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Dear angels of the night, if like us you feel like belonging in the dark and feel so misunderstood by those people around you who find you sad, strange and even dangerous when they see you aimlessly wandering off late ...

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Aiboforcen - Sense & Nonsense

It’s 7 years after the last "Dédale" album, that Belgium’s cult dark electro act Aiboforcen now returns with their 6th full length album "Sense & Nonsense". Still mostly centered today around the intriguing personality of mastermind Benoit Blanchart and the ...

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Juno Reactor - The Mutant Theatre

From the back streets of London to Hollywood blockbusters of the Matrix, Juno Reactor's story is ever evolving. Ben Watkins aka Juno Reactor is constantly exploring new areas visually and musically, evidenced by the new album "The Mutant Theatre" (also ...

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Johan Baeckström - Utopia (News)
Jérôme Chassagnard - Sea (News)
Monolog - Indemnity and Oblivion (News)
Signalstoerung - S (News)
Eisbrecher - Schock-Live (News)

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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

And so it happened!. After 7 years of waiting, gentlemen's from Einstürzende Neubauten released a new album. Is it on the same level as the previous ones? Yes and no ….... Why? Avant-grade works has always been difficult to review. They try to overcome certain adopted conventions and for this reason, their reception is always mixed - some hate it and some love. The difficulty of rating was, so to speak, directly ...

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Job Karma - Society Suicide

After release of album in 2010, the band Job Karma decided to take a long break. Work on the new material began in November 2012 and came to an end in February 2014. And so, on May 11 of 2014, we got released on CD and on vinyl a new album "SOCIETY SUICIDE" (both versions have a different graphic design). The postindustrial-ambient team from Wroclaw has once again referred to the negative ...

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Interview with Schnittmuskel (Interviews)
Angelspit - The Product (Music reviews)
Castle Party 2017 (Live reports)
Golden Apes - The Langsyne Litanies (Music reviews)
Centhron - Biest (Music reviews)

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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!

Already at the end of October (27 - 29) in Poznań there will be the first manga and anime convention, organized by Anime24 editorial portal. Although the facebook event has already gathered more than 7,000 interested, so far the exact ...

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Algiers (Events)
Dotan Solo Tour (Events)
Stu Larsen (Events)
I Am Giant - Playing With Fire Tour (Events)
Full schedule of Castle Party (Events)

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Recent publishing

2018-08-31

Blutengel
History - The Vinyl Collection - Vol. 2
(10LP Box)
2018-07-06

Desert Mountain Tribe
Om Parvat Mystery
(CD)
2018-07-06

Hanzel Und Gretyl
Satanik Germanik
(CD)
2018-06-29

Fear Of Domination
Metanoia
(2CD)
2018-06-29

Melotron
Für Alle
(CD)
2018-06-29

Nachtmahr
Widerstand
(CD)
2018-06-29

Lederman & De Meyer
Eleven Grinding Songs
(CD)
2018-06-22

2nd Face
Nihilum
(EP)
2018-06-22

Juno Reactor
The Mutant Theatre
(CD)
2018-06-22

Helalyn Flowers
Nyctophilia
(CD)
2018-06-22

Aiboforcen
Sense & Nonsense
(CD)
2018-06-19

Jérôme Chassagnard
Sea
(EP)
2018-06-15

Johan Baeckström
Utopia
(CD)
2018-06-15

Monolog
Indemnity and Oblivion
(CD)

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