Synthpop veterans Rational Youth and Psyche just toured Scandinavia together and have just announced a 5-date German tour in October. Rational Youth will also perform an additional show without Psyche.

Deine Lakaien have announced their 10th studio album: “Crystal Palace” (August 8). “Crystal Palace” will hold 10 songs, with an additional 3 on the Special Edition.

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Code 64 men Bjørn Marius Borg and Hans-Olof Mattsson have completed the first Xenturion Prime album in their studio Spacebound. “Mecha Rising” is scheduled for June 18. [more...]

Our latest reviews are of the new albums from Front Line Assembly, Kent, Scaremeister (Cevin Key project) and Nimon.

Chris Corner (IAMX) will perform a worldwide on line concert on May 31. It will be a special acoustic peformance with music from the IAMX debut album “Kiss+Swallow”.

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The legendary Chicago industrial, EBM, new wave and punk label Wax Trax! released a whole truckload of classic albums back in its glory days. Bands like Ministry, Front Line Assembly, Cyberaktif, KMFDM, Young Gods, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, and many many more made the label into the premier US industrial label. And now it seems it’s stirring again. Release’s Johan Carlsson interviewed Julia Nash, the daughter of founder Jim Nash who’s running things now. [more...]

French synthpop and electronic music label Boredom Product reports that new albums from Celluloide (pic) and Dekad are on their way. [more...]

Don’t miss our latest reviews of the 2 Ant-zen artists Hologram and Kommando as well as Welle:Erdball and Client.

Bodyfest 2014 will be held at Nalen in Stockholm on November 1. So far, Borghesia, Dupont (old school set) and new EBM band Wulfband have been announced.

Melotron are back in one month (June 6) with a compilation CD called “Werkschau”. The German trio have recorded new tunes like “Stuck in the Mirror” and “Nur ein Licht” (video below) and re-recorded hits and fan favorites in new versions together with producer Dirk Riegner (Heppner).

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