CD, Telegrammetry/Hypervoxx, 2007 www.stahlschlag.de Stahlschlag is, and let me make this absolutely clear before continuing, bloody great. I say this because I’m about to follow up with some fairly unkind [ … ]
Tag: 2007
Protoplasmic Reversion – Sunken Temples
CD-R, Reverse Alignment, 2007 www.myspace.com/protoplasmicreversion “The Monstrous Soul” by Lustmord needs no introduction to fans of dark ambient but I feel the need to bring said album up as a [ … ]
Eva|3 – The Great Divide
CD, Fich-Art, 2007 www.eva3.co.uk Amongst the large amount of releases into the current industrial scene, only a very few artists and records can be described as really original. This debut [ … ]
Gelsomina + No Xivic – Furnace
CD, Some Place Else, 2007 www.someplaceelse.net Okay I knew I was in for the long haul with this album as it consists of just three tracks. First up is the [ … ]
Accomplice Affair – Jezioro Wspomnien
CD-R, My Hands Music, 2007 www.accompliceaffair.za.pl Accomplice Affair, the brainchild of Przemyslaw Rychlik, lured me in with promises of dark ambient and occasional psychedelic moments. Or at least that’s what [ … ]
[:SITD:] – Bestie:Mensch
CD, Accession Records/Metropolis Records, 2007 www.sitd.de After taking the DAC by storm with their first two albums and numerous singles, the German trio [:SITD:], or Shadows In The Dark, return [ … ]
Xentrifuge – Light Extiguished
CD, Noitekk/COP International, 2007 www.myspace.com/xentrifuge New Jersey-based Xentrifuge defines their name as “a machine in which devastation is manufactured.” Fitting I think, considering that every track on their debut album [ … ]
Soman – Mask
CD, Infacted/COP International, 2007 www.soman.de From East Germany comes the 2nd full length long-player from EBM act Soman. Taking the moniker from the name of a toxic nerve agent developed [ … ]
Oszillotom – Energetika
CD-R, Fich-Art, 2007 www.myspace.com/oszillotom Oszillotom comprises of two collaborators; M “Kirk” Fuchs and Herby Althaus. Fuchs was a founder member of the band Config.sys but left in 2002 to pursue [ … ]
ReAdjust – Statement
CD-R, Hyervoxx Recordings, 2007 www.readjust-music.com In recent years, the terror-ebm/dark electro/terror-banana/etc. scene has reached a point of over-saturation. I used to be over-enthused by any band that would throw a [ … ]