OOMPH! continues without singer Dero Goi
The last year it has been very calm in the OOMPH!-camp. No online concerts during corona, no rescheduled festival-dates, no...
DAF
New DAF album ‘Nur Noch Einer’ to be released
Out soon via Grönland Records is the new release "Nur Noch Einer" by Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF). On vocals we...
Reality’s Despair – Perfidious Depopulation (Album – Insane Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Dark-Electro. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Belgian solo-project Reality’s Despair was set up more than twenty years ago. After...
Syntet – Hjärtats Slag (Album – TZW Produktion)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Vinyl, Cassette. Background/Info: Tomas Zackarias Westberg is a Swedish artist who has been involved with numerous...
QEK Junior – Anomie (Album – Young And Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Minimal-Electro, Electro-Pop. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: German EBM formation QEK Junior is back on track, unleashing their first...
Nattskiftet – Stämplar In (Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Nattskiftet is a Swedish formation set up in 2015. The band consists of Anna...
Adult releases remix/video for Bestial Mouths’ ‘Unshivered’ video
(Picture by Renee Parkhurst ) Let's hope this article doesn't get flagged by Google, Facebook and related because the follow-up...
’30 Years Of Journalism – Celebration Interview’ with Ben Watkins aka Juno Reactor
Back in 1991 I started writing my first reviews for Side-Line magazine. I would have never thought to go on...
‘Click Interview’ with LivingTotem: ‘A Ritual Cyber-Punk Dystopia In Industrial Technology’
LIVINGTOTEM is a Hungarian solo-project driven by András Gulyás. He released his first official album “40K” in 2014 on Advoxya...
Click Interview‘ with ENZO KREFT: ‘The Future Looks Bright’
ENZO KREFT is a Belgian solo-project set up in the 80s by Eric Vandamme. After a long break the artist...
Enzo Kreft – Different World (Album – Wool-E Discs)
Genre/Influences: Electro-Wave, EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Enzo Kreft (real name Eric Vandamme) is a prolific artist since the resurrection...
‘Click Interview’ with KREIGN: ‘I Like That It Is Simple And Minimal’
KREIGN is an American set up in 2010 by featuring Ryan Hutman and Xiån Austin. They met thanks to a...
Jan Doyle Band – The Body Balanced (EP – Jan Doyle Band)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, EBM, Electro-Wave. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Jan Doyle Band is a UK band, which is already active for...
Pouppée Fabrikk – EKM Anthology 1989-2019 (Box – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM, Electro-Metal. Format: Digital, 6 CD Box. Background/Info: Swedish cult EBM formation Pouppée Fabrikk struck back earlier this year...
‘Click Interview’ with AD: KeY: ‘We Don’t Want To Limit Ourselves‘
Set up in 2007 by René and Andrea Nowotny AD: KEY rapidly became a noticeable band in the ‘old-school’ EBM...
Endzustand – Werk Des Krieges (Album – Echozone)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: EBM and Other Dark-Electronic bands have been often inspired by war, battles, soldiers and...
3+Dead – 3+Dead (Album – Swiss Dark Night Records / Icy Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-Wave, Dream-Pop, Shoegaze. Format: Digital, CD. Background/Info: Based in Roma (Italy) 3+Dead saw the daylight in 2017. Set up...
Strikkland interview: ‘Here we are, seven months, three singles and one EP later.’
(Interview by Simon Helm / photo by Krichan Wihlborg) Sweden’s love affair with EBM goes back a long way. Bands...
AD:Key – Resonanz (Album – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital, Double CD. Background/Info: Andrea and Rene Nowotny set up AD:Key in 2007. Thirteen years later they...
QEK Junior – Ausverkauf (Album – Young And Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: EBM, electro-wave, wave-pop. Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: German duo QEK Junior was set up in 2005 and released...
Diorama returns with 10th album ‘Tiny Missing Fragments’
Out on Accession Records by end of next month is "Tiny missing Fragments", the 10th studio album of the darkwwave...
Die Robo Sapiens – FanFanFanatisch / The Düsseldorf EP (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: The Die Krupps gang (cf.Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher) is back on track...
Die Kreatur – Panoptikum (Album – Napalm Records)
Genre/Influences: Gothic-metal, Neue Deutsche Haerte, Industrial-metal Format: Digital, CD, Vinyl. Background/Info: Dero Goi (singer/drummer of OOMPH!) and Chris Harms (singer/guitarist of...
‘Click Interview’ with Larme Blanche: ‘Do The Pop Stars, Starlets, Actors And TV Reality People Deserves To Be Our Heroes?’
Larme Blanche (which can be translated as ‘knife’ or ‘rudimentary weapon’) is a brand-new project driven by an artist wearing...
‘Click Interview’ with Crystal Geometry: ‘I Often Think That My Best Tracks Are The Ones I Spent Less Time On’
Crystal Geometry is a project set up by French producer Maxime Fabre. As the artists says it is his ‘techno...
Ton8 – Ton8 (Album – Young And Cold Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, EBM. Format: Digital, Vinyl. Background/Info: This self-titled album also is the first official release by Ton8. “Ton8” was...
Juergen Engler EBM-project Die Robo Sapiens launches ‘FanFanFanatisch – The Düsseldorf EP’ – 7-track EP available now exclusively via Bandcamp
The German city of Düsseldorf has always been seen as the mecca for electronic music since the early 1970s, when...
Rober Görl launches tribute single to the late Gabi Delgado: ‘Ich Denk An Dich’ – new DAF album planned
Out now is the single/video "Ich Denk An Dich" by Rober Görl & DAF. The track is a typical DAF-style...
R.I.P. ex-Kraftwerk member Florian Schneider – news is confirmed
UPDATE: Kraftwerk co-founder Ralf Hütter has confirmed the sad news. (Photo by Daniele Dalledonne, Trento, Italy) According to various reports...
‘Click Interview’ with Tension Control: ‘My Intention Is To Keep The Old-School EBM Alive’
Michael Schrader set up Tension Control in 2016. The German project directly moved towards EBM paths reminding some pioneers in...
Armageddon Dildos – Heut Nacht (EP – Alfa Matrix)
Genre/Influences: EBM. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Two years ago the EP “Herbstseitlose” saw the German EBM act Armageddon Dildos get back...
Out now: the first new Pouppée Fabrikk album since the ’90s: ‘Armén’ – 4 formats available incl. vinyl, ltd CD, download
The cult Swedish EBM act Pouppée Fabrikk have released their very first brand-new studio album since the 90’s! On "Armén"...
Kompromat – Le Brigand Et Le Prince (EP – Clivage Music)
Genre/Influences: Electroclash, minimal-electronics. Format: Digital. Background/Info: Last yearFrench Kompromat duo took me by surprise unleashing the brilliant debut album “Traum...
