DIE KRUPPS will be coming to our concert halls next April, and now the Industrial Pioneers have announced who will accompany them on their "V½" tour. First there is BARABAZ, the Bremen collective. Their lyrics are as rough as the asphalt of the streets at night and full of yearning. Second support is JOHNNY DEATHSHADOW. For several years now, the death squad has reduced the stages of the republic to dust with its mix of danceable grooves, hard guitars and earworm melodies.
After a 4-year hiatus, the dark electro/ synth pop hybrid act TEAR!DOWN return with their sophomore album ‘Shades of Apathy’. The new opus picks up where ‘Clouds Cover the Sun’ 2CD (EAR 005) left off. Oliver Spring’s sombre and undistorted vocals effectively blend into TEAR!DOWN’s brooding electro-industrial beats and melodic synth lines. Simply put, ‘Shades of Apathy’ is the culmination of years of carefully crafted soundscapes combined with punchy machine drums and crisp bass loops. Immerse yourself on a fantastic dark electro journey skilfully intertwined with catchy synth hooks!
Electro Aggression Records (EAR) proudly welcomes the veteran Swiss electro act SLEEPWALK to its distinguished roster of artists. After 5 years of eerie silence, SLEEPWALK return with a MAMMOTH double disc to celebrate the band’s 25th anniversary. With ‘Tempus Vincit Omnia’ the band goes one step forward and two steps back to their old school electro roots. The album is a perfect symbiosis of EBM and Dark Electro and will definitely exceed all expectations. After the concept album ‘Nibiru’ (2012), the band focused on what they do best: atmospheric yet accessible melodies, thumping beats, and angry shouts, all wrapped in a distinct old school electro sound.
Seadrakes successful debut release Lower Than This (Someday) featuring Seabound-singer Frank M. Spinath reached #4 on the German Electronic Web Charts and #12 on the German Alternative Charts (DAC). Now Seadrake are back with the brand new single Something Durable as a teaser for the highly anticipated debut album Isola. Something Durable shows a new side of Seadrake as they during the recording session with producer Olaf Wollschläger (And One, Mesh) replaced software with hardware and computers with analogue synthesisers. The result is an organic, warm, catchy electro pop track with a driving live attitude.
Ten years after the last tragically romantic album ‘Letters to a Stranger’, PERSEPHONE embarked on a dark journey into another world of unprecedented intensity. The starting point of this journey is a classic of fantastic literature: Alfred Kubin's sole novel ‘The Other Side’. Kubin, known for his nightmarish pictures full of chimeras, leads readers to the dream city named Perle, which is always shrouded in a misty darkness. This novel was written in 1909.