Swedish electropop band Page releases their EP “Start” June 29th (July 6th in Sweden), consisting of three new songs and a remix of “Krasch” by Norwegian colleague Stephan Groth of Apoptygma Berzerk. This parallel e-mail interview with both Eddie Bengtsson of Page and Stephan shows a collaboration of mutual admiration and respect across the Norwegian-Swedish border, and maybe also something else down the road…
“I always wanted to have a big show, a Barbarella meets Pan’s Labyrinth tableau with a sci-fi edge, set to trance and psy-trance music,” states Juno Reactor’s Ben Watkins. With his latest release, due out on June 22 via Metropolis Records, titled Juno Reactor – The Mutant Theatre, he takes the eminent electronic project closer […]
Los Angeles electronic/coldwave band The Black Queen, having announced a string of festival and European tour dates, has announced the release of its sophomore full-length album, Infinite Games. Following two years after the group’s critically and commercially acclaimed Fever Daydream debut, Infinite Games features 10 brand new tracks and artwork by Jesse Draxler in five […]
From the back streets of London to Hollywood blockbusters of the Matrix, Juno Reactor’s story is ever evolving. Ben Watkins aka Juno Reactor is constantly exploring new areas visually and musically, evidenced by the new album “The Mut…
In collaboration with Dead Seed Productions Mortiis will be releasing some very limited edition products, namely a “Perfectly Defect” picture disc and the “Weal & Woe” cassette box. The “Perfectly Defect” picture disc will be limited to only 100 copies and comes housed in heavy PVC sleeve with a thick lyrics card. You can order this item directly from Dead Seed Productions. Next is the “Weal & Woe” cassette box set (limited to just 150 copies) holding 4 cassettes featuring over 60 tracks. Included are “Perfectly Defect” (full track session with 4 bonus tracks), “The Great Deceiver”, “The Great Corrupter”double cassette box (with the never before physically published 3 bonus track EP). The set also includes a silkscreened print by Maggot Meister. Also this item can be ordered directly from Dead Seed Productions. All Cassettes are also available individually from Dead Seed. Upcoming shows And while we are at it, here are the upcoming “Era 1” Live shows: JUN 15 Salón Bolívar, Mexico, Mexico JUN 24 Ragnard Reborn Festival, Kharkiv, Ukraine JUN 29 Kilkim Žaibu, Varniai, Lithuania JUL 14 Castle Party, Bolków, Poland JUL 25 Badlands Bar, Perth, Australia JUL 26 Crowbar, Fortitude Valley, Australia JUL 27 The Factory Theatre, […]
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD) have announced the publication of the book “Pretending To See The Future”, in celebration of the band’s 40th anniversary. To be published in November 2018 “Pretending To See The Future” is an oral history – told in the first person – of OMD, mixing hundreds of fan anecdotes with memories from the band, their collaborators, other musicians and celebrity admirers garnered from 40 years of recording and performing. The book contains commentary from OMD founders Andy McCluskey and Paul Humphreys, plus band members Martin Cooper, Malcolm Holmes and Stuart Kershaw, and is packed full of memorabilia and hundreds of photos. With many images in full colour and previously unseen pictures from the band’s own archive. Or as the press text says: “This is the OMD story as it’s never been told before.” The book is now available to pre-order from PledgeMusic. All early pre-orders from Pledge will also receive an exclusive flexi-disc featuring a very rare and previously unheard demo of “Messages” from the summer of 1978 before Andy and Paul actually formed Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. Recorded in the garage studio of school friend Paul Collister who would become OMD’s manager, and […]
In a special three-part series, ReGen Magazine speaks with the three primary members of legendary industrial “supergroup” C-Tec on the eve of the band’s reformation at this year’s ColdWaves events.
An InterView with Ged Denton of C-Tec, Der Prosector, & Scere
By Ilker Yücel (Ilker81x)
From the band’s beginnings as Cyber-Tec Project to the later incarnation as C-Tec, […]
Synthpop/electro band Everpresent has unveiled the music video for the track “Inside,” the fifth track from 2017’s Parallax. Featuring a performance from model, producer, and theatre/jazz vocalist Katelyn Isaacson, and edited and produced by Everpresent guitarist and electro/rock producer Kahlina Venix, the video was filmed by Creative Synergy Media in Providence, RI’s Dusk Nightclub; Venix […]
Experimental music label Cold Spring has announced the release of How to Destroy Angels, featuring Soft Cell front man Marc Almond, Zos Kia’s John Gosling, and COIL’s John Balance and Peter Christopherson. Recorded on August 24, 1983 at the Air Gallery in London, UK, and dubbed “A Slow Fade to Total Transparency,” the record features […]
Slovenian avant-garde industrial group Laibach has marked the United States/North Korea summit with a new version of the track “Arirang,” a re-interpretation of a traditional Korean folksong, which Laibach first performed on the controversial 2015 North Korean tour. The updated track, which is dedicated to the reunification process, is combined with a well known North […]