Stairway Maze – Kelevra (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: IDM, rhythmic-ambient & cinematographic electro. Background/Info: Two years after the debut album “Hollow Spaces” (2017) Russian artist, Denis Tverdokhleb,...
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Need For Speed – Split Visions (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Martin Nilsson and Felix Mårtensson were previously involved with Ra till they decided to set up their...
Die Krupps – Vision 2020 Vision (CD Album – SPV GmbH – Oblivion / Metropolis)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, crossover, electro & metal. Background/Info: Die Krupps will be celebrating their 40th anniversary in 2020! Before this celebration...
Greyhound – A Storm Is Coming (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-noise, power-noise, industrial. Background/Info: Steffen Lehmann is back on track, unleashing the eighth full length album of his Greyhound...
Syntech – Shadows Above Me (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-tribal, industrial-cinematic. Background/Info: We had to wait five years to get the fifth album by Syntech. Steffen Lehmann has...
Monya – Straight Ahead (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: Monya Cperski aka ‘Monya’ is a Polish artist and label owner (Corresponding Positions) based in Berlin. She...
Mono No Aware – Mujoo (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-noise, industrial, industrial-trance. Background/Info: The German sonic ogre is back on track unleashing the seventh album since “Kitanai Yatsu”...
Last Days Of S.E.X. – Close To Destruction And Still Beautiful (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-industrial, industrial-noise. Background/Info: Greek sonic terrorist Manos Chrisovergis is back on track, unleashing this year the fourth full length...
Crystal Geometry – State Of Play (Vinyl 12” – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, techno-EBM. Background/Info: French producer Maxime Fabre who’s active under the Crystal Geometry-moniker has been already released many noticeable...
<1979> – Overlord (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Power-noise, industrial. Background/Info: Set up in 1998, <1979> has released a considerable number of productions. The duo consisting of...
The Mannequin Factory – The Mannequin Factory (CD Album – Sonic Entrails Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial-ambient & punk-poetry. Background/Info: This new project is the meeting between ‘punk poet’ Adam Probert and John E...
40 Octaves Below – Digital Fracture (CD Album – Itsalive Network Enterprises)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: 40 Octaves Below is a Canadian project. This album took 13 years (!) to get achieved...
The Anix – Hologram (Digital Album – FiXT Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark-pop, power-pop, wave-pop, electro-rock. Background/Info: The Anix is now active for nearly twenty years and strikes back with a...
KIFOTH – Alive:d (CD Album – KIFOTH)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Slovakian duo ‘Mir Colon’ and ‘k-head’ have been active since 1993. From the original name Kneel In...
LPF12 – Black Flags Ahead (Digital EP – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: IDM, cinematographic, experimental. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon seems like an artist who never sleeps… He remains extremely prolific, this ‘new’...
Trepaneringsritualen – ᛉᛦ – Algir; Eller Algir I Merkstave (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient & ritual. Background/Info: Trepaneringsritualen is back on track, unleashing a new cryptic work ‘constructed from a series of...
The Telescopes – Stone Tape (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, apocalyptic- & psychedelic rock, industrial, ritual. Background/Info: Officially released in 2017 as vinyl on Yard Press, “Stone Tape”,...
SPK – Zamia Lehmanni / Songs Of Byzantine Flowers (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental, cinematographic. Background/Info: Australian formation SPK remains one of the uncontested pioneers and leaders of the so-called experimental-...
Coil – Stolen & Contaminated Songs (CD Album – Cold Spring)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial. Background/Info: John Balance and Peter Christopherson entered into history with their Coil project as one of the...
Blind Delon – Discipline (CD Album – Unknown Pleasures Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental, cinematic-EBM. Background/Info: Blind Delon is a French solo-project set up and driven by Mathis Kolkoz. After having...
Balfa – Perfecta Analogia De La Decadencia (Digital Album – BLF Laboratory)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, IDM, glitch. Background/Info: Balfa is a Spanish artist who has been inspired by his stay in Berlin. This...
Asymetrik – Asymetrik 001 (Digital EP – Asymetrik)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: DJ and producer Arjun Vagale is considered a pioneer of techno music in India. After numerous...
Alarmen – Xenotop (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, experimental, glitch. Background/Info: Can we speak about a resurrection of Alarmen? Not exactly as Carsten Stiller (co-owner...
The Negativity Bias – Fortes Fortuna Adiuvat (CD Album – Audiophob)
Genre/Influences: IDM, techno, industrial. Background/Info: Chris Dupont (real name Christoph Lemke) is for sure more recognized as a member of...
Geist + Codenys – Minor (Vinyl 12” – Geist + Codenys)
Genre/Influences: EBM, techno-body, experimental. Background/Info: “Minor” resulted from the meeting between Alex Kourelis (Digital Geist) and Patrick Codenys (Front 242)....
Syzygyx – Fading Bodies (CD Album – Negative Gain Productions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, EBM, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Operating from Washington D.C (USA) Luna Blanc and Josh Clark set up Syzygyx (pronounced as...
Empusae – Inter In Tenebris (CD Album – Consouling Sounds)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial, epic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Belgian artist Nicolas Van Meirhaeghe better known as ‘Sal-Ocin’ and still involved as live...
Collection D’Arnell-Andrea – A Recrafted Winter (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: Early 2019 Collection D’Arnell-Andrea unleashed their tenth full length album. This work became the symbol of...
ASP – Kosmonautilus (DCD Album – Gothic Novel Rock Records / Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Goth-metal, dark-rock. Background/Info: I realized ASP –originally set up and driven by Alexander Spreng, this year celebrates its 20th...
Rev Rev Rev – Kykeon (CD Album – Fuzz Club)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rock & shoegaze. Background/Info: Rev Rev Rev is an Italian formation influenced by good-old shoegaze music. They self-released a...
Phantoms vs. Fire – My Mind As Your Amusement Park (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient, experimental. Background/Info: This is the third full length album for this Brazilian project and the second opus...
Krayenzeit – W.I.R. (CD EP – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, rock-folk, medieval. Background/Info: This EP has been released a few months after Krayenzeit’s fourth full length album. The...
Carl Gari & Abdullah Miniawy – The Act Of Falling From The 8th Floor (Digital Album – Whities)
Genre/Influences: IDM, experimental, industrial-world music. Background/Info: Carl Gari is a German trio and Abdullah Miniawy is a recognized Egyptian performer,...