British industrial music pioneers Test Dept have announced the release of 'Industrial Overture. Studio & Live Recordings 1982-1985', the first in a series of box sets that will document their career. This comprehensive collection, available from December 5 via the Artoffact label, includes 42 tracks across 4 CDs, featuring 26 previously unreleased digital...
Following his debut in 2020, Lagware returns to Industrial Complexx with Carefully Crafted, an album that stands as a testament to the producer's marked artistic evolution. Here, he delves into more mature sonic territory, characterized by its eclecticism and high production quality. The album demonstrates a remarkable ability to create unique, self-contained pieces. Each track is...
Catalan producer Nightcrawler returns with a new self-released work, consolidating his aesthetic and his distinctive dark, visceral, and energetic sound. Malevolent Forces is a further step in his natural evolution towards a heavy, industrialized sonic environment with a defined cinematic narrative. To date, Nightcrawler has previewed this upcoming album with two singles released as a...
Plaster's third album, Mainfram, was originally released in 2015 on the influential Ukrainian label Kvitnu. The album marked a turning point, as it became Gianclaudio Hashem Moniri's first solo work following the departure of Giuseppe Carlini. This fact concentrated the project's vision, resulting in an album that was described at the time as...
We can speak of two revolutions separated by a century and a half, yet united by a common spirit of transformation, conflict, and the creation of a new landscape. The 1873 Oil Revolution in Alcoi was a social eruption at the heart of the textile industrialization—a world of steam engines, mechanical looms, smoky factories, and...
Damaged Clock has found its strongest European ally in the Valencia-based label Soil Records. After releasing two albums on this platform, the Colombian producer returns with Repairing the Clock, his most ambitious work to date. This introspective album tells his story sonically across 105 tracks designed from different soundscapes. We spoke with Damaged Clock himself...
American Requiem is a new episode in the double -album series of releases from Gianluca Becuzzi for the label St.an.da. The Italian composer, an important name in the world of experimental music since his exploits in Limbo and Pankow in the '80s, explores here themes of life and death in the symbol of...
The return of Graeme Revell to the stage under the banner of a renewed SPK is a major event for his followers and for the current electronic and industrial scene. The former founding leader of this legendary Australian band has redesigned SPK, now as The SPKtR, but this time alongside his son, Robert J. Revell. Graeme...
algorhythms charts an inhospitable sonic territory. Their new four-track work, wreccage, is the auditory testimony of an extreme physical feat—a deep immersion into the rawest landscapes of nature and the human psyche; a sonic journey through dark ambient, the relentless rhythms of industrial, doom, and abstract electronics. The genesis of wreccage is a legend in...
French artist Perturbator, aka James Kent, has been the poster boy of synthwave for many years. The son of British critic Nick Kent and French music journalist Laurence Romance, he started his venture as Perturbator in 2012 with the self-released Terror 404, after many experiences as a guitarist for various black metal bands. In the...
