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Rome and its entourage set up camp at Hansa for about 14 hours on October 2nd, 2016, and recorded 8 songs in one go. Never really stopping to get a second take, the recording captures the band the way it ...

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Studio-X vs. Technoid - Neural Torment

Here comes "Neural Torment", the perfect hi-energy 13-track album revealing industrial hard-dance collaboration with talented Italian electronic artist Roberto Ricci aka Technoid. Unique blend of dark industrial and hard dance / trance keeps coming in with cuts like "In God ...

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Aengeldust - Agent Orange

Rising from her uncompromising roots of strict industrial noise, Aengeldust adds structure in her compositions and injects harsh elektro layers and heavy provocative samples to make her work progress. "Agent Orange" is there to atomize all underground clubs playing merciless ...

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Schwarzblut vs. Saeldes Sanc - Wildes Herz (News)
Cypress Grove & Lydia Lunch - Under The Covers (News)
The Dreaming - From The Ashes (News)
Die Form - Baroque Equinox (News)
New album Echoes of Yul - "The Healing Sessions" (News)

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Centhron - Biest

I'm not the type of person who likes tormenting his favorite bands, but sometimes it is necessary - especially if the band recorded five good longplays and after them comes.. This. Someone may say that I'm just dramatizing - after all songs from "Biest" somehow do not differ from those from "Asgard" or "Dominator". Yes, that is right, patents remain the same, but keep in mind that song is not only ...

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Menuo Juodaragis XVIII - In Search for New Sounds

Far, far away, all the way by the Lithuanian-Latvian border, in a small town Zarasai, on an island adjacent to it, another edition of little known in Poland, though extremely climatic cultural festival called the Balts Menuo Juodaragis was held. The specificity of this festival is that, in addition to a wide range of genre of music that you can him hear, you have an opportunity to participate in various ...

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Ľahká Múza - Byť Tvojím Zrkadlom (To Be Your Mirror)

What is a mirror? Let’s check in a dream-book. Among many different associations we mostly pay attention to the following: smooth glass surface is a symbol of self-awareness, inner reflections and fears, also of entering the other mysterious side, the symbol of death, but also of trials of reconciling with your own identity. It’s not a coincidence that the latest album of Slovak band Ľahká Múza is entitled "To Be ...

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Pankow - Throw Out Rite (Music reviews)
W.A.S.T.E. - Warlord Mentality (Music reviews)
Aesthetic Perfection - LAX (Music reviews)
Immundus - You Will Never Get Out Of Here Alive (Music reviews)
Contaminated Intelligence - Mental Fractures (Music reviews)

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Hourly schedule of concerts at Castle Party! (Events)
M'era Luna full line-up 2017! (Events)
Immanu El with two concerts in Poland! (Events)
Next confirmed artists on M'era Luna 2017 (Events)
XV Wroclaw Industrial Festival (Events)

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Recent publishing

2017-08-04

God Module
Does This Stuff Freak You Out?
(2CD)
2017-07-07

The Tear Garden
Eye Spy Vol 2
(CD)
2017-07-07

The Tear Garden
The Brown Acid Caveat
(CD)
2017-06-30

Rome
Hansa Studio Session
(CD)
2017-06-26

Studio-X
vs Technoid - Neural Torment
(CD)
2017-06-23

Die Form
Baroque Equinox
(CD)
2017-06-23

Aengeldust
Agent Orange
(CD)
2017-06-23

Schwarzblut
& Saeldes Sanc - Wildes Herz
(CD)
2017-06-23

Lydia Lunch
& Cypress Grove - Under the Covers
(CD)
2017-06-23

The Dreaming
From The Ashes
(CD)
2017-06-09

Mildreda
Cowards
(EP)
2017-06-09

The Birthday Massacre
Under Your Spell
(CD)
2017-06-09

Dawn Of Ashes
Daemonolatry Gnosis
(CD)
2017-06-09

Hexheart
Midnight On A Moonless Night
(CD)

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