Then Jericho, She Past Away, The Foreign Resort, Minuit Machine, Leaether Strip, Haujobb, Gene Loves Jezebel, Twin Tribes, La Lune Noire, Empathy Test, Jah Wobble and more!

There is also The Batcave, the dance-area where you can party while DJ’s spin their finest tracks 13h/day. A camping area is available if you want to stay next to the festival area at night!

Tickets can be ordered here

Be aware that you need to show a valid Covid certificate/Covid Safe Ticket to get access to the festival!

Genre/Influences: Cold-Wave, Dark-Wave.

Format: Digital, CD.

Background/Info: After having released last year albums on Unknown Pleasures Records and ScentAir Records, Italian artist Marco Cattani (Halo Effect, The Mark) strikes back with a new opus on Wave Records. Chemical Waves have again invited numerous guest singers. Vocalists from Bedless Bones, The Arch, The Purge, Death Loves Veronica, Sara Stuttgart, Then Came The Rain, Velvet Kills, Iris Capricorn, XTR Human and Social Station contributed to the work.

Content: The sound formula hasn’t really changed. Chemical Waves remains driven by the dark legacy of 80s Cold/Dark-Wave music. The singers again each inject a very personal touch to the work, which creates an interesting diversity. From sensual vocals to low, resonating vocals there’s a lot to experience while you’ll also notice two instrumental cuts.

+ + + : Chemical Waves holds on the true spirit of Dark/Cold-Wave music, which is mainly created by the magic of the guitar playing. I heard some good matches with the singers of The Arch, The Purge and especially Su Eko/Velvet Kills, reminding me a bit of Placebo.

– – – : The global approach of this project remains interesting and sometimes exciting although I’m missing ‘the’ singer of this band. I also preferred previous productions, the sound becoming a bit too predictable while the songs are less efficient. Being too prolific is sometimes undermining quality…

Conclusion: This is not the album from Chemical Waves I would recommend listening to first.

Best songs: “Rangers On The Road”, “Demon In Me”.

Rate: (6 ½).

Artist: www.facebook.com/chemicalwaves

Label: www.waverecordsmusic.com / www.facebook.com/waverecords

About Chemical Waves

Chemical Waves is the darkwave and post-punk solo project of Marco Cattani from Rome, Italy, who is also a member of Halo Effect and The Mark. Discogs lists self-released digital material between 2012 and 2015, including the album “The Garden Of Forking Paths” and the singles “The Origin” and “Murders TV” (afmusic, 2012). The project works with a rotating cast of guest vocalists on every album.

Two albums appeared in 2020: Even When We Fall Apart on the French label Unknown Pleasures Records, reviewed on Side-Line in May 2020, and Lasting Forever on the Russian label ScentAir Records, reviewed in November 2020.

“Stories From The World Before” was released by Wave Records in 2021 as a download and on CD; the Bandcamp page dates the release to 7 April 2021, while the Side-Line news item Italian post-punk act Chemical Waves returns with an all new album of May 2021 reported a 30 April release and a CD ecopack limited to 200 copies. The twelve tracks are “Kiss The Ring” (feat. Bedless Bones), “Obsession And Cure” (feat. Gerd Van Geel of The Arch), “Demon In Me” (feat. The Purge), the instrumental “Eternally”, “A Dark Prayer” (feat. Death Loves Veronica), “Alibi” (feat. Sara Stuttgart), “Sixty” (feat. Then Came The Rain), “Rangers On The Road” (feat. Su Eko of Velvet Kills), “On Another’s Sorrow” (feat. Iris Capricorn, with lyrics by William Blake), “Your Voice” (feat. XTR Human), “Field Of Static” (feat. Social Station) and the instrumental “Cruel”. Chemical Waves wrote, arranged and produced all songs and the lyrics of “Obsession And Cure”; the other guests wrote and sang their own lyrics. A video for “Kiss The Ring” accompanied the release.

The self-released digital album “I – When We Were Full Of Hope” followed in 2022, and Our Love In A Dying World appeared at the end of 2025, with a cassette edition on Violet Hour Transmissions, and was reviewed on Side-Line in January 2026. The Bandcamp page for “Stories From The World Before” announces a remastered vinyl and CD edition for 2026 through ElasticStage. The album reviewed here is the project’s third Side-Line review.

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The Rome (IT) based post-punk act Chemical Waves returns with an all new album on April 30th via Wave Records. “Stories From The World Before” is the next chapter for the solo project of Marco Cattani (Halo Effect, The Mark) in collaborations with several international artists.

This time Cattani worked with Bedless Bones, Gerd Van Geel/The Arch, The Purge, Death Loves Veronica, Sara Stuttgart, Then Came The Rain, Su Eko/Velvet Kills, Iris Capricorn, Xtr Human and Social Station.

The result is a 12-track release for which a first video has just been released, namely one for “Kiss The Ring” featuring Bedless Bones. Note that the album will also be out as a CD ecopack limited to 200 copies.

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In December 2018 the Belgian darkwave act The Arch will release a new album with 12 new songs. But right now the band decided to release each song separately throughout the year.

Every month a new track will be launched on itunes/spotify and each song will be created, mixed and finished before they start other ones. The band explains why: “Each song is a world on its own: a different story, atmosphere and sound. We want to have another approach than the usual, when a band goes into the studio with a amount of songs, and finished them as a whole, with a same global sound. In a way, we start an album without being an album. And also not knowing how it will sound at the end. That makes it a whole different approach. And it makes us curious. It’s like an adventure.”

In the end the band plans to have 12 songs that are also inspired by the month they are releasing it. Every song will get special artwork and sleeve so they all look like singles. Next to that you can expect video material to be released with every track.

Right now the band has released the 4th single from their upcoming album: “Cocks Populi”. A video for the track can be found below. Earlier on the band released “Dark Room”, “Aline Ann” and “Blood Crystals”.

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In 2016, The Arch released the album “Fates” on Trisol and Dark tunes. The album release was followed by gigs at festivals like M’era Luna, Wfest, Young & Cold festival in Augsburg and shows in Paris, London and Cologne.

That live experience seemed to have been very fruitful for the band:

“We didn’t stop making music”. We had so many ideas and songs that we wanted to make a successor for Fates.”

In december 2018 The Arch will release a new album with 12 new songs but each song will be released separately throughout the year, one per month and this on itunes/spotify, something producer John Fryer has been doing before as you might know.

Here’s what the band says about this (adopted) approach:

“Each song is a world on its own: a different story, atmosphere and sound. We want to have another approach than the usual, when a band goes into the studio with a amount of songs, and finished them as a whole, with a same global sound. In a way, we start an album without being an album. And also not knowing how it will sound at the end. That makes it a whole different approach. And it makes us curious. It’s like an adventure.”

Note that the 12 songs will also be inspired by the month the band is releasing it.

“Winter will be different than Autumn. Maybe darker. Maybe warmer. We don’t know. Every song gets a special artwork and sleeve so they all look like singles. We are also working on video material to release with every track.”

The first song to be released is “Blood Crystals” and was written after reading “The Girl Who Played with Fire”, the second novel in the Millennium series by the Swedish writer, Stieg Larsson. Says the band:

“At the end Lisbeth Salander is buried alive. When you are listening to our song, you got to imagine what is happening, when you’re buried alive yourself and you suddenly realize it.”

“Blood Crystals” will be released tomorrow.

In further news, here are some confirmed concert dates for the next months.

• 09/02/2018 – Matrix Bochum (DE)
• 23/02/2018 – Magasin 4 Brussels (BE)
• 12/10/2018 – Autumn Moon Festival (DE)
• More tbc

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For Record Store Day on 22 April the Wool-E tapes shop (Emiel Lossystraat 17, 9040 Gent) will release the 4th instalment of the exclusive Music For Muted TV series curated by Daniel B. of Front 242.

4 years after part one, the 10″ vinyl “MFMTV1”, part four will once again be a Record Store Day release, partly exclusively available at Wool-E Shop.For this special release Daniel B. reworked 4 songs from the new upcoming Nothing But Noise cd (20 May, Wool-E Discs) under his pseudonym Prothese. 160 Pieces were made from this tape, 60 distributed by the band to members of the Nothing But Noise mailing list, 100 will be set for sale to the public (50 online, 50 exclusively at Wool-E Shop) in four different colours on 22 April.

The 50 online tapes are clear prison tapes with yellow hubs, the 50 Wool-E Shop tapes are green, red and orange and will be distributed at random to the customers. There’s only one catch: both online and in the shop only one tape per customer and no putting on the side. The sales of both online and shop stock starts at noon when the shop doors open.

The shop will be open from 12:00 till 19:00 with the following activities taking place for this occasion:

• 14:00 Onsturicheit (one man psychedelic band, releasegig of the second Wool-E tape)
• 15:30 The Arch (legendary postpunk/EBM/goth band from Breendonk, putting the spotlight on their latest cd “Fates” released last year)
• 17:00 The Breath Of Life (even more legendary Walloon goth band with a heavenly voiced singer, who will present their new upcoming cd “Under The Falling Stars”, a coproduction with Wool-E Discs.

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Genre/Influences: New-wave & rock-pop.

Background/Info: I realized that The Arch is celebrating their 30^th anniversary this year. This Belgian formation was set up in 1986 and got their most successful years during the late 80s and early 90s. After a hiatus of several years they got back on track unleashing new material on Echozone. “Fates” is their newest opus released by the small and independent WHY2K label (which also released a few productions of Simi Nah).

Content: The Arch is not reinventing new-wave music, but they clearly hold on to their early influences and roots to mix it with a kind of rock-pop driven composition, which sometimes moves on the edge of indie-pop. The songs have been accomplished with great electronic arrangements and a harmony between guitar and electronics. A few tracks are a bit minimal-sounding as well (cf. “Immerzu”), which is a serious contrast with the more indie-inspired “One By One”-song.

A noticeable guest-singer is Ronny Moorings (Clan Of Xymox) who contributed to the “Monsters & I”-track. It’s not my favorite cut, but it’s a cool bonus on this album. A few cuts feature female backings and there’s a beautiful duo running through “Spear Of Destiny”.

+ + + : The Arch are miles away from some of their early 80s hit, but this album definitely reveals an accomplished production carried by dark melodies and a taste of melancholia. There’s a great balance between guitar and electronics. It’s an open-minded production with a good-old new-wave flavor hanging over the songs.

– – – : Even if I really like the “Spear Of Destiny”-song, this album is missing a few more highlights and especially a ‘hit’ which could bring The Arch back to the top.

Conclusion: “Fates” is a beautiful and rather accomplished work, which I’m sure, will fully satisfy the fans of the band. The band is still haunted by some of its early music demons although it’s a work in progress, which is not emulating the 80s spirit.

Best songs: “Spear Of Destiny”, “Robot Sapiens”, “Fates”.

Rate: (7).

Band: www.thearch.eu / www.facebook.com/thearchband

Label: http://www.why2k.com

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