German EBM band Orange Sector (Lars Timm Felker, Martin Bodewell, and Rene Nowotny on live support) have released their new Monoton EP via Infacted Recordings. Since their 1992 demo tape The War Comes Home, produced at Pink Production in Hannover, Germany, Orange Sector have built a great career as EBM artists. A stellar start was established on Zoth Ommog Records… Read more →
Finnish EBM band Bodykomplex will release their debut album Karma October 16, 2015 on EK Produkt. Bodykomplex was formed in 2012 when two guys from Northern Finland decided to make a few old school style EBM songs just for fun. When they noticed that people were listening, they decided to make more songs. The stories behind the lyrics come from… Read more →
From Örebro, Sweden, Astma is an old school EBM side-project of Stroma, formed in 2001. Band members Magnus Peterson, Stefan Gustafson, Robert Gustavsson have released a new album 600 Pounds of Body on Electro Aggression Records. The band has gradually developed its own brand of hard-edged old school electronics, skillfully mixing synthpop, punk and minimal EBM. 600 Pounds of Body is… Read more →
Pantser Fabriek, from The Hague, Netherlands, has their second release Stahlzeit now available on Bandcamp from Hack die Rübe the sub-label of SkullLine. There is no mystery here, Stahlzeit is just pure energetic and loud old-school EBM at its best. From the opening “Stahl-Musik,” a style and tempo is set as if forged in steel. The second track “Come Closer”… Read more →
After a 5-year hiatus, the cult 80s EBM act Serpents is on the verge of staging a remarkable comeback! State of War, on Electro Aggression Records, delivers pure raw and back to basics old school EBM with a signature Serpents touch. The 2CD also features a revised and expanded edition of the 2010 digital-only album Immer Voran! You better get ready… Read more →
Bodykomplex, formed in 2012 when two guys from Northern Finland decided to make a few oldschool style EBM songs just for fun, have joined the EK Product roster. When Bodykomplex noticed that people were listening, they decided to make more songs. The stories behind the lyrics come from the tales of everyday life, told in somewhat humorous way. Lyrics are… Read more →
I first heard of Zynik 14 from their superb rendition of “Battle Mind” on the compilation album Adrenalin Rush – A Tribute To Leæther Strip released in 2014. The band return in 2015 with their self-released LP Gottkomplex, a straight-up, beat-heavy, old-school-ebm style that comes across in excellent fashion with powerful sounds and aggressive vocals. Stand-out tracks include “Adrenaline”, “Alphatier”,… Read more →
Nitzer Ebb continues to be relevant to anyone revisiting the origins of industrial and ebm. Heavily regarded as their best album by fans, Belief remains the pacesetter and it persists in being a model for many bands and records that followed. This is not an album with hits or best tracks – the entire album is a masterpiece of electronic… Read more →
