Few labels currently perform at a level like Subsist Records. Its activity, after 14 years, continues to be an important asset in this project, in addition to the fact that its head has always taken care of every detail in each release. We owe a lot to this label, as it has discovered...
Pinocchio is an audiovisual experience framed within the ITmakES project, which consists of the creation of an original soundtrack of electronic music composed and performed live by the experimental techno band Miclono. Miclono is a sound and visual experimentation project that was born in 2016 in Alicante, an experimental electronic band whose main premise is...
Industrial music can be defined in many ways, depending always on the context in which the style develops, however, the true roots of industrial music come directly from the mechanised sound of industry. Therefore, nothing describes industrial sound better than all those textures and patterns created from ornamental instruments and systems. This musical philosophy represents,...
Cultural roots have always been as much as important as musical ones in Gianluca Becuzzi’s vast discography. If some of his works reflect upon the nature of music and the way it is perceived and consumed today in contrast to the past, recent or not – read our review of “Deeper” as a reference –...
Richie Culver first realised he understood art at an afterparty. Growing up by the North Sea, on the outskirts of Hull, the artist spent his formative years reckoning with the gravitational pull of his hometown, wracked with anxiety, aimlessness and low self-esteem. After leaving school to work in a caravan factory to facilitate a growing...
Drang (from the German, meaning impulse, push, persistence) is the new album by Stromboli (Maple Death Records, Oltrarno Recordings), the project of Bologna-based musician Nico Pasquini. Encompassing pulsating noise, propulsive percussion, as well as moments of ecstatic flight, the album depicts a post-human world of ambiguous sentience,...
There are many interpretations of the Leviathan concept, but here Leviathan is the mythological world-serpent who encircles the Earth in a ring, and upon whom the Earth is built. It is the anima mundi or world-soul that separates the material earth from the chaos of the immaterial. The death of the Leviathan is the end...
Industrial Complexx recovers part of the NXT recordings catalogue by reissuing some of the most outstanding releases of this Spanish label. On this occasion it reissues CTX004. The album opens with the mixture of tension and calm that Distørt X brings with 'Weird Line', then we can find a more industrial character with the tracks of...
German Army returns three years later to Soil Records with a new album in which he once again stages his particular musical vision, since one of his singularities is his ability to create a unique environment in which he mixes industrial music with traditional folklore, as well as always working with degraded sound...
Emerging from a divergent musical path, Scott Michaels presents his latest work, the dark classical album titled 'Ex Tenebris'. For those who resonate with the evocative strains of Arnold Schoenberg, Joseph Bashara, Olivier Messiaen, and other avant-garde cinematic composers, this offering promises a deep dive into sonic shadows and melancholy. Previously known for his work with...
