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Arvid Manifest winner

January 30, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Arvid won the "synth" award at last night's Manifest awards in Stockholm. The other nominees were Dupont, Rupesh Cartel and Emmon. Emmon performed live during the show.

Cryo takes it to the second stage

January 27, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Release gave the debut from Cryo an eight four years ago. "The music is sweeping, cold, dark and heavy. It conjures up all the images that this kind of music should.", Johan Carlsson wrote and later interviewed Martin Rudefelt from Cryo.

On February 24 (what some call "International EBM day", 24/2), the second album "Hidden Aggression" can be expected. The tracks have been recorded in France and Sweden during 2008-2009.

Three new songs are up at the Cryo Facebook page.

Anna Wildsmith brings Sow back

January 26, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Thanks to: Kristoffer Noheden

Release' Kristoffer Noheden interviewed Anna Wildsmith (Sow) back in 1999 and we're glad to hear that she will be bring us a new album, "Dog", on US label I, Absentee on March 16. This will be the third album in 20 years from the industrial spoken word project.

"Dog" is co-produced and co-written by Raymond Watts from Pig and Rob Henry from Euphonic and features guest appearances from Steve White from KMFDM and Mike Watts from Pig.

A video for the new track "Crybaby" is available here.

M'era Luna update

January 22, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Skinny Puppy, Combichrist, Feindflug, Agonoize and Amduscia are some of the new additions to the M'era Luna fest in Hildesheim (August 7-8).

Previously announced live acts include Nitzer Ebb, The Sisters of Mercy, Placebo, In Extremo, Unheilig, Das Ich, Qntal, Colony 5 and Faith and the Muse.

Slovenia calling: the return of Borghesia

January 21, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden)

Legendary industrial act Borghesia from Slovenia is preparing a completely new album for later this year.

First however, a double CD displays the best work from the days of old. "20th Century Selected Works" is an anthology compiled and remastered by Borghesia's Aldo Ivanovic and released by FV Music.

San Francisco based label Dark Entries will be re-releasing "Ljubav je hladnija od smrti" on vinyl in the near future.

On a side note, member Dario Seraval has recorded music for a theatre play by Dragan Zivadinov, one of the founding members of Neue Slowenische Kunst. A record will be released at a later date.

Autechre release "Oversteps"

January 20, 2010 | By: Mike Whyte (London, UK)

It has been announced through Bleep (the download store associated with Warp Records) that Autechre will release a new album on March 22. This album - the tenth studio recording - will be named “Oversteps”, and will be released on CD and deluxe vinyl (with a free super high quality download version included with each format). The artwork will be supplied by the iconic Designers Republic, who had a huge hand in shaping some of the earlier Warp products.

As is typical with Autechre, the 14 tracks largely consist of indecipherable song titles, with the album being available for pre-order, though not issued until the set day of release.

The release will be backed up by a two-month European tour.

Swans reborn

January 19, 2010 | By: Mikael Kahrle (Gothenburg, Sweden) | Thanks to: Kristoffer Noheden

- I have decided to focus my energy on Swans once again. I'm reactivating that project, Michael Gira says.

A new Swans album is in the works, and a tour is scheduled for the autumn.

- In order to help raise funds/help defray the considerable costs of recording and promoting the new album, I have made a special CD/DVD limited edition handmade package called "I Am Not Insane".

"FIX": the Ministry movie

January 18, 2010 | By: Alex Veronac (Geneva, Switzerland)

Since Al Jourgensen committed to ending the band Ministry, an assemblage of video looks to surface under the aptly named FIX. "FIX: The Ministry Movie" highlights the abusive industrial journey of Ministry.

In the posted trailer, most live concert scenes come from "Sphinctour" (2002) and the earlier "In Case You Didn't Feel Like Showing up" (1990) with backstage and tour bus footage of course documented. New content presented in "FIX" includes the "C U LaTouR Final World Tour" and obligatory never seen before scary surprises. Commentary comes from Trent Reznor, Jonathon Davis, Dave Navarro, Maynard James Keenan as well as Barker and Jourgensen's contemporaries during the industrial era of the late 80:s and early 90:s.

"FIX" is set to arrive this summer from Gigantic Pictures.