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...
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Bastard Noise / Xiphoid Dementia – Human Extinction Engine (Vinyl Album – Phage Tapes / Terror / Existence Establishment / Scry Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Noise, industrial. Background/Info: This work is a split album between long-time active noise-maker Bastard Noise and Xiphoid Dementia. The...
Aquamarine Space Unicorns – Anartist (CD Album – Arkay Artists)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, experimental, IDM, down-tempo. Background/Info: This project with a crazy name started in 2014 as a solo-project by Joyanna...
The Venus Fly Trap – Mars (CD Album – Glass Records Modern)
Genre/Influences: Rock-wave, post-punk Background/Info: “Mars” is a re-edition of the Venus Fly Trap-album originally released in 1988 by Danceteria. This...
V/A Underground Wave Volume 6 (Vinyl Album – Walhalla Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, cold-wave, electro-wave, minimal-electronics, experimental. Background/Info: Belgium label Walhalla Records is back on track unleashing the sixth volume of...
Golden Apes – Kasbek (CD Album – Aenaos Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, cold-wave. Background/Info: German formation Golden Apes this year celebrates their 20th anniversary. Instead of releasing a ‘best of’...
Berlin Taxi – Contract (CD EP – Berlin Taxi)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Berlin Taxi is an American trio hailing from New Orleans. This self-released debut EP features five songs....
Mondträume – Lovers, Sinners & Liars (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop, future-pop. Background/Info: The Spanish Mondträume duo strikes back with their second full length, which comes five years after...
Synapsyche – In Praise Of Folly (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro. Background/Info: Stefano ‘Mannequinetik’ and Marco ‘Katatronik’ (vocals) better known as the Italian formation Synapsyche joined Alfa Matrix last...
Aesthetische – Co3xist3ns3 (DCD Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: Techno-body music, IDM. Background/Info: Brazilian duo Guilherme Pires - Fabricio Viscardi were known in a previous sonic life as...
1919 – Futurecide (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, punk-rock. Background/Info: 1919 were active in between 1980 and 1983. They released one album and one EP. They...
Nice Cold Nation – Life (CD Album – Nice Cold Nation)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave. Background/Info: French project Nice Cold Nation has already released several (self-released) production over the past four years. “Life”...
Tragic Impulse – Echoes Of The Unseen (CD Album – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: Two years after the excellent album “Devil On Your Shoulder” American artist Paul M. Graham...
Tragic Impulse – Space Force (CD EP – Distortion Productions)
Genre/Influences: Dark-electro, dark EBM. Background/Info: The EP “Space Force” marks the return of Tragic Impulse. It’s a teaser to the...
Frontier Guards – You (CD Album – Aliens Production)
Genre/Influences: Electro-ambient, IDM, down-tempo. Background/Info: Martin Pavlik is now active under the Frontier Guards moniker for several years. After two...
Dicepeople – One From Many (CD Album – Syndicol Music)
Genre/Influences: Dark electro-pop. Background/Info: UK formation Dicepeople has already been active for more than 10 years now. The band now...
Bring Her – Bring Her (CD Album – Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave. Background/Info: Nadine J. and Marcus N. set up Bring Her in 2015. This self-titled album is the official...
Alice Tambourine Lover – Down Below (CD Album – Go Down Records)
Genre/Influences: Psychdelic-wave, Background/Info: TheItalian duo Alice Tambourine Lover saw the light of day in 2011 as a side project of...
Basnia – No Falling Stars And No Wishes (CD Album – Alchera Visions)
Genre/Influences: Wave-pop, shoegaze, rock-wave. Background/Info: Basnia is a Polish project set up in 2017 by songwriter Baśnia Lipińska (vocals, percussion)....
Undertheskin – Negative (CD Album – Alchera Visions)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, dark-rock, gothic. Background/Info: Four years after the self-titled debut album Polish musician Mariusz Łuniewski is back again unleashing...
Cryo – The Fall Of Man (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Background/Info: It took five years for the Swedish duo Martin Rudefelt – Torny Gottberg (owner of Progress Production)...
State Of The Union – Industrial Slither / Remixes (Digital EP – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Johann Sebastian moves back to the last year released album of State Of The Union “Indupop”. It...
Joey Chaos And The Ghosts – Elegy (Digital EP – Joey Chaos And The Ghosts)
Genre/Influences: Dark-rock, cold-wave. Background/Info: This Canadian trio previously released an album (cf. “Polarizer”) in 2013 and a single (cf. “Fear”)...
Vidna Obmana – Soundtrack For The Aquarium (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Soundscape, experimental. Background/Info: Belgian artist Dirk Serries got active under the Vidna Obmana moniker in between 1985 and 2009....
Rigor Mortiss – Wbrewny (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, doom. Background/Info: Originally set up in 1990 Rigor Mortiss got their success in the early 90s. They finally...
Fabio Orsi – Uncharted Waters (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Ambient, electronic. Background/Info: In a bit more than years Italian artist Fabio Orsi has released an impressive number of...
Dren – Time & Form (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, dark-cinematographic, trip-pop. Background/Info: Dren is a Polish duo set up in 2018 by producers/DJs Natt and Akton. “Time...
Different State – Enormous Components Of Motor Unit Vol.1 (CD Album – Zoharum)
Genre/Influences: Experimental, industrial, dark-cinematographic. Background/Info: Marek Xavier Marchoff set up Different State in 1992 and can look back at an...
Slovenska Televiza – Documento (Vinyl 12” – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: Minimal-electro, wave-pop. Background/Info: Slovenska Televiza is a Spanish duo. I noticed they previously released the single “Bailes Valstīs”. “Documento”...
Naked Lunch – 80s Singles (Vinyl Album – Peripheral Minimal)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, wave-pop. Background/Info: Naked Lunch saw the daylight in 1979 (!). They released some production during the early 80s...
Contaminated Intelligence – The Day Before… (CD Album – Contaminated Intelligence)
Genre/Influences: EBM, dark-electro. Background/Info: American duo Jourdan Turner - Rick Mitchell aka Contaminated Intelligence are back on track unleashing a CD with...
Statiqbloom – Asphyxia (CD Album – Metropolis Records)
Genre/Influences: Industrial, EBM. Background/Info: Honestly, I can’t remember to have ever heard of Statiqbloom before. They released a few albums...
Machinista – Anthropocene (CD Album – Infacted Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Electro-pop. Background/Info: Swedish Machinista duo is back on track unleashing their third full length in history. The first album...