“Soundtrack for the Urban Decay” is the title of a new documentary detailing the origins of the industrial music.
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.
”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...]
A new Swedish duo has been signed to Progress Productions. It’s Haul, consisting of Pehr Heurberg and Tobias Wittgren from Jönköping who after self-releasing a 7″ decided to sign to a label for their debut album.
Ohm and Slighter are two industrial bands from the North American west coast that have joined forces to create the single “Lights out”.
It’s been hinted at for several days, with posters popping up in London, Berlin and other big cities all over the world. And today on http://whatissuper.co we finally got confirmation. A new album called “Super” comes out on April 1.
Legendary Belgian band Front 242 has just released a new free remix EP on Bandcamp.
Bristol synthpop duo Mesh will release no less than two new albums this year.
Front Line Assembly is going on the road again in March, this time in Europe, and the complete tour plan has just been released.