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The community of fate united both privately and artistically has created a new CD featuring the familiar noisy and EBM-oriented sound. "That's It!" is the logical continuation of the previous album "Thema Nummer Eins" and creates another mix of the typical Armagedon Dildos sound combined with song-oriented structures and provoking texts, partly in English and partly in German, spitted out refreshingly bold. Those who do not put up with twelve new songs will be happy to find another four remixes on the CD including a remix by Agonoize.

When it comes to modern EBM in the third generation you for sure will sooner or later come across one name: Johan Van Damm! "The voice" is his alias and besides his new "baby" Agrezzior he has already participated in bands such as Dupont and Menticide in which he performed legendary liveshows in the EBM scene. "Domination" is title and aim of the new EBM masterpiece by the Swedish vocal wizzard! Besides the current Orange Sector album "Krieg und Frieden" this album sets new standards in Electronic Body Music 2010! Musicwise the album was produced under the seal of Autodafeh (the cd also includes a collaborative track and a remix by Autodafeh!), which again is a synonym for agressive body music at it’s very best.

French AinSophAur is a legendary Post-Punk act in existance for 25 years and stands for typical French cold-wave and post-punk feelings, electro experiments, shaped guitars, heavy loud vocals and esoteric questions. Active since 1994, today only 2 of the original members are left. The last to play music together, trying to escape their fears and disapointments by singing about them! We know we are honest and proud. We know we are humans and miserables. We know we are what we are and we cannot deal with it most of the time. But we do!"

A dark comedy or a folk drama about drunk birds, mocking spiders, empty bottles and lost souls, starring David E. Williams, Lloyd James (Naevus), Sonne Hagal, Future Whirl (Oberon!), Die Weisse Rose! For this decadent party, recorded between late 2008 to early 2010 and graced by great emotional neo folk ballads and more experimental gloomy soundscapes, Albireon invited some very selected guests to share this tasty blueberries’ cake and offer the album a different palette of vocal nuances and a multinational coven of damned artists’ parade.

Digipak with booklet. Austrian Allerseelen is - 2 years after their successful album ‘Hallstatt’ - back with a brand-new album that fascinates musically as well as optically: Rauhe Schale. Allerseelen has become a real group with electronics, bass, electric guitar and drums. On several pieces we find contributions by two well-known violinists from the world of neo-folk and folk metal. Apart from Dimo Dimov who not only drums but also plays electric guitar on some songs and the bassist Marcel P., Allerseelen this time also features the two violinists Meri Tadic and Annabel Lee. ‘Rauhe Schale’ moves and flows in a field of force between industrial, folklore, pop and metal. The album will for sure appeal to Neofolk addicts, but this time also fans of such diverse projects as Nine Inch Nails, Einstürzende Neubauten, Laibach or Underworld could fall in love as well.

First edition comes in digipak and includes a 9-tracks bonus CD! The most promising Swedish Electro Pop newcomer returns! On “Take Cair Paramour”, Ashbury Heights shine with a distinctly matured vision of the “New Wave 2.0” sound. The duo spices up those breezy beats and melodies that defined Eighties electronic Pop music with a lot of timely low end “oomph”, a pinch of fucked-up zeitgeist, the androgynous sex-appeal of Bowie and his lot and a healthy dose of teenage angst and rebellion, graced with a compact and airtight mix by sound wizard John Fryer. “Take Cair Paramour” has become a feast of catchy tunes with elaborate arrangements, thrilling male-/female-alternations and a perfect balance of pathos and Pop. The two Swedes do not write mere songs – Ashbury Heights are writing anthems! The first pressing comes with a bonus disc that contains exclusive, unreleased songs, alternative versions and remixes.

Martial-Industrial-Neoclassic music at highest level! AtomTrakt could easily be described as a cross between best Triarii and Wappenbund and this new opus will set new standards in the Apocalyptic/Martial Industrial scene: Words like ‘bombastic’, ‘martial’, ‘heroic’ or ‘militant’ definitely need to be re-defined. Cold, heroic and atmospheric synthesizer layers are mixed with bombastic drums and military war-like rhythm patterns. The vocals vary from dark and clean to distorted and threatening. The album features a superb video clip for ‘Trauermarsch’ and is available in a 6-panel digipak.

'Non Stop' is the second solo album from Erasure front man Andy Bell. After scrapping sessions with producer Stephen Hague because they sounded "too much like Erasure" Bell re-entered the studio with Pascal Gabriel (Kylie Minogue, Little Boots) to start again. Opting for a more up-to-date sound, Bell delivers an album of refreshing dance floor inspired electro-pop tracks while 'Honey If You Love Him (That's All That Matters)' features guest vocals from Jane's Addition's Perry Farrell. The style is certainly born out of disco, but here things are modernized with some progressive beats and trace elements of tech-house, all polished for pop with a cool and almost German-like precision.

"An Eye on You" is the greatest long player of the band of four. Only the finest ingredients are stirred in a smooth & relaxed way, and with extravagance that it could be perceived to be (excusez-moi) overly coolness of the four gentlemen! "An Eye on You" is already the one and only full-length album for all fans of distinct dark and natural rock, no matter if you name the final product gothic, wave, death- or alternative rock. Welcome back, boys!

More than 12 years after their debut album ‘Flowing with the Flue’ and the ‘Arabia’ single Born For Bliss release their long awaited second album! The band has been founded by guitarist and vocalist Frank Weyzig who was responsible for the typical guitar-sound of well known wave-gothic band Clan Of Xymox as their live guitarist and keyboarder. Additionally to the 11 new tracks on this album, we also find previously unreleased songs like ‘Dragon’ (composed already in the 80’s for Clan Of Xymox) and ‘Ylene’ (composed for and performed by the band Love Like Blood for their Snakekiller album). "Between Living & Dreaming" offers 15 tracks with a classical guitar-wave impact which cannot be ignored. With this album Born For Bliss are back with music that will satisfy handmade music lovers.

Fans of harsh electro embraced the trio from Mexico with passion and declared them the rightful heirs to electro Gods Hocico. But C-lekktor are not resting on their laurels -they are cementing the great impression with their new 10 track CD ‘Tendencias Suicidas’. Fast, furious and catchy as fu*k - C-Lekktor instantly are hammering away with the title track "Suicidal Tendencias". Hard electro, technoid 303 riffs and distorted vocals are pitching "Tendencias Suicidas" into a feeding frenzy that make amazonian piranhas green with envy. Jan [X-Fusion] decided to give this amazingly talented band a hand and produced and mixed the CD. His deep knowledge of sound and proper production gives Tendencias Suicidas" the bleeding edge that ill cut you like a knife. Decoded Feedback, FGFC820 and Alien Vampires contributed outstanding remixes.

Legendary Electronic Pioneers Cabaret Voltaire re-enter the fray with a new album on Shiva Records. "National Service Rewind" represents a collaboration between Cabaret Voltaire and new Sheffield rock band The Tivoli recorded at CV's legendary Western Works studios. "National Service Rewind" is a sonic juggernaut that cleaves all conception of dance rock crossover and dives deep into the jugular to spit blood, bone and baritone. There are no niceties here, no musical politesse, just a new clear war of electronic attrition, psychotic, psychedelic rock and tower-block rocking beats peppered by juddering, Jamaican Dancehall bass. "Swaggering electro rock with a dash of dub, "National Service Rewind" sounds less like Richard H Kirk's Sheffield post punkers Cabaret Voltaire, and more like Kasabian trapped in a lift with Primal Scream" - DJ Magazine.

One of the most influential Electro-Industrial-acts of our time returns with a bang: Combichrist! The red hot new single “Never Surrender” is a raw and dry beat-attack that discharges into an infernal mayhem of a chorus. With this aggressive groove-monster, Andy LaPlegua and band are bound to take the alternative dance floors around the world by storm, making the single a formidable appetizer for the new album “Making Monsters”, scheduled for release on August 27th, 2010. Remixes from IAMX, Terence Fixmer and Melt round off this relentless and excellent club package.