The American project Patriarchy has made waves in recent years. Born in 2019 as a brainchild of Ashley Ivy Huizenga aka Actually Huizenga, previously in Hard Place, Wet Look, and Actually, it developed with the help of Andrew Means of 3TEETH's fame in the first album Asking For It, and the addition of AJ...
Trepaneringsritualen is the brainchild of Swedish artist Thomas Martin Ekelund, a ritual-industrial project informed by death industrial, dark ambient, power electronics. Active since 2008, the outfit has quite a vast discography, which includes many albums, EPs, singles, compilations, and even collaborations with household name Mz.412, and experimental black metal/industrial bands like Deathstench and Sutekh...
It's been quite a while since the last official Nine Inch Nails works, the free digital twin albums Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locust, were released as a gift during the Coronavirus lockdown. Not that Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross, who have been in the official NIN lineup for more than ten years,...
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,...
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...
More than seven years after her last album Holding On, Sally Dige returns with the new output Holding The Sun, an 8-track full-length collecting previous singles from the last five years, plus new tracks. A Berlin-based Canadian artist, Sally is a multi-instrumentalist musician with a DIY approach to the composition and production of her music,...
Vrna and Ens Imperfectissimum are two important names in Italian ritual/dark ambient underground. The first is the brainchild of Gianluca Martucci, involved in Il Prato Dei Desideri and Sagenhaft too, the second is the project of an anonymous member of Occult Odyssey. Their sound is ominous, evocative and highly informed by occult practices...
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...
