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It has taken Nico J. seven years to find the sound and the shape of a successor for his brilliant debut album "Strange Cargo", released in 2011. Now the long awaited "Ghost Nocturne" will see the light of day, and ...

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Dawn Of Ashes - The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam)

Dawn Of Ashes returns with "The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam)". Dawn of Ashes has returned to the band's roots of the Industrial and Dark-Electro sound. After many years, Dawn Of Ashes has decided to return to the old sound ...

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Oomph! - Ritual

Reinvention and continuity – Oomph! have been synonymous with self-renewal, pioneer spirit and carefree creativity for almost three decades. The Germans have been raised on EBM, rock and new wave, accidentally started a new subgenre in the 90's (the so-called ...

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Hante. - Fierce (News)
Rome - Le Ceneri di Heliodoro (News)
Joachim Witt - Rubezahl (News)
Solar Fake - One 2 Three (News)
Hocico - Shalom From Hell Aviv (News)

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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

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

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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

2019-02-15

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)
2019-01-18

Rome
Le Ceneri di Heliodoro
(CD)
2019-01-18

Hante.
Fierce
(CD)
2019-01-18

Dawn Of Ashes
The Crypt Injection II (Non Serviam)
(CD)
2018-12-28

Joachim Witt
Rubezahl
(CD)
2018-12-14

Solar Fake
One 2 Three
(3CD)
2018-12-07

Hocico
Shalom From Hell Aviv
(CD)
2018-11-30

Studio-X
Wrong
(CD)
2018-11-30

Various Artists
Awake The Machines Vol. 8
(3CD)
2018-11-30

Frosttide
Decedents - Enshrined
(2CD)
2018-11-30

Radioaktivists
Radioakt One
(CD)

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