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Hailing from Paris, France, FTR is an intense act. Relentless, driving bass, fuzzed out guitar, and rumbling percussion masterfully interplay, delivering hypnotic, dark, goth-tinged, psychedelia infused, shoegazing feedback laden post punk. The new album, 'Manners', slides easily from cacophonous noise ...

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Rotting Christ - The Ritual

Rotting Christ have reached another peak in their long career that now spans over more than three decades. The Greeks have literally stood the test of time. With confidence and skills derived from experience, each song on 'The Heretics' represents ...

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Front Line Assembly - Wake Up The Coma

Electro-Industrial act Front Line Assembly has always pushed the boundaries of the genre it helped define. This is still true on "Wake Up The Coma". A fearless leading force, Front Line Assembly provides surprising new elements, such as a cover ...

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Acretongue - Ghost Nocturne (News)
Dawn Of Ashes - The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam) (News)
Oomph! - Ritual (News)
Hante. - Fierce (News)
Rome - Le Ceneri di Heliodoro (News)

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Coma Alliance Tour 2019

Sometimes – especially when I overdose reading press - I wonder if there's still any raison d'être for live shows. Currently people are attacked by attractions everywhere they turn – any gadget, social media platform, screen, billboards or paper screams that loud that brain has trouble processing it all. Everything is available in an instant, effortlessly, with just but one click. Does anyone need any more adrenaline? I've read that ...

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Castle Party 2018

Dearest, Castle Party 2018 is already a part of history and honestly I don’t know how it happened. It seems like every year it goes faster. We’ve just arrived and here we are sharing our memories. This year’s edition was a bit different than previous ones. There were some changes made. On the other hand it is still our celebration and Bolków remains a place with friendly atmosphere where everybody ...

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Vanguard - Retribution

Synthpop is a genre represented in large number in Sweden, inter alia by Hjärta, Melody Club, Page, SPOCK and many others. VANGURAD in another band from this country, that fits very well to the '80 atmosphere of electronics. The last day of February 2014 brought us a new album from Gothenburg duo, Jonas Olofsson (synthesizers) and Patrik Hansson (vocal). Released by Conzoom Records "RETRIBUTION" refers to the previous projects of ...

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Einstürzende Neubauten - Lament (Music reviews)
Job Karma - Society Suicide (Music reviews)
Interview with Schnittmuskel (Interviews)
Angelspit - The Product (Music reviews)
Castle Party 2017 (Live reports)

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Kalisz Ambient Festiwal

Kalisz Ambient Festiwal is an event held in Poland for all ambient, electronic and experimental music fans. 7-th edition will be in third time at Arts and Culture Center in Kalisz, Poland. Line up: Kriistal Ann [GR] Paradox ...

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Roni Size in Poznań!

Go Ahead agency invates You to live show of the Roni Size! A well known artists, one of co-founders of the Full Cycle Records, also known from cooperation with DJ Krust, which have begun already in 1992.

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Algiers in Poznań!

On 8 November Go Ahead agency invites you to autumn's concert of the Algiers band in Poznań in Meskalina club! Algiers is a band that cannot be labelled by one specific music genre. Drawing inspirations from rock, post-punk, industrial ...

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AnimeCon Halloween in Poznań! (Events)
Algiers (Events)
Dotan Solo Tour (Events)
Stu Larsen (Events)
I Am Giant - Playing With Fire Tour (Events)

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Recent publishing

2019-03-22

Stahlmann
Kinder Der Sehnsucht
(CD)
2019-03-22

Muet
Muet
(CD)
2019-03-15

Near Earth Orbit
Artificial Intelligence
(CD)
2019-03-15

Apoptygma Berzerk
SDGXXV
(CD)
2019-03-08

Frozen Plasma
Pakt
(CD)
2019-03-01

ASP
Zaubererbruder Live & Extended
(2CD)
2019-03-01

Jean-Marc Lederman Experience
13 Ghost Stories
(CD)
2019-02-22

Rotersand
Hey You
(CD)
2019-02-22

The Young Gods
Data Mirage Tangram
(CD)
2019-02-22

FTR
Manners
(CD)
2019-02-15

Rotting Christ
The Heretics
(CD)
2019-02-08

Front Line Assembly
Wake Up The Coma
(CD)
2019-02-01

Acretongue
Ghost Nocturne
(CD)
2019-01-18

Oomph!
Ritual
(CD)

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