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ReView: OvO - Gemma
ReView: OvO - Gemma
OvO Album: Gemma Category: Industrial / Noise / Rock Label: Artoffact Records Release Date: 2025-10-03 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) By this point, extremity seems less like an aesthetic choice for OvO and more like the natural state. Across a 25-year career, the Italian duo has blurred noise rock, grindcore, industrial, and ritualistic electronics into […]
ReView: Schkeuditzer Kreuz - Swan Grinder
ReView: Schkeuditzer Kreuz - Swan Grinder
Schkeuditzer Kreuz Album: Swan Grinder Category: Industrial / Synth Crust Label: Self-released Release Date: 2025-08-30 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) There’s no easing into a Schkeuditzer Kreuz record, and this third full-length from the Australian electro/industrial mangler is no exception. Swan Grinder arrives angry and hostile, and its mood barely shifts from there. The title […]
ReView: Larsovitch - Normal'No
ReView: Larsovitch - Normal'No
Larsovitch Album: Normal’No Category: Synthpunk / Electro Label: Conicle Records / Stanze Fredde Records Release Date: 2025-03-15 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Arriving barely a year after ΣΥΝΘ, Normal’No immediately feels leaner and more direct, but also more volatile. Rubbing Sovietwave austerity against post-punk melancholy, the opening “Légions Perdues” establishes the mood with a claustrophobic […]
ReView: CRAWL - No Way Out
ReView: CRAWL - No Way Out
CRAWL Album: No Way Out Category: Industrial / Metal Label: THC: Music / Virgin Music Group Release Date: 2025-06-27 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) 30 years between records isn’t just a hiatus; it’s a vanishing act. Formed in late ‘80s Green Bay and sharpened across various identities like Nothing Sacred and Bleed, CRAWL spent the […]
ReView: Digital Negative - Intersect EP
ReView: Digital Negative - Intersect EP
Digital Negative Album: Intersect EP Category: Electro / Industrial Label: Self-released Release Date: 2025-07-11 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Intersect offers no time to ease you in. The third EP from the collaboration of Richard Johnson and Daniel Euphrat moves fast and hits hard. From the opening moments of “Extensions,” you’re slammed into the deep […]
ReView: Hateful Chains - Lambs and Goats
ReView: Hateful Chains - Lambs and Goats
Hateful Chains Albums: Lambs and Goats Category: Gothic / Rock Label: Danse Macabre Records Release Date: 2025-02-14 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Sophomore albums are where most bands either double down or drift off. With Lambs and Goats, Finland’s Hateful Chains manages to do neither; instead, they widen their lens. The goth/rock roots are still […]
ReView: Plague Pits - Escalator to the Abattoir
ReView: Plague Pits - Escalator to the Abattoir
Plague Pits Album: Escalator to the Abattoir Category: Industrial / Post-Punk / Coldwave Label: Young & Cold Records Release Date: 2025-05-02 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Swiss outfit Plague Pits continues its march into synthetic desolation with Escalator to the Abattoir – a cold, minimal, and deliberately numb record that probably won’t win over casual […]
ReView: Lucifer’s Aid - Enter and Exit
ReView: Lucifer’s Aid - Enter and Exit
Lucifer’s Aid Album: Enter and Exit Category: EBM / Dark Electro Label: Progress Productions Release Date: 2025-05-23 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) By now, most people decide whether a record is worth their time within the first 30 seconds, and Enter and Exit doesn’t race to convince you. The opening “Coming Back” keeps its head […]
ReView: Morbid Beauty and Earthflesh - A Beautiful Empty Earth
ReView: Morbid Beauty and Earthflesh - A Beautiful Empty Earth
ReView: Machine Command - Two Point Zero EP
ReView: Machine Command - Two Point Zero EP
Machine Command Album: Two Point Zero EP Category: Electro / EBM Label: New Darkness Recordings Release Date: 2025-06-14 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Revisiting older material isn’t always a risk worth taking, but Machine Command approaches it with a new sense clarity and purpose. Six tracks from the previous To The Point and New Socialism […]
ReView: EM_LEN - Sleep Infinity
ReView: EM_LEN - Sleep Infinity
EM_LEN Album: Sleep Infinity Category: Darkwave / Synthpop / Post-Punk Label: Self-Released Release Date: 2025-03-13 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) There’s no shortage of artists reworking synthpop and post-punk blueprints in 2025, but San Diego’s EM_LEN – a.k.a. Em Leonard – manages to do something far more rewarding than a nostalgia trip. Sleep Infinity doesn’t […]
ReView: Blu Mamuth - Ka Ora!
ReView: Blu Mamuth - Ka Ora!
Blu Mamuth Album: Ka Ora! Category: Industrial / Experimental / Noise Label: Octopus Rising / Argonauta Records Release Date: 2025-02-21 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) This striking debut from Italian duo Blu Mamuth doesn’t just rise above the noise; Ka Ora! crashes straight through it like a full-force tsunami. The project is formed by ex-Zirkus […]
ReView: RottN - Sinfluencer
ReView: RottN - Sinfluencer
RottN Album: Sinfluencer Category: Electro / EBM / Industrial Label: Self-Released Release Date: 2025-01-20 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) RottN, the solo project of San Antonio’s Russell Rott, operates in a space where artists like Psyclon Nine, Hocico, and early Dawn of Ashes made careers out of being abrasive and unforgettable. But while those acts […]
ReView: Princess Ugly - Bring the Axes EP
ReView: Princess Ugly - Bring the Axes EP
Princess Ugly Album: Bring the Axes EP Category: Darkwave / Goth / Pop Label: Self-released Release Date: 2024-11-26 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Portland’s resident crypt-dwellers return with Bring the Axes, a six-track EP that resists instant gratification and doubles down on Princess Ugly’s jagged, off-kilter blend of darkwave, post-punk, and experimental bedroom goth/pop. It’s […]
InterView: R3DSHIFT - Collapsing Images in Fading Light
InterView: R3DSHIFT - Collapsing Images in Fading Light
An InterView with Steven Robinson of R3DSHIFT By Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Cyferdyne is ostensibly no more, but that doesn’t mean that vocalist Steven Robinson is resting on his laurels; the man has more music to make, as evidenced by the four singles he’s thus far released under his new moniker of R3DSHIFT. Scaling […]
ReView: The Northern Territories - A Star in Orbit Still
ReView: The Northern Territories - A Star in Orbit Still
The Northern Territories Album: A Star in Orbit Still Category: Synthpop / Darkwave Label: Dependent Records Release Date: 2025-05-23 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Honestly speaking, reunion albums don’t always have the best reputation – they’re often bloated, self-congratulatory, and oddly desperate to prove something. But A Star in Orbit Still, the first album in […]
ReView: CBZK - Dybuctwo EP
ReView: CBZK - Dybuctwo EP
CBZK Album: Dybuctwo EP Category: Industrial / Hip-Hop / Metal Label: Self-released Release Date: 2025-04-11 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Formed in 2023 by vocalist/programmer Kopczak and guitarist Fas, CBZK takes the scorched remnants of their work in Malconfort and transforms them into something even less digestible. Refusing to be pigeonholed, Dybuctwo fuses black metal, […]
ReView: Be Kind Cadaver - The World’s Greatest Mind
ReView: Be Kind Cadaver - The World’s Greatest Mind
Be Kind Cadaver Album: The World’s Greatest Mind Category: Doom / Noise / Post-Punk Label: AnalogueTrash Release Date: 2025-03-28 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Be Kind Cadaver might be the worst band name you’ve ever wanted to say over and over again, honestly sounding like a post-it-note left on a corpse – a morbidly polite, […]
ReView: Ritual Ascension - Profanation of the Adamic Covenant
ReView: Ritual Ascension - Profanation of the Adamic Covenant
Ritual Ascension Album: Profanation of the Adamic Covenant Category: Dark Ambient / Industrial / Doom Metal Label: Sentient Ruin Laboratories Release Date: 2025-02-28 Author: Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) Denver has quietly – or maybe not-so-quietly – become a breeding ground for some of the filthiest doom and sludge in the country. So, when degenerates from […]
InterView: The Northern Territories - Reunion and Reinvention
InterView: The Northern Territories - Reunion and Reinvention
An InterView with John Alexander Ericson of The Northern Territories By Merv Uzzell (Muzz79) It’s been 25 years since Swedish synthpop duo The Northern Territories last released new material, but with A Star in Orbit Still, founding members John Alexander Ericson and Stefan Sääf pick up where they left off without missing a […]
ReView: Maud the Moth - The Distaff
ReView: Maud the Moth - The Distaff
ReView: Negative 13 - Recover What You Can
ReView: Negative 13 - Recover What You Can
ReView: Swallow Razors - Salvation
ReView: Swallow Razors - Salvation
InterView: Duophonic Noise Construction - Tearing Down the Boundaries
InterView: Duophonic Noise Construction - Tearing Down the Boundaries
ReView: The Funeral March - It All Falls Apart
ReView: The Funeral March - It All Falls Apart
ReView: A Prayer For the Worst - Life is a Lonely Path
ReView: A Prayer For the Worst - Life is a Lonely Path
ReView: The Below - Immutable Behaviour
ReView: The Below - Immutable Behaviour
ReView: Avatarium - Between You, God, the Devil, and the Dead
ReView: Avatarium - Between You, God, the Devil, and the Dead
InterView: Nachtblut - Exceptional Chic
InterView: Nachtblut - Exceptional Chic
Interview: Monody - Flawed Technology by Flawed Humanity
Interview: Monody - Flawed Technology by Flawed Humanity
InterView / Music Video Premiere: Plastic Rhino - Rising to TAKEITALL
InterView / Music Video Premiere: Plastic Rhino - Rising to TAKEITALL
ReView: Coma Hole - Hand of Severance
ReView: Coma Hole - Hand of Severance
Book ReView: Electronic Body Music – The Book
Book ReView: Electronic Body Music – The Book
ReView: Amps Kill - Wretched Inheritance
ReView: Amps Kill - Wretched Inheritance
ReView: Teknovore - Caerdroia
ReView: Teknovore - Caerdroia
Interview: VV & The Void - Climbing the Elevator
Interview: VV & The Void - Climbing the Elevator
ReView: Konstant - Unbändige Kinder
ReView: Konstant - Unbändige Kinder
ReView: FÏX8:SËD8 - Humanophobia:Dormicum (Remastered)
ReView: FÏX8:SËD8 - Humanophobia:Dormicum (Remastered)
ReView: Manic Abraxas - Skinformation
ReView: Manic Abraxas - Skinformation
ReView: Mortal Realm - Stab in the Dark
ReView: Mortal Realm - Stab in the Dark
ReView: Sequential Zero - Zero Sum Game
ReView: Sequential Zero - Zero Sum Game
ReView: Suffer Anxiety Disorder - S.A.D. EP
ReView: Suffer Anxiety Disorder - S.A.D. EP
ReView: Protokoll 19 - Mental Decay
ReView: Protokoll 19 - Mental Decay
ReView: Aiboforcen - Between Noise & Silence
ReView: Aiboforcen - Between Noise & Silence
ReView: DVNE - Voidkind
ReView: DVNE - Voidkind
ReView: Malice Machine - Act of Self-Destruction
ReView: Malice Machine - Act of Self-Destruction
Interview: League of Distortion – To Strengthen, Empower, and Galvanize - ReGen Magazine
Interview: League of Distortion – To Strengthen, Empower, and Galvanize - ReGen Magazine
InterView: Clan of Xymox – Exodus into Doom
InterView: Clan of Xymox – Exodus into Doom
InterView: Astari Nite – The Magick Will Flow
InterView: Astari Nite – The Magick Will Flow
ReView: Olomuhd - The Absurd Silence of a Muted World
ReView: Olomuhd - The Absurd Silence of a Muted World
ReView: Acylum - Zuchthaus
ReView: Acylum - Zuchthaus
ReView: Caeli Concept - Lunaison
ReView: Caeli Concept - Lunaison
ReView: Vexing Hex - Solve Et Coagula
ReView: Vexing Hex - Solve Et Coagula
ReView: Draven - Massacre Blood Club
ReView: Draven - Massacre Blood Club
ReView: Kiss Is Kill - Anatomy of Fear
ReView: Kiss Is Kill - Anatomy of Fear
ReView: XTR Human - Schrank
ReView: XTR Human - Schrank
InterView: Glass Apple Bonzai – Still Running
InterView: Glass Apple Bonzai – Still Running
InterView: Dawn of Ashes – Invoking the Internal
InterView: Dawn of Ashes – Invoking the Internal
ReView: Scheitan - Songs For the Gothic People
ReView: Scheitan - Songs For the Gothic People
ReView: Whom Gods Destroy - Insanium
ReView: Whom Gods Destroy - Insanium
ReView: Dirty Nancy - Dirty Nancy
ReView: Dirty Nancy - Dirty Nancy
ReView: Saturnalia999 - Why to Live For a Dream?
ReView: Saturnalia999 - Why to Live For a Dream?
InterView: :Wumpscut: - Your Personal Bomb #20
InterView: :Wumpscut: - Your Personal Bomb #20
ReView: Kontravoid - Detachment
ReView: Kontravoid - Detachment
ReView: Godfrost - Godfrost
ReView: Godfrost - Godfrost
ReView: Stahlmann - Addendum EP
ReView: Stahlmann - Addendum EP
ReView: Choke Chain - Morality
ReView: Choke Chain - Morality
InterView: Zanias – More Effective Forms of Communication
InterView: Zanias – More Effective Forms of Communication
ReView: Zanias - Chrysalis / Ecdysis
ReView: Zanias - Chrysalis / Ecdysis
ReView: Razorwire Halo - All the Terrible Things
ReView: Razorwire Halo - All the Terrible Things
ReView: Total Chroma - Lapland
ReView: Total Chroma - Lapland
ReView: Karoshi - Prey to Be Saved
ReView: Karoshi - Prey to Be Saved
ReView: Electric Six - Turquoise
ReView: Electric Six - Turquoise
ReView: Coiled as Devilry - To Those We Lost, and to Those Who Remain to Remember
ReView: Coiled as Devilry - To Those We Lost, and to Those Who Remain to Remember
ReView: Tombstones In Their Eyes - Sea of Sorrow
ReView: Tombstones In Their Eyes - Sea of Sorrow
ReView: The Noise Who Runs - Preteretrospective
ReView: The Noise Who Runs - Preteretrospective
ReView: Antipole & Paris Alexander - Crystalline
ReView: Antipole & Paris Alexander - Crystalline
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