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Published: 15 September 2021

• Madrugada

When the three remaining original members of MADRUGADA got together again in 2019 to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their debut album ‘Industrial Silence’, this not only led to almost 100 concerts, including a triumphant parade across the European continent, festivals across Norway and two sold out shows at the Spektrum in Oslo. It also resulted in the band finding that they were missing from their fans - and that they had missed each other.

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Published: 08 September 2021

• CD Review
• Heavy Metal
• Rafchild Records
• Dragonbreath

Artist: Dragonbreath
Title: The Awakening
Genre: Heavy Metal
Release Date: 3rd September 2021
Label: Rafchild Records

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Published: 07 September 2021

• Spectres

Artoffact Records announces the November 5th release of ‘Hindsight’, the new album by SPECTRES, and releases new single ‘Tell Me’. Founded in Vancouver in 2005 by vocalist Brian Gustavson, SPECTRES is commonly cited as one of the bands responsible for kicking off the renewed interest in the post-punk sound in Canada. The band spent the pandemic year off in the studio, fine tuning their craft and recording new tracks for Hindsight. The last track on the album and lead-off single, ‘Tell Me’, was covered by Stereogum upon release. Writer Ryan Leas noted that ‘Tell Me’ “finds [SPECTRES] moving a bit further up the [retro] timeline, delving into some deep NEW ORDER vibes. If that kind of thing works on you the way it works on me, then you will probably think ‘Tell Me’ is a banger.”

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Published: 07 September 2021

• Assemblage 23
• Accession Records

20 years ago, the album ‘Failure’ provided ASSEMBLAGE 23 with their international breakthrough. Since then, tracks like ‘Awake’, ‘Disappoint’, and ‘Naked’ have become indispensable to electronic music. Many music fans, DJs and journalists had already fallen love with ASSEMBLAGE 23’s debut ‘Contempt’, but when ‘Failure’ was released in 2001, it turned out to be a seminal work that no aficionado of electronic music could overlook.

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Published: 07 September 2021

• Zoodrake

Frontman and producer Hilton Theissen, follows his path with ZOODRAKE on the forthcoming second album ‘seven’ with ten energizing and emotional songs in a forceful way. The first single ‘success of the snake’ is released this Thursday and reveals the band’s strengthened stylistic path featuring a varied range and sweeping synth and swirling guitar walls on danceable beats. 

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