Year: 2016

Swedish artist Fredrik Croona has been already involved in different bands, but the dark-electro driven Cynical Existence remains without a shadow of a doubt his most famous and successful formation. When I last year discovered his debut solo-album “The Grey Line” I got a real shock. Fredrik Croona explored future-pop fields driven by clear vocal parts and accomplished a real interesting composition. He this year released his new opus “Welcome Home” again on Advoxya Records confirming his talent to write cool electro-pop music. (by Inferno Sound Diaries) Q: Your solo-work is an interesting move from pure harsh (h)el(l)ectronic music towards future-pop driven compositions. How did it happened and when did you start writing the first songs in the ‘pop’ genre? Fredrik: I’ve always been into vocal trance and melodic trance and I wanted to try to fuse that with future-pop to create something that would appeal to the masses. I did some clean vocals in the past, but never really dared to take the step to start making the music. You need to challenge yourself and try something you aren’t comfortable with. The first ‘pop’ song I wrote was “Always The Same” and that was on my debut album which […]

For its 15th anniversary, the Belgian record label Alfa Matrix also celebrated the 35 years of existence of Front 242 and this with the Front 242 tribute album “Recovery >for you<” uniting 32 fellow label bands who have each covered one song from Front 242’s music repertoire. The release is available on the Alfa Matrix webstore as a 2CD plus also on their Bandcamp page as a download. You can preview the tracks right below: The bands who collaborated to “Recovery >for you<” include Metroland, Komor Kommando, Ad:Key, Plastic Noise Experience, Imjudas, Sin.Sin, Cosmic Armchair, Neikka Rpm, Alien Vampires, Ayria, Implant, Avarice In Audio, Acylum, Schwarzblut, Star Industry, Regenerator, Elektroklänge, Elm, Kant Kino, Technoir, Diffuzion, Aesthetische, Circuito Cerrado Vs. C-Lekktor, Növö, Totem Obscura, Venal Flesh Feat. Chase Dobson, Llumen, The Psychic Force, Helalyn Flowers, Essence Of Mind, Armageddon Dildos and Xmh.

The 17th track on our free download compilation “Face The Beat: Session 4” (featuring 92 tracks) is by the Swedish combo Cynical Existence. On the – very melodic – track “Wasteful Scum” you get a mix of the typical Cynical Existence electronics with fierce guitars. The Cynical Existence project was founded in 2011 by the Swedish musician Fredrik Croona but ended up as a trio (George Klontzas, Fredrik Croona and guitarist Erik Gustafsson) with its roots firmly planted in aggrotech. The track we offer you here was originally released back in January 2016 as a New Year’s present. Today it sees a much wider release via the Side-Line compilation. Listen to “Wasteful Scum” below and download it right here. Face The Beat: Session 4 by Cynical Existence Check our “Face The Beat: Session 4” page on Bandcamp to discover the other 91 bands. All donations will go to charity.