AUDIO: X Harlow – “Machine”
X Harlow expertly blends glitchy synths, haunting vocals, and ominous basslines to create a soundscape that feels like a dystopian rave at the end of the world.
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VIDEO: Lockjaw – “Annihilove”
Gothic-industrial rockers Lockjaw have a new single and video out this week. Directed by Evie McNeill, the scene finds the band rocking out in reddish hue as vocalist Medavon DeRaj’e’s funeral takes place, and his wife seeks to reunite with him beyond the darkness. The song touches on love that burns even after the storms pass and everything else fades,
Read moreAUDIO: Murder Zone – “Misery (The Mutiny Suite)”
MURDER ZONE, Kleaner’s gothic side project, released a new album this week. It’s ten tracks, beginning with the three-part “MUTINY” series, carrying the ominous cries of Party Clown with foreboding bass guitar and sparse rhythm beneath. Themes of consequences, low blows, ruined hearts and birds of prey are ruminated on. MURDER ZONE brings a haunting Valentine’s Day installation with “MISERY
Read moreAUDIO: Ratbatspider – “Frosty’s Winter Murderland”
Horror punks Ratbatspider dropped a deadly Christmas single this year. This bloody ripper tells the story of a kid who gets bullied a lot until he puts a magic hat on, which turns him into a grotesque monster that deals judgment on those who were laughing. Needless to say, no one’s laughing now. Ratbatspider turn a lovable, jolly tale into
Read moreAUDIO: Creepy Little Things – “Dead & Walking”
The intensity picks up from the industrial metal hybrid.
Read moreAUDIO: Choke Chain – “Invoking Shadows”
Electro-industrial project Choke Chain released a new EP recently. If you’re in the mood to shout into a cacophonous void, look no further. This tape is a dose of metallic, gothic electronic body music. Mark Trueman shouts gruffly against pounding and rattling textures, adding up to dark triumph. There’s remixes of the first and third tracks on the tape as
Read moreAUDIO: Nightfall Heroes – “Radiance”
Industrial bass duo Nightfall Heroes recently dropped another single. This one finds the heroes going up against a bipedal radioactive behemoth out in the urban. The song is a progressive synthwave beater that perfectly complements the alternation between battle and retreat. It’s going to take immense strategy and teamwork, but the Nightfall Heroes know what they’re doing.
Read moreAUDIO: Death Tape Super Bass – “Tornado Country”
Industrial-experimental noise project Death Tape Super Bass released his seventh tape of the year last week. Themed around severe weather in the Midwest, this body of work features chopped-up emergency sirens, windy field recordings, and storm chaser samples. It will remind you of all those times you’ve gotten caught driving in nasty storms, that’s for sure. If you’re looking for
Read moreAUDIO: Lockjaw – “Somewhere in A Dream”
Gothic-industrial rockers Lockjaw have a new EP out today, dedicated to Mike “Cowboy X” Peed. The hellish rock knights deliver six tracks that touch on lustful love, disorientation, and dying feelings among other emotionally dark things. Noted are some trip hop and psychedelic elements incorporated into the band’s powerful sound, especially with the song “Higher Now.” The record’s an exploration
Read moreAUDIO: Lockjaw – “Reverent”
Industrial metal band Lockjaw are out with a new record. The long-running hell rockers recorded this during the desolate quarantine winter, bringing fiery grooves and lava-soaked riffage over six tracks. The first few songs make you feel like you’re getting thrust into a void to the underworld and are perfectly aware of what’s happening, while the title track will make
Read moreAUDIO: Pineoblastoma – “Nu-G0r3”
Grindcore duo Pineoblastoma have a new album out, recording remotely during quarantine between Milwaukee and Canton, Massachusetts. Gurgling into the void, this record slams right into you with grinding riffage and destructive drumming, accompanied by obfuscated growls. The lyrics across the songs touch on drug addiction, getting violently high, decaying into microorganisms, and PTSD. To add a little comic relief,
Read moreAUDIO: In/Animate – “Portals”
Electronic-industrial project In/Animate is out with a sophomore record. Over eight tracks, we are swept away in a high-speed dimension-jumping cyberpunk journey. A mix of acoustic and electronic percussion creates the dense layers of science fiction suspense. If you’re in the mood for something that could easily be the soundtrack to the next dystopian video game, check out what In/Animate
Read moreAUDIO: Life Puzzler – “Sherman’s March was Doublekill Overkill, and I Don’t Care”
Electropunks Life Puzzler are out with a single from an unreleased space opera album. Industrial and gargantuan in power, the song certainly feels like a beer-soaked intergalactic battle. Maybe they’ll give us more from this lost record, who knows.
Read moreAUDIO: Sylvagus – “Data Hunter”
Industrial-cyberpunk electronic artist Sylvagus dropped another tune yesterday, and it has the futuristic tension he’s known for. It sounds like a robot going on an absolute rampage in search of something, destroying everything in its path. Don’t get in its way. Sylvagus sure knows how to make a track true to what he names it.
Read moreAUDIO: Sylvagus – “Judgement”
Cyberpunk-industrial electronic producer Sylvagus dropped another tune not too long ago. The sounds resemble a cyborg going on an absolute rampage not unlike the Terminator movies. Between the drops there’s a tense rumbling that feels like the hypothetical heroes are on the run, waiting any second for the cyborg to appear and dish out – wait for it – *judgment*.
Read moreAUDIO: HollowHecatomb – “The Still Life”
HollowHecatomb’s latest is full of beautifully dark industrial sounds.
Read moreAUDIO: The Demix – “Python Approach”
The Demix is an experimental artists that manages to blend genres so cleanly that it’s hard to put his style into a specific genre. The latest, “Python Approach” is a grizzly industrial track, complete with distorted vocals, flooded out droning, and so much noise thrown at your speakers that you’re not sure what to do with yourself at one point
Read moreAUDIO: The Demix – “Havoc Run”
What do you get when you cross industrial, EDM, hip hop, noise, film soundtracks, and tons more, throwing them all into one recording? You get The Demix, an amalgamation of these different influences, all blended together somehow in a way that creates dark, brooding electronic music that can only be described as intense, and that’s phrasing it lightly. Every track
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