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Industrial/Rock Band 51 PEG Breaks 14 Year Silence with AVOID

Industrial/Rock band 51 PEG are pleased to announce the release of their new album AVOID. This is their first release after a 14 year hiatus.

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The "Moon Song of 2020"

The "Moon Song of 2020" plebiscite has begun!

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New London After Midnight album Odebrane

Darkride Records announces the release of London After Midnight’s first live album, "Live From Isolation". The new album contains 10 performances; classic LAM songs plus some rarely performed fan favorites. Sean Brennan says "The album shows the power behind the ...

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Front Line Assembly - Mechanical Soul (News)
Lord Of The Lost - Fears (10th Anniversary Edition) (News)
She Past Away - Part Time Punks Session (News)
Renard - Waking Up In A Different World (News)
Assemblage 23 - Mourn (News)

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Decadent Fun Club + Nowomowa + TOG - Castle Party in the Club

It was an absolutely magical night on October 9 at the Liverpool club in Wrocław. As part of Castle Party in the Club, two bands from Decadent Fun Club and Nowomowa played live shows and they did it in great style. Probably everyone missed a real club event, so the audience was great, both during the concerts and during the after party hosted by the team from Gdańsk - TOG. ...

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Interview with META MEAT

META MEAT have just released a truly exceptional album "Infrasupra", which is their second after "metameat" of 2016. I took it as a fine occasion to discuss their music a bit - its concepts, visual representation and inspirations. With Phil Von and Somekilos - about what it means to make music that is both personal and stylistically hypnotic. META MEAT is a truly unique project – since this is ...

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Golden Apes - Satori

Satori in Zen Buddhism means awakening, enlightenment. The point when everything becomes clear gets into the right place in the puzzle and reaches completeness. The moment Golden Apes released such a single is significant, indeed. Even though it may not be directly related to the pandemic in the lyrics or stylistics, it leads to certain connotations about the understanding of things in the context of transience, impermanence of everything. ...

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Gary Numan - Intruder (Music reviews)
Interview with Shannon Hemmett – LEATHERS, ACTORS (Articles)
Interview with Hidden by Ivy (Interviews)
Clicks - G.O.T.H. (Music reviews)
Kanga - You and I Will Never Die (Music reviews)

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Lebanon Hanover + Twin Tribes / 16.10.21 / Zaklęte Rewiry, Wrocław

Amphi Festival 2019 (Events)
Christian Death announces forthcoming European Tour! (Events)
Kalisz Ambient Festiwal (Events)
Roni Size in Poznań! (Events)
Algiers in Poznań! (Events)

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Recent publishing

2020-11-13

STILLNOX
ATEN
(CDr, Album, ALAC, FLAC, MP3, W)
2020-11-13

Lord Of The Lost
Fears (10th Anniversary Edition)
(CD)
2020-10-31

STILLNOX
War of The Worlds
(EP, FLAC, MP3, WAV)
2020-10-23

She Past Away
Part Time Punks Session
(CD)
2020-10-09

Renard
Waking Up In A Different World
(CD)
2020-09-11

Assemblage 23
Mourn
(2CD)
2020-09-04

FRETT
The World as a Hologram
2020-08-31

Ad:Key
Resonanz
(CD)
2020-08-31

Armageddon Dildos
Dystopia
(CD)
2020-08-21

KMFDM
IN DUB
(CD)
2020-08-07

God Module
The Unsound Remixes
(CD)
2020-07-31

Ost+Front
Dein Helfer In Der Not
(2CD)
2020-07-24

Clan of Xymox
Spider On The Wall
(CD)
2020-07-10

Statiqbloom
Beneath The Whelm
(CD)

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