MauSS' mutant project Costume has always been an unpredictable entity, totally informed by the whims and changing desires of its creator. House music, retro Italian pop, new wave, punk, trance, techno, noise, are just some of the genres touched by the Independent outfit - often in the same album. So, it's no surprise that just...
Statiqbloom is a project that has gone through several stages over the years. Started in 2014 as a solo outfit, it soon became a duo in which the mastermind Fade Kainer worked with Denman C. Anderson until 2020. This phase was charachterized by an electro-industrial/EBM sound informed Canadian and American acts, while experimenting with...
Hailing from the depths of experimental and weird extreme metal, Hardware were a quite unique Mexican band. With only some demos and one EP, they left their mark on the early 90's underground scene, showcasing a sound made of chaotic and violent death metal with grind leanings, psychedelic vibes, orchestrations, and proto-industrial soundscapes. One has...
4AD is a household name for lovers of post-punk, ethereal darkwave/dream-pop, and indie/alternative rock. Born in 1980 as Axis Records, an imprint of Beggars Banquet Records, the record label was founded by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, but it soon became an independent entity owned by Watts-Russell after just one year of activity and...
General Dynamics is the joint effort of Qual (William Maybelline of Lebanon Hanover) and Sarin (Emad Dabiri, the head of X-IMG label), a project mixing punishing techno-EBM beats, harsh electro-industrial tendencies, and old-school darkness. General Dynamics es el proyecto conjunto de Qual (William Maybelline de Lebanon Hanover) y Sarin (Emad Dabiri, director del...
It's no mystery: between Al Jourgensen and his early output as Ministry there is no love lost. The eccentric artist even went so far, he conceived a not very believable story about having been forced by Arista Records to release the new wave/dark synth-pop debut album With Sympathy (known in Europe as Work For...
Canadian band The Birthday Massacre is an entity firmly stuck in an easily recognizable sound and aesthetics. Granted, in almost twentyfive years of career, there have been some tweaks now and there and some experiments between albums, but at the core their formula made of rock, metal, darkwave, 80's new wave and pop, contemporary...
Industrial black metal is a very late 90’s concept, born out of the expansion and “commercial” success of a genre that, on paper, was conceived as the most conservative and underground expression of extreme metal, but instead quickly became the most experimental one, and even quite popular (both for the music, the lore linked to...
Hailing from Los Angeles, Sacred Skin are a relatively new duo well versed in nostalgic, 80’s inspired, synth/new wave music. Brian DaMert and Brian Tarney started the project as Second Skin in 2021, but after some digital single they changed its name. Under this new moniker, they released the debut The Decline Of Pleasure...
Oliver Ho has always been a quality name in the field of techno and experimental electronic music, and Broken English Club is perhaps his most accomplished project. Under this moniker he perfectly blends dancefloor-oriented structures informed by techno, EBM, and a taste for industrial-tinged experimentation, giving us a proper example of techno-industrial music. Oliver Ho...
