”Caustic Grip” celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2015. Released in 1990, it was a complete game changer for Front Line Assembly, and possibly the industrial genre. It also saw the young prodigy Rhys Fulber stepping up to be a full time member. It’s a very personal album for me, and in this article I’ll try to tell you how it got made, and what it meant to me. I’ve been in contact with Bill Leeb, Rhys Fulber and also Gary Levermore who ran the label Third Mind where the album was released. [more...]
Scroll down for a Release-exclusive premiere of a snippet from the forthcoming single “Believe in Love” with Gothenburg synthpop trio Train to Spain. [more...]
Way out West, which takes place in the city park Slottskogen of Release’s hometown Gothenburg, have announced the first live acts for 2016. [more...]
A few days ago, we wrote about the latest band announcement from M’era Luna Festival. Now, they have released another list. [more...]
Vince Clarke keeps himself busy (besides celebrating 30 years of Erasure with their new compilation) by working with other musicians. Recently he appeared on two tracks on Jean-Michel Jarre’s new album, and now he’s planning a full album with Paul Hartnoll from Orbital.
And One, that successfully headlined electriXmas in Malmö, Sweden, yesterday, are planning a second “Trilogie” release and have scheduled yet another German tour. [more...]
FKP Scorpio’s M’era Luna Festival (August 13-14, 2016, in Hildesheim) have made a major band announcement. [more...]
Suggestive and cool electronic pop duo Red Mecca from Northern Sweden has scheduled the third album “Electricity” for January 22. We have received a promo, the album is in line with previous releases (which means you should check it out…).
Difficult to keep track of all small bands and newcomers in the Swedish electro/synthpop/EBM scene? The massive digital compilation series “Swedish Electro” let you check out all this new music in one place. [more...]
German label Dependent (Mesh, Covenant, Seabound) has signed the Polish electro trio Clicks. They write, Clicks evokes comparisons to Daft Punk, Nitzer Ebb and Anthony Rother. [more...]
