Zonal – Wrecked (CD Album – Relapse Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-rap, ambient, hip-hop. Background/Info: Zonal is the meeting –and comeback, of Justin Broadrick (JK Flesh, Godflesh) and Kevin Martin ...
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Sysselmann – Ritual Of The Aurora Noir (CD EP – Winter-Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Sysselmann is a Norwegian solo-project driven by Thomas Narverud. After a few previous releases featuring the full...
Lucifer’s Aid – Panic (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Swedish musician Carl Nilsson released his third full length album since “New To Reality” (2016). He...
Krayenzeit – Saitentänzer (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Metal-rock, rock-folk, medieval. Background/Info: Set up in 2011 and based in Stuttgart (Germany), Krayenzeit previously released three albums on...
Collection D’Arnell-Andréa – Another Winter (CD Album – Trisol)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: “Another Winter” is the tenth full length album released by the French collective Collection D’Arnell-Andrea. The...
Angelspit – Bang Operative (CD Album – Black Pill Red Pill)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, electro-punk, cyber-rock. Background/Info: The eighth full length album from Angelspit is inspired by the early synth-wave sound of...
Ilya Kuryakin – Noisepollution (Digital Album – Ilya Kuryakin)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, power-noise. Background/Info: All I know about this production is that it has been composed by a Belgian artist...
Feu Follet – Le Champ Des Morts (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, new-wave, experimental. Background/Info: Feu Follet is a French solo-project from the Lorraine region. That’s important to mention as...
Rasky Sadagr – Sacrifice II (Digital EP – Rasky Sadagr)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, experimental. Background/Info: Lukas Barovka is active under the Rasky Sadagr moniker and has released several digital singles &...
Offerings To Odin – Hoc Voluerunt (Digital Album – Offerings To Odin)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Stephen Bailey and Joel Walker aka ‘Svipal’ are back on track unleashing the second album from their...
Broken English Club – White Rats II (Digital Album – L.I.E.S. Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, EBM, industrial-techno. Background/Info: English DJ/producer Oliver Ho is involved with different projects, Broken English Club being his ‘industrial-techno’...
Ajna & Dödsapparaten – Season (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, Background/Info: “Season” resulted from the common efforts between Chris F. aka Ajna and David Bengtsson aka Dödsapparaten. This meeting...
Wire 13 – Behind The Wire (Digital Album – Digital Dependency Records)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, electro-wave. Background/Info: Digital Dependency Records is a British label set up and driven byGraham Rayner (ex-Cubanate) and Christian...
Sonologyst – Phantoms (CD Album – Unexplained Sounds Group)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient, abstract, industrial. Background/Info: Unexplained Sounds Group owner Raffaele Pezzella is back under his artist moniker: Sonologyst....
Quieter Than Spiders – Signs Of Life (DCD Album – Anna Logue Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2012, Quieter Than Spiders is a Chinese-Anglo band unleashing their debut album. The songs...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet II (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Polish martial project Jowisz released this album in 2018 as a successor to the “Trench...
Jowisz – Trench Rat’s Banquet (CD Album – Spartha Production)
Genre/Influences: Martial, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Jowisz is a Polish solo-project I earlier this year discovered on the split-album together with...
VelgeNaturlig – Anāhata (CD Album – Reverse Alignment)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Ivo Santos has already been active for numerous years and has released his dark-ambient stuff on different...
Nairod Yarg – Nairod Yarg (CD Album – Nairod Yarg)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk, dark-rock. Background/Info: Nairod Yarg is a new French formation, which clearly appears to work in the purest...
The Independent Seasons – Songs From The Core Kit II (Digital Album – The Independent Seasons)
Genre/Influences: Electronic, cinematographic, ambient. Background/Info: You probably know Manfred Thomaser as the compositor behind !Distain, but he’s also busy with...
Ministry – Prescripture: The Visual History (Book – Melodic Virtue)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, industrial-rock Background/Info: Al Jourgensen is the charismatic pioneer, musical genius, innovator and iconic founder of the industrial-metal genre...
Controversial – Second Genesis (CD Album – Controversial)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, doom, crossover. Background/Info: Controversial is a Belgian solo-project set up by Bart Coninckx. The guy has been involved...
Nermi – In The Creation (Digital EP – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Epic, cinematographic. Background/Info: Nermi is one of the newest signing to Aliens Production. This is a Russian solo-project driven...
LPF 12 – A Calm Heart Beating (Digital Album – LPF12)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Sascha Lemon is one of those prolific artists unleashing every single year an impressive number of...
KMFDM – Paradise (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, cross-over, electro-rock. Background/Info: Sascha Konietzko and his gang, which for this twenty-first full length album, consisted of Lucia...
Elm – Extreme Unspoken Tension / Limited Edition (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Three years after his hard-hitting debut-album “Hardline”, Swedish EBM master and ex-Restricted Area operator, Peter Elm strikes...
First Aid 4 Souls – Keep This World Empty (CD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: Hungarian EBM project First Aid 4 Souls this year joined hands together with Alfa Matrix...
Psy’Aviah – Soul Searching (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, ambient-pop. Background/Info: “Soul Searching” is the seventh official album for Belgian Yves Schelpe aka Psy’Aviah. The composer again...
Mind Machine – Remix The Machine (Digital Album – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: This year Mind Machine released their first album in more than twenty years, this way pleasing all...
Mind Machine – Clouds Of Doubt (Digital EP – Mind Machine)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: American electro-pop formation Mind Machine struck back this year, releasing their first album in twenty four years....
Indie Moon – Somewhere Somehow (CD Album – Indie Moon)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Indie Moon is the meeting between two singers established in Paris (France) and fans of 80s electronic...
Killing The Joke: The John Bechdel Story (DVD – Furnace Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, industrial-rock Background/Info: John Bechdel is an American keyboard-player, known for his work with the industrial-metal acts Ministry, Prong,...
Shifted – The Light Touch (Digital EP – Stroboscopic Artefacts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-techno, minimal-techno. Background/Info: Guy Brewer aka Shifted is back on track, adding one more EP to his growing discography....