The worst kept secret in Irish goth land was finally let out today, as the venue for The Cure’s return to Dublin was announced. After teasing the date on social media last week, Robert Smith […]
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Premiere: Blackened industrial dread on Gruth’s Befallen
Gruth’s blackened electronics have been festering in the underground over a few releases now, with his roles listed as “black arts, misanthropy and abhorrence” on his Bandcamp profile. Brazil-based finnish producer Juha Puuperä has released […]
‘Loving atonal shards’ on new PLOM EP
The latest release on Danish label FLUF is another unwavering dispatch from the outskirts of electronic music, this time from PLOM, aka Barcelona-based producer Pau Magrané Figuera. Actual bio details are sketchy enough, but PLOM’s website […]
From the club to inner space: Objekt – Secret Snake
Even when he’s banging out club cuts, Berlin-based producer Objekt’s electronic creations always hit the head as much as the gut, with tracks sound designed to the nth degree, while still keeping a nervy vigour. […]
$hit and $hine’s weirdo jazz-funk glitch EP, Very High
Considering $hit and $hine 2017’s album Total $hit came with a website that was just a an interactive silvery, spinning poo emoji with hyper electronics gushing forth as you clicked the bluebottle cursor, head $hit-master Craig […]
The hills are alive with the sound of Laibach
Laibach have been triggering sensibilities way before warnings became a thing, and their new video is another masterstroke of performance art trolling. In 2015, the Slovenian industrial act became the first Western band to be […]
‘Such magical violence’: Glitchy brain-fry from Tokyo hip-hop trio Dos Monos
Outlier hip-hop/noise label Deathbomb Arc have been “freaking out” over their new signing Dos Monos – a Japanese/Korean hip-hop trio – and here’s the video that’ll explain why. With an initial manifesto to “hijack your […]
Never Reigns but it pours: Slayer going down fighting on last tour
Metal fans have recently been wearing extra black for mourning after thrash gods Slayer announced their retirement — but they’re going out with a hell of a headbang on their final tour. After 37 years […]
New Death Grips track Streaky. YUH!
Death Grips just threw out a new track called Streaky. As usual, they put it on YouTube and shared it on Facebook, with over 400 comments in 20 minutes and counting. Seems there’s a rabid […]
Faces ripped off (literally) in new Dead Cross EP
Dead Cross drummer Dave Lombardo is behind one of the most seething rhythms in metal history, on Slayer’s Dead Skin Mask – and there’s a follow-through theme in this surprise EP from the hardcore supergroup. […]
Test your nerve endings with new Gazelle Twin single Hobby Horse
Gazelle Twin flagged ‘Hobby Horse’ two months ago and now she’s finally giving us all the gory details with a new industrial body-horror mission statement. The first hint of ‘Hobby Horse’ was a striking image […]
Premiere: Mount Alaska’s hypnotic remix of Feather Beds’ Headache Dreams
Dublin electronic production duo Mount Alaska have finally opened up their 2018 account with a remix of Headache Dreams by shoegaze-electronica artist Feather Beds, and it’s their most hypnotic and transcendent release to date. Dublin […]
Zeal & Ardor bring the horror blues on Gravedigger’s Chant
Swiss act Zeal & Ardor was the bowel-churning highlight of Eurosonic 2018 – an avant-garde metal project that just might cross over this year, going by the justified hype from outside the regular metal channels. […]
Gerald Donald morphs into XOR Gate for new solo album Conic Sections
Drexciyan electro conceptualist Gerald Donald has sidestepped his regular aliases and collaborations for a new solo album of abstract electro futurism. The ever-elusive Donald is revered as one half of Detroit electro visionaries Drexciya, and […]
Boom-bap meets dancehall in Bazza Ranks’ Where Would We Be, feat. P.O.A.
Irish dub/reggae producer Bazza Ranks (Dirty Dubsters) has just teamed up with Irish hip-hop crew Prisoners Of Audio for a crossover record that’s an unashamed love letter to music itself. Where Would We Be asks […]
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