A New January Category: Industrial Album: Cold And Naked Tightly-constructed, A New January comes across as a band with much promise. But something remains lingering in the back of my mind, nagging at me, as I listen to the tracks. The tracks have a tone and structure akin most prominently to Celldweller, music that is…

Various artists Category: Compilations Album: Tonedeaf Records Presents: Vinyl Conflict 1 EBM. Elektro. Futurepop. Synthpop. Whatever you want to call it, it’s still the bread-and-butter of the industrial underground. Go to a show featuring industrial-rock and you’ll find an empty room. Go to see someone play karaoke with their sequencer and synthesizer and you’ll find…

Laibach Category: Industrial Album: WAT I have to admit: when last I listened to Laibach, they were on Wax Trax! and doing songs like “Life Is Life”. So, as you can imagine, I was a bit worried about having to listen to Laibach again. I never figured them for the type of band that makes…

Dekoy Category: EBM Album: Redux – Heartwerk v2 LE Bred from the popularity of VNV Nation and its futurepop competitor, Assemblage 23, a plague of similar sound-alike futurepop bands have descended onto the scene in a fashion that was only ever (wrongly) attributed to the range of Skinny Puppy/FLA/Nine Inch Nails copycats. But in the…