Galati – Fragility (CD Album – Databloem)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape, cinematographic. Background/Info: Italian artist Roberto Galati has already been active for a couple of years now. He...
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Principe Valiente – Oceans ‘Deluxe’ (CD Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic, goth-rock, indie-rock. Background/Info: “Oceans” is the third full length album released by the Stockholm-based Principe Valiente. The...
We Melt Chocolate – We Melt Chocolate (CD Album – Annibale Records)
Genre/Influences: Dream-pop, shoegaze. Background/Info: Set up by friends in 2014, We Melt Chocolate has released their official and self-titled...
Vanished Souls – Vanished Souls (CD Album – Frozen Records)
Genre/Influences: Indie-rock, rock-pop. Background/Info: This self-titled album is the second opus for the French formation Vanished Souls. The band is...
Xtort – Nothing Is Real (CD Album – DA Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Xtort rose up from the ashes of the Dutsh industrial-metal formation Hoer. Xtort is an electronic project...
Stoppenberg – Frontschlag (CD Album – X-Beats)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body, dark-EBM. Background/Info: Jan Loamfield will always be linked to his most successful project Noisuf-X and of course the...
Line Spectrum – Bruma (CD Album – Glacial Movements)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, experimental, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Behind Line Spectrum is hiding Oleg Puzan. This Ukrainian artist got some recognition under the...
The Gathering – Love Songs (CD EP – Cold Transmission Music)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, goth-rock, dark-rock. Background/Info: Canadian formation The Gathering was originally set up in the 80s and reactivated a few...
Droid Sector Decay – In Suffering We Dwell (CD Album – Underground Industrial Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-metal, cross-over. Background/Info: Droid Sector Decay featuring members from Greece and the USA have been active since 2009 and...
Julie Bally – Alternative New Wave (CD Album – Julie Bally)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, dark-rock. Background/Info: Julie Bally is a French artist who this year released her self-released debut album. Julie plays...
Kloob – Unpredictable Signs (CD Album – Winter Light)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient. Background/Info: Daniel Ferreira aka ‘Dani Kloob’ is involved with music for more than twenty years now. He started...
Vesperal – Wasteland (Vinyl Album – Steelwork Maschine)
Genre/Influences: Neo-folk. Background/Info: Vesperal is a French formation based in Paris, which released their second album. They ‘aim to conjure...
Vlimmer – XIIII (CD EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, guitar-wave. Background/Info: Here is the fourteenth chapter in the EP-series set up by Alexander Leonard Donat aka Vlimmer. ...
Vlimmer – XIII (CD EP – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-wave, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Vlimmer is the main project of German artist and label owner Alexander Leonard Donat. He started in...
Phasenmensch – Haunted / The Gentle Indifference Of The World (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: IDM, industrial, industrial-*techno, rhythmic-ambient. Background/Info: “Haunted” marks the tenth anniversary of the Dortmunder (Germany) based Phasenmensch. Wolfram Bange was...
Cervello Elettronico – Top Ded Ctr (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM. Background/Info: David Christian set up Cervello Elettronico in 2001. The American sonic project rapidly became one of...
Deutsche Bank – Transmission (CD Album – Electro Shock Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Despite of the band name, Deutsche Bank is a Swedish project driven by Mats From. The album...
Boytronic – The Robot Treatment (CD Album – Wuff Records)
Genre/Influences: Synth-pop, Italo-disco. Background/Info: Boytronic has been active since the early 80s, but went through several line-up changes. “The Robot...
Reactor7x – Are You My Bitch? (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Set up in 2009 Polish duo ‘Ad-x’ (synths, composing, programming) and ‘Blackjack O'Hare’ (lyrics, vocals) signed to...
First Aid 4 Souls – Increased Sensory Perception (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Hungarian artist István Gazdag (previously involved with Vacuum) is one of the electro-underground references from his country. He...
Elm – Death Of The North (Digital EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Peter Elm was previously involved with the excellent EBM/pop driven Restricted Area, but set up Elm to...
V/A Mexico Underground Vol.02 – The Synthetic Side Of Mexico (DCD Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM, techno-body, minimal-electronics. Background/Info: Next to the first volume of this series, which is devoted to gothic music,...
V/A Mexico Underground Vol.01 – The Dark Side Of Mexico (DCD Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: This compilation was compiled by Lord Fer and Dimitri Berzerk aka DMT Berzerk (producer, remixer,...
Oxomaxoma – Industrial Body Music (CD Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: Oxomaxoma is probably one of the longest active EBM bands from the Mexican scene. They were already...
Dimitri Berzerk feat. Franco Doglioli – My Love Is Electric / Club Mixes (Vinyl EP – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Next to the “My Love Is Electric”-single and the “Remixes”-CD EP Dimitri Berzerk also released a...
Neuvision – Manifiesto (CD Album – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: EBM, body-pop, cinematic-EBM. Background/Info: I discovered this Mexican project a few years ago now. The debut album “The Demon-Haunted...
Dimitri Berzerk feat. Franco Doglioli – My Love Is Electric / Remixes (CD EP – Sector Industrial Producciones)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop. Background/Info: Dimitri Berzerk is a rather familiar name from the Mexican electro scene. Based in Mexico City...
Bloom Offering – Episodes (Vinyl Album – The Helen Scarsdale Agency)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro; electro-wave. Background/Info: Operating from Seattle (USA) Nicola Carr has been active under the Bloom Offering for several years....
Mechanimal – White Flag (Vinyl 7” – Inner Ear)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, goth-pop. Background/Info: Based in Athens (Greece) Giannis Papaioannou is already active under the Mechanimal moniker for a couple...
God Body Disconnect – The Mist Between Mirrors (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: It took two years for Bruce Moallem (aka God Body Disconnect) to achieve his third solo-album, which...
Dronny Darko & RNGMNN – Sector Hydra (Digital Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, soundscape, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Sector Hydra” resulted from the common efforts between Ukrainian artist Oleg Puzan (aka Dronny Darko)...
Ruptured World – Archeoplanetary (CD Album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: One year after the debut album “Exoplanetary”, Scottish artist Aleister Rennie is back on track with...
Council Of Nine – Davidian (Digital album – Cryo Chamber)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: “Davidian” is the fifth solo-album by Maximillian Olivier. The American ‘Prince of Darkness’ moves on with...