V/A Forms Of Hands 19 (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, IDM, rhythmic-noise. Background/Info: Hands label has used to release this annual compilation, which is a look back at...
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Geistform – United Radiations (DCD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: Spanish music architect Rafael M. Espinosa is now active for nearly twenty years and can look back...
Talvekoidik – Within And Beyond (DCD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, experimental, rhythmic-soundtrack. Background/Info: Kai Hahnewald will always be linked to his major project S.K.E.T., but “Within And Beyond”...
13TH Monkey – Abyssal Disruption (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno. Background/Info: Andreas Thedens and Harm Bremer are back on track, unleashing the third opus of their common project....
Supersimmetria – Abiogenesis (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-techno, tribal-techno, IDM. Background/Info: Here comes the fifth opus from Armando Alibrandi aka Supersimmetria. It also is the artist’s...
Sans-Fin – Etat De L’Art (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Rhythmic-ambient, Background/Info: Sans-Fin is taken from the French language, but the project is from Leipzig (Germany). Driven by DJ...
ICD-10 – Differential Diagnosis (CD Album – Hands)
Genre/Influences: Industrial-trance, industrial-techno. Background/Info: Henning Hinck and Daniel Himmelreich are already active for several years now under the ICD-10 moniker....
XCIII – Transiense (CD Mini-Album – Anesthetize Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, apocalyptic-rock, industrial, post-punk. Background/Info: Set up in 2009, French XCIII is hailing from the Southern part of the...
Adrian K. Smith – Subterranean (Cassette Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, abstract, soundscape. Background/Info: Adrian K. Smith entered into history as the singer and frontman of the legendary Click...
V/A Wave Earplug N°.3 (Vinyl Album – 4mg Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-wave, minimal-electro. Background/Info: Slovakian label 4mg Records started this series in 2017. It’s a way to support the...
Coven Project – Butterfly Resistance / All The Stars Have Turned Off And Rest In Silence (CD Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, electro-ambient. Background/Info: Set up in 2013 by Vadym Sycantrhope, Coven Project became a rather prolific artist in a...
Hiemis – Hyperborea (CD Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Hiemis has already released a few productions and now joined hands together with Noctivagant Records to...
DaGeist – Sexy (CD Album – Danse Macabre Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro cold-wave, new-wave. Background/Info: DaGeist exists of Davide Schiavoni (vocals/compositions) and Frédéric Strzelczyk (bass guitar). The band was originally...
Horthodox – The Great Sacral Machine (CD Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, experimental. Background/Info: Horthodox is a project hailing from Israel, which released two productions in 2018. They now joined...
NotNotice – Altay (CD Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, soundscape. Background/Info: NotNotice has already been active for a couple of years now and has released several ‘dark-ambient-driven...
Rosetta Stone – Seems Like Forever (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic rock, Post-punk. Background/Info: The British band Rosetta Stone was for sure one of the leading Gothic rock acts...
Aram 17 – The Vision Of Death (CD Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-cinematographic, dark-ambient. Background/Info: Aram 17 is an Armenian solo-project, which previously released four digital albums on Cephalopagus Records. Inspired...
Akem Mainyu – Umbra Utrala (CD Album – Noctivagant)
Genre/Influences: Dark-ambient, industrial. Background/Info: Akem Mainyu is a Russian project active since 2016. This is the first time I ever...
The Wake – Masked (2CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic rock, Post-punk. Background/Info: This is a re-release of the original album of 1993, in a limited edition of...
Richmond Avant Improv Collective – Lamentations (CD Album – Arachnidiscs Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Experimental. Background/Info: Richmond Avant Improv Collective (RAIC) was set up in Richmond (USA) in late 2015. The ‘collective’ features...
Violet Tears – Metamorfosi (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, dark-wave. Background/Info: Violet Tears is a band hailing from Bari (Italy), which saw the light of day in...
Der Blaue Reiter – United, Yet Divided (CD Album – Dark Vinyl)
Genre/Influences: Epic, experimental, neo-classic, neo-folk, industrial. Background/Info: Catalonian artist Sathorys Elenorth formed Der Blaue Reiter in 2005. Two albums were...
Larva – Death On stage / A Compendium Of Live Recordings (DVD – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Spanish formation Larva is already active since 1998. Set up and driven by the charismatic frontman ‘InqUesT’...
Cameraoscura – Quod Est Inferius (CD Album – Toten Schwan MMXIX)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, dark IDM, experimental, industrial. Background/Info: I didn’t find that much info about this Italian project. It all seems...
Virtues & Failings – 2 (Digital EP – Virtues & Failings)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, cold-wave. Background/Info: Virtues & Failings is a Canadian formation based in Vancouver. They last year released the first...
Viscedra Drip – Satanic Panik (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Justin A. Thiele better known as the creative spirit behind the American project Viscera Drip released this...
Outpost11 – Resonate (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: “Resonate” is the debut album of the Russian solo-project Outpost11. The work was released in the...
Antibiosis – Biohazards Essence (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Set up in 2013, the Russian duo Antibiosis strikes back with their second opus, which has...
Alien Produkt – Resurrection (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, EBM. Background/Info: Alien Produkt is a band from Buenos Aires (Argentina), which was set up at the end...
Nohycit – Anomico (CD Album – Advoxya Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Nohycit is a Bolivian dark-electro project driven by ‘Ferry Nohycit’ who you may know from his involvement...
V/A Respect The Prime – The Constructed Cold (CD EP – Distortion Productions / Electronic Saviors)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, electro-wave, EBM. Background/Info: This compilation was already released a while ago, but is an interesting concept I'd like...
Trade Secrets – Before We Vanish (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, dance-pop, lounge-pop. Background/Info: Set up in 2017 in Los Angeles (USA) by F.J. DeSanto, Trade Secrets became a...
Feverdreamt – Melantant (CD Album – Blackjack Illuminist Records)
Genre/Influences: Electro, experimental, krautrock. Background/Info: Feverdreamt is one of the numerous projects set up by Alexander Leonard Donat. He’s mainly...