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Published: 10 July 2024

• IAMX

IAMX breathes new spiritual life into his hyper-emotional electronic project with the new album ‘Fault Lines²’. It is the successor to the aggressive, cultish machinations heard on the 2023 released album ‘Fault Lines¹’. This sequel is half mutant, half prom queen sister with pulsating bass monsters like ‘Neurosymphony’ and ‘Infinite Fear Jets’ transitioning ethereally into tracks like ‘The Ocean’, where the magnificent vocal talents of Hafdis Huld in the Icelandic intro and outro can be heard. This is followed by tracks like the intricate harmonies of ‘Deathless Wilds’, with its grim, crunching 6/8 beats grabbing attention, while longtime collaborator Janine Gezang urges the listener in Punk Rock style to accept whatever may come.

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Published: 10 July 2024

• Humanist

After the singles ‘The Beginning (My God)’ and ‘Too Many Rivals’, HUMANIST is releasing the anthemic new single ‘Brother’ from their upcoming album ‘On The Edge Of A Lost And Lonely World’, which will be out on July 26 via Bella Union. The track features the captivating vocals of Dave Gahan from DEPECHE MODE and is a tribute to the late, great Mark Lanegan, with whom Rob Marshall of HUMANIST collaborated on the albums ‘Gargoyle’ and ‘Somebody’s Knocking’. The track is accompanied by a black and white video.

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Published: 29 June 2024

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• Turbinenhalle Oberhausen
• Front 242
• Rein

Turbinenhalle, Oberhausen, Germany
19th October 2024
Front 242 - BLACK OUT: The Final Shows” - Support: Rein

You have probably already heard: FRONT 242 have announced an extensive concert tour for this year! The tour motto is “BLACK OUT: The Final Shows”. This brings us and surely you too, on the one hand, great anticipation to be able to experience the band live again, on the other hand, we are very sad. The year 2024 will be the band’s last concert year. A great era comes to an end and the pioneers of EBM bid farewell to you with dignity. FRONT 242 writes:

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Published: 29 June 2024

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• Laibach
• Christuskirche Bochum

Christuskirche, Bochum, Germany
19th October 2024
Laibach - “Opus Dei Tour”

LAIBACH have announced the remastered and redesigned edition of their 1987 album, ‘Opus Dei’, out on Mute on 10 May 2024, on vinyl and as a 2CD box set, which will include 16 unreleased live tracks from 1987-1989 and 3 bonus tracks. The album is long-lasting, which very few achieve, it is a cult classic: ‘Opus Dei’ with songs like ‘Leben heißt Leben, released in 1987 on the Mute label, is finally being remastered after 26 years and re-released on vinyl and CD. Additionally, LAIBACH, the Slovenian artist collective, is going on an “Opus Dei Europe Tour” and will of course come to the Ruhr area and to the Christuskirche, which will be their fifth performance in the cubistic, imageless sacred space. On the program:

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Published: 29 June 2024

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• Matrix Bochum
• Rue Oberkampf
• Linea Aspera
• Twin Tribes
• Cold Hearted Festival
• Nürnberg
• Rendez-Vous

Matrix, Bochum, Germany
15th November 2024
Cold Hearted Festival 2024 with Linea Aspera, Twin Tribes, Rendez-Vous, Rue Oberkampf, Nürnberg

Cold Hearted Festival is more than a festival - it is a gathering, a convention! International artists, labels and of course you, who love, live and breathe this music, come together once a year in Dresden and now for the first time also in Bochum to party together for a few hours. Cold Wave, Post Punk, Synth Wave and other similar genres are represented - everything the cold, musical heart desires! After the great premiere 2022, this special event goes now into the 3rd round!

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