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Qntal, pioneers of mixing medieval folk music with impressive electronics, released their eighth album “VIII: Nachtblume” in the beginning of March 2018. We realised we have only interviewed (related band) Deine Lakaien, but never Qntal. So our Hamburg-based writer Jimi Nilsson had a chat with a cheerful Michael Popp, founder of Qntal, an interview entailing the band’s connection to poetry and historical artifacts, and Popp’s passion for new instruments. He reveals that Qntal was born prior to Deine Lakaien, talks about being like a brother to Ernst Horn and the darkwave scene. [more...]

Rhys Fulber from Front Line Assembly, Delerium, Conjure One and many many production jobs (Fear Factory, Youth Code, Paradise Lost etc) has finished a solo album under his own name.

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Never heard of the audiovisual, electronic Splice Festival in East London? Well to be honest, until about a year ago, neither had I. But seeing that acts as established as Coldcut, Mira Calix and DJ Food played at the last one, including the legend that is Mixmaster Morris DJ:ing – well, how could I resist once Splice time came around again. [more...]

No other than DAF will share the stage with Depeche Mode on their two final shows of the “Global Spirit Tour”, on July 23 and 25 at Berlin’s Waldbühne.

“I See Darkness in You” (May 22) will be the last Red Mecca album with Frida Madeleine behind the mic. [more...]

The Orb have released a new single “Rush Hill Road”, to be followed on the 22nd June by the new album “No Sounds Are out of Bounds”. Both form part of the 30th anniversary celebrations of the seminal ambient electronic music group, along with the festival to be held at the Roundhouse in London – Orbfest on the 23rd June. [more...]

Catching up with the current incarnation of former dark goth rockers Klimt 1918 from Italy almost 20 years after their formation was going to be an affair focused to the changing sound, the Italian underground scene and the connection between music and art. The also talk about mixing in Sweden and their love for 80:s bands like Berlin and Duran Duran. Release met up with Francesco Conte and founding member Paolo Soellner after their show at Hafenklang in Hamburg. [more...]

On June 22 Artoffact will finally release Front Line Assembly’s soundtrack for the game “Warmech”. [more...]

The upcoming Suicide Commando EP “Death Will Find You” holds two new songs and six remixes aimed at the dancefloor. [more...]