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Marcus Meyn, singer in German synthpop band Camouflage, has launched a new electrowave project: Mine. [more...]

The annual Manifest Awards is almost upon us, celebrating the best Swedish independent artists of 2017.  [more...]

Jack Dangers returns this month with a new Meat Beat Manifesto album called “Impossible Star”. [more...]

We have quite a few De/Vision fans amongst the readers. They will be happy to know that a new album from the German synthpop duo, “Citybeats”, will be released on April 13. [more...]

Swedish EBM perfectionists Autodafeh return on January 19 with “The Vintage Collection” (EK Product). [more...]

2017 has come to and end. It’s Release’s 31th year (!) and 2017 also marked the 20th anniversary of this web edition in English.

Release was founded by another team as a photo copied, Swedish fanzine in Umeå in 1986. The printed magazine went on to be one of the leading music magazines in Sweden. 1995-98 Release was on sale in close to 1 000 newsstands and stores in Scandinavia.

Hopefully we will have time to do something special for the next Release anniversary (our 35th?). We intend to stick around. Unfortunately, although our readership base is strong, it’s difficult to run a magazine these days. But with more support we could do more. Each ad, click and post count, so if you like what we do, please support us and help us spread the word. More interviews, a bigger staff and an upgraded site are first on our list.

We wish to thank all our readers, supporters and friends for your support 2017.

Happy New Year!

Mikael Kahrle
Editor-in-chief

Even though Front 242 stopped releasing new music a long time ago, Daniel B. keeps himself busy with his projects NothingButNoise and Daniel B. Prothèse. [more...]

Highly skilled German band Qntal, with their captivating fusion of electronic and historic music, returns on March 9 with “VIII – Nachtblume”. This week, they released the single “Music on the Waters”, where Lord Byron once again appears in the lyrics  (listen below). [more...]

Swedish atmospheric darkwave duo White Birches (Jenny Gabrielsson Mare and Fredrik Jonasson) have completed their second album. [more...]