Winter Severity Index - Human Taxonomy

2016-06-13 (News)

Winter Severity Index is a New Wave project from Rome, by Simona Ferrucci, singer, guitarist, composer and songwriter. Winter Severity Index have been praised and celebrated on highest levels for their amazing and extremely successful full length debut ‘Slanting Ray'. Their second album ‘Human Taxonomy', was presented in first preview at the Wave Gothic Treffen in Leipzig, receiving a warm welcoming by the audience. In their music a cold vintage drum machine rhythm section meets the liquid melancholic atmospheres of Simona's guitar and the Alessandra's ethereal synths.

Reactor7x - Illusion of Chaos

2016-06-12 (News)

Reactor7x debut album "Illusion of Chaos" was released 06/06/2016 via Hungarian label Advoxya Records. 

Khost [Deconstructed And Reconstructed By] Godflesh - Needles Into The Ground

2016-06-11 (News)

"Needles Into the Ground" contains material by Khost which has been elementally transformed by Justin Broadrick of Godflesh. The original Khost material – taken from their second album "Corrosive Shroud" – is dense, multifaceted and purgatorial with no straightforward ‘stems’ based approach. Broadrick has extracted what he needed for his work whilst in pure Godflesh mode. As a result, the outcome is claustrophobic and frenetic, the experience akin to being in the proximity of a large, unstable machine on the verge of meltdown. In addition to these pieces, Khost has added a new track. Khost: "If it was a painting it would be about a kilometer wide held up by old, thick metal supports and wires that creak in wind, in parts abstract, in parts quite hard to decipher, and the materials would be oil like and seeping, never quite drying out".

Die Krupps - Stahlwerkrequiem

2016-06-10 (News)

In 1981 the Düsseldorf band Die Krupps (Jürgen Engler, Bernward Malaka, Ralf Dörper) released a seminal album which wrote its own chapter in the history of music: the "Stahlwerksinfonie" (Steelworks Symphony) was a near thirty-minute musical monolith of metal and guitar sounds with scattergun saxophone and shouts, held together by a monotonic bass line and stoic beat. The "Stahlwerksinfonie" proved a worldwide sensation, a nucleus of EBM and industrial rock.Die Krupps mastermind Jürgen Engler was as yet unfamiliar with the output of his purported antescedents. 35 years later, a new version is upon us: the "Stahlwerkrequiem", recorded with Engler's kindred spirits Mani Neumeier (Guru Guru), Jean-Hervé Peron and Zappi Diermaier (Faust), Pyrolator (Der Plan) and US postrock musician Scott Telles.

Me the Tiger - S/T

2016-06-10 (News)

 Me The Tiger decided to make the debut available again. Although it is the very first output of the band, you will find all the elements, which make Me The Tiger such an outstanding band. While the band is currently working on a follow up to "Vitriolic", their fans can bridge the time gap with the original debut of "Me The Tiger". The story of Me The Tiger began at the same moment as the recording of the band's self-titled debut album. The first song that was completed was "Pocket Sized Edition Ending", which in many ways would personify all that Me The Tiger would become; energetic sequencers, power chords, driving rhythms and emotional vocals. Lyrically the album is a reaction against all gender discrimination, xenophobia, religious fanaticism and greedy capitalism. On top of that the lyrics also deal with relationships, love and frustration.

Philipp Münch - Elysium

2016-06-09 (News)

In ancient mythology elysium is an afterlife, a blessed and happy place chosen by the gods for the righteous and the heroic. If we take a close look around the life we are living we will realize elysium is already here on earth, but for the very few. A place where a very small percentage of human population is spending its time in rapture while the rest of us are condemned to a permanent life of struggle and conflict. This very special definition of elysium was the starting point for Philipp Münch's fourth solo album - a claiming, haunting and partly dystopic opus.

This release is an arc of suspense starting with rhythmic pieces, leading to the long dark ambient track 'Fighting Back (long version)' and concluding with more beat oriented tunes. A huge variety of stylistic devices were applied to bring arc of suspense into a more detailed focus, from atmospheric cinematic textures and technoid electro patterns to classic industrial strikes. A fascinating survey of sounds including surgically precise loops, disturbing walls of noise, varied electronic percussion and processed vocals.