Continuing our Erasure related news, there’s a new single out with Andy Bell and producer and DJ Dave Audé.  [more...]

Canada’s main festival for electro, industrial, EBM and noise music Kinetik in Toronto (on May 22-25) has been cancelled. Refunds have started and alternate shows for some of the touring artists might happen – that is being worked on as we speak. [more...]

Legendary Erasure knob twiddler Vince Clarke is branching out a lot these days, with collaborations and remixes happening all the time. Now he’s heading towards video games, in a new kickstarter project called “Dancers of War”. [more...]

Neue Deutsche Härte stars Eisbrecher entered the studio a while back and are working on a new album, the follow-up to the the German top-3 album “Die Hölle muss warten” from 2012. The new album will be the basis of a new high budget tour of big venues in February and March 2015. Obviously they will have plenty of time to prepare…  [more...]

The legendary Frankfurt EBM label Zoth Ommog is not back – but on April 17 a Zoth Ommog Festival will be held at Das Bett in Frankfurt. Leaether Strip, Decoded Feedback and Brigade Werther will perform live.

The Combichrist video “Maggots at the Party” was released today. Watch it below. [more...]

Release Magazine’s Twitter account has now passed the 500 mark, mostly thanks to our Twitter editor Peter Marchione (but Johan Carlsson and Mikael Kahrle are also posting tweets). Many posts are Twitter exclusive (will not show up in News etc). Follow us, if you don’t already.

We have made the following updates to this site:

• Colour change for headers and links. Links within texts are now clearly visible.
• Beta in the logo deleted.
• Bigger sub-headers from now on (like in the Seabound interview).
• Live reviews section in Features. Also includes galleries.

Plaid, one of Warp Records’ long-term artists, are back this year with their 10th studio album, entitled “Reachy Prints”. The album is due to be released 19th May 2014 in Europe, with North America receiving it a day later.

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New records from Combichrist, Trust and Aesthetic Perfection are reviewed here.