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...
The Swedish dream pop group Príncipe Valiente releases an exclusive remix of their track I Am You by Brooklyn-based post-punk band Bootblacks. I Am You was originally released in 2022 as a single from the album Barricades, the fourth full-length album by Príncipe Valiente and their debut on Metropolis Records. At the time,...
90's industrial rock is both celebrated and scorned, according to one's view of the subgenre as a whole. For sure, a lot of influential albums were released during that decade and a lot of prominent bands left their mark on both the underground and the "alternative mainstream". This phenomenon interested and influenced some acts coming...
The iconic Peter Murphy, renowned both for his time as the frontman of Bauhaus and for his solo career, is internationally regarded as the most prominent figure in gothic rock since he emerged with Bauhaus. With his distinctive voice, unique stage presence, and a style heavily influenced by 1930s horror films and the...
PIG is currently the artistic proposal of Raymond Watts, a British musician to whom we can attribute countless projects and important collaborations since the mid-eighties. Among them, he was an early member of the band KMFDM and recorded the first album together with En Esch and Sascha Konietzko. He had also contributed to...
Hard-edged electronic music maverick Bill Leeb presents Demons, a song rooted in the inherent darkness and malevolence we see around us, where humans constantly deal with adversity while seeking purpose, joy and creativity. Reflecting on the omnipresence of technology and the internal battles we wage, this is ultimately a defiant anthem of perseverance. An instant...
The legendary band Clan of Xymox returns with X-Odus, a new EP that they are releasing as a preview of their upcoming album ‘Exodus’. Formed in Amsterdam in 1984, Clan of Xymox was one of the leading exponents of the 4AD label and, over the course of their four-decade career, Clan of Xymox has...
First things first: let’s talk about the elephant in the room. How much sense has a KMFDM review in 2024? No easy question, no easy answer. A lot happened in 40 years of career, many changes in personnel, style, live performances, approach. And yet, one of the major complains one can hear frequently about...
Iconic US-based label Metropolis Records announce the signing of beguiling Swedish post-punk outfit Then Comes Silence for the release of their seventh album, titled ‘Trickery’. This record celebrates friendship, unity and belonging to a group - your tribe. The first single, ‘Ride or Die’, which has already emerged in Germany's authoritative DAC Charts,...
Bedless Bones is Kadri Sammel - singer-songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and interdisciplinary artist from Tallinn, Estonia. With Bedless Bones, Kadri experiments with different noir genres, building bridges and bending the borders between darkwave, murky EBM & techno beats, industrial sounds, and abstract otherworldly atmosphere akin to IDM.In anticipation of a new album due out...
