Electro Aggression Records is an indie record label run by Nader Moumneh. The label specializes in Electronic Body Music (EBM) and dark electro.
For its 14th release Electro Aggression Records (EAR) has presented yet another ambitious package to its loyal listeners, this time a compilation/retrospective for the Hannover-based Trial. Trial had built a loyal following in its early years, starting with the EP Blut Und Eisen and then building on that momentum with their first full-length Zero Feeling,…
German Dark Electro act Pyrroline has returned in 2021 with Struggling, their fourth album and the third released by Electro Aggression Records. The main album Struggling encompasses 15 tracks, 12 of them on the first disc and three leading over into the second remix disc. The remix disc is exclusive to the limited-edition CD, but…
Sleepwalk’s most recent output is Tempus Vincit Omnia, released in December of 2017 by Nader Moumneh’s indie label Electro Aggression Records. Sleepwalk gets the usual extravagant EAR treatment: an elegant 2-disc digipak design, over one full album of new material and a second disc of bonus remixes from some of the top talent in…
Just in time for Christmas, the latest tEaR!doWn and Sleepwalk albums were released concurrently by indie label Electro Aggression Records. The timed release of the two albums has a nice symmetry to it, because tEaR!doWn member Oliver Spring was formerly a member of Sleepwalk and contributes some to their new album. Likewise, Sleepwalk member Bruno…
I first heard the German act Pyrroline from their 2013 Electro Aggression Records release ‘Ruins Outlast’. If I had to detail the sound of Pyrroline to someone who had never heard them before I would describe the band as “dark electro-lite” or “dark electro-pop”. The band has the trademarks of great dark electro, complex and uncompromising…
Akalotz started in 2007 but they are just now releasing their sophomore album Confront in late June 2017. The project is based in Kaiserslautern in southwest Germany. The sound of this album can be best be described as “retro EBM”. I’m not sure if that’s a recognized genre, but that’s really what the band…
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…
Hailing from Örebro, Sweden, Astma has just released their debut album, 600 Pounds of Body on Toronto-based Electro Aggression Records. Astma was initially a side-project of the band Stroma, which began in 2001. In that sense, it’s entirely accurate to say that this debut album is about 15 years in the making, give or take. The deluxe…
When I think of “old school EBM” I often picture bands like Autodafeh, Ccontainer 90, Agrezzior and Blood Shot Eyes. These bands, often from Sweden or the Anhalt region of Germany, tend to blur together after awhile. Their music derives directly from the primal early days of EBM when bands including Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft (DAF),…
Tri-state is a classic dark electro act hailing from Jena, Germany, in the state of Thuringia. The band consists of Adam, Krebl and Haldor (also known as //this: tortion). Their first album, Synopsis, was released in 2001 on Pandaimonium Records. The band did not release anything further until 2013 with the release of Light…