Year: 2020

  As one of the most tumultuous years in recent memory finally ends, ReGen Magazine is grateful to have maintained its productivity and kept a strong readership in the underground industrial and alternative music scene. Today, we close out 2020 wi…

Yesterday Side-Line released session 6 in the by now famous free ‘Face The Beat’ compilation series focussing on the darker side of the music world. The compilation is available on Bandcamp for immediate download. For free or as a pay-what-you-want. This time our magazine’s chief editor selected 139 bands to participate after a submission round was launched in Summer of 2020. Just like last time, we took the time to sit down with our chief editor Bernard Van Isacker to talk about the compilation but of course also about other things including the unavoidable corona pandemic. Instead of traveling to far away Ypres in Belgium, we set up a Zoom conference call and fired some questions at him while we hear his 3-year old son Magnus shouting ‘Dinosaurs!’. Face The Beat: Session 6 by Various Artists SL: Dinos? BVI: Ha yes, he is besotted with dinosaurs and just two days ago we went to see Dinopolis, which was the most exciting event for him this year! I literally had to drag him out of the park after we had done the tour 7 times in a row, which was more than enough for us but Magnus stayed excited until the […]

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Sweden’s electropop act Covenant has covered the Yazoo song “Winter Kills” which was written by Alison Moyet. The band’s Andreas Catjar originally covered the track for a theatre piece, and when Eskil Simonsson heard it he …

Metropolis recording artists Nøir are set to release a Bandcamp exclusive single entitled “Just Fascination”. The song, originally released by the pioneering Cabaret Voltaire in 1983, was reworked by Nøir and later remixed by We Are Temporar…

The live Facebook premiere of Magne’s “White Xmas Lies” concert (recorded at Kulturkirken Jakob in Oslo on December 4, 2019) is now available online. The concert recording lasts about an hour, and the setlist includes 11 songs:

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We are back with a very strong new volume in the by now legendary Face The Beat series powered by Side-Line, just in time to close 2020. Counting 137 tracks this new volume, the 6th so far, is available now from Bandcamp. Side-Line has always been about getting new bands in the spotlights for a bigger public to discover them. And this new volume continues that good old tradition of course. We again went talent hunting in the dark music world so you are also getting a great selection of starting bands from allover the world which often offer here their very first public release. You’ll also notice that we have a lot more bands on board this time than usual, 137 in total, and that’s also corona related as many if not all were confined at home and decided to record brand new material. It also explains why it took a bit longer to complete this 6th session as we received an avalanche of tracks which we had to go through once the deadline for submissions was over. The compilation is available via our Bandcamp page as a pay-what-you-want release or in combination with a Side-Line T-shirt. Face The […]

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  Long hidden from public view as ReGen Magazine‘s webmaster, we owe much to Trubie Turner as the main force that keeps us afloat. With the wide range of emotions the struggle that is 2020 has brought on, Trubie Turner’s list went for …

  Aside from the entries on the ReGen Staff Favorites of 2020 playlist, this year brought artists old and new into rotation with some fantastic releases. Then Comes Silence, All Them Witches, and Louisahhh were new discoveries that demanded attent…

After some releases with their side-projects Totem Obscura and Aengeldust, plus the publication of rare early demo material through the “Filthy Memories 2” release, the Acylum duo (Pedro and Nadine Engel) are back with the successor of “Pest”. “Ka…

  As the longest year on record crawls to an end, it’s time to look back over a year of fantastic releases from a huge catalog of great artists. Like teenagers in the record store with only our allowances to spend, ReGen staff writer Brian H…