Since 1996, Diary Of Dreams have been busy behind the scenes, working on a secret side project. A project that was never accomplished though. The time never seemed to be right, and the main focus was always laid on the leviathan Diary Of Dreams. But now, things are about to change: Adrian Hates and Gaun:A have broken their chains and expanded the borders of their musical works to make room for another creation: .Com/Kill is coming, so much is for sure & and it won't take long... Of course there are moments where .Com/Kill's musical legacy will flare up, and yet, the project is dominated by elements and songs which couldn't be more different from the mother ship DoD. Phrases, fragments and voodoo-like rhythms attack the stunned listener, pounding furiously like a horde of wild note storms. The going is unusually rough, hard and intense, promising lots of delights for the club world. And .Com/Kill is much more than a side project - it is a second musical universe, a second home for the redirected and unfiltered words and sounds from the unconsciousness of a creative duo, renowned for their ability to let music become a soundtrack for your head. So be patient for just a little longer & .Com/Kill is coming to the club, to the stage and to your head.

Kirlian Camera return with one of the most ambitious efforts that the Italian cult group has recorded to date. “Black Summer Choirs” is a unique sonic experience, the group’s “black album”, a perfect fusion of fragile tension, melancholy gloom, magnificent Pop moments, cinematic soundscapes and powerful electronics… an album that will draw you in and captivate you from the start.
Have you ever experienced the sensation that being at a special place at a special time feels so overwhelming and surreal that it leaves a lasting impression on you and your life? On “Black Summer Choirs”, Italian cult group Kirlian Camera takes you to such a place. Elena Alice Fossi and Angelo Bergamini are plunging the listener head first into a multifaceted sonic universe of adventurous sound designs, hypnotic electronic beats, anthemic melodies and cinematic darkness on one of the most complex and intense experiences of their career. The band masterfully intertwines grand scale Pop moments with experimental gloom and beat-driven Electronica with intimate chamber music, all the while breathing that irresistible aura of grandeur that the band is famous and loved for, giving Elena Alice Fossi the perfect vehicle for delivering some of her most powerful and gripping vocal performances, ever. Thus, “Black Summer Choirs” becomes one of the most daring ventures into unexplored territory that Kirlian Camera have ever attempted while still retaining all of the group’s trademark ingredients that have earned the group a faithful and ever growing fan following around the world. Produced by Elena Alice Fossi along with top producer John Fryer (Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails, HIM, Radiohead, Cocteau Twins, etc.), the new album also features a large scale sound befitting of the monumental structures. Balancing the tight rope between subversive Pop music, Trip Hop, Neofolk, modern club Electronica, Soundtrack and pure art, Kirlian Camera’s “black album” never ceases to impress.
Out 17-05-2013
Source: Out Of Line

“Covering the Orient, the Middle-East, Western culture, the Unknown and the Unspoken” – the perfect subtitle for Ah Cama-Sotz’ 2013 album, which covers all of these aspects, summarizing and enhancing all which has made this project a prime act in the Post Industrial scene in the past two decades.
Ah Cama-Sotz is known as the brainchild of Belgian musician Herman Klapholz, well respected in both, the darker and the more rhythm-geared Industrial scenes.
Celebrating its 20th anniversary, ACS can look back on a string of praised releases and a large number
of acclaimed live performances. After three selfreleased albums, “Obsession Diabolique” also marks
the return to the HANDS label, and it sure is an appropriate gift for the occasion.
“Obsession Diabolique” covers the entire range of musical styles ACS has explored throughout its career, from noisy collages over dark drones to electronic beats and distorted rhythms.
“The Orient and the Middle-East” have always been a fertile source of inspiration for ACS, and this album contains a number of pieces based on organic rhythm patterns and ethnic chanting.
Herman Klapholz manages to cover the past and the present of the Ah Cama-Sotz sound and reach out to the future, integrating timeless atmospheres and contemporary rhythm patterns, all with a trademark sound. A multifaceted album suited for novices as well as seasoned ACS followers.
Out Soon!
Source: Hands Productions

It its nearly three decades of existence, Skinny Puppy has established itself as a groundbreaking inno-vative voice in the world of electronic music. Fearless in both its musical experimentation and voicing
a stance on the issues of our times, the new album, Weapon, is no exception.
This stunning new album stands as a commentary on that which it is named after, the Weapon, or
more specifically, to the concurrent glorification of the gun culture and simultaneous horror at the devas-
tation the gun can cause. Given this view, the pop undertones of the albums opening “wornin” and the
compelling counterpoint of the vocals and lyrics seem to reflect our mass media homogenization of an
instrument of death into an entertainment centerpiece. “illisiT” could then be focusing on the authori- tarian control applied to us under the guise of protecting us from the criminal element. Though possibly it is from the view of the average citizen, arming themselves against the threat of each other. The more it is analyzed, the more it could be pondered on varying levels.
Out 28-05-2013
Source: Metropolis Records

The title of the new long player to come from the creative mind of Belgian Electro-Industrial-legend
Suicide Commando is “When Evil Speaks” which is certainly no empty promise as mastermind and icon Johan van Roy has delved deeper into the dark abysses of the human psyche than ever before. It comes as no surprise that the result is not exactly easy listening material and so the listener is plunged head-on into an appropriately fierce trip comprised of psychotic shouts, hard beats and dark soundscapes.
“When Evil Speaks” and “In Guns we Trust” make excellent floor fillers, but Suicide Commando have much more up their sleeves and have created an album that is a captivating journey into the darkest corners of human existence and a reflection on all facets of hatred. Songs like “Monster” confront us with the ugliest sides of the human species while “Repent Or Perish” and “My Blasphemy” reflect on the perils of religious fanaticism. On his latest Journey into mental hell, Johan van Roy not only confronts us with the inner life of dangerous psychopaths but also uncovers the evil inherent in society itself with a diabolic grin. The vile and often menacing atmosphere that is at the center of “When Evil Speaks”, brings Suicide Commando full circle back to their roots … embellished in the massive sound of today, as songs like “Time” or “Repent or Perish” are effectively showcasing… and makes the album an incredibly intense experience.
Out 03-05-2013

More than a decade after 'Electronic Music Means War To Us' Patrick Stevens showcases his updated aural statement, ready to burglarize listeners' minds and bodies with a heavy load of uncompromising sound barrages. This album has its focus on classic rhythmic Industrial: repetitive hard-hitting power rhythms layered with violent noisy clashes, corroded synth textures and incidental voice samples. Six collaborations with artists from all over the world like Needle Sharing, Dissecting Table and Cyboresis add to the stylistic variety from heavy overdrive hardcore, grind/death metal vocals, power noise and ambient to the beat driven hypnoskull tracks. An aggressive, confrontational album with a high amount of club playability that perfectly brings out the essence of rhythm based electronics.
Out 15-04-2013
Source: ant zen

Karl Bartos’ new album is an audio-visual sensation! Lostfor many years, some of his early music has beenreconceived and re-contextualised in a thrilling modern setting. Here’s the story: during Kraftwerk’s heyday KarlBartos wrote – off the record – a secret acoustic diary.Based on his musical jottings – rhythms, riffs, hooks, sounds, chords and melodies – this is what he has come upwith today: twelve brand new, exciting, timeless songs.
For Off the Record, Karl Bartos has opened up his music archivefor the very first time. He rediscovered and analysed hundreds oftapes, piles of sheet music, and years of digital media. Inspiredby his acoustic diary and adding his experience as a composer and producer, he has created twelve brand new songs – writtenand performed with masterly skill. It took him two years to accomplish this original Bartos album:iron crystal music, vocoder newspeak, robot sounds, digital glitch,techno pop, catchy melodies, electronic avant-garde, roaring silence, futurism, and, of course, those rhythms! Rhythms ofbrutal minimalistic impact as found on the much-sampledNumbers recorded three decades ago and described by Mike Banks of Underground Resistance as “the secret code of electronicfunk.”
Out 15-03-2013

Almost 8 years have passed since the release of "Nemesis". Shaun Frandsen started recording new music again, but he has changed with time, he aged and started reflecting on the music from his youth. He went through a nostalgic period and ‘Phoenix’ is clearly a very personal album for Shaun Frandsen, almost an autobiographical journey: "I wrote it as an ode for those who have inspired me the most. I didn’t hide my heart at all," he says.
This album begins rough, dark and chaotic, sometimes sad. On "Phoenix", Glis took a bit of Bowie and Eno and a classic-era 4AD sound to create the ambiance and grabbed some inspiration from Nine Inch Nails, Underworld and Joy Division for the body of the music. It's when female vocalist Lauren Krothe is introduced on the album that ushers in the transition from darkness to light, lo-fi darkwave with an ethereal hint to Cocteau Twins. Then come the anthemic and hooky "Crush" and the instant hit "Stars in the Sea" which both end the journey on a hopeful positive outlook and loop with the opening and closing groovey track "Apocalypse Parties" that will remind you of the early WaxTrax electro/industrial sound with a touch of melodic modernity. By writing it with his heart, Shaun Frandsen definitely accomplished something personal and meaningful with this album, giving integrity and soul to "Phoenix", a chef d'oeuvre which falls down and rebuilds itself in a way that follows the fabled cycle. The track-list is set up in the same way. It's an ode to Glis' past but
also a nod to the futureÂ…
Out 15-03-2013
Source: Alfa Matrix

„Confirm, Obey, Consume“: when John Carpenter directed “They Live” in 1988, he chose an utopian view on
a blind consumer-society in which only his protagonist could decipher advertisements as imperatives with the above mentioned messages. 25 years later, this utopian view seems to have become the new common sense of the Facebook-generation. Mesh use this notion in “Automation Baby” as the main theme of their new album:
LetÂ’s exchange real-life friends with the virtual ones behind an ever-shining screen. LetÂ’s give in to a brave new Facebook-world that warp and constitute our sense of reality in the future. LetÂ’s give in to consumerism and technology: ThatÂ’s Automation Baby!
I know it sounds ‘cheap’, but their latest offering has all the ingredients to be deemed as one of their absolutely strongest releases yet. Mesh deliver a sonic upgrade, improved production and some amazing arrangements.
“Automation Baby” delivers one highlight after the other: The crunchy and hard “Taken for Granted” meets the rhythmical midtempo hymn “Adjust your Set” and the club-oriented “What’s owed to You”, providing that the bands single “Born to Lie” was not the only winner on this album.
However, songs like calm and laidback “You could not see this coming” or the ultimately catchy title track “Automation Baby” show that the backbone of the Mesh-qualities remain strong songs and unforgettablem¨hooklines. The title track is that strong that Mesh decided to include an own 5 tracks EP along with the limited edition of the album. A killer record, killer production, and killer songs. That’s Automation Baby!
Out 15-03-2013
Source: Dependent

The EBM duo Spetsnaz was formed in Örebro, Sweden in the autumn of 2001 by Stefan Nilsson and Pontus Stålberg and their debut ‘Grand Design’ appeared in 2003, followed by selected shows in Sweden, Germany and Mexico. In 2004 the album was re-released as ‘Grand Design: Redesigned’ by Leading German electro label Out Of Line and since then, Spetsnaz have been conquering the World with a number of highly successful Eps and singles (Perfect Body, Degenerate Ones, Hardcore Hooligans) and 2 more albums (‘Totalitär’ and ‘Deadpan’). Hit tracks like ‘On the Edge’, ‘Apathy’, ‘Faust- Pakt’ or ‘Allegiance’ fill the dance floors in electronic music clubs since and the band played shows in all important festivals and on countless tours, including the US.
After five years of silence with only sporadic club and festival shows itÂ’s now time for the fourth full length album from the Swedish duo: An album packed with electronic body music that will move people on dance floors all over the world and for sure yet another example of the diversity and strength of the bandÂ’s musical skills. Pounding basses, harsh but melodic voices, exciting synthesizers and as always with something to be pointed out in the lyrics.
The bands earlier carrier moved them from venues in the north home of Scandinavia to as far south as Mexico, from Los Angeles in the west to Moscow in the east. With ‘For Generations to come’ Spetsnaz are eager to go even further as one’s for sure: If Spetsnaz used to be the leaders of a new EBM wave some years ago, they for sure again and still are at the Top with this monster of an album! First limited edition in comes in digipack!
Out: 01-03-2013
Source: Dark Dimensions