Industrial
SEE: Danny Elfman – ‘Sorry’: high, scouring prog-industrial from soundtrack giant
IT WAS quite a thing when ANTI- secured the signature of globe-straddling modern soundtrack composer extraordinaire Danny Elfman last year; yep, the Sunset Boulevard-based label which brings us Andy Shauf, Yves Jarvis, M. Ward, Jolie Holland, Fleet Foxes et al, teaming up with the man behind the theme from The Simpsons and soundtracks to such …
Album Review: Tommy Lee – Andro
You don’t have to read the Youtube comments under the videos for the album singles to realise he’s upset a lot of his long term fans. Instead of Lee dropping a glam metal album we would all expect, he has taken 2 years to craft something different, yet uniquely Tommy Lee. The album features a …
Say Psych: Track Review: Flying Moon in Space – Ardor
Flying Moon In Space are a seven-piece band from Leipzig, Germany borne out of live improvisations which are known to last hours at a time. Having clocked-up nearly fifty shows in their home-city alone, as well as support slots with The Holydrug Couple, Elephant Stone and The Sweet Release of Death and a couple of …
Track: Jaz Coleman’s New Project Black & Red – On The Day The Earth Went Mad
Jaz Coleman’s new project Black & Red, a collaboration with Ondrej Smeykal have just shared their debut single ‘On The Day The Earth Went Mad’ the single is also available as a limited edition numbered red vinyl 10” via Cadiz Music. Available here “The Black and Red project was born in Australia in 2010 when I set out …
Track: Greg Puciato Shares Single ‘Do You Need Me To Remind You’ Taken From His Debut Solo Album
Dillinger Escape Plan frontman Greg Puciato has set an Oct. 23 release date for his eagerly-awaited solo debut album, Child Soldier: Creator of God via Federal Prisoner. Along with the news Puciato has also shared the next single ‘Do You Need Me To Remind You’ “I’d been writing for so many different projects, Dillinger, then The …
TRACK: Internet Death’s ‘NOT YOUR DOG’ is industrial gabba fury
CHARTING the times we are in, with all the fear, anger, hostility and frustration inherent, is something of a mission for Finlay Anderson – the man behind those purveyors of sonic terror, Internet Death. Still a teenager, the Christchurch, New Zealand producer has distilled down the dark matter of our times into a sandstorm of …
See: Einstürzende Neubauten – Alles in Allem
In anticipation of their forthcoming album, ‘Alles in Allem’ (All in All) on 15 May 2020, legendary Berlin industrial band Enstürzende Neubauten have released an imperial and highly elegant video for the title track. Featuring the eminently theatrical and enigmatic front person Blixa Bargeld with spectacular eye make-up on organ, and black and white vignettes, …
News: Laibach announce Revisited – Deluxe Vinyl and CD Box Set plus Digital Release
Laibach formed 40 years ago in the then-Yugoslavian industrial town of Trbovlje. Founded in the year that the country’s founding father Tito died, the band rose to fame as Yugoslavia steered itself towards self-destruction to become one of the most internationally acclaimed bands to have come out of the former Communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. With roots in performance art, theatre and the avant-garde, the …
Track: Einstürzende Neubauten – Ten Grand Goldie
The legendary Einstürzende Neubauten have just released a new track ‘Ten Grand Goldie’ in anticipation of a new album ‘Alles in Allem’ due out on 15 May 2020. And what a song. It is a typically sonic adventure filled with singer Blixa Bargeld’s indie cabaret insouciance style vocals, squeaking, growling, thundering along over the band’s …
ALBUM REVIEW: ONO – RED SUMMER
Before Saul Williams graced us with his imprints of experimental hip hop, Chicago’s ONO were creating divergent works that drew from both industrial music and gospel. The comparisons between the two are very much conscientious – both pushed the envelope for their respective genres, discussing themes about race and what it means to be a …