Jihad was a band on the periphery of the Texas dark electro scene which gave us Mentallo & The Fixer and Benestrophe. Jihad’s first and only release was A Prayer In The Night in 1997, now reissued in a deluxe digital format featuring rare compilation tracks. After years of dormancy Jihad contributed an exclusive track to the…
For those of you unfamiliar with Electro Aggression Records (EAR), the indie label has made a name for itself by focusing on two narrowly defined and traditional subgenres of dark electronic music, dark electro and old school EBM. For most EAR releases the bands in question fit neatly into one category or the other, but Brazilian…
Infact, the one-man EBM project of Mario Melzer, first began releasing demos in 1996, followed by just three proper releases (arguably only two) that fans could access easily and at a somewhat fair price. The self-titled Infact was released in 1998 by Johan van Roy’s tape label, COde Products, in both CDr and cassette formats.…
The newest amGod release is Dreamcatcher, released on November 26, 2010 by Alfa-Matrix in a 2-disc version and 3-disc box version. This review is of the Dreamcatcher 3-disc box. The discs are subtitled as follows: Disc 1 is Creeped & Bloody (primarily electronic); Disc 2 is Harsh & Dirty (featuring more use of guitar, in Germany…
The annual springtime ritual has arrived. Time to listen to :Wumpscut:’s latest work, Siamese, and examine its strengths and weaknesses in comparison with at least 12 other full-length albums. This year’s task is made all the more difficult because Siamese arrives on the heels of last year’s Fuckit and Bunkertor 7 Resample, two highpoints of Rudy Ratzinger’s long music career. So…