We are familiar with and excited by Philippe Gerber's facet as a producer under his alias John 3:16, a project he began almost two decades ago which culminated in a release on Industrial Complexx alongside Be The Hammer. However, parallel to his shadow production as a cult industrial music artist, he has forged a...
The European electronic scene celebrates an exceptional collaboration as Stefan Netschio, iconic voice of synth-pop pioneers Beborn Beton, joins forces with the enigmatic collective A State of Flux to reinterpret Dislocation, a classic by Ultravox originally featured on their seminal 1978 album Systems of Romance (co-produced by the visionary Conny Plank)....
The Texan industrial/noise/hardcore duo Street Sects have never been just another project aping the sound of established acts, or confirming to commercial logics. Leo Ashline and Shaun Ringsmuth have been crafting over the years a personal sonic and aesthetic universe in which American hardboiled and noir meet existential dread, depression, histories of crime, addiction,...
The Ilicitan label Espacio Interior joins forces with Catalan record company Marbre Negre to conclude Zero Null’s Mars cycle. This collaboration marks the finale of a series of releases that began taking shape three years ago with an initial conceptual work inspired by Kim Stanley Robinson’s Mars Trilogy, a collection of science fiction...
Suicide Commando, aka Johan Van Roy, is a solo project that today is synonymous with harsh EBM. After almost 4 decades of activity, the Belgian outfit still is very active and loyal to its core sound and aesthetics. At the beginning, Van Roy's sound was heavily influenced by minimal and abrasive acts like Klinik, as...
The Berlin-based label De Blauwe Aanslag dedicates its latest release to one of the pioneers of Viennese Actionism. Rocamadour is a sonic rebellion against modern sterility, a brutal return to flesh, blood, and ritual. Inspired by Hermann Nitsch’s legacy, this album brings together eleven tracks from various artists, blending avant-garde genres like noise, industrial, and...
Cold Spring is set to relaunch a genuine cult artefact, the complete soundtrack of Decoder, the visionary 1984 German film that fused industrial noise with cyberpunk dystopia. Three decades after its creation, the music accompanying this seminal work will finally see an independent CD release, offering a new generation the chance to experience its...
We are fortunate to have witnessed the meteoric rise of Years of Denial, a duo that has masterfully transformed their artistic vision into a visceral experience. Onstage, they radiate pure magnetism: Barkosina exudes a dark, enveloping charisma, while Jerome channels an electric energy that instantly electrifies the crowd. Together, they forge an onstage chemistry...
Some albums transcend music to become personal documents. This is not a new Three Broken Tapes album by Juanlu Barlow, released under the label Love-Fi Recordings, is precisely that: the organic conclusion of an artistic conversation that began in 2013. That year, the second Three Broken Tapes album, Bye Bye Borrasca, captivated choreographer
A kalpa (劫) is eternity distilled into time, a single moment stretched into myth. Imagine a drop of water falling onto the hardest stone, just once every thousand years. Now wait. Wait until the entire rock crumbles to dust beneath that intermittent drip. Or picture a mountain grazed, century after century, by the silk dress...
