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"I'd love to review the new Simon Carter & Fabsi album! Of course!" Starts* "Ah, a great EP too, THIS SLAPS, NICE!" Offers to do both..* ..."There's another, songs that didn't make it in to the album? That's pretty cool!" ..oh.. WAIT.. "Ah, a fourth release in the same.. wait.. well there's no way I can leave any of them out then is there!" Cough, Starts again..* And so a quick review.. 20 mins in and out, became far longer.. But you know what? I am so damn impressed by all the tracks I have just gone through that not a moment of that felt like a chore, I loved it. Read the reviews below to find out why! Simon speaks about the reason for the rapid fire releases: On Monday (3rd July 2023) the new album Hex, Herbs 'N' Techno is released! https://simon-carter.bandcamp.com/album/hex-herbs-n-techno I am aware that I have deviated slightly from the Industrial-Techno sound that this project has become known for. A sound which significantly contributed to the success of the debut album “The Bitches Potion” and its follow-up EP “Witch But Not Famous”. I decided to take this new album in a slightly different direction by introducing ideas from some of my other projects, in particular my Narconic project. This has resulted in the inclusion of more Trance, EDM and Big Room elements. Whilst I strived to keep the energy, vibe, uniqueness and overall Techno feel of the previous releases, I do confess it has moved slightly away from the raw, crunchy Industrial-Techno sound that you’ve enjoyed, appreciated and supported. Gone are the 6+ minute grinding stomp-fests, replaced by shorter, punchier, more playlist friendly tracks. Before I decided to shift the direction of this album, I had already created a few eerie, atmospheric oldskool Techno/Industrial-Techno tracks which have now been released on the “Don’t Blink” EP and it’s on this EP where you’ll find the gritty, more punishing stomp-fests. For a limited time this EP will be entirely free (or pay what you want) on Bandcamp. The “Don’t Blink” EP can be found here: https://simon-carter.bandcamp.com/album/dont-blink I’ve also recently released an EP called “Initiation”. These tracks were originally intended to be on the “Hex, Herbs ‘N’ Techno” album and whilst the witchy theme did match, I didn’t believe the style (or silliness!) of these tracks was a good fit for the album. They do however reveal a nice little story regarding the initiation process into our coven. The “Initiation” EP can be found here: https://simon-carter.bandcamp.com/album/initiation The success of this project in such a short period of time has been nothing short of mind-blowing, especially considering I initially created this Bandcamp page as a playground to share some of my more light-hearted tracks. It has since (semi) matured and become a source for some of my best output, rivalling and I’m sure in the view of many, eclipsing my other more serious music projects. As I have done for over a decade with my music production, I will continue to explore new sounds and ideas (insert shark analogy about needing to keep moving to stay alive) and I will endeavour to continue NOT taking myself or my music too seriously! Thank you and please keep supporting me and my projects. It provides me with the energy and strength to continue making new music but for now I’m off for what is a much deserved rest! Although Techno Files Vol. 3 is finished and this Psy-Trance EP isn’t going to finish itself is it… Wishing you all a fantastic weekend! Simon (and Fabsi) Official Website: https://simoncarter.info STOP A MOMENT! --- Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! --- We also support our good friends at Beat:Cancer, you can click the logo to donate and also keep up to date with their awesome music events at their site! Reviews Hex, Herbs 'N' Techno Deep as a cauldron, thick with bass, spiced with complimenting synths, and brimming with drum loops, the music herein is a worthy successor to their previous album of The Bitches Poison (Review HERE) and the EP Witch But Not Famous. (Review HERE) I have a lot to write about in this article so I will just point out some of the really noteworthy parts of this great album. Granted it is not as heavy as the last as mentioned above in Simon's explanation but it still incorporates, and even improves upon so many of the great aspect The Bitches Poison had. For instance there is a lot more depth in terms of the witch and magic side of this unusual mash-up For instance, the track 'Cleansing' (and 'Säuberung') are lyrically, a cleansing ritual and 'Aura of grounding' (and 'Aura der Erdung') is also a spoken spell, based on Wiccan magic but given their own personal spin. I think it's great that half the tracks are titled in German and spoken as such, with the other half titled the same but spoken in English. Looking down the track list you can probably tell which ones are mirrored such as 'Mondkind' and 'Moonchild' etc. This is a great call back to the previous album where only the two amazing tracks 'We Are the Witches' and Hex Hex (Wir Sind die Hexen) were presented this way. Wir Sind die Hexen being my favourite track on that album. What is great about this release is that the techno appeals to every techno taste - The thumping energy of 'Luna-Energien' for those who love epic scale and filthy drops, 'Exorzieren' who like their pounding and steady rhythm, to 'Säuberung' which throws in the synth peaks and heavy bass of industrial. 'Luna-Energien' stands out as the track with no mirror, it is full of poignancy with Fabsi's voice and the sense that Simon has really tried to add in all of the album's takes on techno and thrown them in to one masterful piece. It gives you that epic and atmospheric sense of something profound taking place that you are now inescapably, a part of. This album has so many things that I love, from incredible rhythms, to dark atmospheric and soul healing spells, to the pure honey sound of Fabsi's Germanic voice. Is it as heavy as I like? Not quite BUT you can't listen to heavy all the time, sometimes you need a balance between the glorious club bass and the sort of music you can still listen to whilst doing your daily routines, and in that sense 'Hex, Herbs 'N' Techno is a spell book of songs for all occasions - and that in itself, is brilliant and ideal! Track List The Power of The Moon Cleansing Mondkind Luna-Energien Exorzieren Moonchild Die Kraft Des Mondes Aura of Grounding Säuberung Exorcise Aura der Erdung Don't Blink This EP is the real treasure for me in this article with its harder, darker feast of techno. As some of you that have read my reviews before will know, I'm a sucker for sampled TV, games, films etc in music - this EP provides my latest media sample fix nicely! 'Don't Blink' starts off as most techno with a thudding beat and some electronics slowly building to keep you guessing at where it's gonna take you. We soon find out, as it has samples from Dr Who about the angels who kill you if you close your eyes. The different versions however are where the magic lies, the 'Alternate Version' layers on the bass and darkness adding a more urgent feel to the overall sound. The 'Industrial Version' does these two things in equal measure just as well but with a more haunting approach. Whereas the 'Tech-House Version' makes it more of a '3am, lost in the thud thud thud' of the club dance floor kind of vibe. 'There's One At The Door' This is a slow, pulsing, weaving mind massage of techno ASMR that puts me in the mind of so many different things. From the odd synths you'd get in retro classic games like Command and Conquer, to drum beats I'd expect to hear in retro step one second, to deep ambience Industrial the next. This track is eerie, soothing, dripping with poignancy... "There’s one at the door. At the gate of damnation. Is it thief, thug, or wh*re? There’s one at the door. And there’s room for one more. Til the end of creation." - Squatterbloat: The Sandman S.7 Ep.1 'The Living And The Dead' Now here we have more great sampled quotes, this time from the pellar in The Witcher 3. This track echoes around your skull with some of the most smooth, deep techno I've yet to hear. Like the embrace of a weighted blanket, this track manages to reach everywhere music can possibly reach within a person. It also has phases where the track picks back up, false drops, then hits you with some liquid techno just in case there were still any corners of your mind left yet untouched. This one is a real treat, I first reviewed Simon HERE with the track 'Simon' which sampled Ultimate Force I believe? Well to see this EP contain the track name 'Simon (Booby Trap)' made me very curious indeed and I'm happy to say this blew all expectations out of the water with one hell of a FILTHY and stomp-tastic track. This is fierce, full of drops, sampled masterfully, and provides so much heavy bass, percussion, and reverberating synths that this track alone makes this a fantastic EP let alone with all the other tracks included! So needles to say, I love it! 'Hexennacht Rave (Original Master)' is a track originally meant for the 'Hex, Herbs 'N' Techno' album and I'm not sure how I feel about it being left off the album because HELLS, THIS FUCKING SLAPS!! This track is by far my favourite of all the tracks on offer within these releases and it is solid, dependable, yet unique RAVE FUEL. You start playing this on dancefloors, and the foot stomps are gonna wake the dead. That's how heavy this smashes out a killer beat. Do yourself a favour, don't take my word for it, just go stick some headphones on and crank this tune, alright? Good! Initiation Another incredible offering and this is full of tracks that didn't quite make it on to the album with Fabsi. This is packed with energy, soul fuel, and stomps. 'Seher' is such a fantastic rave track that it may be my second fav of all the offerings. It is fast, heavy, laden with anticipation and spiced with filthy drops. Here we also have the fantastic 'Hexennacht Rave' which I have already covered fairly well in the above EP. ^ 'Dancefloor Delusion' is a bit more like Organ Donors in sound, and touches on that hardstyle vibe with a very impressive and enjoyable dance track. 'The Magic Circle (Welcome To The Coven)' rounds it all off with a much slower, more progressing, and intriguing sensation of musical exploration to make you feel at one with the music. Technofiles Vol.2 Lastly we have Technofiles Vol.2, this offers more energy, more peaks and layers of synths and soundwaves with four very different tracks from one another that all pack a good punch. This is definitely the more mainstream line of techno and electronics but each is so well done that you can really feel the passion Simon has for the music he makes and for finding the perfect percussive beats to punctuate each and every track! Conclusion With four incredible releases based almost entirely off of the one album he originally set out to do, none can says Simon doesn't try hard enough! Each and every track is dripping with power. Simon is a master at this craft, and the choice of either beautifully selected media sample or the regal voice of Fabsi makes for some of the most entertaining and satisfying music released so far this year. Simon has clearly been on one hell of a journey with these releases and nothing makes for better workmanship than that which has been made, re-made, re-forged, refolded, time and again until only the strongest of offerings are produced. Masterful work all round! 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My love for the beast that is Seraphim System is obvious to anyone that's ever followed Elektro Vox or listened to me personally talk music for any length of time. BL4KJ4K (John Stancil) and I go back to 2016 having been introduced to him at Resistanz 2016 a few hours before his set. He blew us away with that first UK show, starting with a remix of Terminator 2, hitting us hard with aggrotech rave waves, powerful screams, and spitting out some classy rap with SIRUS.. Needless to say, I've never forgotten that show. SER:SYS was the first person I approached in regards to interviews for E.V and now here we are, 7 years later, written about in a total of 17 of my articles with 6 of those dedicated specifically to his music.. Search E.V for all previous Seraphim System articles HERE This all feels full circle to have seen him return once more to Resistanz 2023 where we had a great conversation: If you took the time to listen to that, you'll see how incredibly passionate he is about what he does from the emotional ending, and that he is indeed the fastest industrial artist in the west. In that interview he said he would smash out a new country music industrial cover and an album, not two months since and both of those have come true. (Even whilst he continues to churn out other tracks and incredible remixes for other bands at the same time!) SER:SYS has been touch and go, his first few albums were insanely good, and he has experimented with so many genres since, it's always a real surprise with every album since on just what you're gonna get. This latest album amalgamates this huge amount of personal experience in to a poignantly heavy album. His MUTANT MTHRFKR albums have always been incredible for the rave industrial heads like myself but with each release of something new and experimental, a double edge sword took shape. With each release SER:SYS brought in new listeners, but ended up losing a few few too; because of this John nearly gave up on the music several times. Each time, I've tried to rave about how damn good he is and tell him what a waste of such talent that would be. Also, 'Swagrotech' as a genre is just too good to let go of! To finalise my point. It was great to see that he persisted. From the first UK show, to each release, E.V has sung SER:SYS's praises. John even joined the line up for lockdown's second 'online Elektro Vox Music Festival' (Cyber EVM 2.0 for short) Having a drunken brotherly love moment at Tanz 23 urging him to never give up and keep going is a moment that seems to have stuck with us both for good. I feel now that John is on the cusp of greatness, still working with so many different artists and really making a name for himself, I truly hope this is the album that tips an overwhelming flood of fans in his favour - as he deserves. (Releases tomorrow 27/06/23) See below for full review. Seraphim System incorporates elements of aggrotech, black metal, death metal, punk, drum and bass, and dubstep in its hellish creations. After a history of playing in technical metal and punk bands, SER:SYS architect "BL4KJ4K" focused his musical abilities to craft rave tunes that will help you slam your skull into your chest cavity. Photo credit: Kevin Stevens, Musique Non Stop Tanz'23 STOP A MOMENT! --- Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! --- We also support our good friends at Beat:Cancer, you can click the logo to donate and also keep up to date with their awesome music events at their site! Review To start with, I gotta say, this is an album for headphones or to tear apart stage sound systems, not to casually put on in the background. Mutant Menagerie & Grimoire DEMANDS your full attention, like an exorcism or call to arms, this album rips at the fabric of the known and pours forth the chaos of the unknown. 'The High Priestess' does just that, it grabs your attention with furious drum beats, haunted screams, lyrical violence, and a shit load of speed. This is brutal power noise to wake you up and pay attention. I love a good film or show sample in a track, it adds so much weight and poignancy to the overall feel, 'I Will Guide Thy Hand' starts which such a great sample from the 2015 film 'The Witch'. The overall sound very much feels like if Electronic Substance Abuse and Iszoloscope had combined with Ser:Sys's signature 'Swaggro' sound to make the ultimate power group. 'Mutant Menagerie' throws in a lot of different aspects and genres from drum and bass, to throat wrenching metal vocals, and finishes off with something akin to hardstyle. One of the best tracks is 'Contrition' featuring Dark Machine Nation who absolutely won the hearts and minds of Tanz 23 with his shock and awe audio assault! This has quite a fun introduction with Knight Templar chanting of all things. Why? Well, a few years ago on April fool's John put up a teaser for a Templar Industrial album title 'Deus Vult' which ended up getting so many comments saying it should really be something he tries at some point.. Myself, at the time being one of them, needless to say it was a nice little 'Easter Egg' to that post when John inboxed me the intro to this when he started working on it! The truly great part of this track is Therion Major's crystal clear vocals shouting out a powerful challenge. These two competing artists vocal styles create a truly unique and powerful track, the type that we are rarely graced with. In fact, the entire track is pretty damn motivational with Therion's ending line.. 'Come out of hiding, become the beast you know you are, come out of hiding, take your throne among the stars! It's great to see the SER:SYS and GRENDEL names together once again on on a track for 'You Do Not Recognize the Bodies in the Water'. Again the competing vocals makes for something deeply interesting. We go from metal, to industrial, to retrowave across the tracks span which leaves you thinking.. 'Wait what?? I gotta listen to that again.' It's nice to hear a female electronic voice on an industrial track gain, this time speaking out gun company names and the title of the track aka 'Guns Don't Make Goth Music, I Do' This track packs a punch with some heavy drums, symbols, and of course - weapons fire. This is a fun cacophony of powernoise and a showcase of the tongue in cheek humour John is known for. 'Blood Red Sky'.. What a fantastic intro drop this has! This has John Wick Gun-Fu club scene written all over it. If any DJ's are reading, go check this one out and crush a dancefloor with it.. PLEASE. This has all the fantastic club elements, the powerful bass, the perfect rhythm, the electronic pulses, and spicy media samples that is the guaranteed formulae to get everyone fucking moving! This is pulse pounding adrenaline club industrial, and if it's not on your playlist after I've said that and you hear it for yourself (Loud), then what's wrong with you?? Why are you here? haha This is for sure my second favourite track on the album. A little like classic Cradle Of Filth with its Gothic-esque opening, 'I Am Weary, Let Me Rest' lulls you in to a false sense of safety, thinking this track will indeed be a chill breather having had the previous track rip you new ear holes.. but no. Those loud screams come pounding back in for a time but then hit you with an even bigger twist just as you think you have the track figured out.. It becomes more of an industrial dancefloor tune, a little more chilled out than a full rave piece, but satisfying in its approach to actually giving you that bit of rest that you originally thought it was going to be. 'Quid Est Veritas?' (What is truth?) is a non stop barrage of dark metal anger, the likes of which the albums Xibalba and Luciferium were known for adding in more homage to this album's display of his many genre talents served over the years. Now for my favourite track on the album! 'Black Aura' featuring Ratio Strain (The solo project of Vanessa from W.A.S.T.E) who also kicked some serious ass at Tanz'23! This whole track feels like the last action segment of a game like Cyberpunk or a film like Tron, the rolling synths, bass churning beats, and melody pay homage to something important, desperate, and vital to human survival. The drop around 2:40 is absolutely FILTHY, I wish there was just a touch faster BPM on this one but overall it's a fantastic track, with no vocals or samples, just pure imagination and interpretation for the mind and I love it! Another track that would go down so well in clubs, and I hope this one gets a few remixes! Lastly we have a cover of Slipknot's 'Surfacing' which John treated us to at Resistanz. He absolutely nails the fury of the drums and vocals, surpassing the original track by far with this modern and tech heavy rendition. This is the kind of Industrial Metal that blows minds and twists perspectives. You don't get too many covers of heavier tracks in industrial, but this one is by far, one of the best! Track List The High Priestess I Will Guide Thy Hand Mutant Menagerie Contrition (feat. Dark Machine Nation) You Do Not Recognize the Bodies in the Water (feat. GRENDEL) Guns Don't Make Goth Music, I Do Blood Red Sky I Am Weary, Let Me Rest Quid Est Veritas? Black Aura (feat. Ratio Strain) Surfacing Conclusion This album wraps up and presents the full collection of everything Seraphim System has accomplished over the years, every genre from his unique industrial 'Swaggrotech', to dubstep, black metal and more are all showcased in this latest tome. For those who buy an album expecting just one genre will find this a little confusing, a little messy, but take a moment to wrap your ears around the genius in each track and what you will find is a neat and perfected order amongst chaos, both a reckoning and a closure. If I could guess at BL4KJ4K's mind, I would say this is him presenting us with his menu, his showcase of experience, his 'resume' of talent to justify his place once more back on the scene. This way, I feel it gives him the footing and vindicating peace of mind to fully launch himself in to club floor power tracks now that this album stands as testament to all that which has come before him. I for one am as excited as ever to see what Seraphim System launches at us next! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider joining our Patreon, commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! 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Mari Kattman is the brilliant solo work of Mari who many of you may know from Helix which is her and husband Tom's (Assemblage 23) other project. We were treated to the first ever UK performance of Helix at Resistanz Festival 2023 and what a fantastic show that was! Mari is a firework of energy and joy when singing on stage and I was luck enough to interview her and Tom there: This latest release from Mari on the 2nd of June is a unique and beautiful release that I had to review from the second I heard it! Vocals characterized by moments of lush harmonies with strategic vocal/musical syncopation resembling that of the hip hop genre. Music can be described as having a good balance of ambient pads cut up by ticking high hats with deep and boomy kicks. The bass lines are moody and dark with a low end presence that’s sure to shake your speakers. Mari Kattman takes a daring leap into uncharted musical territory with her latest masterpiece, "Swallow." Merging her signature Trap percussion with a fresh infusion of Bass Music, she unleashes a powerful and exhilarating evolution of her sound. Mari Kattman, the ultimate musical chameleon, fearlessly embraces this new sonic landscape, showcasing her unrivaled talent for reinvention. With complete control over every aspect of the song and vocal composition, she stands tall as a true powerhouse, once again proving that she is a force to be reckoned with. Mari talks about the new release: STOP A MOMENT! --- Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! --- We also support our good friends at Beat:Cancer, you can click the logo to donate and also keep up to date with their awesome music events at their site! Review 'Swallow' leads straight in to a dark yet smoothly enticing beat and rhythm that sets a cyberpunk like scene in my mind of a night club in slow motion. The chorus vocals of 'It's a bitter pill' remind me of enchanting nu-metal voices we grew up loving like Lacuna Coil or Within Temptation. The combination of electronics and trip drumming interlaced throughout give it some really entertaining and fresh little parts throughout that add to the replay factor as each time one catches your ear, it makes you want to go back and get another good listen to it before new ones appear in the melody. It's really difficult to get atmospheric music right but what Mari has created here is one of the most fascinating atmosphere tracks I've heard which even feels a little therapeutic to listen to. A fantastic piece in essence with poignant lyrics that needs to be listened to multiple times to fully appreciate. Quite interestingly Mari has provided videos on her YouTube channels going in to detail about the making of these tracks, which is great! 'You Can Show Yourself Out' brings a bit more of that cyberpunk spark via the electronics used but it also presents us with an angry message that is sung and spoken in a brilliantly palatable way that often angry lyrics don't usually accommodate. The BABY MAGICK remix of this track slows the piece down a bit, adding a little more of a trap hop edge but also adds in more industrial sounds with metallic clanging beats. Nearing the end of the track there is a great mix of genres playing around with the track from hip hop to just a touch of gabber, and even some ambience experimentation that really ends the track on a bit of a jaw drop! Lastly the MKUHLTRA mix of 'Swallow' adds both a bit of EDM but more importantly a retrowave edge to the song that makes it all a little less edgy, and packs in a smoother, dancier vibe that even turns the lyrics in to more of a sense of acceptance and hopefulness. Conclusion Mari has created an incredibly enjoyable release which is genuinely refreshing and brings a new energy and vibe to alternative electronic music. There is a pinch of everything that makes the scene great here, from the gritty and dark, the poignant and the brave, to the fun and smooth joy of dance. Mari has definitely made me a fan of her music with this release and I look forward to now going back through her previous releases to see what gems I discover! Thank you! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider joining our Patreon, commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Bellhead's duo of Karen and Ivan are once again touring the U.S.A and recently released this latest dark EP. Here you can find the tour date, a short interview and a mini review. CHICAGO’S POST-PUNK DUO BELLHEAD RELEASED THE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED EP ‘GOOD INTENTIONS’ ON FRIDAY MAY 5TH ACROSS ALL PLATFORMS After spending most of 2022 on the road supporting their critically acclaimed sophomore release, ‘Dead Lights’, Chicago’s post-punk demolition duo BELLHEAD released their newest EP ‘Good Intentions’ on May 5th. For BELLHEAD’s third release, the band returned to their trusty production team of audio engineer Neil Strauch (Iron and Wine / Counting Crows / Owls / Joan of Arc / Walking Bicycles / Slow Mass) mastering engineer Carl Saff (Acid Mothers Temple / Smoking Popes / Red Fang / Guided by Voices), and management team David Schock (WTII Records). The new EP ‘Good Intentions’ features six songs which explore a newfound “POP” sensibility giving nods to New Order and a wink to Jesus and Mary Chain. Starting with the lead single “Valentine”, Karen and Ivan conjure up a sad love song evoking Depeche Mode synth lines juxtaposed with a Placebo style bass groove. “Valentine” will leave the listener wondering if it's a song about loss and hope or moreover about death and forgiveness. Songs such as “Bad Taste” and “Into the Deep” tackle topics about unsavory stalkers, unreliable narrators, and blood thirsty sirens at sea. Who wants to start a fight in a motorcycle bar with leather jackets and fuzzed out bass? The last half of the EP is just for you, including their take on the Love and Rockets hit “No Big Deal”. ‘Good Intentions’ is releasing just a few months after BELLHEAD’s surprise stand alone single- a cover of Prince’s “I Would Die 4 U” which gained quick popularity taking a pop love song and spinning BELLHEAD’s dark twist to it. “I Would Die 4 U” earned 6,000+ Spotify plays in the first 30 days of release and has become a constant spin for DJ’s. BELLHEAD spent 2022 touring alongside international and national touring artists Powerman 5000, Holy Wars, Then Comes Silence, The Bellwether Syndicate, Hate Dept, China Crisis, and Night Club. 2023 is even more explosive with touring plans to include two dates with legendary gothic acts Clan of Xymox and The Bellwether Syndicate as a warm up before heading back out on the road in May co-headlining nine dates with NYC’S coldwave artists, The Clay People. BELLHEAD ends the month of May as direct support for LA’s dark electronic duo, Night Club in Chicago. BELLHEAD 2023 SPRING DATES 3/19 Eastside Bowl - Nashville, TN w/ Clan of Xymox / The Bellwether Syndicate 3/23 Cactus Club - Milwaukee, WI w/ Clan of Xymox / The Bellwether Syndicate 4/15 The Ruin - Fort Wayne, IN w/ Vazum / Observer 4/21 Blockhouse Bar - Bloomington, IN w/ Pilgrims of Yearning / Freeze Etch 4/22 Mag Bar - Louisville, KY w/ Gentleman Pig / Star Guided Vessel / Village Elder 5/6 Livewire Lounge - Chicago, IL w/ The Clay People / Melter 5/7 Mac’s Bar - Lansing, MI w/ The Clay People / Zombie Apocalypse / No Skull 5/8 Black Circle - Indianapolis, IN w/ The Clay People / Broken Nails 5/9 The Foundry - Lakewood, OH w/ The Clay People / Bonded by Darkness / Temple Witch 5/10 The Runaway - Washington, DC w/ The Clay People / High Horse Cavalry / Raw Dawgs 5/11 Bar Freda - Queens, NY w/ The Clay People / The Amatory Murder / Chroma 5/12 Darq @ Koto - Salem, MA w/ The Clay People / Acheron 5/13 Harrisburg Midtown Arts Centre - Harrisburg, PA w/ The Amatory Murder, Faux Fear, Goth Goth, Sugar Hysteria 5/14 Buzzbin - Akron, OH w/ Night Goat / Bonded By Darkness / Temple Witch 5/26 Reggie’s - Chicago, IL w/ Night Club / Iron Years / Plasmata ’Good Intentions’ can be purchased here: https://bellhead.bandcamp.com/album/good-intentions Band Links: https://www.bellheadband.com https://bellhead.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/bellheadband/ STOP A MOMENT! --- Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! --- We also support our good friends at Beat:Cancer, you can click the logo to donate and also keep up to date with their awesome music events at their site! Interview Q. Hello Karen and Ivan it's been a while. How have the last couple of years treated you and how has Bellhead's journey been since then? Karen: Last time we talked I believe was in 2021 for our Dead Lights EP release, and we have been full steam ahead since then! We've Released a few songs on compilations, had some remixes come out, and have been pretty much touring non stop. We’re learning a lot about ourselves as well as the music scene and touring life. We continue to do our best to put out music and perform shows people enjoy! Q. You both toured quite a bit last year and are doing so again now so where have been your favourite places to play so far and where are you looking forward to playing most this year? Karen: All of our shows we’ve done have been fun, so it’s really hard to pick specific places. I think a highlight for me this year was playing in Nashville with Clan of Xymox and Bellwether Syndicate. It was a great room and everyone was super nice. As for looking ahead, I am excited to play all of our shows and can’t wait to meet everyone on the road. Q. Have there been any places you would rather not play again and if so, what makes you say so? Ivan: Some situations are not ideal but we are scrappy and rise to the occasion no matter what shortcomings may be put in our way. We always strive to put on the best show possible and entertain. Q. Last we spoke I asked about the more sinister side of life that you both sing about, with this new EP you certainly continue that vibe with stalkers, death, and more. Where has the inspiration and story for these tracks come from for you both? Ivan: I like unreliable narrators. When there is a soul survivor of a shipwreck do you take him at his word? I wanted to go all in on song lyrics that were open to interpretation. Are the intentions truly good or is there something else unseen? Q. Which tracks are your favourite to play live, and which ones go down best with crowds? Ivan: music is a lot like comedy. You try material out and see how it goes with an audience. You get feedback and you adjust accordingly. We have more songs then we can play live. We put the best set together for maximum entertainment based on where we are playing and how long the set is. Q. What are some of your favourite things about the Gothic scene? Ivan: We get great one on one engagement at the merch table. We love the audience's feedback and engagement. They provide wonderful feedback, turn us on to bands we have not yet heard, and the smiles are infectious. Q. Who are some artists you'd love to collaborate with or play alongside on tour with? Karen: Ivan and I have a dream to work with someone mainstream out of our genre. I think a collaboration with Will.I.Am or Linda Perry would be life-changing. We’d love to be considered for a run of shows with bands like Pig, Stabbing Westward, 3teeth, Blood Red Shoes, or Poppy, and are hoping next year we could do more shows with our friends in Then Comes Silence, Holy Wars, Night Club or the Bellwether Syndicate. Q. What's next for Bellhead after the tour? Karen: We have a LOT more dates for 2023 including supporting such diverse acts as Voltaire, S0lve,Korine, Palm Ghosts and even the American nu-metal act Flaw, plus we have several more not announced yet. After it’s all said and done we will probably have 25 shows in 2023. We’re also trying to release 2 music videos in the upcoming months. We shut down live shows starting November and won’t pick back up until May of 2024 so we can focus on writing new music. Q. Anything you'd like to say to your fans? Ivan: Stay excellent to each other Karen: Party on dudes Review 'Bad Taste' open up the EP with that signature Gothic bass and Ivan's low but dangerous feeling vocals setting a feeling of a thriller, do we believe Ivan's lyrics, or is it all part of an illusion? Karen kicks us in to a catchy chorus with a slightly jarring guitar that further adds to that darker atmosphere. 'Into the Deep' is a rather interesting track lyrically. Ivan tells a narrative of affairs, lust, death, and horrors at sea. Once again Karen has nailed a catchy chorus that really suits the overall feel of the track. 'Valentine' really does have that quick bass sound Placebo are well known for. This has the feel of a track that sounds all romantic and lovely but lyrically it is much darker than it seems. A bit of brain tingler this one, it hits quite a few different spots in your mind as the songs washes over you. 'Apathy' is a grungy punch drunk anthem where Karen sounds like a badass ready to take on anyone and 'No Big Deal' is a gritty, gravel bound spoken track. 'Drugstore Keri' is a punk as hell shout along song that no doubt goes don't incredibly live well with the heavy bass and easily repeated lyrics hooks and round the EP off very nicely indeed. Thank you! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider joining our Patreon, commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Commissions are closed for a few weeks as I deal with a lot of backlog but please consider helping towards our running costs! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! 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Tigercide is a duo that fill a void you didn't realise you had. We all love a good bit of dark wave, synthpop, or Gothic chillout but often these genres tend to become too upbeat, too slow, or the vocals tend to drag you away from relaxation with most acts. Something never quite balances. In Tigercide we find a beautiful missing puzzle piece that combines all of these wonderful genres in to a truly soothing and touching experience that we always knew was out there somewhere and I'm glad to have finally heard it! 'The Remedy' is a fantastic track to chose to remix. The melody is that which soothes a depressed heart and yet the beat keeps your attention solid with well placed percussion and synths - in an almost gamma wave sort of feel, they both keep you in the moment. The vocals? Ethereal, smooth, and luxurious with that edge of pain that hits a deeply relatable place. I always find it interesting to see how a band or artist attempts to get the most out of their work. With 'Remedy' Tigercide have recruited quite the collection of interesting artists to remix the track, with roughly one remix being released every few weeks. There are five more yet to be released on their YouTube channel; The two that are already released will be the focus of this review, especially the remix by John Bechdel of Ministry, Fear Factory, and Killing Joke. Los Angeles-based darkwave act, Tigercide has announced the release of The Remedy Remixes: a collection of re-envisioned tracks from Tigercide's Remedy EP. With the first track, "Remedy" (Album Mix), the drum of a betrayed heart pulses in your ears. Shexist sings the listener to terms, with the notes of a subdued finality. The synths cry in the background and remind you to breathe. A song that can only prepare you for the death of your ego. The Remedy album was a special release, an incredibly personal look into a journey filled with beauty and pain; the burden of almost losing it all but somehow keeping it together, clawing through adversity. The duo of Shexist and St Brendan reach to the sky and obtain its healing sound. Together through heartache and sheer will they are a force of change. The Remedy Remixes are a catalogue of moods smuggled from every corner of the darkened overgrowth. Industrial beasts like those of John Bechdel of Ministry rip right into you while DJ Odeed wobbles the blood flow, nods the head, and beats the heart. The blending of retro dance feels, and hard edge cuts leave the listener sweating on the floor. About The Remixers: The Remedy Remixes is an eclectic compilation of remixes following the release of Tigercide’s 2019 Remedy EP’. Featuring Remixes from Artists Including: Delta City (UK Synthwave) John Bechdel (Ministry, Fear Factory, Killing Joke) Palanese Summer (Dark Psy) Trace Amount (Industrial / EBM) Josex (Breakbeat) and Subtle Smiles (Indie-Electronic) & DJ Odeed (Hip-Hop). Tigercide and their collaborators run through the darkness, torches ablaze to deliver the Remedy Remixes LP. An intense fire that spreads and consumes all in its path. These are the efforts of unbreakable artistry, every track a new dialog of a classic tale. Great minds think alike, they also produce exceptional records. The full spectrum of dark genres is on display in this collaboration. Each artist brings a banger to the table, and there’s plenty to go around. "Tigercide presents that mesmerizing trip-hop aura from start to finish and breathy, dreamlike vocals make up the delicate chorus."- BuzzMusic Beneath the bright lights and beyond the velvet ropes of Hollywood lies a different Southern California: a desolate land filled with darkness, punctuated by unrealized dreams, and broken down with anguished hearts. Tigercide, formed a decade ago in LA, gives musical form to this landscape with the ethereal, melancholic vocals of Shexist and the exotic, shadowy, and balanced beats of St. Brendan. The post-punk of bands like Joy Division and New Order embodied a de-industrializing Manchester. The Bristol sound of Massive Attack and Portishead gave voice to the multicultural grittiness of their city. So too does the darkwave trip-hop of Tigercide capture the ethos of Angelenos anxious about their future. In a city characterized by soaring rents, temperatures, and population, can there be any more California dreaming? Most recently, Tigercide appeared on the compilation, Goth Adjacent presents: Compilation Volume 1 - Omnium Gatherum which is available on Bandcamp HERE: https://bit.ly/3NGhfpw STOP A MOMENT! --- Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! --- We also support our good friends at Beat:Cancer, you can click the logo to donate at their site! Review The opening to this article covers a lot of the deep sensation this track weaves as you listen. Those weighty synths massage your diaphragm as Shexist's vocals smooth out the edges of your mind, the whole track exudes both sorrow and relaxation. The lyrics (or at least my interpretation of) speak of both letting go of - and yet still living in the past, lighting matches, burning bridges, and moving on no matter the pain. Something I think we can all relate to. Utterly enthralling all round. Who doesn't love a bit or synth or retro wave? This Delta City remix hits home straight away with those signature keys, synth pulses, and electric drums. Interestingly there is a backing vocal addition that really builds emphasis for the original vocals. The way this has been mixed breathes a higher BPM energy that simultaneously complements the original vocals in to something clearer, crisper, and more powerful, and also manages to throw the pace through a completely new dance worthy and unforgettable loop. If this isn't one of the most idyllic tracks for long night drives then I'm not sure what is. There is a lot of passion, emotion, and dedication poured in to this remix bringing it to new and ever more enjoyable heights! Most recently to be released was John Bechdel's remix. This version packs in a sense of fear, anxiety, and darkness the likes of which a cyberpunk thriller movie would be proud. It is a subtle yet effective way of altering the track in to something a bit more sinister. As the track progresses we have more energetic loops and synths adding spice to the tempo and overall feel of prevailing darkness taking hold. The synths build and convert the track in to something far more science fiction with a lot of subtle changes and additions to appreciate that really add to the replay value of this remix. Conclusion With the original track and the two remixes released so far, Tigercide have already firmly planted the flag of excitement and interest in an incredible EP. I genuinely look forward to each release for this and have already added these three tracks to my driving playlist. There will no doubt be something absolutely everyone can truly enjoy by the end of the final release and I will no doubt keep a watchful eye on Tigercide releases in future! Thank you! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. 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Many of you may not have heard of Dan's music, but I've no doubt quite a few of you know the man. I first properly met Dan back in 2019 when I interviewed iVardenshpere in the green room.. toilets.. of Electrowerz which to date is probably the most entertaining interview yet.. What many of you may not know is that Dan makes some damn good music! There's quite a mix, a bit of industrial, a bit of EDM, a bit of tribal, and even some hardcore amongst other bits. it's quite a mix and having handed out codes to his great track 'Lost In The Wasteland' at Resistanz, I thought it was about time to spread the word about his music. STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Interview Q. Hi Dan, How would you describe your music and the sort of creations you make? A. How do! I would say my music is somewhat chaotic, it bounces around from genre to genre and takes small elements from a lot of different styles to convey what I have in my thought process. There's an element of disorganised madness to it all, using a very broad palette of sounds to try and cover all bases, and certain songs will portray certain emotions more than others. Q. You recently released the track 'Covenant' which is quite special in regards to iVardensphere so tell us about that track and your history with the band. A. Covenant was my tribute to iVardensphere, and a thank you to Scott and the band for allowing me to join the stage show and show what I could do musically. It was a bit surreal how things came about. I had recently departed from Narcotic Death, we were a small Death Metal band from the Wakefield area, and we all felt the band had run its course after the release of Dies Irae (the final album, and my only recording contribution to the band, and my proudest metal recording to date), and things were fairly quiet for me after I left. I was messaged by a good friend, Dan Mullins, about possibly doing a little bit of session work for iVardensphere at a show they were coming to do, the show was the 2016 Resistanz, and at the time, I had no knowledge of the scene, the music, the people, and to me it was just an opportunity to get back onstage, learning some new material and going and having fun. After that first show, I fell in love with the music, and began to throw myself deeper into the rabbit hole of my own musical journey. Q. Can you please give us a run down of the messages and stories of some of your other tracks that you are most proud of? A. Ahh, my little stories that accompany my songs on bandcamp, they were just something that kind of came out of nowhere. I liked the idea of songs having a story behind them, like a small concept of where that song would fit in say a film score or theatre production, like a specific point in the grand plot of the tale where a character development takes place, or a new plot point is being woven, and that's how I have seen my musical journey, an ever expanding plot. Out of all the songs, I would say Frustration is a proud achievement of mine, that came from a bad writing session, where nothing was going right, I was getting less and less interested in the song the more I worked on it, and it turned into something that made me grimace with how filthy I found it to be when it was finished; Proving to myself that even when things don't initially work, there can still be a diamond in the rough if you look hard enough. Sometimes the music dictates the imagery that comes to my mind, so it's a song by song kind of thing. Q. What got you in to making music, and how far have you come from that point up to now? A. What got me into making music was a school teacher, a wonderful lady who encouraged me to take up bass guitar in our music lessons, coincidentally, she played guitar for a Pink Floyd tribute band. Fast forward to learning my first Iron Maiden guitar parts and wondering to myself, "what would my music sound like?" And now today, I never thought I would be making industrial/edm stuff, I always envisioned it being more.... well, Maiden, dual guitar harmonies, galloping riffs, and being somewhere more akin to Maiden's mid to late 80's sound, how the tables have turned in the last 7 years. Q. What is the most important aspect of creating music for you and what driving force keeps you going with making new music? A. For me, the most important thing is that I'm having fun making music. It's a passion project, and the more I produce, and learn along the way, the more I enjoy making, and it keeps luring me back to my laptop to try and make a new song, which is always going to keep me hooked. Q. What are some of the great things about the Industrial / Gothic scene and are there any parts you would like to see improve? A. The Industrial scene, since I was first introduced to it, has been one of the most friendly scenes to be a part of, the amount of diversity, even within the same styles of music, is staggering. There's no gatekeeping, its just a singular love and appreciation of being part of the scene. All I would like to see changed, would be making it easier for bands and artists to travel more freely, and in a way that doesn't cost the earth to be able to tour or come over for festival shows, or to visit new places for new audiences, that would be brilliant. Q. What artists do you listen to when you, want to party, when you’re feeling down, and when you want to relax and zone out? A. I have a lot of bands that could fill spaces in each of those categories. My first, and still favourite band of all time, Iron Maiden. I'm still an 80's metal, rock and prog guy at heart, bands like Rush, Saxon, Yes, Magnum, stuff like that. I also love bands like Ayreon, Periphery, My Dying Bride, Mr Big, Devin Townsend/Strapping Young Lad, they all fit each category. Industrial/Goth artists would be iVardensphere, ESA, Strvngers, grabyourface, Ratio Strain, Muta Scum, again, all of those could fit all three categories, and there's always a place for every band/artist in each of those playlists. Q. Anything you would like to say to those who support and listen to your music? A. I would like to thank you all for taking an interest in my music, it means the world to me that anyone would want to share in this journey with me. To me, you are more than fans, you're an extension of family, and we're all sharing our love for the diversity of the scene, be that in sharing our favourite bands and artists with people, visiting our favourite venues, attending festivals, watching our favourite twitch streams, or reading interviews of people you may have never heard of, this is what keeps the scene alive, this is what makes the scene immortal, and keeps us coming back for more. Review Let's start with Covenant which is the track you can find above in the interview. This is an insanely fun piece with tribal drumming and sick guitar riffs throughout, where can you go wrong with that? For those lucky enough to have seen a full band iVardensphere show, you'll know there are always a lot of hand drums of varying sorts that create a wonderful rhymical bliss and Dan really has recreated that sense of wonder and joy from playing with them. The guitars do give it all a bit of a sense of urgency too, almost a bit like a scene from Mortal kombat. Next up Dan has put all his other tracks in to one handy place in the remaster album of 'Let's try that again, but maybe louder this time.' So here's some tracks that really stand out for me: Piece Of Me - This is something quite unexpected because it is a pure EDM dance injection of wonder, we have piano and gorgeous female vocals throughout that is nostalgic of early 00's trance music that then leads in to an arm throwing beat drop, this whole track is worthy of a beatsaber upload to smash away to! 'Spectre' is very much my sort of chillout music because it uses mournful haunting synths but is kept somewhat upbeat with more tribal hand drumming. The track feels quite unique in style with this incredibly rare instrument mix and it feels quite deep and touches the soul in a profoundly different way. 'Frustration' is a filthy bit of dark techno that really showcases the very emotion the track describes. 'Lost In The Wasteland' has a unique blast of hardstyle mixed with something retro and nostalgic I can't quite place. Sort of like the combat music in the original Command and Conquer game which when mixed with a bit of hardstyle creates a truly interesting creation. 'Desires' stands out the most to me, it's like a backing track to some gritty urban filth, the likes of which would be blasting out during a Karl Urban - Judge Dredd gun fight scene. This is a deep, thick, and low tempo industrial piece of techno that stands out as my favourite of those on offer. Thank you for reading! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider joining our Patreon, commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Commissions are closed for a few weeks as I deal with a lot of backlog but please consider helping towards our running costs! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Hocico played one of the most exciting shows of the year, this performance was the one just after their 30th year celebration the night before; With the band on fire, warriors present, and two great supporting acts of which this was both their first ever UK shows.. This was a night that will not be soon forgotten! Below are the interviews from that night. Big thank you to Emmerick of Zero Day Promotions STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Interviews Amorphous Fïx8:Sëd8 Hocico Sadly I messed up on this one, when we were finally able to speak to Erk and Racso we had a very short time window and after five questions, the person behind the camera told me they had not been recording it. We came away with only 44 seconds of footage. Erk has however agreed for us to do a zoom call interview soon so hopefully we will still get there! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider joining our Patreon, commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Commissions are closed for a few weeks as I deal with a lot of backlog but please consider helping towards our running costs! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

It is a very rare occasion where I listen to a release of a brand new artist and my jaw hits the floor. So rare in fact I think it's only happened to me twice in the last decade.(3 now) So when I heard Panic I/O's 'System Overload' on Instagram my ears perked up, my jaw unclenched, and when I read that this was only their second ever track.. I had to scoop my jaw back up, not realising it had been hanging for the entire duration of 'The Oontz' Needles to say I had to have a dive in to their music wanting more and I was thoroughly impressed that this new artist had turned their mental illness struggles (Something I also strongly suffer with) in to some great industrial musical interpretation. There's one thing all of us should be doing, and that's supporting new artists.! Therefore the irony was not lost on me that almost all the bands at Resistanz I interviewed said we need more minority/LGBTQIA+ and new artists in the scene; I got to know Gethin and his music after sending me a friend request having seen me walking around Tanz. So as all of us with a platform should do, is show credit where credit is due. And so I present a short Spotlight article, to you, the incredible Industrial scene of a 'New kid' on the block, and damn does their music SLAP! Here you will find his first interview and my reviews on his first two tracks. Panic I/O (Input/Output) released their first single on March 28th and their second single on the 14th of April so this is as fresh an artist as you can possibly get! Gethin really has made some brilliant music here. Panic I/O is the incredible interpretation of mental Illness given industrial form, a concept many may have touched on, but few born of, and I for one am very much excited for the dance heavy future of Panic I/O! STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Interview Photo Credit: Joseph Clarke Photography Q. Having just released your very first two tracks tell us a bit about yourself and who you are. A. I'm terrible at introductions, but here goes. I'm Gethin, a 28 year old software engineering student and musician from the UK. I've been a huge fan of all things Industrial, EBM, and Dark Electro since I was a teenager, and now I've finally hopped into the scene as an artist as well as a fan. Q. Panic I/O is a great name as it ties in with the reason you made these tracks right? So tell us about those tie-ins, the meaning behind it, and is the I/O said as 'Switch'? A. Thank you. Yes, it ties in with the tracks in the sense that I decided to start making music as a way to channel my anxiety and panic disorder into something positive and productive. In the past my coping mechanisms have not always been the most healthy, and I knew I needed to change that. 'Troubled Soul', particularly, was intended to convey a feeling of panic, and what it feels like for me personally when I feel a panic attack coming on. Similarly, I wrote 'System Overload' with the intention of conveying that overwhelming sense of panic I feel when I'm right in the thick of it - that sort of bombarding, intense feeling of anxiety that's all consuming and impossible to ignore. As for the 'I/O', it's an abbreviation of 'input/output', i.e. the communication in information processing systems - the input is the signal or data received by the system, and the output is the signal or data sent from it. In the case of myself and this name, the input is the anxiety, panic attacks, or various other negative emotions, and the output is the music. Q. What moment did you decide this is something you were going to do and how did Panic I/O come to manifest? A. I decided a few years back that it was something I wanted to do. I had just moved to Sheffield from much further North to come to university here, but the country was still mostly locked down due to the pandemic at that point so I didn't really have any opportunity to go out and meet people. I had the company of my housemate and my pet rat, but I still found myself getting quite lonely - which was worsening the aforementioned anxiety. I'd always leaned quite heavily on music as a kind of emotional crutch - although always as a listener, rather than as an artist - and making music had always been something that interested me but I had never really pursued it. But since we were in lockdown I had a lot of time on my hands, so one night I decided to treat myself and order a midi keyboard from Amazon to play around with and see if a new hobby would help me feel any better, and as it turns out, it did. Q. What software did you use and what have been the most difficult parts about making your first two tracks that you've managed to overcome? A. I used Ableton for both tracks - mostly because when I initially bought my midi keyboard years ago it came with a free trial of the software and there were so many tutorials available for it online. Over time I became comfortable and familiar with it and never ended up switching DAWs. For me one of the most difficult parts is definitely getting the sound or riff I have in my head to translate into actual audio within Ableton. I have absolutely no musical background, so it's often a lot of trial and error trying to create the right sounds and find the right instruments and effects to fit with and convey the ideas I have in my head. Learning to mix and master was another major learning curve for me. Thankfully some of my friends who are also artists within similar genres reached out to me after the release of 'Troubled Soul' with some constructive feedback and advice on how to improve upon my mixing and mastering. I took that advice and tried to implement it on 'System Overload' and I think (and hope) it shows. Q. Whilst making your music were there any particular artists you were drawing inspiration from or has this been all just inspired from 'within'? A. A lot of it definitely comes from within. With the nature of what I'm trying to convey within the songs and the reasons behind them, I think it has to in order to be true and authentic. Having said that, I do take some inspiration and influence here and there from other artists. I spend most of my free time listening to music, and so naturally some influence from what I'm listening to makes its way into my own music on occasion. Artists like ESA and Front Line Assembly have definitely been some of the bigger influences I've found myself drawing inspiration from from time to time. Q. Visra (Shinji) has already remixed 'Corrupted Soul'. Are there any plans to work with other artists as of yet, and who would you like the opportunity to collaborate with if possible? A. Shinji did such an amazing job on that remix - honestly love it and I'm super excited for us to release it. (Available on Bandcamp and streaming platforms from May 5th, or right now if you're reading this after May 5th). I'd definitely love to work with other artists in the future, be that on remixes or on collaborative tracks. Obviously I'm still a newbie within the space, but it's something I'd really like to do further down the line. Something I also think could be super interesting to do further down the line is to work on a track with vocals - I can't sing to save my life, but I do write lyrics as an outlet, and I'd love to collaborate with a vocalist on a future track. The dream would probably be someone like Sven Friedrich or Jamie Blacker of ESA. Both very different artists, but some of my personal favourites who I think it'd be amazing to have the opportunity to work with in the future. Q. What's next for you, anything else in the works? A. I have concepts and ideas for a few more tracks planned out already. They're slightly on the back- burner at the moment, though, as I'm in the process of completing my final university project. Production has become my preferred method of procrastination, though, so I've no doubt I'll end up starting work on some of those tracks sooner rather than later whilst I'm putting off my university work. Q. Would you be up for playing any shows when you're ready with enough tracks, or would you be up for doing a DJ set if any promoters were looking for new talent? (Hint Hint promoters!) A. I'd definitely be up for that in the future once I've got enough tracks to do so. It sounds absolutely terrifying right now - especially as someone who hasn't been in front of a crowd since my primary school nativity play - but I'd certainly love to do live shows further down the line. Learning to DJ is something I've also been looking into - it seems like something I'd really enjoy doing, so perhaps in the future that could be on the cards, too. Q. Anything you'd like to say to the people that have welcomed and appreciated your music? A. Just thank you. It's absolutely terrifying releasing music for the first time, but people have been so supportive and really seem to be enjoying it and I can't express enough how much that means to me. So again, thank you so very much - I appreciate it more than I could say. Review I will start with 'System Overload' first as that's the first one I heard. First off let me make this clear, this sounds best loud. On a volume scale of ten it probably sounds best on a 7. Anything beyond that and distortion becomes an issue, anything less than that and you can't appreciate the nuances of what this represents; And of course, headphones add the extra spice. The opening sounds a little reminiscent of some Halo choral tracks which added a touch of nostalgia I wasn't expecting followed by an interesting sample.. There's is something truly creepy about the female sample that is distorted so that it is incredibly familiar but frustratingly I can't place it and that just adds to the overall essence of what Sian is trying to put into the track.. A sheer sense of Panic. Especially when people are talking to you but you can't process what they are saying, it's all just muffled. For that reason the track also lends itself so well to the chaos, the unrefined sounds and the very real struggle to make a track sound great to someone new to the art, and this translates so well to that sense of panic. Music mastery is something that we always come to expect from Industrial with bands having been doing it for decades but to hear something so new, fresh, and unpolished yet still so very good is so refreshing and I genuinely love it. None of that is to say this is anything less than great because from the very concept of one person's mind and their struggles within, to a heavy piece of music we can all very strongly relate to - and most importantly - dance to. What is our scene if not connection to one another through music, empathy, and dance? At 2.20 their is a well chosen pulsation sound that skull drills you in to a false safety before that kick ass beat drops back down hard and a perfectly chosen snare makes itself heard. The chaos of the overlapping electronics really does create that true to life Panic picture of being overwhelmed. The final female sample counting down to end the track is MMM.. *Chef Kiss* Where 'System Overload' was conveying the depths of a full blown, in the thick of it panic attack, 'Troubled Soul' as mentioned in the interview is the feeling of an oncoming panic attack, of that slow creeping anxiety that is trying to take hold. Once again Sian has painted this audible picture perfectly. Throughout the deep dark electronics we have a resonant drip sound that feels like moments of clarity in your mind when you are trying to use logic and grounding to keep yourself stable and away from the panic, these notes sound a little angelic in their beginning touches of the soundscape. This is a simple but very effective track which, for a first release, you can't really ask anymore of, this is done incredibly well with it's tense build up and drop of the sample.. 'She's a troubled soul with many demons' Visra releases a remix of this track on the 5th of May and it is sounding super heavy and CRUNCHY!! Make sure you pre-save it below because I am really looking forward to it! Finally thank you for reading and please make sure you do your part to point out and encourage new talent wherever you find it. Be it music, arts, at work, or your friend's new hobby, be supportive of everyone around you and we all benefit from the happiness created, and the amazing artistry that can come from it! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory ! Thank you! Commissions are closed for a few weeks as I deal with a lot of backlog but please consider helping towards our running costs! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ ElektroVox

Such is the beauty of Resistanz, the coming together of the most wonderful Gothic souls - People who genuinely care for one another, and about the music; Artists that play out of love for what they do, and the people they play to. It's always a soul nourishing journey, a pilgrimage to a bountiful Oasis for our true selves.. For another year.. It is finished. Just like recovering from any journey of the soul.. It's been a long couple of weeks. A lot of us, myself included have come down with varying illnesses and general mental fatigue - Once again having to live in the mundane world. This may have very well been the best Resistanz Festival of all time, from the crowds, to the bands, the atmosphere, and the camaraderie, there is nowhere on Earth that hits like Tanz. I made a Pre-Tanz article with all the band info in as well as a playlist if you want further reading HERE I spent a lot of the weekend interviewing bands and fighting fatigue so although this article will review the live performances, I am sorry to say they will be short on my part, especially as the illness I've suffered has tampered with my already fragile memory. However, some of my wonderful FB friends have kindly added a few sentences here and there of band's performances, mostly for bands I was not able to catch much or any of but there are a few extras sprinkled in too. The video interviews I managed are of course under each artist below! A huge thank you to Leighton for asking me to be an official sponsor this year and for putting on this Heaven on Earth once more. Also to Mark (Of Corporation) who did a fair bit of running around for me. I appreciate you both immensely. Also a massive thank you - that I cannot put in to words - to Kevin Stevens of Musique Non-Stop for taking breath-taking pictures of the Friday and Saturday bands. I cannot thank you enough for providing these photos to me. You really are one of absolute best photographers around. (So if any of you need a photographer, especially for music events, hit this amazing man up!) https://www.facebook.com/musiquenonstopphotography What do you mean you haven't listened to the 2023 soundtrack album?!! WULFBAND - Musik Ist Das HELIX - Run (PEOPLE THEATRE's Sprint Mix) MECHANICAL VEIN vs MORIS BLAK - Cemetery Wind (DNB VIP) BIOMECHANIMAL - From The Mouth Of Beasts (ANTIBODY Remix) RATIO STRAIN - Electronic Music (Tanz Mix) VUXNUT - Exsanguination BLINK 242 - Dark Forever W.A.S.T.E. - Seeping SERAPHIM SYSTEM - Limitless DARK MACHINE NATION - F I put the album on in my car which had a couple of bonus tracks having been the physical copy and I was in no way disappointed! (Even after the 4th play) Just the Antibody remix of Bio's 'From The Mouth Of Beast' is reason enough alone to get this album but each track on the album is pure fire. I especially love the anger and passion in Dark Machine Nation's 'F' which he discusses in our interview. Each artist really outdid themselves with this. 10/10 STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Friday Seraphim System Ser-Sys is the one I coined as the overall must watch artist for the weekend and he sure as hell didn't disappoint. John Stancil is a machine, he may be eccentric to the point that our 'European mind's cannot comprehend' but he is also a tech wizard with a heart of Gold, blasting out incredible tracks in the time it takes others to get out of bed with a hangover. Seraphim System has so many different sounds to choose from and fitting them all in to such a dance fuelled rave in the way he did was nothing short of mind-blowing. There were two tracks that stood out. The Ruinizer remix of his track 'Spunk For Cyborgs' and a cover song that he blasted out after an 'all American' sample to troll the crowd.. The track in question? John belted his lungs out to Slipknot's 'Surfacing'. Never thought I'd hear the industrial crowds singing along to that, what a great moment! The man obliterates, and after nearly giving up on Ser-sys, not only did he smash out a country music industrial track like lighting (Which we briefly touch on in the interview) He has also showed me some of the next album and I sh*t you not.. It's already sounding like his most boots on the floor, wall to wall rave album yet! "Seraphim System.. Hard, heavy collaboration of all different genres of stomp music that will keep you buzzing days afterwards! No way of describing it to give it real justice...GO LISTEN!!!" - Kirsty Thewlis "Seraphim System filled my brain with noise and turned me into an EBM redneck and I am very happy with this new life I have been gifted. Yeehaw." - Taz marriot "What a rootin, tootin' good challenge. Canis from Elektro Vox challenged me to do something with country and industrial, and here we go. The idea came to me while riding in an Uber and listening to this song. Knew exactly how I wanted to play it out when I heard it. Enjoy, cowborgs." - John - Seraphim System Pretty Addicted There's a whirlwind of fun to be had whenever Vicious Precious takes the stage. Fury at religion, fury at her family, fury at misogyny, fury at mis-directed recognition, but above all else fury in those vocals! Vish belted out each track with her entire soul, her heart bleeding out of her lungs. This woman knows how to perform and own a stage. There were many laughs to be had asking her best friend Paul to get her tequila and then instantly regretting it when she had it which was a nice comic break. Did I mention Fury? Well when it comes to animal right there is also compassion and a touching speech was given, as a fellow Vegan, I fully approved of her message. Banger after banger, she rocked the crowd with the new singles with Chris drumming as hard as he could behind her. It's wonderful to see the chemistry these two have on stage, even if it borders on the vulgar, who cares? And of course, as ever - 'Mania' made the crowd rave hard, even those who had held back couldn't help themselves dance to this all time classic with crowd members singing along strong! Make sure you catch one of her Summer Goth tour dates across the country. https://linktr.ee/summergothstour HARLEYLIKESMUSIC I was not able to catch this band unfortunately but I have heard many good things! "Harleylikesmusic was just as impressive as the last time he played in the back room of Tanz 15. His performance was lifted with the use of visuals. Looking at the sense of enjoyment of people who had not seen or heard of harlylikesmusic shows how using old tech is moving." - Ryan Fordman Randolph & Mortimer "I DO NOT NEED MY BODY!" Well apparently my dopamine / serotonin receptors didn't seem to think so and ignored my aching knees in order to dance hard to the classic track 'Body' I only managed to catch about four tracks at the end but I was incredibly impressed with how crisp and clear their sound was, I have never in all my time witnessing electronic music live, heard a band's bass sound THAT perfect. They were full of energy and had some very impressive visuals to keep the crowd just as engaged in the lyrical content as the beauty of what they were hearing and feeling. Amazing set, wish I had seen all of it! Assemblage 23 It is a rare thing that even before a band has started, you cannot even get in to the very rear of the venue with the queue reaching out the door, slowly filtering their way in. I was very thankful to be able to go via backstage instead. So it was that the air was filled with static excitement for Assemblage 23. Everyone around me for the entire set was in one - or fluctuating between - three states of being.. Dancing, awestruck with respect, or lost blissfully in their own mind as the songs washed over them. A-23 have songs that resonate with the pain, happiness, and memories of everyone who hear them. What a fantastic performance that was, I only wish they had played 'Let me be your armor' as this was my first time seeing them live but other than that, it really was a perfect end to the bands of day one. Gillywoo Gillywoo kicked us out of our A-23 chilled romance with a ridiculously heavy and crunchy set that set that entire room stomping from the start. So many of us were trying to chat with our friends about different things but in the end none of us could resist the calls to dance. It was such a pleasure to hear 'Not your body' played so loud and to see Marie (grabyourface) screaming along in ecstatic excitement to their own vocals on the track. What a majestic moment that was. Lexx I put this on my FB the morning after Lexx's set.. I’ve banged on before about how incredible Lex’s sets are but HOW! HOW does Lex keep findings ways to audibly assault dancefloors harder than DOOM guy? I literally have no words for how good that set was. I think my actual review is just going to be.. ‘Woooooooooooah’ 15/10 And you know what? I honestly don't think I can really improve on that. Put it this way, when I next put on an Elektro Vox event or Festival.. Lexx will be the first person on my line-up request. No doubt.. Several weeks later and my knees and feet are still terrified of her but my brain, heart, and soul just can't get enough of their incredible sets that set them ablaze every time! X Again in that same post I wrote about X too.. Now.. X played two new Straftanz experimental tracks and WOW that was some incredibly beautiful sound waves of pure rave. For their first solo time, that performance was beyond perfection! Not only that but every track played kicked some serious ass and I don’t think I’ve ever seen the Tanz DJ floor kick that hard all night! So yea, a fantastic set and one that will stay with me for a very long time! Especially as X is one of the most incredible people on the scene and we are luck to have both her and J. I now know those two tracks mentioned above to be from their new project - Mutual Aid, which they discuss below: DJ DeadDancer Not one to be outdone, DD played some absolute bangers, from what I recall not only was there a similar healthy does of dark techno but there were some fun tracks, some cheeky tracks, and overall the best kind of fun - the fast and the depraved. I didn't stay too long as I was exhausted beyond all reason having just had my ass handed to me by amazing artists and DJs, but what a great DJ to close on! Saturday Blink 242 A band I only caught one track of, but wow was that crowd going insane for the Cyferdyne boys. I have heard so many good things about them. My partner Coral came out at the end over the moon and possibly the happiest I have ever seen a band make them. So well done guys! I did also ask Andy and Steve backstage afterwards if there would be an album release, all I can say is.. Watch this space.. "I've never sang so loudly or danced so hard at 3 o'clock in the afternoon in my entire life. Love them even though they stole my entire voice." - Taz Marriott "The genre we didn't know we needed. The shenanigans we knew we wanted. Absolutely a highlight of the festival." - Rachael Turner "Their set was filled with nostalgia and energy! So glad I didn't miss it!" - Hanzza Bloggs "An absolutely perfectly executed terrible idea, like watching Picasso paint a picture of dogs playing poker. Exactly the right kind of showmanship needed for an act like that as well, they played to the crowd just as well as they played the music." - Jack Anderson "I enjoyed hearing so many old tracks in an industrial style. Made me remember being a stupid teenager, and it was just as much fun; They made a daft idea into a brilliant one. 10/10 would see again " - Kelly Orr "Funniest shit I'd seen all week. 10/10" - Catharine Bowen "The best way to start a Saturday left me dancing madly & grinning from ear to ear." - Jennifer Dale "They were the most stupid fun I've seen in years. Add them on Myspace." - Bjarki Guðmundsson "The perfect hang over cure. Got even the most broken excited and bouncing!" - Dexter Kidd Video by Jamie Mann (I hope you don't mind!) he has several more Blink 242 songs on his channel. Mechanical Vein I was only able to catch 'Cemetery Wind' in between interviews but wow did that track blow my mind live. Keith's Electro axe blazing away once more, the crowd went bat sh*t crazy when the drop in Cemetery Wind gave way to rippling, super fast pulses of audio devastation that left no one in the crowd standing still. It's was an incredible moment to watch coinciding with the strobe/stage lighting. Having seen M.V play before, the sound really has got so much better, this band continues to evolve super fast! "Mechanical Vein were incredible, I saw them in Helsinki in November and the improvement in their performance was insane. Keith was so much more confident this time and the guitar was just right in the mix, not overpowering." - Bjarki Guðmundsson Helix Helix's first live show and I am so sad that again, I only caught one song. Yet from that one song, I knew everything I needed to, pristine vocals, beautiful stage-womanship, and a soundscape so melodic that is was enchanting. Mari's enthusiastic energy and mannerisms were so fun and exciting to watch and listen to. You could really sense (even from the pictures) just how much joy she was having performing and that made the crowd's experiences incredibly memorable. I really hope I get to see Helix perform again one day! Brilliant stuff. "Helix - first ever and long overdue UK performance for Mari Kattman and Tom Shear's project. Absolutely spellbinding performance with a stunning rendition of "Beautiful unseen" being a personal highlight. Mari absolutely owns the stage and her and Tom have wonderful onstage chemistry." - Woode Gillyan A-E I was so sad to have Missed A-E because Tim is one half of the Memmaker (One of my all-time favourite artists) that absolutely rocked my sh*t last Resistanz, from what I've heard, everyone LOVED IT. Please play again! "If A-E (aka Tim) doesn't release the stuff he played in this set I will have to break into his Dropbox and take one for the team... that stuff was insane." - Jan Laustroer W.A.S.T.E Some of you may know that Jamie Black (ESA) and Yann Faussurier (Iszoloscope) had to stand in as Shane Shaw was not able to make it. Vanessa drummed her heart out on that stage to some heavy, filthy, and hard hitting tracks. There are no vocals in W.A.S.T.E, there is only raw energy, emotion, and power. I will admit I had to leave after a few songs as the visuals were that of horror and such human suffering and gore has never sat right with me, it reminds me too much that human 'monsters' exist outside of films too. However from what I heard, my head and feet were rocking hard and I really got the sense of why W.A.S.T.E's sound has been such a respected one in the EBM world. There was no fault whatsoever with the music, it was empowering, devastating, heavy and satisfying. MORIS BLAK His first ever UK show.. We were hit with intensity from the first second. Looking like a cultist of death, MORIS BLAK assaulted us with hymnal choirs distorted with epic trap industrial beats, drums, and synths filthier than the plague God Nurgle. 'The machine is death' sample was belted out as furious as Khorne himself, the complex machinations and intricacies of each track's layers and mixing weaving more masterfully than Tzneentch - Not to mention tricking us with 'State Rejects' where I assumed Marie of grabyourface was going to stroll on, they did later on, for their track 'Complicate' and 'Science Fiction' which they said would probably be the only time it's ever played live. Alongside Marie's enticing vocals and incredible style, we then had a stage invasion from Biomechanimal and Seraphim System for all four acts to sing a cover of 'Blue Monday' together.. Well, Slaanesh would have been proud! Brian smashed that stage and dancefloor apart and was every bit the new God of industrial that we all came to worship. "MORIS BLAK scared the absolute shit out of me. 10/10 would stare transfixed at a industrial demigod again." - Taz Marriot "MORIS BLAK was legendary. It was like a force of nature sweeping through the crowd. Can't wait to see him again!" - Frazer Barnard I managed to grab a fair few pics of Marie and the stage invasion knowing they were coming on at some point! MORIS BLAK says support your Trans homies! STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Ayria I managed to catch two, maybe three songs of Ayria's first performance in FIVE YEARS! Can you believe that? You would never have known because she owned that stage so incredibly well. Each vocal note and pitch was on point, she smiled her way through every moment in an infectiously happy buzz that resonated back from the crowd. Power, grace, style, and heaps of talent, Ayria showed us all once again why her name is legendary on the scene and why she has been going strong for twenty years. I wanted to see the whole show but I am so glad I caught what I managed to! "Infectiously energetic in her vocal delivery and crowd interaction, Ayria's comeback performance graced the stage like an exiled queen reclaiming her rightful throne." - Redthir Jerdisheim "Ayria - a triumphant return to the UK after probably ten years. Excellent mix of older and newer tracks all delivered by the note perfect ball of energy that is Jennifer Parkin and her crew. It's almost two weeks on and I still have "Stranger Danger" in my head." - Woode Gillyan "It was fantastic to see Ayria perform again. It brought back so many memories. A perfect balance of all of my old favourite songs and new ones I was less familiar with. Loved it!" - Frazer Barnard I had to retire to sleep after Ayria due to exhaustion, so I apologise for not reviewing the Saturday and Sunday DJ's in full (For the same reason) DJ emanon I was not able to make this DJ's set, if you have a one or two line review you would like to have included here, please message me on FB! "Emanon played a Dimmu Borgir cover song in an industrial DJ set and made it work amazingly well!" - Bjarki Guðmundsson MATT HART I was not able to make this DJ's set, if you have a one or two line review you would like to have included here, please message me on FB! VINDIMØDE I was not able to make this DJ's set, if you have a one or two line review you would like to have included here, please message me on FB! BLAK 2 BLAK I was not able to make this DJ's set, if you have a one or two line review you would like to have included here, please message me on FB! "Blak 2 Blak (or Hybrid Blak? I'm genuinely not sure what they were actually called for that set) went so hard that my blisters still haven't fully healed." - Jack Anderson Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Commissions are closed for a few weeks as I deal with a lot of backlog but please consider helping towards our running costs! Sunday Kevin (Musique Non-Stop) had to leave suddenly Saturday night so I didn't have any pictures of artists on the Sunday, friends have kindly allowed me to use some of theirs. Ratio Strain Photo credits: Juha Matilainen Vanessa kicked some serious ass! For the first band on a Sunday, I did not expect it to be so brutal, dance heavy, and to pack the ultimate punch. By the end of the set, I wasn't half dead anymore, that's for sure! The vicious audio and dark techno industrial rhythm blasted out was like Vanessa's necromancy raising us all from lethargic zombies, in to pulse pounding ravers. Stunning stuff and I will be listening to Ratio Strain a lot now. Antibody Photo credits: Pic 1 Matt Kohl Brooks Pic 2: Juha Matilainen Wow.. I was beyond impressed. Jann knows exactly what people want and that is to dance like animals. Each track was the modern day evolution of what made industrial dance music good ten years ago - into something super enjoyable and acceptable for everyone now, even the anti 'dance music' elitists. Every single face was smiling ear to ear, ever foot was stomping, every head was banging, and it was incredibly fun. He was joined by MATT HART for a bit and also Dancefloor Gladiators who recorded 'F-Society' live. Antibody is going to be a very big name in the years to come, I've no doubt! "Antibody - Fresh, young blood to the scene that will absolutely blow your fkn mind! Everyone should check him out!" - Kirsty Thewlis Dark Machine Nation Photo Credits: Pic 1 Woode Gillyan Pic 2 Juha Matilainen Seeing Therion Major play his first ever show outside of the USA was something I was super looking forward to but sadly the way things turned out, I didn't catch any of his performance but I have never heard so much praise for an artist after their set as Dark machine Nation received. Everyone was thoroughly impressed by his weaponised assault of power noise. As he says in our interview below.. "If you hear something in my music that sounds like explosions... It's explosions." Dark Machine Nation - gnarly A.F and delivered a visceral and relentless aural assault on my Sunday eardrums. Absolutely captivating. - Woode Gillyan Dark Machine Nation omfg...wow...dark, evil, INCREDIBLE...still completely blown away by his set...Branded apocalyptic doom genre...bring on the end of days if he's playing! Going to be a fkn rave!! - Kirsty Thewlis Dark Machine Nation - if this is the last time we see him over here there is something horribly wrong in how people book acts, one of the best one man shows I’ve seen. Powerful, energetic, and bringing real presence to a difficult to execute trend of one person performance shows. -Rhys Hughes Dark Machine Nation - Searingly brilliant and varied take on noise. Raw, brutal and downright awesome - Hands down one of the best noise performances I've seen in a very long time. - Simon John Bowers Video from 'Future Music From The Robot Lab' YouTube channel (I hope you don't mind!) Iszoloscope The one and only Yann, I had to rush back super fast to catch the last half of his show and dance my ass off next to my friend Laura who was going twice as hard as me! When I found out Iszoloscope were replacing Vuxnut, I was over the moon, nothing personal to Vuxnut but Iszoloscope is one of my all time favourites and I had the chance to see him live snatched away from me once before. Yann plays the heaviest, speaker blowing, bass defining, chemical dropping, soul satisfying dark industrial this side of Hell and I am in no way exaggerating when I saw, that was the most fun I have ever had watching an artist live. He even knocked Memmaker off that top spot for me but then again Yann is/was part of Memmaker so you know.. It's to be expected. This man's genius for the sounds he makes are out of this world. I cannot gush enough at how good that was Yann. Just... THANK YOU! Master Boot Record Photo credits: Pic 1 Corporation Sheffield official Pic 2-4 Juha Matilainen Full of of nostalgia, chip tunes bliss, and powerful guitars, MBR have been a band I've been meaning to cover with E.V for a long time so to see them perform live was nothing short of techno-magic. The visual's for each track brought back so many memories of old games I had once played, memories long forgotten, and a strong sense that my inner child was screaming inside of me to get out and rave with me, so I let him! Fantastic notes and computer sounds powered out a whirlwind of fun and beauty that only MBR could masterfully manage with such 'instruments' no one else comes close to making retro sounds so damn exciting and modern. True perfection in every sense of the word. Video from 'Future Music From The Robot Lab' YouTube channel (I hope you don't mind!) BLACKBOOK No pictures were available but here's a video and as you can see, this was apparently only their second ever gig! I only heard of BLACKBOOK putting together the playlist before the festival and was genuinely looking forward to their sound as I love melodic bands. Every track was sung with perfect vocals, I could make out every single word even in songs I had never heard before and there was something quite magic in the way they sounded so pure but kept their faces hidden. When the song 'I Dance Alone' came on the crowd went absolutely insane with dancing but the one that stood out to me was the last.. 'My Darkest memory'. The reason being was something completely unexpected for me that weekend and the lyrics washed over me with such clarity and acceptance that it helped me process and carry on on with my weekend, so thank you BLACKBOOK for this incredibly wonderful and poignant song that I can't stop listening to! To top it all off, the crowd chanted 'one more song!' Which I don't think any other band got that weekend! Video by Jamie Mann (I hope you don't mind!) Wulfband Photo Credits: pic 1-2 Corporation Sheffield Official Pic 3-4 Woode Gillyan pic 5-7 Juha Matilainen What the Fuuu? Wulfband is a crazy maelstrom of ridiculously silly energy intermixed between some pretty heavy and serious tracks. From having people help sing a track, to taking off his trousers and throwing beer at the audience, Wulfband are.. Bizarre to say the least. Having met the man backstage, I can assure you, it doesn't stop off stage either! This was such a fun act and one that I enjoyed so much that I had to get Leighton's attention in the crowd and give him the 'OMFG WELL DONE BOOKING THIS BAND!' kind of signal, all the while Marie was trying to get my attention to tell me how good they thought the bad were.. So as you can see - chaos on stage, chaos in the crowd, but the best kind of chaos imaginable INDUSTRIAL FUN. I wish I knew what else to say but that was fantastic and I hope I get to see them again one day. GRENDEL Photo Credits: pic 1-3 Corporation Sheffield Official pic 4 Juha Matilainen Who here among you doesn't know of Grendel and the great guy that is JD? This was a full band show and they played a brilliant mix of tracks old and new. There is nothing quite like an entire audience yelling 'MARINE CORP!' or belting out 'Chemicals and Circuitry' together. Grendel is a band that brings every single group of electro heads together in unison for those two tracks and it's a beautiful moment. Of course though, the newer tracks are so full of meaning, of emotion, and talent that they are as much part of the Grendel phenomena now as the classics were then. Grendel is a band always redefining and evolving in ways that often spearhead the next limits of what industrial and electronics can be. It was also great to see Kuro on the keys! This was an incredible performance and I think the fourth I have seen of theirs, this was by far the best, and a magnificent way to round of the Sunday bands. Yassi Puls4ra I did catch about twenty minutes of Yassi's set and I remember it being pulse pounding, foot stomping excellence, and it was evident they were having a great time themselves, I don't remember much beyond how it felt - Awesome. So again, if you'd like to include your comment for them, let me know! Dancefloor Gladiatorz I was not able to make this DJ's set, if you have a one or two line review you would like to have included here, please message me on FB! BUT check out their entire recorded set there! ^ "Omg Dancefloor Gladiatorz were epic! Literally couldn’t stop dancing! I had seen them on twitch before but seeing them in person was *inaudible excited linda noises* I think they were my fav from the whole festival!" - Linderella Perrini Victoria Fenbane I was not able to make this DJ's set, if you have a one or two line review you would like to have included here, please message me on FB! Simon Briggs I was not able to make this DJ's set, if you have a one or two line review you would like to have included here, please message me on FB! So.. Done for another year, and I'm sure we will all be remembering it fondly until the next one. Much love and take care of one another. Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Everything you need to know, want to know, and had no idea about for Resistanz 2023 in one place! (Best viewed on PC or Tablet) As you may know, this is the second time Elektro Vox has been allowed backstage at Corporation Sheffield to cover the festival in full and get more video interviews. However this year, I was invited to be an official sponsor for the festival. So, much love to Leighton for that! Everyone, remember to tell Leighton how amazing he is because although he hates compliments, we need to keep reminding him how grateful we are and how special his hard work with Tanz means to us all! Also much love to the other festivals I have worked with officially since such as Infest, Zero day, and of course the wonderful legends of Beat:Cancer! I have reached out to many of the artists and asked for any juicy extras they would like me to include in this, some are still getting back to me so check back regularly for updates in the 'extra' parts! If you don't have a weekend or day ticket for Resistanz yet, click the above banner for tickets! What you can find here: Set List times Band + DJ info (As well as exclusive news, preview and release info, and some pre-show words from some of the artists) Elektro Vox Resistanz 2023 Spotify playlist (Just below this) Pure love for everyone attending Resistanz 2023! Almost 9 hours worth of great tunes! Set Times Friday DJ's Saturday DJ's Sunday DJ's Next up: Band info (In order of play) and some extra goodies STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Friday Biomechanimal Elektro Vox's Friday MUST WATCH artist recommendation! (1 of 2) Biomechanimal are a genre-smashing act from London, UK, mixing harsh vocals with massive bass design, euphoric leads, and pounding kick drums. The brainchild of Matt Simpson, and active since 2013, the act have toured the UK multiple times, but are most often found in Slimelight, their home stomping ground, and have played shows with Covenant, Hocico, Aesthetic Perfection, and many more. 2021 has seen the band push harder than they've ever done before, with festivals like Infest (UK) & Helsinki Industrial Festival (Finland), playing main support to Grendel & Alien Vampires in London, and releasing tracks featuring Zardonic, Dawn of Ashes, and Moris Blak. For 2022, the band are working on an EP, due for release in June. Biomechanimal are: Matthew L. Simpson (vocals, synths, production) Keith Kamholz (Live synths, post production) Kekko Stefano (Drums) Šarūnas Brazionis (Guitars) --- Biomechanimal have been covered many times on Elektro Vox and I will always, always rave about how fantastic the band is. Through every evolution Bio improves beyond measure. Make sure you catch their set because don't be fooled by them being the opening band - They kick ass harder than most of the line-up COMBINED. Extra: Bio are finally releasing a collaboration with Jamie Blacker of ESA the day before Tanz. UK-based band Biomechanimal is set to release their latest single, "The Age of the Abyss" on April 6th, on the HYBRID BLAK label, in time for the Resistanz Festival. The new track promises to be a unique symphonic black metal/industrial hybrid that will undoubtedly captivate listeners with its powerful sound and lyrics. "The Age of the Abyss" is not just another Biomechanimal track, but an ambitious one, featuring a guest verse by Jamie Blacker of the band ESA:Electronic Substance Abuse. The inclusion of Blacker adds an extra layer of depth to the already dark and ominous track. With his commanding vocals, Blacker delivers a haunting verse that fits perfectly with the song's bleak and apocalyptic lyrics. The track begins with an ominous symphonic intro, setting the mood for the dark journey that is about to unfold. The song then explodes into a driving, pounding rhythm, powered by aggressive guitars, thunderous drums, and Matt Simpson's signature guttural screams. The combination of symphonic black metal and industrial music creates a unique and intense atmosphere, with a cinematic feel. Lyrically, "The Age of the Abyss" deals with the impending doom that society faces as it continues to ignore the warnings of corruption, greed, and apathy. The lyrics paint a bleak picture of a world on the brink of collapse, with an uncertain future. Overall, "The Age of the Abyss" is an impressive and ambitious track from Biomechanimal, showcasing their growth as musicians and songwriters. The addition of Jamie Blacker's guest verse only adds to the intensity of the song, making it a must-listen for fans of heavy music and dark atmospheres. As the Resistanz Festival approaches, this track is sure to be a standout addition to Biomechanimal's live set, leaving the audience in awe with its powerful sound and thought-provoking lyrics. It's no wonder that the band continues to be one of the most exciting and innovative acts on the UK music scene. Seraphim System Elektro Vox's Friday (and overall for Tanz'23) MUST WATCH artist recommendation! (2 of 2) Seraphim System has made it a point to meld and merge types of different music with Industrial since its inception in 2013. John Stancil is no stranger to controversy and experimentation; he has mingled midtempo, metal, rap, EBM, hardcore, drumstep, drum n bass, dubstep, hard house, trance, and anything else that hammers sub speakers and eardrums. With his long-running MUTANT MTHRFKR series (that he has categorized as CYBER BODY MUSIC) Seraphim System has transitioned between periods of traditional industrial, all-out metal, and now finally returns home to aggressive industrial bass music. --- If you look around Elektro Vox, you will find many articles on this amazing artist. He has a master craft skill at pumping out incredible new tracks or remixes for other artists that blow them away, often in just the space of a day or two! This man's musical talent really cannot be stated enough in my professional opinion. Extra: I asked John about his thoughts on returning to Tanz and about his step back from the scene in recent years.. John: "There's really not much to say I guess. This isn't my job. It's a hobby I get paid for (and very little). I make about a grand a week at my job now and work around 50 hours, so I try and keep making music just to be creative. But the biggest thing is that initially I just cared about the money. I wanted to make music so I didn't have to work. I got bummed out because that didn't happen when I saw friends around me doing it while making rap or dubstep or trap or just being the "beat man". Now at 35, I can google my band's name and see people talking about it and enjoying it. people I've never met and never spoken to. I've made their lives better. I've made their experience on this Earth better by making something they like and relate to, which is what I should have been focusing on all along instead of money. - Like, well, you for example.. I had no idea who you were or what you were about, but you liked my stuff and it made your life better, and that's all that really matters. When I was in Finland in 2017, I was playing my metal shit and a guy shouted out "PLAY HEARTLESS", from my first album. When I talked to him after the show, he took trains from Russia to come to Finland to watch me play. That show bombed. There were like nine people in the crowd for my set, I was honestly kinda bummed but talking with him, knowing he came all that way, knew my music, and just wanted to meet me.. Man you can't put a price on that I'm working on my last song of the set I want to do which is a cover and I'm so excited maybe people will know the song. Maybe they wont.. I think they will." For Seraphim System's best music in my opinion check out his MUTANT MTHRFKR and Cyberpunk and chill releases, only available on Bandcamp. Pretty Addicted (Replacing Advance) We are stoked to announce Pretty Addicted will be making their long overdue Resistanz debut! Pretty Addicted are an evil funfair at a dark rave in hell. Lady Lucifer herself, Vicious Precious, brings you the heaviest, hardest DARK Dance-Punk that makes you want to rave and SIN! Come join us on April 7th at the Corporation venue in Sheffield. Bangers guaranteed! --- A good friend of mine - Vicious Precious is one of the most badass and arguably one of the hardest working artists on the scene. Vish is an instrumental part of the alternative scene, always fighting for the rights of others and breaking down boundaries of what is and is not acceptable with pure, undiluted FUN! Extra: Pretty Addicted have recently released the singles 'Heather', 'Trauma' and 'Child of the Devil' from the new album currently in the works - Name not yet revealed, due out later this year (TBA) Pretty Addicted are doing a Summer Goths Tour! Check their link tree: linktr.ee/prettyaddicted_band for tickets, music, and videos. HARLEYLIKESMUSIC Sheffield's Gameboy terrorizer, HarleyLikesMusic, will be rattling rib cages with frequencies never intended to be produced from the Nintendo console. Expect a range of influences from dub, bassline and drum n bass. Randolph & Mortimer Industrial-Synth-New Beat-EBM "‘Trading Places’ is the name of a 1980’s American comedic film and in it, there are two brothers called Randolph and Mortimer who own a commodities brokerage firm. They each hold opposing views on the issue of nature vs nurture, so they make a wager and agree to conduct an experiment - switching the lives of two people on opposite sides of the social hierarchy and observing the results. You’ll have to watch the movie to find out what happens. For UK-based DJ and producer Sam Evans aka Randolph & Mortimer, his main interest in life is to produce music of an EBM and post-punk tip and read about economics, so it makes sense that his moniker holds a reference to socio-economics of the 80s. Influenced in equal measures by the industrial and EBM movements of the same era, the rave sounds of the early 90s and the documentaries of Adam Curtis, Randolph & Mortimer productions are an amalgam of grungy atmospheres that fizz into exuberance over 4/4 beats." -Quarantune Nov 2021 Extra: R&M would like to let you know the brand new album 'The Incomplete Truth' is out now! (Released 27th of March) Assemblage 23 Assemblage 23 and Tom Shear –there’s no need to introduce the man behind this figurehead of electronic music. For more than 20years, he has provided the scene with a string of hits. After it was founded in 1998 the project exploded onto the scene with the release of it’s debut album “Contempt” and became one of the most famous acts in the genre. After two decades Tom Shear and Assemblage 23 are still able to maintain their status in the EBM / Future-Pop Scene. All the while he is continually developing and reinventing himself in his artistic creation. Every release abounds in creativity and confidence and presents with its enormous musical spectrum exactly what fans love about Assemblage 23: electronic music of the highest quality with touching lyrics that never lose their actuality. Gillywoo DJ Gillywoo is delighted to be returning to Tanz, after recent guest slots sets at Dollclub, BeatCancer S_EX_CLU_B and stayInfest. Gillywoo is known for her bangers and curveballs, all aimed squarely at the dancefloor and intended to blow the roof off! Extra: Gillywoo will also be DJing at the Church of Madness, Face Bar Reading on 3rd June. M@gs and Lexx Elektro Vox's Friday MUST WATCH DJ set recommendation! (1 of 2) M@gs and Lexx are joining forces this year for a b2b session demonstrating the best in mixing and hard, industrial techno. M@gs skill and ability to captivate the dance floor has lead her to infamous clubs and festivals such as UNFOLD, Monster Queen, Slimelight, Hidden Senses, Ismus Berlin, Inqlusive Festival and many more. Lexx is no stranger to the stage as a musician having played Infest, Resistanz, StrangeDNA, Technodrome and other venues in addition to guest sets for renowned MASS and Interchange Events This set will be intense and get your adrenaline pumping, we'll let the music speak for itself. Not one to miss. --- Some of you may know that Lexx released music previously under the name GOHMA which is fantastic. Lexx absolutely destroys dancefloors with the hardest, filthiest dark techno sets of which I have danced myself nearly to death twice previously. M@gs has performed on an Elektro Vox charity stream previously and also has an incredible ear for selecting the finest of electronic cuisine. X Elektro Vox's Friday MUST WATCH DJ set recommendation! (2 of 2) Many of you will recognise X from Straftanz who kept us entertained throughout lockdown with their great music streams on Twitch, and of course, who ended Tanz 2022 with an insanely massive bang! Growing up between river Schelde, where the drunkards are brought to a cold & bitter end by the neighbourhood demon, and river Ruhr, where industrial music is traditionally deconstructed like the rusting blast furnaces of the time of the ancients, X learned that the paths worth travelling usually aren’t well lit boulevards through the centre. X takes us to the fringes. Where magic is still common, where playfulness is central, she laid out tunnels and corridors through the techno soundscapes of abandoned warehouses and enchanted glades all painted in an ambush-décor of neon black. Like any good raver, she knows that it’s not about the destination, it’s about the trip, and she’s made sure the trip is going to be one to remember. Extra: X shares some thoughts with us. "For years now I’ve been into techno because it brings me pure, unadulterated joy. My main goal for Tanz is to share that joy with others. I’m especially excited because it’s the first time I’m doing this all by myself, and because I intend to play some new material that we’ve been working on. I can’t wait to get in there and fuck shit up." DJ DeadDancer 'Hey Cuties!' DD's back and this time we're getting S P I C Y ! Known for his versatility and pleasurable aural surprises, having successfully delivered multiple genre fusion DJ sets at previous Resistanz parties, this year DD brings the deep, dirty and downright Dionysiac. The blood will flow, the steam will rise and the breathing will intensify. The safe word is "Dorothy". Extra: DD offers a hint of what's to come.. "I've got a bag full of sexy techno and hard trance/Psy, 140ish BPM. Cheeky remixes. Fun guaranteed!" Saturday Blink 242 Work sucks, we know. Blink 242 have an active MySpace account, and deliver electro industrial reworkings of the best pop punk classics. The best band you didn't know you needed to hear? For the first time and possibly the only time. See you at Resistanz 2023! Extra: "What the Fuuu?" I hear you ask. Well.. Those boys from Cyferdyne need their on stage fix again after last year by the looks of it; And I have a sickening feeling that they will be the 'VoIcE iNsIdE oUr HeAdS' for a long while afterward.. Also Brian (Moris Blak) said what we were all thinking in the FB announcement comments.. Idk what I want more... Industrial covers of pop punk songs.. Or pop punk covers of industrial songs.... Mechanical Vein Mechanical Vein's vibe flexes a truly unique take on bass music... a drum & bass core, with a furious blend of industrial / midtempo / hip-hop / metal influences. With visceral lyrical themes ranging from political unrest to deep human connection, his music is equally suited to the heart, the fist, and the dance floor. Over the last 2 years Mechanical Vein has dropped an absolute barrage of releases… a debut EP (Emotion Blur: Selections), collab singles with Biomechanimal / Sinister Souls / Saltee, and remix work for ESA / MORIS BLAK x Moaan Exis / Biomechanimal / Panic Lift. This body of work has seen great support from DJs/press alike, and sets the stage for a full album release coming up soon. The man behind Mechanical Vein is Keith Kamholz, an American expat living in the UK. He’s always been passionate about performing electronic music in a visually-engaging way, which led to him building a unique custom instrument to bring the noise live. He’s performing at Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2022, and can’t wait to bring his style of industrial bass to Resistanz 2023! Extra: Keith gave us an exclusive insight in to M.V's next album release, also released the day before Tanz. "'The Storm You Can't Contain' is the big full length debut for Mechanical Vein, and features a barrage of collaborators... Biomechanimal, MORIS BLAK, Sinister Souls, Saltee, Alicia Mayhem, Faderhead, Caustic, ER4SE, & Lecture. The album showcases my signature drum & bass core, with a furious blend of midtempo / industrial / hip-hop / metal influences. With visceral lyrical themes ranging from political unrest to deep human connection, it's equally suited to the heart, the fist, and the dance floor. I truly can't wait to bring it to Tanz in its live form. It's released on HYBRID BLAK Records, and the label focuses primarily on fusing modern bass music with industrial/metal influences, curating a very forward-thinking collection of dark bass music." https://linktr.ee/mechanicalvein Helix Musician Tom Shear [Assemblage 23, Nerve Filter, Surveillance] and vocalist Mari Kattman [Day Twelve, Mari and the Ghost, Mari Kattman] are no strangers to collaboration, having worked together several times over the past five years. So it seemed to be a natural conclusion that the duo embark on a project all their own. The result is Helix – a genre-defying sonic tapestry mixing electronics and organic elements with Kattman’s haunting vocal harmonies. Elements of trip-hop, dub, dream pop, synth-pop, and lofi combine into a mélange of seductive beats, found sounds, eerie textures, and distant melodies cutting through the fog like a distant lighthouse. Beats for sleepwalkers and insomniacs. Cinema for your ears at 2 AM. Cenotype Existing in the undefined region of sound known as Industrial music, Cenotype is the personal expression of a single individual- Lenny B. Also known as DJ Wintermute, Lenny is a long-standing member of the NYC/ New Jersey-area Industrial scene. Lenny cut his teeth as a dancefloor DJ at several venues around the region, and was inspired by acts, such as SPK, KLINIK, Skinny Puppy, DIVE, Synapscape & Psychic TV. Influenced by the 1st & 2nd Power Noise waves of the mid-late 1990s, Cenotype seeks to create an identity all its own, incorporating elements of Death Industrial & Power Electronics while staying true to his origins. This project centres around themes of morality, justice, sanity, depression and, at times, redemption. W.A.S.T.E Elektro Vox's Saturday MUST WATCH artist recommendation! (1 of 2) It's been more than 7 years since they last blew up our main stage. 2023 see's a very welcome return for US industrial noise titans, W.A.S.T.E. W.A.S.T.E. is often defined as Underground Experimental Rhythmic Noise. Heavy like metal, yet no guitars. Loud, angry, and aggressive only scratch the surface; thankfully, you can't sit still due to the Catchy and Unique beats mixed with sound design from the 7th level of hell. Their form of music is not welcoming, but once you dive in, you're never the same. The envelope has been pushed, and they have left an undeniable mark on you. UPDATE! Resistanz 2023 Band Update: Unfortunetly Shane Saw of WASTE and Vuxnut fame is not able to make it across the pond for this years event. As you can imagine Shane is gutted with not being able to attend and we will miss him being part of this years festival. Both he and our team have done everything in our power to make this work. We have both held out as long as possible, clinging on to hope that we could still make this happen, but time really has got the better of us all and so we have to unlock a plan B (and a plan C). So.... We are lucky enough that Vanessa, the other half of WASTE, is still able to make it across for Resistanz and WASTE will still perform with a little help from some familiar faces. Joining WASTE on stage at Resistanz 2023 we have the privilege of announcing Jamie Blacker of ESA and Yann Faussurier of Iszoloscope. And... Because there will be no Vuxnux show on the second stage on Sunday, Yann has very kindly stepped up and will be performing what promises to be a very in your face Iszoloscope set instead. Please show some love to Shane and props to Vanessa, Jamie and Yann for coming together to make this all happen for you guys. MORIS BLAK Elektro Vox's Saturday MUST WATCH artist recommendation! (2 of 2) First ever U.K show MORIS BLAK’s debut release The Irregularity of Being redefined the sound of dark electronics when it was unleashed on the dark club scene in 2019. The project’s unique blending of cold industrial soundscapes with the beat-driven precision of modern electronic dance music was delivered with a gut-punch of a stage performance, complete with self-programmed visuals sweeping the room in a vivid blood-red. The project’s pioneering "industrial bass music" means massive, destructive sound undergirded by an addictive, grooving beat and brutal aggression that drives club-goers to the dance floor. Cultivated over formative years spent in industrial clubs across New England, MORIS BLAK, now based in Boston, MA, fuses influences from the bass-heavy EDM of the late 2000s with an ominous post-apocalyptic atmosphere. Since the release of his debut EP Dead Summer, MORIS BLAK has gained a cult following from his collection of viral remixes and haunting live performances, sharing the stage with legendary artists including Perturbator, Danger, Das Ich, Leæther Strip, and Diary of Dreams. After signing to Negative Gain Productions, MORIS BLAK’s much-anticipated first release through the label further defined the hybrid sound of industrial bass music. Extra: Not only is this MORIS BLAK's first ever U.K show, but the machine himself wanted me to advise you, if you haven't already, to listen to his latest EP Burial + Void. The track 'Malevolent' and 'Procession' tingle my brain in places I didn't even know I had in the best of ways! Ayria Having already earned an impressive reputation around the globe for her anthemic danceable tracks and energetic live performances, the Canadian singer-songwriter AYRIA is bringing her expertly blended beats to fans everywhere. Formed in 2003 by Jennifer Parkin, AYRIA combines layers of synth-pop with electro and dark dance. For almost two decades now, listeners have been hooked on her driving bass synths, addictive stompy beats and melancholic vocals. Unapologetically feminine in aesthetic, AYRIA is gearing up for an exciting 2022! In 2020 the singer-songwriter announced her signing to Toronto-based label Artoffact Records, signalling the beginning of a brand new era. Now in 2022, AYRIA is set to release her sixth full-length album and Artoffact Records debut, This is my Battle Cry later this year. Showcasing a slick-more mature sound, the album features 10 new tracks including the addictively catchy songs “Stranger Danger” and “No One Asked You”. Although, the album is a nod to AYRIA’s previous ear-candy laced works, it’s also a reflection on past few years’ experiences, giving the album a darker tone. Inspired by her personal struggles and rage, the album title track “Battle Cry”, and “Why Aren’t You Dead Yet?” spotlight Parkin’s, “tongue in cheek sassy attitude,” showcasing that not everything made with sugar and spice is always as nice as it seems. Infectious, anthemic and harrowingly therapeutic, This is my Battle Cry is one for the ages. AYRIA has five previous albums under her belt and has toured the USA, Europe and the UK multiple times, both as a headlining and supporting act over her long career. Along with her multiple tours, she has also headlined performances in Japan, Russia and Mexico showing that the appeal of AYRIA has stood the test of time, far and wide. DJ emanon Don't call yourself cyberpunk, if you've never driven an eScooter to a mosh pit! DJ emanon is the founding member of Club Infektio in Helsinki Finland and has played his eclectic sets of dark electronic music since 2007. You might have seen the Tronface man on stage with The Gothsicles or bouncing to the beats at the festival dance floor. This Natural Skenetor will get your Terrorbanana vibrating to some Goblin Trance classics and EBM (Electronic Black Metal) until you lose your hair to the old school future pop, all the while there's that annoying sound of your rivet gear in the washing machine (which some call rhythmic noise). Extra: Just make sure that you mention Forklift certification to him.. He loves that. Also, if you wish to see the types of music that he plays, check out his previous setlists Here: emanondj.wordpress.com HER NOISE IS VIOLENCE Elektro Vox's Saturday MUST WATCH DJ set recommendation! (1 of 2) HER NOISE IS VIOLENCE (H.N.I.V) has been assaulting dancefloors up and down the East coast of the USA since 2009 and on Twitch since 2021 as resident DJ for Kulture Shock (Philadelphia, PA) & Interference Radio (Twitch) - She has also played at various events, festivals, raves, and club nights such as: Diabolique Fetish Ball (Philadelphia, PA), The Castle (Tampa, FL), Plague (Portland, ME), Freq (Providence, RI), Electroshock (Baltimore, MD), Ceremony (Boston, MA), Stimulate (NYC, NY), Hard Vibez Radio (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), QXTs (Newark, NJ), Hard Rave Collective (Washington, D.C), The Raverglades (Orlando, FL), EBM Worldwide (Twitch), with many more to note... She has released original music on several labels under various names, most recently, physical releases with Detriti Records and Brutal Resonance Records. One of her tracks, Into The Void, has been featured on DJMag.com and it is currently the 2nd best-selling track in Bandcamp's dark techno section. From harder BPMs to hypnotic rhythms, H.N.I.V will take you to on a journey like no other. Expect energy, originality, and unparalleled passion - EXPECT A VIOLENT EXPERIENCE. Expect the unexpected. H.N.I.V is not only a DJ, but a hard & dark techno producer, harsh noise / experimental artist & vocalist. She is also a member of dark ambient / experimental industrial band FUNERAL PYRE based in Hungary & USA. VINDIMØDE An electronic project formed in lockdown by Manchester's techno body duo. A collaborative effort between of the two artists love of Techno (Berlin club culture) and old school EBM, with only handful of tracks Vindimøde were requested to remix Hatari of Eurovision fame resulting in a the hard hitting Hatari - Hatrið mun sigra (VINDIMØDE Remix) Cooked up by DJ Katalamøde and string slinger Addz Vindicare who has been performing since the early 2000's as The Ladder and later as solo electronic act Vindicare, as a live musician Addz has been known as touring guitarist for Grendel having travelled internationally with the band in the 2010's and more recently covering guitar duties at Wave Gotik Treffen and UK tours. Katalamøde is a electronic music & techno producer, DJ, Twitch Streamer and veteran with over 20 years of DJ & Performance experience. Holding past residencies at a multiple of UK alternative venues and founding resident of PΛRΛLLELS club night and Manchester's well known Industrial Techno Body club night, DELETE YOURSELF. Katalamøde has a long and varied history of performing world wide, across the UK, Danish, East & West European underground club scenes. Entering the Club scene at 16, Kat was introduced to the world of mixing and adds a cherry on top with a platform that’s on a mission to influence the scene with her grasp of production elements across the entire spectrum of hard hitting electronic music to door-slamming techno beats. BLAK 2 BLAK Elektro Vox's Saturday MUST WATCH DJ set recommendation! (2 of 2) HYBRID BLAK RECORDS PRESENTS: BLAK 2 BLAK Biomechanimal b2b Mechanical Vein b2b Moris Blak. For one night only, for a unique international DJ experience, 3 of the hardest musicians in underground industrial bass will bring Resistanz the phattest, dirtiest, wobbliest dark bass music this side of Lost Lands. Expect DnB, Midtempo, Psytrance, Bass House, exclusive mashups, remixes, and absolute filth. Extra: From MORIS BLAK, SIMPLY.. "This will be an illegal amount of bass." Sunday Ratio Strain Ratio Strain is the brain child of W.A.S.T.E. drummer Vanessa Saw. Vanessa is a one woman powerhouse of industrial noise who aims to put women at the forefront of industrial. The music is raw with 90s industrial influences and heavy samples. The first ep, Century of the Self was released in 2020 and brought gritty beats and unapologetic themes. In 2022 she released a split EP, Ultra/Filth with Damascus Knives which is a balance of unrelenting beats and dancefloor favourites. Ratio Strain is unrelenting, unapologetic up and coming artist. Antibody Elektro Vox's Sunday MUST WATCH artist recommendation! (1 of 3) This is a first for Resistanz, booking the same artist 2 years in a row. Antibody played his first ever live show at Resistanz 2022 on the small stage during the main room interval. He impressed us (and the crowd) so much that we have decided to invite him back to perform again, this time on the main stage! Antibody is a solo powernoise project based in Germany. At the Age of 12(!!!), in the year 2013, Jan Antibody thought "Hey! Lets make some Industrial!". From 2013 to 2015 Antibody went through some changes, hunting down and seeking out their true identity/image. Then came the expert crafting of several remixes, amongst them were remixes for the Canadian noise act Displacer and for the German dark-elektro act Binary Division. In 2015 Antibody successfully submitted a track to the infamous Alfa Matrix Industrial Compilation Endzeit Bunkertracks (Volume 7). Unsurprisingly, Alfa Matrix Records immediately agreed to sign the original track "Shrimps" to their world renowned Compilation. Antibody is here to infect the world with heavy beats, thundering basslines, catchy melodies and a bestial mixture of Industrial, Power Noise and Hardstyle/Hardcore. In 2016 he released the first single of the new album: "Desperation". 2017 finally his debut album "Opera Of Death" came out successfully. Following that Success, 2018 saw the Release of his second Album "Revolution Dance" with Remixes from the mighty Grendel, Kant Kino and many more. After almost 2 years of wait a new Ep is on the horizon, named "I Don't Understand" with remixes from Xotox, C/A/T/, FabrikC and MATT HART! He also finally debuted live at the mighty Resistanz Festival in Sheffield, UK in 2022, following up with gigs supporting Nachtmahr, the European Dark Dance Treffen and Hellsinki Industrial Fest in 2022! Extra: An exclusive peak in to what he has panned and some extra words from Jan.. "I'm releasing a new single on the 21.04 and a new album later this year. The single is called 'F.Society' and the album doesn't have a name yet. Also I have some surprises planned for my set and I'm going to play loads of new stuff. I will have at least one guest appearance by someone not on the line up My dream of playing the Tanz Mainstage is finally coming true... That was one of my main goals since starting Antibody! :)" Dark Machine Nation First ever show outside of the USA! Dark Machine Nation is intense vocal Power Noise/Industrial Hardcore from Dayton, OH; the brainchild of Therion Major, specializing in adept-level audio assault. Inspired by the noise of manufacturing and the sounds of Gabber/Hardcore Techno and Electro-Industrial, Dark Machine Nation aims to become the truest, hardest sound in industrial. Distorted bass drums march over an atmosphere of metallic percussion, as harsh vocals speak prophecies of wrath, determination and megalomania. Coming to you live, DMN will throw a relentless pulse of noise, bass and pestilence to shock your senses, and distort your reality. Extra: Therion has a couple of things to let you know. "I'm working on a couple albums, and this is my first time off the continent; So it will also be my first U.K show or show outside of the U.S, which is surreal!" Iszoloscope (Replacing Vuxnut) Elektro Vox's Sunday MUST WATCH artist recommendation! (2 of 3) Yann Faussurier has been making music under the moniker Iszoloscope since 1999, crafting pulsing, pounding soundscapes with a core of industrial, hard-core, break-core and rhythmic noise layered with intelligent and often surprising details, such as melodic percussions and carefully placed breaks, rich, orchestral textures and dark, cinematic distortions. Experimental in nature and charged with energy, the music evokes a darkness, tension and atmosphere which immediately carries the listener away on an immersive, complex journey of introspection. Founded as a collaboration in 1999, Iszoloscope became Faussurier’s solo project in 2001. Since then, the project has amassed an impressive oeuvre: 7 full-length albums on European labels Ant-Zen and Spectre, 8 successful tours in Europe and North America, several EPs and collaborations, a long list of remixes and compilations, and appearances at shows and festivals around the world, including a regular spot on the lineup at Germany’s Maschinenfest. In recent years, Iszoloscope's live and studio lineup has also included Shane Whitbread, Guillaume Nadon and Frédéric Scarfone. --- Yann Faussurier is an industrial legend. He has made a name for himself not only as Iszoloscope but playing in Memmaker and iVardensphere to name just some of the musical powerhouses you may know him for. Yann produces some of the heaviest, mind and reality distorting industrial mosh rave I've ever experienced and I am so, so glad I finally get to see him play live having missed an opportunity at Elektrowerkz many years ago due to my time restrictive transport. Yann absolutely stunned everyone with his incredible set from home during lockdown for Cyber EVM 2.0 to raise money for Slimelight and in memory of Mak. Check that incredible set below: Master Boot Record Elektro Vox's Sunday MUST WATCH artist recommendation! (3 of 3) Italy-based electronic metal maven Master Boot Record (MBR) recrudesces on striking new full-length album, PERSONAL COMPUTER. Helmed solely by technologist/songwriter Victor Love, Master Boot Record is, if anything, creatively prolific. The follow-up to FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE (2020), Personal Computer is Love's eighth full-length album since emerging - as an 8-bit ghost - from the bulletin board system (BBS) scene in 2016. Now, he's returned (like a carriage) to right-click on devotees with yet another Easter egg and symbolism-rich mélange of intensely ornate yet driving digital orchestrations. Just don't call Personal Computer synthwave, or whatever new-fangled term is being used to describe Master Boot Record's masterful video game-like scoring. To put it simply: this is metal done with a synth. "I live stream from my desktop," says Love, who composes Master Boot Record songs on his YouTube channel. "When I have enough material to bundle an album together, I finish it off and prepare it for release. So, it's a continuous song writing process. My approach is familiar to me and my audience, and I really enjoy working in an interactive environment. As far as what I listen to, it's the same stuff as always - from classical music (especially Beethoven and Bach) and thrash/death metal to chiptune music and crack intro/keygen music. I also listen to retro game music. So, in a way, the starting point is still the same. I've been growing musically." Love's background is different from most of his musical colleagues. He got his start in tech by working at his father's computer business in Rome. He went head-first into CPUs, motherboards, RAM, and peripherals. From there, the Master Boot Record madman got even more involved, first as a sysadmin for a local university and then as a new-frontier marketer and bellman. Naturally, Love got into software and its verboten counterparts - namely Warez - to quell his ceaseless curiosity of all things cyber. That's when his interest in synth-originated music came into view. See, pirated software often had clever musical tricks called 'cracktros,' short musical pieces that hackers/crackers added to show off smarts and enterprise. A scene naturally formed out around that called the demoscene. Master Boot Record (and side project Keygen Church) was born as a result of Love funnelling his technological predilections into a musical expression. "I think of myself more of a hacker in the music field," Love says. "Hacking is essentially the art of bypassing boundaries and limitations to achieve something better to improve. All that is driven essentially by curiosity. In my process as an artist, I've always been very focused on this aspect. Look at Master Boot Record. It's a hack in the music field because, for example, the guitars aren't actual guitars - they're synth. So, essentially what I did was hack the sound of metal guitars, making a synthesized version of it. I did this because I wanted to have a faster way to compose. That is what I would call musical hacking." With Master Boot Record, Love's compositional process relies on no physical instruments. Personal Computer finds the Italian smithing with Cubase 11 Pro, a popular music production software suite made by endorser Steinberg. The upgrade (from Cubase allowed for a complete re-build of the synth guitar and bass, while another improvement in the form of Superior Drummer 3 had a direct impact on the his on-the-fly mixing efforts. The software modernization squarely differentiates Personal Computer from any in Master Boot Record's history. This is not only obvious but welcome on the album's three singles, "80486DX," "80386," and "8086," where the frenetic and ornate collide in orgiastic musical pixels. This is like Double Dragon (by Kazunaka Yamane) and Darkness Descends (by Dark Angel) getting into a fierce PvP match of DOOM. "I still kept a lot of the sounds that define the fingerprint of the MBR sound," says Love. "The same lead synth, the same pads, and, in general, the same kind of sound, even though it's definitely improved. This time I tried to get a more dynamic and warm sound (compared to previous albums) to give it more punch and depth. For example, the lead sounds aren't so harsh and full of high frequencies. They are much softer and less aggressive than before, leaving more space for the synth guitars MIDIs. In general, I think Personal Computer sounds more metal and more powerful than my previous albums." While most bands - even synthwave artists - tie lyrical themes to their music, the absence of vocals on Personal Computer hasn't derailed its conceptual import. Think of the way floppy disk drives hum and printers whirr. The mechanical aesthetic, combined with conspicuously retro audioscapes, creates a uniform visual. Indeed, rather than textual tethering via lyrics, Master Boot Record connects (serially) to images, largely ASCII interpretations of magical staves associated, in Love's case, to Icelandic wayfinders. Interestingly enough, he designed most of Personal Computer's art, but outsourced the ASCII part - the sigil - to crucial members of the BBS and demoscene segments. The integration of silicon and magic is purposeful and has its roots in debut album, C:\FIXMBR (2016). "The main iconography is a mix of retro computing and Norse imagery," Love says. "The initial concept was that of 'spellware,' a sort of mix between magic and software that is cast through the digital media. The idea was that the music made by a 486DX became sentient after being enchanted by Icelandic Norse magic. Most of the symbols on my albums are Icelandic magical staves with specific meanings. For example, my main logo is called a 'Vegvìsir' and is a compass that helps sailors find their way out of storms - which is how I felt when I started this project. I can't really say why I decided to use these symbols, and it's more as if they called me to use them. Symbols are really powerful and can convey powerful energies, and I feel it worked out for me. This album represents everything this project is, wanted to be, and wants to be in the future. It's kind of the final upgraded version of all that I've done before." - (Elektro Vox: I've always gone on about how industrial and Nordic folk music has incredibly strong ties, especially with the feeling of community, tribal rhythm, and a sense of magic at the wider universe so it's great to see MBR's explanation here!) - Like everything else in Master Boot Record, Love's time isn't traditionally occupied in a studio proper. Personal Computer was conceived and written ad hoc via his YouTube live stream events. The songs were honed after. The songwriting sessions started at the end of 2020 and were completed almost a year later. The production process - literally Love's computer - didn't differ too much from predecessors FLOPPY DISK OVERDRIVE and INTERNET PROTOCOL (2019). It was time and space that separated Personal Computer from its ancestors. The maestro needed to take breaks and parlay that time off from Master Boot Record to realign his operating methods. Even the mix changed dramatically from its original state to what Love considered the final version. "I don't really have a studio," says Love. "I often have to state: 'All I Have Is My Computer.' That's pretty much the truth. I use my computer and software to produce my music. I have a simple audio card, a couple of monitors, and good headphones. That's it. As for how much time it took for this new album, I can't say exactly how much, but most of the material was written over the last few years, and it all happened in live streams - around 120 hours of live streams, actually." From "80286" and "80386SX" to "8086" and album closer "80686," Master Boot Record continues to innovate and stupefy on Personal Computer. Though the genre of electronic metal is still in its infancy, the man behind it all proves yet again why he's the genre's Kevin Mitnick. Guess it's time we all updated our passwords. BLACKBOOK BLACKBOOK was founded by two well established artists of whom one part of the duo is responsible for many radio hits as well as for the title song to a successful Netflix series and the other one keeps busy as a musician with projects that have been claiming the top of the charts in Europe. Their influences reach from indie pop, electropop, jungle, darkwave and EDM over to the worldwide celebrated band DEPECHE MODE which gives their music a very special flavour that will leave you wanting more! A fence battle between emotions and melody. 
In their new debut album 'Confessions of the innocent', the Swiss-Dutch Duo BLACKBOOK creates sound worlds full of emotions and intensity by combining the heart of 80s new wave with a modern synthpop soul, a fusion so intriguing that it keeps you hitting repeat over and over again! The album holds catchy songs tackling topics from all aspects of life, such as the internal struggles of the mind palace to the ineffable truths of society! Love, shame, rebellion, change. This album showcases every topic with its perfect 80s/90s wave soundtrack. The many layers and facets of their music, have the power of bringing you back to your sweetest memories with songs such as 'My Beautiful Witch' as well as challenge you intellectually with 'Love Is A Crime', a song about the current topics and struggles of equality in love. Uncross your sabres and let down your guard for the unparalleled duo BLACKBOOK! Wulfband The members remain incognito. There is no information about the band members or their origins. There is really no story to tell, no long list of previous bands the members have been part of. Wulfband, like the wolf, sneaks out from the dark and attacks you. But instead of fangs that pierce you their weapon is crushing beats and driving bass lines with aggressive and deranged vocals. Music that rushes, strikes and thrusts until you submit totally. Wulfband is here to own the EBM-scene. When the wolf emerges, you have nowhere to hide. A must for fans of Nitzer Ebb, DAF and the likes - true Electronic Body Music with attitude. GRENDEL Officially formed in 2000 by JD Tucker, Grendel was quickly picked up by the legendary German label NoiTekk (a subdivision of Black Rain Records), upon hearing their first promo CD. This promo included the club hit “Strangers” and, after additional production & mastering, would become their 2001 debut studio album, “Inhumane Amusement”.After a year of touring & studio work, the “End Of Ages” EP was released and soon became a staple track for DJs world wide. This was shortly followed up in 2003, by the second full length album “Prescription Medicide” album, which saw the band truly entering the limelight, becoming album of the month in many magazines such as Orkus & Zillo, reach top 5 positions in prominent underground charts, including Deutsch Alternative Charts and number 1 for several months in the Dutch Underground Charts. With the success of this album, the band did extensive touring throughout Europe & North America. In 2005 Grendel released their now classic “Soilbleed” EP, of which the title track is to this day an unmissable club hit worldwide. This release marked a true milestone in the band’s career and saw them touring larger stages throughout Europe, reaching a far greater audience, and topping alternative & sales charts. The EP was re-released in 2006 as “Soilbleed Redux” and featured additional material, such as a cover of LeaetherStrip’s “Don’t Tame Your Soul”, “One.Eight.Zero” and a remix by New York artists Life Cried. In the meantime, Grendel started working on their third full length album, entitled “Harsh Generation”. This was to become one of the most important & influential albums for the contemporary industrial & Electronic Body Music movement, marking new territory and a more matured sound & style. After it’s release in 2007, it remained on top positions of alternative charts, such as the DAC, GEWC, DUC for maximum periods of time. To this day, this is also an unmissable part of any industrial/ebm DJs arsenal. Due to the success of this album, Grendel spent the following years touring extensively & intensively worldwide, drawing increasingly larger audiences. Eventually, in 2009, the "Chemicals + Circuitry" EP was written & recorded. This turned out to be a slight diversion from the band's familiar sound, but received much praise and again reached top positions in the charts (DAC, GEWC, DUC, etc.), with the title track quickly becoming a favourite amongst DJ’s and listens alike. This success would prompt a rework of the song on their following album, “Timewave Zero”, in 2012. Although returning to a more familiar sound, it would take on influences from a variety of contemporary dance music, such as trance, electro and house. This, again, would mark a big milestone in the band’s progress, branching out from familiar ground and reaching a wider audience. Much praise was given for this and it would gain not only top chart positions, but also high sales and in 2012, Grendel released the "Timewave : Zero" album. This album is both a return to their signature sound and taking on various influences from contemporary EDM styles, such as Trance, Complex Electro and House. All of this together has created the most mature Grendel sound to date and has gained highly positive feedback from both fans and media, scoring top positions in the DAC, GEWC, mail order sales charts and more. In the years that followed, Grendel toured extensively on the success of this album in both Europe & North America. During this period, JD moved to the UK in order to pursue various endeavours & career moves, where he became heavily influenced by the rich music, art and fashion culture of London. This resulted in a more refined and mature style, both musically and visually, incorporating his love for both contemporary and old school music of various genres. After much hard work, October 2017 marked the release of the eagerly awaited album, “Age Of The Disposable Body”. Not only did this album offer a rich pallet of sounds & styles, but also a huge step forward vocally and lyrically, marking a new chapter in Grendel’s evolution. This album focussed on the contemporary political situation in both Europe & North America, regarding populist politics & the cult of personality. It also saw guitarist Emanuelle Trinci involved in the creative process and guest appearance by Seamus Bradd of The.Invalid. The album received critical acclaim & praise from both fans and press alike and reached top 5 positions in both sales & DJ charts. To promote the album, Grendel embarked on an extensive 34 date tour of North America and played major festivals across Europe. This tour would see both Neal Read & Erik Gustafson join the band and Grendel taking on the form of a full creative line up. During the time after the North American tour, JD continued working on his music, exploring new musical avenues, and spent time reflecting on recent events in his life, which resulted in the 2019 release of the “Ascending The Abyss” album. The title of the album refers to facing challenges in life as a rite of passage. Erik Gustafson became involved in the recording process, with guitar taking on a more prominent role. Musically it showed Grendel taking a more mature approach to their music and expanding on the new direction set by “Age Of The Disposable Body” Extra: JD tells us what he's been up to and what sort of show you can expect at Tanz. "We just got off the road touring with Combichrist, doing an old school tour. For Resistanz we will have the full band so we will be doing a mix of old and new to make use of the whole band!" Yassi Puls4ra Yassi Puls4ra (formerly known as DJ Pink Foamy) Pick up the crazy heart and give it one more try. your mind holds the key - wake up, let's fly! No compromises ,no sugarcoating. No reason to prove yourself, stop asking why! I'll pull you from the dark - these eyes don't lie. Won't ask for much! RAVE by my side. Sacrifice this moment - lets get high! Inhale! BOOM boom, close your eyes! Embrace heartbeats synchronize, obey! Pumping beats for ever and ever. Oh we will be heroes....when I press play Dancefloor Gladiatorz Elektro Vox's Sunday MUST WATCH DJ set recommendation! (1 of 2) Raphael and Yannick are the minds behind the DJ project "Dancefloor Gladiatorz". After being active in the German Dark Electro scene for many years, they made their debut as a DJ team back in 2017. Their musical interest is mainly focussed on dark electro, however they are also known to incorporate many other styles into their high energy sets. Having gained experience DJing at events such as M'era Luna Festival, Subkultur Hannover, Matrix Bochum, Bassphaze Dortmund, multiple Twitch stream collaborations and performing live on stage with Faderhead in 2022 they are a SOLID choice for Resitanz Festival 2023! Victoria Fenbane Elektro Vox's Sunday MUST WATCH DJ set recommendation! (2 of 2) Victoria is a goth, EBM, industrial and darkwave DJ with over 20 years of experience. Past residencies include Nightmare (Nottingham) and Slimelight (London). Highlights of her numerous guest bookings include Infest Festival (UK), Club 666 (Vienna), Dark Infection (Munich), Death Guild (San Francisco), The Black Rose Ball (York), Intrusion (Oxford) and many more! In 2017 she founded ‘Exit the Grey’ a London/Manchester based club night which focuses on the best in new and classic EBM, dark-electro and synthpop. Extra: Victoria runs Exit The Grey (EBM/synthpop events) On Sunday night from midnight to 3am, London/Manchester club night Exit the Grey will be taking over the second stage for Synthpop Sunday. Victoria Fenbane and Simon Briggs will be bringing their distinctive EtG mix of synthpop, dark electro and EBM to Sheffield. Resistanz takes place a short walk from the location of Cabaret Voltaire's legendary Western Works studio, and The Beehive and The Washington pubs, which were favourite hangouts of The Human League, Clock DVA, and other local bands in the 70s and 80s. In tribute to the local history Victoria and Simon will be playing sets with a Yorkshire flavour. See you on the dance floor! Simon Briggs DJ Simon Briggs: Resident DJ Exit the Grey(London)& Strange Crewe * Ex-Resident DJ at the world famous Slimelight(London) * Founder of the famous Deadstars(Bradford,UK) * Ex-resident DJ BEATNATION(Ghent,BE) * Blitzark(Brussels,BE) Having guested at Infest festival UK & clubs from Düsseldorf, NY to Tokyo ... Simon has forgot more scene bands than you have likely heard !! There you have it! The full list of acts for Tanz 2023, as mentioned before this will be updated regularly as artists may get back to us with more extras to include. Be sure to bookmark this page for easy set time referencing and to get that playlist stomping. As always, expect many Elektro Vox video interviews with a lot of the acts after the event too, as well as a review and lots of great pictures; This time we will have the incredible Kevin Stevens helping us out once again(Musique Non-Stop) - doing a lot of photography at the festival. Thank you! 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grabyourface is one hell of an artist. Marie blew the UK Goth scene away in not one but two performances at Infest 2022, for their own set and joining Caustic for 'Not Your Body!' an incredible piece aimed at the horrific abortion law changes in the USA. Infest review of those performances: HERE Marie's range of style brings something to the table for everyone. Starting off in the deepest sways of depression and emotion, and steadily releasing heavier, dancier, more cathartic rage filled floor stompers and techno rave tunes between the sorrowful tracks - Marie is someone we can all relate heavily to. Depression, Grief, Self doubt, and rage at the way the world is turning, rage at the banks, the politicians, the misogynists and the right wing scum. Marie brings forth a war cry that Transends gender, genre, and genes as they sing in 'Keepthemclose'.. We could change the world We could build it anew We could bring down the walls that we were made to build between each other Just remember Be relentless Don’t let them catch their breath And when they’re down, don’t catch feelings Don’t give them pity, they wouldn’t give you any Elektro Vox's mission has always been to shine a light on the wonders of the industrial world, especially ones that may often get missed, and so I present to you a truly fascinating artists who I genuinely believe has the potential to blow the scene out of the water with just that bit more encouragement and belief in them. Below you will find awards that explain what I mean, a new text interview with our original video interview included, a bit of history, and finally some reviews; All of which of course peppered with videos and stream links that I hope you take full advantage of! When I was discussing my choice of photos for this article I mentioned to Marie that I had tried not to use any photos that would have come off as over sexualised. I took quite a few at infest and wanted to make sure I was respecting them in my choice of photos to which Marie replied. I overly sexualise myself during my gigs I use it to express the filth And conjure the darkness and the vice I'm trying to put on my songs I hope that give an extra bit of insight in to how bad ass they are. Check out one of their latest and most powerful rage tracks here: Awards So for several reasons, I did not do my usual 'Best of' for 2022 but I did post a handful of Best of awards on my FB to make up for it. Here are the two award posts of about five that included grabyourface: Best song/track of 2022 It really goes without saying that MORIS BLAK has been the king of American industrial this year (2022); So mixing a track up with the 'Drums de force' of France's MOAAN EXIS and the blazing comet that's burned it's way in to view this year (2022) in the form of grabyourface, was truly one of the most astonishing moments of 2022 when they collectively hit us with State Rejects! The poignancy of the anger we all feel makes this the ultimate anthem for those of us with anarchy in our hearts, but not just any anarchy, these are the movements that change the world for the better, that stoke the fires of love and compassion for our fellow man in to violence towards those that consistently do harm. So when iVardensphere dropped this absolute killer remix of an already fantastic track.. Well, the king of Canada turns any music he touches in to master crafted perfection. If you've not heard this remix before... Play it f**ing LOUD! One to watch 2023 / Break-through artist 2022 award: Grabyourface Double award! Although Marie has been making music for a few years now with their fire mix of unique industrial and some incredibly emotional songs.. 2022 really seemed to be the year they made waves! Marie is the artist you listen to when you need to feel pain, to feel anger, or to snap the f**k out of something and move on! Marie has worked with some of the best artists on the industrial scene from Caustic + Daddy Bear, Moaan Exis, Moris Blak, iVardensphere, and many more.. I've also had conversations with other big name artists' saying they have work in the pipeline with Marie as well.. grabyourface has new tracks dropping soon; One set to be a hard industrial techno banger, the other a heart wrenching slow song. Having found rapturous love from the Infest Festival crowd with Marie's own performance, we were all blown away by the incredible and poignant mash up with Caustic for the single 'Not Your Body'. All of this and more should have hopefully given grabyourface the well deserved recognition to launch them in to being possibly one of the best artists of 2023! STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Interview Q. For those still unaware of your music, how would you describe it and your great contrast between emotional tracks and dance floor stompers in equal measures? A. I'll describe it as an ADHD darkwave-ish project then I suppose nothing is ever planned, and a lot is due to procrastination and changing my mind halfway through an idea. In terms of sounds and vibes, probably a healthy dose of emo bullshit as well as unmanaged teenage angst combined to either darkpop or sleazy beats. Or both? Can you tell me brain is chaotic? Q. grabyourface is quite a unique name, where did it come from and what is the story behind what you create? A. Uhhh, well. I wanted a name that was absolutely not cliché; not heard before. Something unusual and weird, almost shocking, and representing some sort of absurd violence. I remember I was just throwing random word combinations at my friend with more and more frustration until the magic of grabyourface happened. Still very happy with the weirdness of it :) Q. The last few years you have ended up collaborating with some huge name artists like MORIS BLAK and Caustic to name just a couple. How did these collabs start, what is the best part about working with them, and what do you think makes you and your voice/vocals so well respected and sought after in the scene? A. Yeah I was lucky enough to work with amazing humans. I don't really know what they see in me, to be honest Some sort of sleazy tank girl with things to say maybe; Or maybe it's just my radiant and colourful personality... :p As for how it works, well it generally starts with us following each other online and interacting with the bullshit we post on social media. Then a joke is thrown about doing a collab, then we go, 'but yo, what if for real mate?' And then we do it. Something like that. Internet is the best and the worst, as usual. The best part about it is the opportunity to sing on tracks I would not have the idea or the skills to produce myself. Getting to record vocals for extremely heavy songs such as the Moaan Exis/Moris Blak one when most of my stuff is very mellow is such a refreshing change of pace sometimes, and it gives me new ideas too. Q. With these collaborations, have there been any particular amazing, funny, or difficult moments that spring to mind that you could tell us about? A. The amazing one remains Eskil from Covenant asking me to collab with them as I only had one EP out I think. They had discovered me just because I had decided to sell my stuff on tape at the time. Eskil wanted to get back to collecting tapes, and probably bought mine randomly. That's some serious twist of fate. Also, exclusive bit of exclusiveness, I might go back to making tapes soon. No valid reason, I just like it. No real difficult moment, people have been amazing with and around me ever since this little grabventure started. Yes I'm a fucking carebear, I love everyone, deal with it bitch. x Q. ‘Not Your Body’ with Caustic was so well received at Infest 2022, as was your show the following night, tell us about how it was to perform that weekend and what it was like to have everyone respond so well to you. A. Performing at Infest was a dream come true. And I'm not just saying that. It was a fucking DREAM of mine. Infest was one of my holy grails. That and playing in a strip club, and in Vegas (if I play in a strip club in Vegas it's triple points) Obviously I was shitting my pants a bit, but after the first round on stage on Friday with the Caustic boys, I felt completely liberated from any stage fright I may have had. On Saturday when I went on stage for my set, I felt like I was the fucking king of the world. And I dont know how or why, but the crowd gave exactly that kind of energy back to me. They offered me the loudest fucking cheer I ever received. Kinda cried on the inside. But remained a total cool and edgy badass on the outside of course Nah for real, Infest was incredible. I can't fucking wait to just GO. BACK. Caustic returning the favour and joining the grabyourface performance Here is our interview at Infest before any of us had seen grabyourface perform: Q. So the news is out that you’ll be tagging along to Resistanz to hang with the UK crowds again, what are you most looking forward to? A. Yessss I am so happy to finally see Resistanz with my eyes. I have heard of it so much. Plus I'm not playing, so it's all gonna be fun and beers and chill for three days, I can't wait. I'm obviously looking forward to see matey Moris Blak, which is one of the reasons I'm going in the first place. We've exchanged and worked together so much online, I couldn't pass on the chance to meet him IRL on his first gig in Europe. I'm also looking forward to seeing Randolph and Mortimer a lot, the bros from Biomechanimal and Mechanical Vein of course, the DJ set from Gillywoo my best girl from Infest, AYRIA! Can't wait for that. Her Noise is Violence I'm extremely curious about, MBR same, I'm sure it's gonna be fire, and lastly Wulfband! I opened for them in Ireland once and I kept a very good memory of those guys. ALSO I'm simply just looking forward to seeing many faces I love and can't get to see often as I live in goddamn France. Q. As someone who is non binary, do you feel there is enough representation across the industrial scene when it comes to artists that are booked for shows and what would ideal representation look like for you? (I ask this because I intend to put on festivals in future with much more minority representation across performing artists.) A. Mmmmmh. I think as a scene we're quite open-minded, despite the occasional backward fascist and misogynist. As for representation... well I don't know, I might not be best placed to talk about that, I haven't really analysed it. Mmmh... I feel that even though it might not be explicit during artist bookings at events, the queer artists are becoming a solid and increasing part of the scene. Just looking at the Infest artists I met last year, I think at least 50% of us were queer, therefore including non-binary folks. So that makes me happy. :) It feels nice and safe. Q. Which song of yours means the most to you and also which track was the most fun to make? A. I probably have a thing for Sea, the last track of the album of the same name. It was clearly a suicide note, left at the end of an agonizing album that was meant as a farewell, at a time where my life was very... not cool. A time I thought I could escape only by ending my life. I remain a depressed fuck to this day of course, but I escaped this difficult period, so that's cool. Yet this song always moves me to tears. That one and So, off the same album. Same reasons. I think Videotapes was the most fun to make. It's a silly little electro song with samples from one of my favourite movies, American psycho (and one from x-files!) which was a nice little absurdist break in the emotionally heavy 'Keep Me Closer' that I released in 2019. I might remix/remake that track in the future, now that I know a little more about how to make music. Q. What are some of the great things about the Industrial / Gothic scene and are there any parts you would like to see improve? A. The great thing is that everyone is sexy and bi and kind and open-minded. You could make ethnic hip-hop drum and bass with a sprinkle of ghetto goth on top, they'd still be interested in hearing it, and supportive no matter if they like it or not. I would improve... the lineup of European goth festivals as much as I love seeing And One, Faderhead, Diary of Dreams, Project Pitchfork and Aesthetic Perfection for the 5th time, I would love to get a slice of the new wave of goth that is happening in the US at the moment. Kanga, Curse Mackey, Panic Priest, Rein, Health, Actors, Black Asteroid, TR/ST, Kontravoid, etc. I feel my music fits much more with the US goth sound as well. Q. What moment in your life made you decide to create grabyourface? A. A crossroads of events, as usual. I had just finished a course on audio technology, I was learning to use digital audio interfaces for the first time. A good old break up of course, as well as the start of a toxic relationship I really should have curved, roughly at the same time (yes I'm a romantic - or a slut, whichever you want to call it). But also and more importantly extra supportive friends, who knew I had something to express and pushed me to try and try and try again, who got me to get softwares, midi instruments as well as my first gig. And of course, a lifelong tendency to ️depression️ and anxiety, that was enough to fill several albums already. Q. What artists do you listen to when you, want to party, when you’re feeling down, and when you want to relax and zone out? A. Party: early 2000s pop punk, I know it's trash but I love it and never get tired of it. It makes me happy and nostalgic of a youth I didn't really have (I was not cool enough to hang out at the skate park with the punks, I was mostly hanging out in my room with the cat). Otherwise techno, 80s pop (Duran Duran!), nu disco, italo disco, fun industrial like Wulfband, Mindless Self Indulgence or And One, Mascarpone, etc. Down: early 2000s emo (yes, again - it's my thing at the moment), Depeche Mode, NIN, sad rap and rnb, sad Electronica, Placebo, depressive black metal... Relax: vaporwave, video game lofi, liminal space music (yes, it's a thing - and it's my favourite thing) Q. What is in the works for you, do you have new music your creating at the moment and can we expect any more collaborations in the near future? A. I'm preparing an album. A very sad girl album. I can't say more for now, but prepare the tissues (for the tears. Don't you dare.) And yeah there are a couple of fun collabs in the works at the moment, but I can't talk about it further yet. However in the meantime you should really check out my songs with Ex Machina, Non, Orphooiz, Cyber Reaper, Drew Von Sheim and Simon Gag, to mention only the recent ones (yes, I like to collab a lot ). I feel those songs are excellent and didn't get enough talked about, so go listen to them, and don't hesitate to come grab me on Instagram to tell me what you thought! Q. Have you had any particular favourite moments with fans of yours? A. The rush for my merch after my gig at Infest, and seeing people with grabyourface t-shirts throughout the weekend after that. It was an incredible feeling, I was very moved. People just being extra nice to me in general, buying me a beer (cant go wrong with that) or just coming up to me shyly to tell me how much they loved my show. This is some magical shit. Marie and I at Infest Q. I’ve said you are my number one artist to watch this year but where would you like to see grabyourface be in the next couple of years? A. In a stripclub in Vegas! Honestly I don't know. If I'm still alive it's already a success. Other than that, if I can get a couple of gigs here and there, overseas as well, if I can get to collab and play with cool artists, and if society leaves me alone and lets me compose and release my little music in peace, I'll be pretty happy I think :) Q. Do you have any life advice for us that being in this music industry has taught you? A. Be nice to people. You don't know what's going on for them. In doubt - just be nice. It's free. Photo credit: Infest Festival Q. If you could make a dream band with three other people, who would they be and why, also what music would you all play? A. Nick Cave, Robert Alfons from TR/ST, and uh, me, that's it, we would make the saddest fucking music to ever exist, it would be amazing. Q. I’ll ask this again as it took you so off guard in our video interview so, do you have anything you’d like to say to your fans? A. Mmmmh... eat a little less meat if you can. Try and get it from people who treat animals kindly. Drink a glass of water after each beer. Talk about what's bothering you. To your friends, your family, your therapist. Don't give silent treatments to people, it's the worst. Communicate. Don't kill yourself for jobs. Jobs can suck it. They would replace you in about a week if you die. Oh and, thanks! Had to.. It's peak aesthetic <3 History Marie is quite a private person from France (Except for their love for craft beer!) and when you go looking for information about grabyourface, you will find very little. Self described in only brief sentences: 'grabyourface is your deepest feelings.' 'Urban industrial hybrid singing about sad stuff.' Self releasing the four track album Philophobia in October 2017, and the single 1LLNES$E$ in January 2018, Marie then went on to releasing a few more self released pieces, most noticeably the full length album Keep Me Closer in December 2018. Marie went on to signing with Negative Gain Productions and released the harrowing album, and my personal favourite GYF release, sea, in December 2020. On this separate Bandcamp, the description now reads.. 'Cold industrial-wave lowlife. Too soft to fight. So angry though.' N.G apparently thought there would not be enough of a market to create a CD version of sea and I hope that changes soon N.G because it's something I would very much like to physically own! And I present to you the incredible track 'Shore' that made me fall in love with this six track album in the first place. As may have been apparent, last year was filled with collaborations bringing Marie in to the spotlight. From the previously mentioned State Rejects with Moris Blak, Moaan Exis, and iVardensphere, to 'Not Your Body' with Caustic.. (Photo cover for that single was one I took hehe) Photo Credit: Tim Payne ..To working with Simon Gag for 'Sunflower Man' in support of Ukraine, and others such as Cyber Reaper with 'Let Me Just Get My Axe'- Original exclusive Elktro Vox release and review: HERE - Needless to say Marie has been busy and there are more collaborations and grabyourface releases both in the past and in the works as mentioned in the above interview. Most noticeably as mentioned in the interview was when Marie was asked to collaborate with Covenant for the track 'False Gods' released March 1st 2019! Most importantly this is not about the sad beginnings of trauma that started Marie's music and how they could have stopped at several low points in their life, this is about the future and the faith I have in them to rock our collective sh*t in what I hope will be a standout career and an incredible artist that promoters will clamour to book! Reviews Instead of going over the albums, I am just going to point out some of the most noteworthy tracks of grabyourface in my opinion. Well in-case it was not incredibly obvious go listen to 'State Rejects' at the top of this article, as well as 'FKNBSTRDS and HOWDAREU' both available in the bandcamp stream below for the best musical 10/10 angry techno goodies. 'Rob the Bank' released in October 2021 is a slow burner that gets deep, deep in to your soul and has you melodically growling out the phrase 'Rob a bank with me' to yourself for days on end once Marie gets their teeth in to you with the incredibly catchy anti-capitalist art piece. 9/10 'Shore' is my personal favourite gyf track because it is so incredibly relatable in the lyrics. The sense of loss, heartbreak, nostalgia and pain are unavoidable. The entire song is a swansong and epitaph for the life that could have been whilst still holding strong for the future. Each time the chorus kicks in, the music takes a deep dive in to incredibly satisfying shifts in pitch that really dose hit hard in the best way and I honestly love this track beyond words. It's got me very emotional a few times now. 11/10 'Summer on Saturn' has that darkwave sense of unease and anxiety running throughout with the deep rumbling synth and peaking vocals that somehow digs deep in to the listener and once you embrace it, becomes really enjoyable, like a catharsis for the mind 8/10 'Videotapes' is such a catchy melody and uses a perfect sampling of American Psycho to really make this track a masterwork of editing and sampling. it's so fun to listen to as well, one of the most 80's industrial sounding tracks around. 9/10 On the same album of Keep Me Closer is the incredible war cry of 'Keepthemclose' which I mentioned near the start. This isn't aggressive in the sense of a traditional war cry, but more that inspirational voice urging you to go on, to not give up, and to keep fighting. It is beautiful, simple - yet poignant, and showcases the most eloquent and delightful French accent that Marie has 10/10 'Dystopiannow' - This is a slow ambient and piano piece that has Terresa May giving a speech about keeping her in power to get on with Brex-Sh*t and it is interesting to see that someone from France was just as angry at what they were hearing as we were. Available on Philophobia. Sad that I missed out on a Unicorn pic because to quote Marie when I asked about this .. "Everyone did. I fu*king drew them all." There are of course, many more great songs to discover with grabyourface but I urge you to go look for yourself, and maybe buy a couple of bits from Marie next Bandcamp Friday, maybe one on their self released bandcamp, and one on their Negative Gain one to show the label that they really do have a star on the rise here. Thank you for reading and may the best things in life grab you by the face! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

This was my third time bearing witness to the healing ritual of Heilung, they have had the most profound and important effect upon my life. It was touching to see this journey reflected in the eyes of those around me who had come to heal for the very first time. What they witnessed may very well be another defining and pivotal moment in Heilung history. I have put off writing this because I fear I could never do Heilung justice with my words, but having taken my time to think about what I saw.. Many things have dawned on me that even long time Heilung fans may not have realised, and I wish to point a few things out that may deepen your love for their ritual. The Review is later if you want to skip this unusually long intro from me, but I do have a very important point to say first, I promise it is worth it! First of all, lets set the scene: 2014 - Kai Uwe Faust and Christopher Juul formed the premise of Heilung from their pagan love and the old Norse tattoos Kai was well known for creating. Juul, being a producer offered Kai the use of his recording studio to start the process. 2015 - Maria Franz, Juul's partner joined Heilung and the band self released the album 'Ofnir' 2017 - You know that incredible performance at CastleFest we have all seen on YouTube? The one that made us go from a confused face, to a dropped jaw, to a life defining moment of deep clarity in the space of only one performance? That was their first ever live show.. Let that sink in and just think on that for a minute before what I have to say next.. And if you haven't seen that turning point in history, here it is: I need to make a quick personal point to make my overall point, bear with me! 2018/19 - In November 2018 I saw them in London (not realising it was probably their first show in the UK) with someone very special to me that had helped me delve in to Nordic Paganism, though our contact seems to have ended I truly and deeply wish them the best and the unwavering favour and love of the Gods to ever be with them. After that show I questioned everything about my Christian beliefs and who I was as a person, I cried happy tears and felt the healing that was promised. Again in November 2019 we both saw Heilung again with two other friends very close to our lives and in our pagan journey. I cried harder and felt the pain of an awful year washed away, it was at that point I truly converted to the old Gods. 2020 - Disaster had struck the world with Covid and Heilung was postponed again and again. The healing I so desperately needed from a truly awful year in my personal life and for some many others out there, was lost. 2023: Finally, three years later, their third London show was about to begin at Hammersmith Apollo. My partner and I queued early for hours to get front centre barrier.(Only to be in vane because the tickets I bought in 2019 for this show were re-sent from the Brixton venue change and now would not scan, meaning I spent 20 minutes at the box office quite annoyed at ticketmaster as the queues rushed in..) Our night was rescued by a kind man who let us squeeze in at the far right barrier. This man told me he had recently discovered Heilung and he truly believed Heilung had helped him so much that he was now in remission of Cancer! Also, that he did not know quite why Heilung meant so much to him, other than how it made him feel spiritually. Others we met that night also explained it was their first time. To see such joy, hope, and love for Heilung, even in the freezing queue and a cramped barrier was awe-inspiring. I was seeing how far the group had come and their effect on the world before they were even on the stage again. This hopefully puts across in some small way the magic in that venue and the electricity of every baited breath. MY POINT! - CastleFest to almost all of us, and to those who I had met this night, was an incredible masterpiece of a performance. A true turning point in the history of the spread of modern Paganism/Odinism/Asatru/Poly-Theism, whatever you wish to name it.. You cannot deny Heilung have had a strong hand in the spread of paganism. BUT.. No one at CastleFest knew what to expect, or who Heilung were.. They - like we were - first watching that video, were confused, then lost to the music, and finally elated to have experienced such a show. It was precisely because of this that Heilung were able to put on such a poignant epic.. Not only did the band know that they had to get it perfect first time, otherwise they would appear fascicle to the audience with such a new and experimental approach to live music but they knew it may effect the live recording and muddy years of hard work and dedication to have got to where they were. Thankfully, they were given respectful tranquillity and hypnotised peace by the audience who remained captivated on Maria's every delicate vocal note, and every guttural growl from Kai. Those witnessing that live show did not know what was being sung next, what vocal sound or note would be played next, and so kept quiet as Maria spun the most intricate and delicate feats of vocal perfection imaginable to the joy of us all worldwide immortalised in recording.. If you want a more substantial opinion on this check out this amazing YouTube channel where a vocal coach has covered many Heilung songs in detail with such love that she ended up interviewing Maria too because of them! This sadly is not something Heilung are able to do now to their full capability because as we know, the CastleFest audience were loud enough in their applause and elation at the end of each track back then.. Well, now that their audiences know what to expect and cry out far more regularly in over zealous joy, Heilung have masterfully compensated for this which I will briefly discuss in the review section. Heilung also recorded this performance for 'Their next release' so here's to hoping for a Live show DVD soon to relive the magic. This is why I think it will be another pivotal point (as with CastleFest) that will spread their message to an even wider audience! Also .. For those unaware, £1 from each ticket sale on this tour is being donated to Trees For Cities. An organisation working at a local and international scale to improve lives by planting trees in cities! STOP A MOMENT! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Review Lili Refrain Lili is a performer I had not listened to before and had no idea of what to expect, and even so I can certainly see why Heilung chose such a performer to accompany them on their journey. A solo performer who has exudes witchcraft and emotion, Lili uses a looping machine to in turn record the likes of a powerful and deep reaching drum, a cattle bell, and more to provide a background of all encompassing atmospherics to compliment her incredible vocal range to full effect. For someone with a small amount of kit, it is one hell of a performance! From pushing her vocals to astonishing heights, to powering out some impressive guitar work, Lili Refrain is an artist you should all take some time to add to your playlists. 8.5/10 Eivør Eivør, much like Heilung and Wardruna being responsible for a lot of music on 'Vikings', is responsible for a lot of the music in the show 'The Last Kingdom'. One such song is Lívstræðrir 'Threads of life' speaking of the tears rolling down the cheeks of Thor as Sigmundur's bloody story turns the Faroe islands to Christianity and away from paganism in the Færeyinga saga. (The Netflix show Vikings-Valhalla is currently exploring characters in that saga and history) This is a deeply touching and emotive piece that touches all who hear it and the audience was captivated and spine chilled in every corner of that venue. Eivør is a truly talented singer who owned the stage, able to adapt her vocal chords and breathing in to instruments upon instruments interlaced in tribal complexity. Therefore, you can imagine how impressive her singing was too! A truly brilliant performance. 8/10 Heilung Here's a short compilation video of some highlights from London that a fellow audience member uploaded: The setting for the ritual was immense, a curtain swept back to reveal a woodland of trees, drums, instruments, and a centre piece with the runes around it. Heilung slowly entered and took their places each upon a rune. The significance and power of the runes individually is substantial, when combined together, you create true magic and power. The metaphor of the combination of all Heilung members in this healing ritual was immediately apparent. The audience bayed and howled, cheered, and elated to the top of their lungs. The howls of wolves rose higher amongst the cacophony and brought all there to uniformed and spontaneous harmony with our howling giving voice to our ancestors and gratitude for their presence. This is not a band, this is not a 'gig', Heilung are travelling shamans, sears, and most importantly Skalds keeping the old ways alive. Most importantly though, they bring their healing ritual to help bring peace and harmony to the lives they touch, to the souls bearing witness. When Heilung gave voice to the opening chant, you can imagine how well four thousand plus people chanted the words back with love and excitement.. "Remember that we all are brothers.." Following my point about CastleFest and how Heilung have needed to adapt vocally.. As soon as Kai gave voice to 'In Maidjan' it was clear that he has had to change his vocal growls in sections to be heard over such a crowd; So same with Maria, she has had to accommodate the audience to still be heard with the softer parts in to something a little less delicate. This is not a bad thing, Maria when given peace to be delicate and gentle in song is pure bliss! However, to now see her weave her voice around such competing sounds of a crowd gone wild with this new and evolved Heilung performance, is like watching a master swordswoman having to parry that bit harder, and riposte that bit stronger, it is just a difference in approach to match the challenge. This also reflects in the instrumental aspects of later tracks, for instance the 'arrow strike' at the beginning of 'Svanrand' instead takes the form of a very loud and unexpected drum beat sending ripples through the startled audience. Perfection.. This being my third show, I could tell everything about this performance - even only one song in - was beyond scope and measure to quantify. Now with more back up singers, who are themselves intricate characters and pieces of the whole. New production value from the works of Christopher Juul, new lighting, microphones in all the right little places, the setting, the choreography, intricate costumes, the metaphor in each motion, and so much more.. Well, I look back at CastleFest and realise how truly far Heilung have come. From a group of friends with an incredible experiment to show an unexpecting audience, to now worldwide heroes in the sagas we are currently living through.. Heilung are the messengers truly worthy of the Aesir, the Vanir, the Jotuun, and the spirits of the Earth.. This is as authentic as you can possibly get in this modern age when needing to perform to more than a few dozen people. Yes there may be electronics at play all around but truly, at the heart of it all, is the magic and ritual of healing and opening your hearts to the spiritual and to so much more than the day to day capitalist hell-scape we are trapped in. These photos by @vampyrbrat I return to my comment about each motion and the metaphors therein.. Maria at one point was singing a difficult vocal piece bust still managed to pull off three yoga poses on one leg slowly from one to the other. At other points the warriors and supporting singers perform their dances, steps, or incantations of body symmetry in perfect unison. No move is wasted, every single step, hand motion, and pose is deliberate, everything is dripping with power - with meaning. There are many highlights to this performance, from the warriors, to the use of fire, and of course the well known songs. Something not so well known is the meaning of songs like 'Galgaldr'. (Near the end where Maria and Kai growled words at one another for a couple of minutes..) They speak of the prophecy of Ragnarok from the Poetic Edda, the end time, the time we seem to be living in now.. Brothers shall fight and fell each other, And sisters' sons shall kinship stain; Hard is it on earth, with mighty whoredom; Axe-time, sword-time, shields are sundered, Wind-time, wolf-time, ere the world falls; Nor ever shall men each other spare. axe-time, sword-time, wind-time, wolf-time.. Three beautiful moments were that of 'Asja', 'Traust', and 'Anoana'. 'Asja' is a love, healing, and protection song meant to give aid to the troubled who hear it. Kai growls out part of the Havamal taking the role of a demon assailing one suffering. Maria sings this song of self love and protection to purge the spirit. Not only was Maria's voice heavenly but the warriors dancing in slow and synchronised movements, was breath-taking. 'Traust' had Kai tie and bound a warrior to a spear behind her back and then cast her down in to nothing. Maria in turn approached slowly, raised the warrior up, and dramatically released her from the spear that was holding all the intricate ropes Kai had tied, letting them fall to the ground; The warrior healed and freed by Maria remembered who she was and stood proud in the shield wall of her fellow warriors once more. A particularly touching moment for me considering the painful things I have been through the last few years.. The healing ritual was working its magic on me even better than I had hoped. For 'Anoana', as soon as Maria sat down, the stage was engulfed in the lighting of intricate carvings and motifs. For those unaware, as the gentleman who had let us squeeze in and loves this song was unaware.. The lyrice are taken from carvings in 'Hracteates'. These gold coins and amulets from northern Europe are from prosperous and peaceful times where the Romans paid the Germanic and Scandinavian peoples gold in return for peace. This gold was used to make protection charms, to help fulfil wishes, and grant divination. None of these carvings have been translated, the only word known amongst those sung is 'Landawariar' (Warrior of the land, guardian of nature) The thought of the mighty Romans cowering to the sons and daughters of Odin.. Well, it is beautiful to think of such long durations of peace for the old ways. In so performing this songs, Heilung created that emotion and beauty before us. I think where I was in front of speakers, Maria sounded like she was needing to change and strain her voice in this seated position on a throne in order for the microphone to better pick up her vocals, I can't quite tell, it may have been a combination of both things but it was still incredibly beautiful, especially with the singers sat in the middle of the runes chanting the chorus. There were so many good moments. The camera crews certainly broke the illusion a fair bit but the amount my partner and I were filmed and taken photos of, I'll be shocked if we don't show up in the recordings so it's great to know this may all be seen again and re-lived. Of course Heilung ended with 'Hamrer Hippyer'- the tribal rave of reckless abandon and ecstasy. The warriors threw themselves up against the crowds, the dancing escalated, the audience let loose, and the God's smiled upon what was once more a successful worship in their honour and for the healing of those who so desperately needed their souls cleansed. If Odin had not already heard his many names during 'Alfadhirhaiti', then he must have certain felt us then! As the quiet again drew close, Christopher Juule entered the circle, acknowledging his utmost respect to those around him, he slammed his staff down sending lightning in all directions from the clever use of lighting and sound. The ritual was complete.. Finally Heilung came back to the circle, took a breath together and cheered - in what must have been incredible joy at not just another successful show, but a perfect performance for the camera and the crowds they know had been waiting for three years for that exact moment. It was bliss without measure. As the band bowed out and slowly exited, standing ovations thundered harder than the Apollo must have ever heard. Did I cry this third time? I sure did, and this healing ritual came at a pivotal point in my life once more, I hope this third time continues to shape me in to a better person and I hope it genuinely helped everyone there who witnessed the love and power of Heilung to truly discover who they are too. Thank you from the bottom of my heart Heilung for everything that you do! 100/10 No score does this justice (Please let me interview you one day! I've tried, you're really hard to get hold of!) Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! 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It's been a month since the first and incredible Zero Day Festival that kicked our asses over the 35th Slimelight birthday weekend. It's about time I got this article put together but sometimes life just gets in the way. Below you will find the interviews and images I managed to take. Each band put in so much effort and skill that it was insanely good from start to finish. From the first UK show in 14 years for Ashbury Heights, to the Jaw crunching bass of Biomechanimal, the first live shows of Teknovore and Simon Carter & Fabsi, to the raw untamed power of ESA, and the poignant and shockingly wonderful Grausame Töchter! This festival brought back the very heart and soul of the venue, the music, and the community flourished back at Slimelight. We all once again felt at home and like the future of Slimes was going to be more concrete and hopeful than we had all been worrying over. A massive thank you to the bands but especially to Emmerick (Also Marc and Jason) for putting on this thoroughbred festival that did something I've always wanted to see.. A lot of lesser known bands being given stage time amongst larger bands and in so doing made the festival a truly special and unique experience that opened up the community to a lot of new and great music. Emmerick really did light the industrial beacons for this festival, and so the bands and crowds rode to Zero Day's aid in epic fkn style! Also a big thank you to the venue and Slimes crew for helping host such a beautiful weekend! Over 130+ Images of the bands, all available on our Facebook STOP! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Rhys Fulber Ashbury Heights Electronic Substance Abuse Biomechanimal Teknovore (Featuring J:Dead) Simon Carter & Fabsi Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Recently I had an incredible album in every sense of the word land in my Inbox and is one of the main reasons why my musical passions have drifted further and further into the the Industrial Techno world and away from traditional industrial when putting a playlist on for my own enjoyment. That album was Simon Carter and Fabsi's - The Bitches Potion.. Full review of The Bitches Poison HERE. So.. I am delighted to share with you now the newest EP with the two returning for more of the same! I for one cannot wait to hear this music live at Zero Day Festival next week! The dynamic Techno-Witch duo SIMON CARTER & FABSI are pleased to present the conclusion to their successful debut album 'THE BITCHES POTION' (released in March 2022). 'WITCH BUT NOT FAMOUS' is a DJ-Friendly EP which is essentially three extensive singles in one release. Each single is accompanied by different versions and remixes to suit all your spooky dancefloor needs. Remixes come courtesy of some of Simon's oldest and dearest musical friendships: 'STUDIO-X', 'TEKNOVORE', 'C-LEKKTOR' and 'RUINIZER' Released on Halloween 2022. Catch Simon Carter and Fabsi on Friday 11th November at Zero Day Festival London. Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Review: 'Omens' has an opening that does remind me a little bit of that famous line 'It's an omen' by The Prodigy but soon enough we are thrust back into the futuristic dark techno of Simon entranced with the fantasy witchcraft darkness of Fabsi. Two of my favourite things are the ancient, and the futuristic - old woodland lore, and the cybernetic horizon. So to have this duo once again mashing these two things together that absolutely should not work into some of the best industrial techno of our time is absolutely astounding. Their music may not be the most well known out on the scene but I truly believe that after Zero Day Festival, their names and music will be on the lips of people like wildfire over the next year, just as everyone knew who 'I Hate Models' and 'SKYND' were seemingly overnight. 'Omens' brings a steady pace and has an underlying rhythm that sounds like plastic pipes being hit to create one hell of a track. Fabsi's lyrics are catchy and satisfying as ever. The haunted version brings the tempo down to a much more 'house' kind of vibe and the club version appeals to the more EDM sense of 'normality' or whatever the mainstream considers it to be; So a nice trio there for all tastes. Then we have Studio-X, a personal favourite artists of mine who I have sadly not covered on Elektro Vox yet! (I must change that!) Their remix brings the crazy journey that their tracks are well known for in to the mix, throwing the track through many different types of loops and tempos into something quite special for the mind. 'Witch Hit' is a FILTHY bass driven 'oontz' track that flirts across the lines of that most elusive of genres.. Industrial trance, and oddly mixed in with a little bit of horror with the looped sample. Listen to it and you'll understand what I mean. The Possessed version bring the tempo down and ramps up the bass and horror to more than compensate for it. The Cursed 113BPM version just strikes me as a little bit strange though.. Now the C-Lekktor version however.. DAMN, now that is something tasty for the traditional Industrial lovers and has a real tongue in cheek second half that throws out quite the party vibe all round. Finally we have 'We Are The Witches' a track that was on the recent album and a track I love (But not as much as HEX HEX which is quite similar, especially lyrically) but you can read about that in my other review HERE. The Enchanted version brings a heavier feel and a slightly faster tempo breathing a new lease of life into an already great song. Teknovore then does what he does best, throws your mind through space with more of an industrial trance spin which makes this version deeply fulfilling in every aspect of your body as you listen, massaging places in your mind and soul you didn't even know needed an aural massage. Finally we have Ruinizer doing what he does best too (And I'm so glad to see his name back in full in the industrial world!) Jay Ruin turns this track in to some of the slickest and most decadent dance fugal state of pure cyber ritualistic bliss. Honestly I am always stunned by how damn good this guy is at crafting, reworking, and re-forging music in the way he does. Top class stuff! 9/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Releasing October 28th, Ashwin aka Cyber Reaper honours us with an early listen single exclusive featuring the ever so popular Marie of grabyourface. Here we have 'Let Me Just Get My Axe' and in Ashwin's words: "I collaborated with grabyourface from France for them to do half the vocals. I play and sing the male perspective in the song and they play a dominatrix. The lyrics are loosely based on the movie 'American Psycho'. This is also my Halloween tune!" Below you can stream the track via Bandcamp before official release, below that is a quick review too! Check out grabyourface's Bandcamp by clicking the logo: Cyber Reaper is a multi-genre electronic music outlet by Ashwin Prasad. It is focused on darkness, melody, and bass, inspired by sounds of the 80s, with a modern edge. Themes for songs are based on sci-fi, dystopia, and nightlife. Ashwin, who has a background in metal, rock, and ambient, released the first Cyber Reaper EP, 'Unholy Trinity' on May 1, 2022. Here's the track: Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Review: I love a mid-tempo cyberpunk beat and come on, who doesn't? Suggestive breaths, a whip crack, and Marie saying.. "This is gonna hurt".. ..sure does set the theme Ashwin was going for with the dominatrix vibe. Lyrically Ashwin speaks out a smooth drone about relinquishing control that are woven around by Marie's vocals like a smooth power play dance. This is a spicy song until you realise Marie is grabbing an axe to cut the song and Ashwin's character to bits. It is still a track that would go down so well in fetish and Gothic night clubs. It is an easy tune to sway along to and lose your mind via intoxication and the ambience of the track. So whether you add this to a playlist of spicy tunes, Halloween tunes, or a mix just to vibe out to, Cyber Reaper and grabyourface have covered all angles with a truly well rounded and enjoyable song that oozes desire, passion, and most importantly.. violence! 8/10 Cyber Reaper Instagram Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Here we have something quite different, a beautifully relaxing and somewhat Gothic chillout from Lore-City. Life can't always be about aggressive vocals, dance floor fillers, and powerful riffs. Sometimes you have to slip on a pair of headphone, put on some smooth ambient chillout and drift off in to a world of peace. If that sounds like what you're looking for right now, come relax with Lore City. Lore City is a duo formed in 2011 and currently based in Portland, Oregon. The Lore City Music publishing imprint was established in 2020 to facilitate the musical releases of Laura Mariposa Williams and Eric Angelo Bessel. Lore City's EP statement and story provides some insight: Sometimes, the thing that happens along the way to something else turns out to be the thing in itself; saying to you, "I am not what you thought I was, but rather, I am my own all together." An early departure, announcing its entirety upon arrival. Once thought of as the beginning of the next album, Under Way exists as a standalone 7-inch EP, confined only to the parameters of vinyl. Two sides, two tracks, pressed into another thing in a world on its way to something else...more Oneness. Whether you like it or not. Creeping up on you. Morse code tapping you on the shoulder. Runoff into the sea. A little bell ringing. Windchimes singing from forces unseen. I wanna believe. I animate these bones, for you. A paper skeleton on Halloween dangling from the front door. Animate, animate. Shuddering and twitching with your comings and goings. The thresholds we know. Everyone in their own little box, moving between containers. Remembering the orange glow of old sodium vapor streetlamps, and simultaneously, the terror of noticing that your heart is constantly beating. The fading roar of airplanes overhead, rerouted. Suddenly you can see the flashing red and white lights out of the corner of your eye, every night, from your bed. - Laura Mariposa Williams Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Review: There is such a sense of scale and cosmic infinity straight away with 'Animate'. It has that sense of Gothic fantasy, trance like peace, and the sort of spirituality that comes from tribal folk music or religious connection. Not only that but there is an almost instant sense of relief and stress reduction as the notes continue to grow and compliment one another as the rhythm pans out a steady, beautiful beat. Each piano key brings your sense of self to the present like an echolocator playing notes out on your soul and where you are in the scale of things. Lyrically this really brings a profound sense of connection towards your fellow man and the cosmos. Some of these lyrics strike a particularly close note with my love of rainfall and reflections of nature.. Duckin' under an awning While it rains around me I want to believe I wanna believe I can see I am free Who are we Who are we The track has an electronic edge to it that also turns towards the nostalgic, bringing this track into the territory of dreams, be they fantasy or science fiction. I can't quite place why this track feels so good to listen to but it truly does! Completing this release is the track 'Very Body' which starts off like a binaural beat concentration piece but of course, much better! There is a rotating sound from ear to ear at around the 1.40 mark that adds so much depth and three dimensional layering to the sounds you are experiencing. It's almost like this track has been designed specifically to explore the corners of your mind and make you aware of your ability to expand your mind beyond its skull prison. It is very dark, peaceful, and fluid, like the safety of a womb or the embrace of a loved one or spirit. I can't quite say what it is that gives it a slight Gothic edge to it all but the sense of it is there. A beautiful piece all round. If prosperity as a concept had a soundtrack, Under Way would certainly be a contender! 9/10 Please do check out some of the other great track by Lore City if you want a good chillout session! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

It is the season of both death and re-birth, of long dark nights of terror set amongst days of peaceful reflection and hope towards the future. The latest release from Kuro perfectly fits this vibe. There is a hell of a lot of anger in it towards the people that turn their noses up at the LGBTQIA+ scene and towards the way the community is treated. In that sense it also has a slightly spooky feel with the horror that a lot of our community have to go through regularly, especially growing up. Yet it is tracks and artists like this that help prove no one is ever alone and that there is hope for the future as people fight back and the younger generations do so with greater strength than ever before. As well as that, the band is putting all proceeds from the track to LGBT good causes. Get this track added to your Halloween party playlists, it deserves it! Electro-metal project from Glasgow, UK. Filled with angst, energy and eyeliner. THIS IS OUR ANGST SONG FOR ALL OF YOU WHO HAVE GROWN UP BEING SEGREGATED, ABUSED AND PUNISHED FOR BEING DIFFERENT. THIS GOES OUT TO THE ALTERNATIVE, LGBT, TRANS AND ANYBODY WHO DOESN'T FIT THE NORM. ALL PROCEEDS FROM THIS TRACK GO TO LGBT CAUSES. Picture by @Davidruffphotography Worth mentioning is that lead singer Kuro himself is also part of the bands Grendel and Corlyx! Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Review: The song is heavy on the lyrics and Kuro does a great job of keeping them free flowing throughout poetically. The weight and poignancy of the message is clear and almost as brutal as the guitar riffs. The electro twinge to those guitars alleviates it becoming too metal heavy and strikes a wonderful balance of easy listening guitar riffs that otherwise would be at home in the heaviest of metal bands. That is a real nice juxtaposition. Angst is probably the best word for the track overall. 'Obscene' is a wonderful dance filled rave of angsty electronic metal power that threatens to tear off faces or dancefloor bootlaces depending on which side of the political curve you stand. Those in the community or who are allies with find this to be a fierce A.F anthem - a warcry of support and strength. For everyone else.. it's a threat, get off the wrong side of history or be thrown in to the void. Photo by Lost In Gotham The drums pound out an energetic rhythm that are enhanced beautifully by the electronics at the 37 second mark and I wish there was a lot more of those thrown in throughout because that would have turned the rest of the track in to one hell of a rave track. As it stands 'Obscene' is a track made for the darkest of scenes, where those in each others company, understand one another's suffering. This track belongs in a new Crow or spawn film for sure with is almost early 90's dark rock feel. Kuro's message is clear, your hatred wont stop us, we will just grow stronger. 8/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Brutally heavy, unapologetically their own unique entity, Biomechanimal return with a track so grand and supreme in power and weight that they have once again broken a genre boundary no one thought capable. This is Biomechanimal's sharpest weapon in the fight for the soul of industrial metal. A far cry from their industrial and EBM beginnings, Biomechanimal has reinvented itself as one of the foremost bass acts in the UK, mixing the signature sound of the London underground with the brutal theatrical drama of orchestral metal. The proof is, of course, in the pudding, which has been sampled by venues all over Europe. After a string of releases in 2021 (including a vocal feature on Matteo Tura's midtempo masterpiece Corrupt), the band is now poised to release their next single From the Mouth of Beasts ahead of the upcoming EP. Recorded at Monolith Studio, From the Mouth of Beasts is the focal point of the band's efforts to reimagine themselves into something heavier, ferocious, and dramatic. Fronted by Matthew L. Simpson on production and vocals, Kekko Stefano Biogora on drums, Sarunas Brazionis on guitar, and Keith Kamholz (Mechanical Vein) on mixing & mastering, the band is pulling out all the stops with a sound that is as menacing as it is immersive. Pre-save the track on Spotify here: http://hybridblak.com/presave/biomechanimal-ftmob/ Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives! Review: Epic is always the first word that comes to mind when listening to a new Bio track because the grandiose scale of cinematic battle-scapes takes precedence in the cacophony of audio that hits you like a tsunami of bass and imagination. This track is no different, and had I not seen the cover already showing the war in heaven, I would have already suspected this was some sort of grand scale conflict of good and evil, as well as all the shades in between. Although the introduction and 2:00 breakdown is very distinctly the recognisable Biomechanimal format of tonal flurries, the rest of this track is not the traditional Biomechanimal at all and flows towards a new form of industrial black metal (?). Bio have always forged their own path, bent, and broken genre boundaries over and over again and in so doing, this is yet another fold of the steel that makes Bio's audio sword edge so sharp and strong; the constant re-forging of sound never ceases. To quote the sample that originally made me fall in love with Biomechanimal.. "Perfection goal line changes, never stops moving, can chase, cannot catch." - Abathur So here we are once more with a track that retains the Bio feel but forges in another direction of style and pace, heavier and more aggressive than ever before. It is a killer track and I love the industrial break beat breakdown at the 2:00 which really does solidify that Biomechanimal signature. The grand scales of sound and vocals puts me in the mind of bands like The Black Dahlia Murder with Lamb Of God like vocals and therefore hits hard that strong metal sound. This latest sword fold and cut from bio is a testament to their talent and hard work and shows us once more why they are so respected in the UK scene. Although the more metal side of music tends to put me off now-a-days, as I fall deeper in love with more techno or powernoise based industrial, this track has certainly brought a devilish smile to my face with each listen. Once Biomechanimal finally release the album with all of their recent tracks on, they may even conquer the world with their musical arsenal without a drop of blood spilled. (Except in the mosh pits!) 9/10 This track and its music video release on Friday the 14th of October. Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Never one to stop, Jay Taylor has released three more singles, working hard with some very well known bands to bring you three monstrously good tracks all varying in style from one another. Come listen in. The Singles: Peststufen - j:dead remix Tyske Ludder and j:dead collaboration release Release date: 15th July 2022 ‘German Gods of EBM’ - Tyske Ludder have had a series of releases over the past year, one of them being Peststufen in 2021. Now we get to hear a new take on this dark pounding track by existing Tyske Ludder member (Jay Taylor) with his solo project j:dead - reworking this piece into a clear combination of sounds which both best represent each project's contribution. Jay Taylor of j:dead has been the live drummer of Tyskle Ludder over the past decade, who started his project in late 2019 then soon after signed to Infacted Recordings. The reworking of Pestufen was taken on by j:dead and rebuilt to include his own English and German lyrics in a typical j:dead style. This modern twist of old school EBM builds into a crescendo of roaring guitars, stomping beats and the competing vocals of both artists. Review: Straight away this track has a great 'bounce' to it and an old-school EBM feel. As the throaty vocals that Tyske Ludder are known for grate out an aggressive tune, you can hear the subtle keyboard tones inspired by j:Dead's part of the track. We are then treated to Jay adding in some smooth, smooth vocals spread amongst the track bringing a nice mellow feel to the song and this contrast of vocals works so incredibly well that it really showcases how traditional EBM and modern styles can compliment one another fantastically. 8/10 Please consider donating or fundraising for Beyond Reflections who are a charity run by friends of Elektro Vox and they supply an essential service to so many. www.beyond-reflections.org.uk @BeyondReflectUK Their support really does save lives. High Time (Chinese Takeaway) j:dead and FabrikC Released 19/08/22 As the summer of 2022 has scorched us all for the past few months - j:dead and FabrikC have been cooking up their own storm behind the scenes, creating a high intensity track to flood your ears. j:dead (fronted by Jay Taylor) is no stranger to a 2022 collaboration - as so far this year we have heard him team up with TeknoVore, Menschdefekt, Against I and Tyske Ludder - all alongside and in addition to their own releases off of the back of their latest EP Vision of time. FabrikC have also been hard at work in 2022 with 2 releases under their belt as well as a whole HOST of new music throughout the rest of this year! This collaboration saw the pair completely re-invent FabrikC most popular club track - Chinese Food and turn it into a darker and more aggressive track with a chorus hook you can only imagine being sung out loud in sheer madness across a dark and smoke covered dancefloor. High Time (Chinese Takeway) blends the raw emotion of j:dead's vocals with the standout beats from FabirkC - emphatically known for their “Heaviest bass drum” reputation. The tale in this story depicts the gruesome events of a mad-man, and his disciples inability to right the wrongs he caused. Review: If you haven't heard the original FabrikC - 'Chinese food' track that samples the German version of 'Dude, Where's my car?' then honestly WHERE have you been? Smashing this well known track beat to the fierce fire vocals of j:Dead honestly makes this track one of the best I have heard all year. This is the passionate yet melodic niche that makes j:Dead so thoroughly enjoyable to listen to, especially as he swaps from melodic to full throat screams from one moment to the next. It's that wonderful blend of multiple genres from one second to the next all within the same song that keeps your brain stimulated constantly and wanting more, never quite sure which direction the track is going to go in next. This mixed with the familiar and constant FabrikC beats makes this a genuinely satisfying listen that deserves a place on everyone playlist. There's often a collective of joking *sighs* on a dancefloor as the old classic tracks like 'Chinese Food' start to play but I would love to see a dancefloor go from that humorous moment to then suddenly getting swept away with Jay's vocals. I think that would make a great little moment if I were DJing. 10/10 Perfect Happiness j:dead and FabrikC Released 30/09/22 After the dancefloor success of their last collaboration, High Time (Chinese Takeaway), j:dead and FabrikC are back - this time with even more aggression! Perfect Happiness is a dark-techno track which conjures up images of gothic culture filled raves - only there to fuel the dancing figures till the sun rises. The lyrics embody emotions of fear and being trapped as this horror driven track continues to beat on and on. Jay Taylor (of j:dead) takes the opportunity to show his unapologetic aggressive nature throughout his vocal performance. Something that just couldn't be delivered in any other style with the pierce of the synth lines extending out of the pounding beats provided by FabrikC. Both artists have been hard at work through 2022 with a series of releases - with more to come in the near future. However it is clear to say this collaboration takes their creativity and anger to their limits! Review: A lot of screams showcase the across the pounding bass of this track and very little melody. It's like a new evolution of aggrotech, moving away from the synth distorted screams in favour of pure vocals, yet still keeping that essence of intense dance and rave fuelled industrial notes with the odd media sample. This track is short, powerful, and like a shot of angry audio espresso to get you the F up. 6.5/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Josie Pace is a great artist that weaves in and out of different electronic inspired tracks and makes some very impressive music. From track to track, she always hits that party vibe hard or heart felt rock and roll whenever you listen. Josie is definitely one of the rising stars of the alternative electronic world and one to keep a close eye on as she will soon be touring North America with Aesthetic Perfection! As the saturated synths rise behind the lyrics “Just take your stamp off my design” on Josie Pace’s driving single, “Battleground” we immediately understand this is not an artist who is weak when abandoned. Instead, this Detroit artist’s music represents a piece of her solitude. The blistering glow of downtempo post-industrial beats, electro-pop melodies and layered soundscapes are home to Josie’s captivating lyrics; she is a songwriter in the purest sense. The result is a pulsating sound that will haunt you with vulnerability while basking in Josie’s world of self-reflection and unapologetic rock and roll attitude that Detroit is legendary for. When musician and producer Ken Roberts saw an acoustic performance of Josie on Facebook he was blown away, the raw and intimate performance captured the one thing all songwriters strive to achieve “believability”, and he knew he had to work with her. The two started working together with Josie’s songs as the foundation. As an accomplished guitar player, Josie molds and refines her songs acoustically only to tear them apart with Roberts’ unique production style and his ability to create dark beats with grinding synths that compliment Josie’s voice well. Songs quickly formed into a unique sound that pull from the likes of Depeche Mode and IAMX yet contain a high art fashion swagger as if you just bumped into David Bowie at a Halston Party. From the beginning, the style and the art of the music have been just as important as the melody and soundscape. Josie’s latest music video “Pure Morning”, featuring another collaboration with fierce femme fatal Sammi Doll (IAMX and Kat Von D), draws audiences to her unique brand of electronic rock and visual artistry. That theme continues with the videos for “Perfect Replacement” and “Fire” where fashion and desolation hold hands with Josie’s in-your-face performance. The singles, “Underestimated”, “Storm and Stress” and “Future” all test Josie’s artistic style and the ever present desire to give her audience something fresh, new and authentic. The album “IV0X10V5”, was released with Negative Gain Productions in February 2022. Josie carries the same commitment of style and artistry to her high-energy live performances. She has shared the stage with Combichrist, Powerman 5000, Stabbing Westward, Tim Skold (Marilyn Manson, KMFDM), , Daniel Myer (Haujobb, Architect) and Davey Suicide and has also performed successful headlining shows in New York, Detroit, and Los Angeles. With future songs and videos in the works, Josie Pace will continue the legacy of great Detroit Rock and Roll. Interview Q. Hello Josie, I’ve followed your music for a couple of years now so it’s great to get to chat with you. For those unfamiliar with your however, please can describe your music and what you represent? A. My name is Josie Pace and I am an Electronic Rock artist from Detroit MI. I write songs about hardships and perseverance throughout life. I love writing in such a way that I can connect with the listener and they can interpret the song to fit their reality. Q. You’re about to tour with Aesthetic Perfection, please tell us about how that came to be, and how you’re feeling about it all? A. I am so excited to be touring with Aesthetic Perfection! From the very beginning of creating this music Daniel Graves of Aesthetic Perfection has supported us and added a lot of my music to his playlists. We have talked throughout the years and we had mentioned that we would love to head out on a tour with him at some point. Excitingly, he contacted us early this year and offered us direct support on the American Psycho North American Tour! I was so excited then and even more so now. This will be my first tour and I know that it will be a new experience and an exciting challenge. I am ready to get on the road and meet a lot of my fans that have stuck with me throughout my journey and throughout Covid, and I am hoping to make some new fans along the way as well! Q. I know the great album IV0X10V5 only came out in February but do you have any more upcoming releases in the works? A. I do! I am currently working on an electronic EP, sounds that are a bit similar to the album but with a fresh twist! We are hoping to play one of these songs live on the American Psycho Tour. I am also in the works of an acoustic EP, we are working on some of the songs I wrote previously that didn't work well when transposed to electronic songs. And we have talked about creating an experimental EP later next year! Diving into the weirder side of our inspiration and creating something extremely unique and different. Q. When did you first discover alternative electronic music and what turning point in your life got you into making this music? A. I was raised on classic rock mostly. Anything my parents listened to in the car was what has been engrained in me. Styx, Prince, Joan Jett, The Eagles bands like this. I still love these bands and tons like them. But growing up in the original scene and emo era really sparked my interest with a lot of bands that had me hooked on alternative music. Green Day, Blink 182, Hawthorn Heights, Escape the Fate, Muse. I took aspects of everything and every genre that I enjoyed and started writing at a young age. I think it’s silly for people to only pull inspiration from one genre. I love a lot of different kinds of music and I think that's one of the reasons my music has great crossover potential. Q. What is the most important aspect of creating music for you and what driving force keeps you going with making new music? A. Creating music always starts with some sort of inspiration. I draw a lot from my own life experiences and I feel like the bones of the song are the most important. When you have a strong foundation of lyrics, melody and structure on guitar (or any other instrument) you can take the song into any direction that you choose. I feel like what keeps me creating music is the never ending supply of experiences that happen throughout life. Writing is a form of therapy and it really does help to create when something is weighing heavy on you. Q. If you could collaborate with any artist of your choice, who would it be? A. I think it would be awesome to work with Jack White. He has done so much in music and has crossed over so many genres, I think it would be extremely unique to work with him. Plus we are both from Michigan and have that midwest work ethic and that Detroit sound as well. Q. Have you ever had a particularly touching fan moment that has stuck with you? A. I have a lot of interactions with my fans in every aspect. Live or social media. A particularly touching moment for me was at my album release show at Bar Sinister in LA. It was a very important night for me, being my first full length album release. During the entire set there was a fan right up at the gate almost bending over it the entire time reaching toward me with their hand for the whole set. They screamed and cheered the loudest out of the hundreds in the crowd. During the outro of the set, I say my thank you’s and hype them up one last time. But I reached out to shake their hand and the reaction was heart melting. The smile and the joy that I saw is something I will never forget. When you dream about performing and doing this your entire life, that interaction is something you only really dream about. Being so important in someone's life that just holding their hand brings joy. Q. If only one person attended one of your performances, who would you want that to be and why? A. If I could bring Bowie back for one of my performances I would. He was such a forward thinker and had such a presence about him it would be so cool to get his feedback on the songs and lyrics especially. Q. Who are your favourite Hero/s and Villain/s? A. Deadpool is my favorite anti- hero. I have a TON of Deadpool comics and I’ve always loved his quick wit and dark humor. I think my favorite villain would have to be The Winter Soldier, although he’s only a villain for a short while when he's brainwashed. But c’mon a BIONIC ARM? Loved it. Some of my favorite hero’s are The Teen Titans. I grew up watching the cartoon and I always loved Raven and Beast Boy. I don’t discriminate when it comes to Marvel or DC or whatever. If I like it, I like it! Q. What are the best things about the alternative music scene for you, and is there anything you'd like to see change for the better? A. I think one of the best parts about the alt scene is the empowerment and the strength. There are a lot of alt artist that are sincerely creating music that uplifts and sets an example of.. “Even though you've been put through it, we can get out together”. I think one thing I’d like to see change for the better is inclusion. I feel that genres in general have become very clique like. There are so many people who think that you can only like one type of music and one type of music only. I love all kinds of music and I encourage everyone to step outside of your comfort zone and dive into new things! Q. Is there any life advice you could give that being in music has given you? A. Be authentic. It is a bit of a struggle when you work in the industry and you’re told by people you work with that you should be more like “this” or be more like “that” smile more, or smile less, write about this instead, I love that but change everything. It happens…ALL THE TIME. And you just have to stick to your guns and be you. People can tell instantly when you aren't comfortable or you are trying to be someone that you’re not. Whatever it is that makes you, you is what people will gravitate to. Q. Anything you would like to say to your fans? A. THANK YOU. Honestly, I work very hard to create this music and of course I will always create music. But YOU are the ones who push me farther than I could ever get on my own. I love meeting you and hearing your stories and taking photos with you all. I try to respond to as many comments and messages that I possibly can. I appreciate every single one of you and I cannot wait to meet you all one day. Josie Pace Website Josie Pace Bandcamp Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Simon Carter has made some incredible industrial techno alongside Fabsi which I still think is some of the best music of this year. So to to now be reviewing his synthpop/synthwave project was quite a surprise for me; Not because it wasn't the regular crunchy techno but because it does something I have never experienced before in terms of shaping synthpop into something that spans different musical eras. Come see what I mean... SIMON CARTER is proud to present NO TOMORROW, the full-length follow-up to LOST SOUL by HUMANS CAN'T REBOOT. NO TOMORROW contains 11 original vocal tracks, once again featuring the soulful AMY HANNAM on vocal duty. Amy's powerful voice provides the perfect delivery to Simon's expressive, and at times, melencholic lyrics and creations. This is a full-on, non-stop Synthpop-fest, blended with tasty elements of sci-fi and synthwave. As a nice bonus Simon has given all 11 tracks a DJ-friendly dancefloor "club" treatment, meaning you can expect a little extra BPM and some more EDM oriented sounds. Review 'Ghosts' kicks off with a great little dose of synth-funk. It has a great tempo that weaves itself around the vocals, as if Amy and the music itself are dance partners in a retro simulation playing off of one another. The keyboard is that particularly wonderful tone of 80's synthpop that we all know and love making this by far my favourite track on the album as I enjoy every aspect of it. Next up is 'Girl Not Machine' which takes a slower approach to enable the more poignant lyrics of a Woman trying to make herself heard. All the key aspect of great sythpop are here, the chilled out synths, the steady beats, and the high pitch notes to give it that ethereal feel. The video is a nice touch for the overall ambience of the song. 'Digital Love' brings touch of Madonna or Kylie Minogue style pop which is a rather different and pleasant addition. This is followed by 'No Tomorrow' which, I think is purely down to personal tastes, but I don't enjoy the vocal style and it is a bit of a difficult listen but musically, it's still a very entertaining track. 'Demons' is a also very entertaining and seems to be the point in the album where the music tends to stray away from 80's inspired synthwave like we are used to and becomes more of a 90's vibe.. So to have synthwave sounds drift out of retro and in to 90's style and the same with the vocals, makes the divergence of style in this album rather stand out and unique amongst synthpop artists. From 'She's Magic' right through to Maybe it's time to go' there is a real mixing of vocal and musical styles that blend in and out of one another. One moment putting you in the mind of Eurythmics to suddenly in the mind of a synthpop Aqua and so on. There is a real mix here that will have at least a couple of songs to everyone's tastes with their multi generation inspired sounds. Then we have remixes of each song to follow. A lot of these have been made more up-tempo and given a coating of EDM which further adds to that unique 90's feel. For some of the tracks, it makes them feel completely different to the originals. For example 'Don't cry out' feels like a whole new song and certainly makes for a pleasant little dance. Tracklist Ghosts Girl Not Machine Digital Love No Tomorrow Demons She's Magic Mars Behind The Crescent Moon Lost In Space Don't Cry Out Broken Promise Maybe It's Time To Go She's Magic (Instrumental Version) Ghosts (Club Version) Girl Not Machine (Club Version) Digital Love (Club Version) No Tomorrow (Club Version) Demons (Club Version) She's Magic (Club Version) Mars Behind The Crescent Moon (Club Version) Lost In Space (Club Version) Don't Cry Out (Club Version) Broken Promise (Club Version) Maybe It's Time To Go (Club Version) Conclusion Synthwave and Synthpop is going through somewhat of a rebirth and exploratory revival recently across a lot of bands. No Tomorrow is a marvellous album that brings synthpop from it's 80's roots from the first few songs and slowly through the course of the album, drifts in to the 90's and then to the early 00's with the remixes. Whether this was of any intention of Simon's or not, this is something I've never experienced in a synthpop album; Although there are a few things that aren't to my taste, there are far more things that really peak my curiosity and interest.. Most importantly, there is a lot here that I thoroughly enjoy and you will too. 7/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Martin of Attrition joins us for a written interview as we were unable to squeeze a video on in during the weekend of Infest. So please join us as we discuss Infest and what makes Martin tick in the music world! ATTRITION are pioneers in a darker electronica. Formed in 1980 in Coventry, England, influenced by a mix of punk ideology and experimental art aesthetics, they emerged as part of the early '80's UK Industrial scene alongside contemporaries Coil, Test Department, Legendary Pink Dots, In The Nursery, Portion Control et al. Founder Martin Bowes has steered the band through an over 40 year career, fuelled by a succession of critically acclaimed albums... The band has regularly toured Europe, North America, South America and Asia, appeared at major festivals and had their music included on a number of TV and film soundtracks.... Through their career Attrition have worked with musicians as diverse as Wolfgang Flur, psychedelic veterans The Legendary Pink Dot’s , punk legend TV Smith to Franck Dematteis of the Paris Opera. Attrition’s music has featured on countless releases - from 1984’s “Bullshit detector 3” on Crass records to the hugely successful “Animal liberation” album alongside Siouxsie & the Banshees, The Smiths, Nina Hagen & Lene Lovich etc… Their song “Acid Tongue” featured on KTEL’s Industrial story CD - a who’s who of industrial music with Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Ministry, Nitzer Ebb, Neubauten et al… In Germany Orkus magazine’s Best of the 90’s collection featured their darkwave classic “A girl called harmony”… Martin’s increasing studio production work at his studio, The Cage, has included mixes for The Damage Manual (Martin Atkins, Jah Wobble, Geordie Walker, Chris Connelly et al…), Die Form, In the Nursery, Black tape for a Blue girl, Mona Mur/En Esch and mastering for countless bands and labels… He contributes synths and vocals on a song on the last Pigface album, is the narrators voice on US horror series, “C for Chaos”, has written the score to US horror film G.H.O.S.T from Mutantville productions … Their most recent album, Millions of the Mouthless Dead (inspired by Martin’s grandfathers experiences on the Western Front in 1917) includes collaborations with Anni Hogan (known for her work with Marc Almond through the 80’s) and the legendary Wolfgang Flur (ex-Kraftwerk)… ATTRITION toured in the UK, Italy, New Zealand, Transylvania, Canada and Japan in 2018/19, and are back touring after covid while currently working on an all new album for release later in 2022: The Black Maria. Meanwhile setting up shows around the world in support of it… "Attrition have always been a nexus of industrial fury, gothic drama, ambient structural finesse and classical chamber orchestrations. Stunning in scope, character and intellect, Martin Bowes has been a paragon of true creative prowess, holding in two hands the past and future of music, and smashing them together with a calculated and charismatic menace. Bowes builds his dark industrial music with all the compassion and attention to detail of a classical musician..." Interview Q. Hello! Thank you for joining us. You played a great show at Infest, and you had a very special line up so please can you tell us about that? A. Thank you! We really enjoyed it. This was our first reunion show… we reformed the first ATTRITION line up from the early eighties… The one that made all the early singles (Monkey in a bin/the Voice of God/Shrinkwrap) and the first 2 albums. We hadn’t all played together on stage since 1984. Ash (on keys) has to fly over from san Francisco for every show! We will be recording a new album together soon too. Q. For those who have not heard your music, how would you describe yourselves to them? A. haha… always the worst question to ask a musician… If I could describe the music well enough I would probably not need to make it! It’s a mix of styles… although some of those styles were named after we made the music. I would throw words around like “darkwave” or “dark industrial” and sometimes “dark ambient” …there have been a lot of albums over the years and the music has always varied from the early post-punk to industrial to a little gothic (when we release “A girl called harmony in 91) to dark ambient scores (we have written some horror film soundtracks)… Q. What is the most important aspect of creating music for you and what driving force keeps you going with making new music? A. It is always a personal expression… and still being alive tends to inspire me! I still get a feeling of only just starting with music… there is so much more to do and discover with it… it’s been my whole life… I used to also teach music technology here at the College in Coventry, but for the last 12 years I have been running my studio, The Cage, producing and mastering a lot of other bands… I do love what I do… and I don’t have to get up early! Q. If you could collaborate with any artist of your choice, who would it be? A. I don’t have any ambitions to collaborate with other artists as such… but I love to work with guest musicians on the ATTRITION albums… had a lot of collaborations with Violin, viola and cello players over the years…I am excited about the mix of electronics and played instruments… the best of both worlds. Q. Do you have any festival survival tips, either as a crowd member or to other bands? A. I usually prefer club gigs as a bit less crazy… but Infest was one of the most organised and friendly set ups I’ve ever known… loved it… Survival wise I’d say don’t start drinking too early but… well…. It’s a tricky one! Q. Have you ever had a particularly touching fan moment that has stuck with you over the years? A. I have had many… one of the most amazing things is to meet (online) a woman named Harmony… her parents named her after my song…(in fact I’ve met two named Harmony now for the same reason..) Best review I ever had! Q. Do you have any pre-performance rituals to help you get ready? A. Not pre-performance but I do have a thing about burning incense on stage… I do it at home almost every day too… it creates my own space or “church” to perform in… (I’ve only ever set off 2 fire alarms on my tours!) Q. Where has been you favourite place to play live and where would you still like to play? A. So many memories… some for the performance, some for the audience, the clubs, the destinations… the adventures… so many places… we have played in 5 continents now so been lucky to get so far around the world… Hawaii was bloody amazing!!! (thanks Anne Love) At infest I had two cups, one with silly questions and one with sensible questions to pick one of each out of, here are the two I lucky dipped for you.. Q. Who is your favourite fictional villain? A. I think I will have to say Dracula! I read Bram Stoker’s book when I was about 14… in 2018 we performed our dark ambient horror soundtrack in the mountains of Transylvania… and I wish I could have gone back and let me 14 year old self know about it! Q. What is an instrument that you’d love to include in your music that you have not yet done so and why? A. A full orchestra sometime would be amazing… although not all the time… very expensive to do it… I am also waiting for Behringer to release their Synthi modular synth clone and that is going straight into some new music!! Q. What are the best things about the alternative music scene for you, and is there anything you'd like to see change for the better? A. I love that there is a close worldwide music community.. meeting other musicians over the years in different parts of the world… it’s a family. I cant think of anything I would change! Q. Is there any life advice you could give that being in music has given you? A. Being in music has changed and shaped my life, and I can’t imagine life any other way… it has enriched mine so much… its not always easy though… you have to work bloody hard… and believe in yourself… ignore the detractors… as there will always be some…. Q. Anything you would like to say to your fans? A. Just thank you for being there… and if anyone is interested here are our media contacts.. www.attrition.co.uk www.facebook.com/ATTRITIONMUSIC http://attritionuk.bandcamp.com/ www.youtube.com/user/attrition https://twitter.com/attritionuk https://sptfy.com/attrition www.thecagestudios.co.uk Thank you for the interview!!! Martin Bowes. Coventry. England. September 2022. Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

When I was asked to officially be part of Infest 2022, how on Earth could I say no? A free, access all areas, AAA pass to have my own space for interviews and meet some of my industrial idols, scene legends, and discover new artists? Slap me side ways and call that heaven; of course I said yes! (Interviews to be released on the Infest YouTube soon!) It was a wonderful return to Bradford, having first attended in 2019 before Elektro Vox started, full of flaws as I was then; This return was a wonderful chance not only to grow Elektro Vox in the scene but also to prove to myself how much I had grown as an individual since then. I was unsure whether to write a review as I didn't catch half of the bands having been busy interviewing but I certainly now feel that I should share my personal highlights of the weekend now that it has had time to sink in. First and foremost, a huge thank you to everyone involved in putting Infest together! It is insane how much work is required and involved behind the scenes and this is the ultimate A team. Everyone in the team just KNEW what needed to be done and everyone hit the ground running. It was like watching a colony of ants just instinctively knowing exactly what their role and mission was. I am truly in awe of how amazing these Goth ants in the guise of humans are! It could be seen as the ultimate power of hyper focus when people are doing something they truly care about and enjoy. These are some of friendliest and accommodating people around and the bands kept commenting to me about how well looked after and well treated they were, and that they had rarely experienced anything like it. Sadly not pictured, is Autumn who was still running Infest TV and a big well done to her for making the incredible mascot for this year.. Clem Rivet! So well done Infest crew'22. You're all legends! Autumn, Clem, and I introducing Attrition with a saxaboom solo Bands Although I will only really cover the bands I managed to see, let me say this.. I did catch at least a little bit of each band and every single band sounded REALLY good. Every single one of them knew exactly what the audience wanted and delivered their sets immaculately. The highlight for me on day one for and many others no doubt, was Caustic! Not only did Matt Fanale put on a killer show of prescribed Caustic humour and anger in equal measure.. But we were also treated to Marie of grabyourface performing a day earlier than we expected, joining him for the track 'Not your body'. This was an intense and poignant FUCK YOU to the patriarchy and the disgusting stripping of abortion rights. Needless to say the crowd LOVED it, loved Marie's energy, and loved the message. We were all part of Goth anti-Fascist history in that moment and I was very proud when Matt told me they had used my image for the single cover! Get you copy of 'Not your body on bandcamp HERE Saturday was a lineup of epic proportions. Opening the first half we had the intense industrial techno of Vaein, then the aggressive beauty of Reichsfeid,then the absolutely incredible, and new discovery for me.. grabyourface grabyourface does just that.. grabs you and MAKES you pay attention to everything there is to say. Marie's music is split in two. There is the deeply relatable pain of emotional lyrical content from memories past in a lot of their songs, to the violent power techno of world felt anger and passion that screams to be released. Whether the current track is grabbing your heart or screaming in your face.. Marie is a hurricane, like an ancient fury possessing a human form, they flow in and out of humour, anger, sorrow, and a whole range of emotions grow in form between songs and each little track introduction speech. In this way Marie solidified their grip on the hearts and imaginations of those who had seen them kick it with Caustic the night before. I have never seen a dance floor THAT FULL so early in to a long festival day. Not only were we blessed with the stellar performance of Marie, but Matt Fanale took his turn to join grabyourface on the stage and once again blew our fucking minds! I'm honoured I got to hang out with such a cool artist for a fair part of the weekend. Do yourselves a favour and check Marie's music out! Even though I only saw a couple of songs, a big shout out to Glass Apple Banzai because not only was Daniel the most fun to interview over the weekend, but he also played one hell of a fun show. You see the inflatable unicorn yea? Maybe the flamingo on the right too? This band knows how to party, and party damn fun! When I saw that Wynardtage was playing and including his Hydroxie project too, I was ecstatic. Wynardtage is one of the main reasons I fell in love with industrial. To finally meet Kay and watch this set was incredible beyond words to me. What I was really not ready for was the gravitas of the moment.. This was only his third live show in such a long and distinguished career and quite possibly, his last ever as he now wishes to focus on helping Timo flourish with Reichsfeind. I of course stood centre front barrier and let the pounding aggrotech waves take me. I have never in all my time in industrial every heard live industrial THAT GOOD. Each soundwave sent rushes of dopamine down my spine, my chest was awash with endorphins and not just because I am biased in loving the band; This was the purest industrial techno / Aggrotech that makes this type of music so damn pleasurable to me. I could not stop smiling from ear to ear with how wonderful the set was. I even began to cry as Kay also cried during one of the near end set songs which has never happened to me anywhere other than Heilung. There are very few bands in the world that can make you feel naturally high, but Wynardtage vs Hydroxie did exactly that. I was and still am stunned at this possible once in a life time moments of pure bliss and 'If there is no tomorrow' (song pun) this may be one of the last things I reminisce about in my final moments on Earth. When I was told I could do the announcement for Suicide Commando, I was more than a little bit happy to say the least! I first saw them play at E-tropolis Germany and ran up to Johan like a terrified schoolkid asking for a selfie before running away again all embarrassed. Years later here I was, having just added him to my ever growing list of video interviews, and now I was introducing him to the stage with a speech on making fun of the insults thrown at us alternative types. It was quite surreal.. Needless to say, Suicide Commando kicked the utter crap out of us all! The vocals, the sound, the visuals, and the atmosphere was one of ecstatic, shared joy as we partied away the entire set to this king of industrial. The final day I was exhausted, especially having had the last of my energy devastated by Monya's stomping end to the Saturday night. I only got the chance to watch two bands properly on Sunday. The first was Klack (Another show with Matt Fanale!) who raised everyone's spirits so incredibly high, that we all forgot how exhausted we were and provided us with some huge serotonin dropping beats and songs. What a fantastic band Klack are! Second was the intense, and overwhelmingly powerful Moaan Exis.. Imagine a flurry of tidal waves made purely from the sonic booms of a thousand drums crashing against the bodies of the infest crowd and you may yet start to get an idea of what it felt and sounded like. Very few bands out there can hit as hard as these guys. This was one of standout moments of the festival, the moment death came for our ear drums and they were found wanting.. Bliss. I would like to make a special note for Empathy Test who sounded crystal clear and really turned my view around on their live shows with how good that set sounded from the pieces I caught. So, thank you Isaac, that was great! A huge thank you to Maedon and Adam X for blasting us to bits with their ending techno sets. I am so sorry that us English folks are so dead come Sunday evening unlike the Berlin crowds; You both deserved a full dance floor but please take it as a compliment that many of the crowd chose to slink back in to the night, because they feared that your music would finish off and kill them, draining the last morsels of their life force away with your sick beats. For those of us that saw you, we loved you! Finishing off the festival on the most perfect of notes was Lexx (previously known as GOHMA). NO ONE DJ's as hard or as stylish as Lexx. I've heard a lot of DJ sets in my life but every single time, Lexx smashes out a set better than anyone else. I may always be biased towards friends but even if I had never met Lexx, I would still have to need assistance in scraping my jaw and my danced to death limbs off of the dance floor each time I heard her sets both online, at Resistanz, and now at Infest. To be fair, I did feel like I had to scrape myself off of the dancefloor once her set finished, so thank you Lexx and to Infest for ending on such a high! Conclusion Infest is a family; Whether it is the camaraderie of the crew, the joining of old friends and new, the respect the bands are shown, or the love for the scene, Infest feels like home to so many. I deeply thank everyone involved, bands, crew, the crowds, you all shone a light on what makes us such a beautiful and safe community and I can't wait to see you all again next year. Until then my friends, never let the music inside you fall silent.. Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

There is something truly magic in the way Jasyn weaves his dark electronics, like a hypnotising illusion or charm that inserts itself in to your mind and unlocks little dopamine doors that have you sinking deep beneath the musical waves flowing within your mind. This was ever the case when the brief, quieter and more melodic moments that would crop up in his God Module tracks, before heading back in to aggrotech fury. In essence, with Hexheart, what we get is that non stop brain massaging reprieve music that makes for the ultimate Gothic chillout; Sometimes that is exactly what you need! Hexheart is the Darkwave / Synth-Pop project of Seattle WA based musician/producer Jasyn Bangert. The music is a mix of retro New Wave vibes and modern Synth-Pop electronics with the occasional Darkwave inspired guitar melody making an appearance. Dark emotional lyrics dealing with life, love and loss and are presented through slightly vocoded effects contributing to the "modern" nostalgic aesthetic. "Writing this record is one of the few things that kept me even remotely sane during the last couple years. I felt I had to create something beautiful myself because it was hard to find much beauty anywhere in the world at the time. in doing so I feel that I found what Hexheart was supposed to be. This collection of songs is extremely personal to me. Some of the truths I found during this time were inspirational in some ways and many others were much darker. For better or worse this release was built upon these same questions, feelings, thoughts and fears". Interview Q. Hi Jasyn! It’s over three years since our God Module video interview, and almost two since you debuted an online stream for me with Cyber EVM. How have things been with you and has the last couple of years of life in this bizarre world kept you busy? A. I guess we should start with the obvious, Covid basically fucked every part of my life that didn’t around being at home. I had a hard time with the lockdown situation. For over two years life looked nothing like anything that even resembled normal for me and for everyone. I’m a bit on the pessimistic side normally but I felt very close to just giving up any hope of normalcy ever returning. The pandemic wasn’t really the entire reason but more how people and our “leaders” reacted to it, especially in the US. It was a pretty creepy time in the world and in my head, which is where I spent far to much time during all of this. Luckily no one I was close with died, so that was a good thing. But other than watch a lot of films and play a lot of video games I basically just wrote this Hexheart record and attempted to not lose my mind. Q. Speaking of Cyber EVM, the room you played in seemed covered from head to toe in cult horror memorabilia. I take it you’re a big horror fan, so what are some of your top favourite media of both past and present that you’d recommend for people to see? A. Yea, I have a little bit of a horror addiction. At this point what I keep out in studio is my Friday the 13th stuff. Posters, art, collectibles, masks etc. I just don’t have enough room to display all the other stuff I have in my collection. As for films or books, there are quite a few things I have liked recently. I’ll just give you a little movie list. Crimes of the Future The Deep House The Black Phone X You Are Not My Mother Antlers Last Night in Soho As for other media, I’ve been listening to too many podcasts and not reading enough. But I highly recorded The Cryptonaut Podcast. Tons of awesome stories and discussions of strange, unexplainable events and happenings throughout the world. Q. Hexheart is both very different but also similar to God Module, for those who still aren’t aware of your Hexheart project could you please describe what its all about? A. It has no choice but to be somewhat similar to God Module because I am the person creating the music for both projects in the studio. I think the new Hexheart record does a really good job of separating itself from my other work. Both projects are just me making music I like. Hexheart gives me a place to get out the more melodic, 80’s Darkwave / Synth Pop aspects of my musical tastes. Q. This is the second Hexheart album. For you, what are the main changes and differences there from the Midnight on a moonless night? A. The first record was built upon songs I had written for God Module and they just didn’t feel right for that project at the time. They changed a lot as they were turned into what they became, but not really enough to give the project its own identity. Also the new record is just me, as opposed to last one including guitars by Patrick Hogan and some programming from Andrew Pearson. I’m very proud of what we did with the first record, we completed two North American tours, played at Wave Goth Treffen etc. Yet I feel I have found what I wanted the project to be with the new record. Q. Which song are most emotionally important to you on this album and could you give us a breakdown of some of the lyrics which you most connect with? A. Almost all the lyrics in the songs are in stark contrast to the music. I felt I needed to create music that to me felt happy, beautiful and optimistic. All these songs were written during the worst parts of the pandemic and it was hard for me to find those things anywhere in the world at the time. When it came to writing the lyrics, the same thing did not happen. These songs are very personal, in that most of them are in some way about me and what was in my head at the time. There are some apocalyptic themes through out because that’s where my thoughts were. But at the same time they deal with the people who are very important to my life. My wife Courtney, my family and the few close friends I have. These themes are most obviously heard in the songs RED, (bottom of) BELOW and Erase Yesterday. Q. What artists have you been listening to most lately? A. Right now I listen to Kanga more than any other artist and have for a while. She is so fucking talented and her work just keeps getting better. I also really like the band Korine. I do find myself listening to a lot of older 80’s/90’s Alternative, Synth Pop and Darkwave these days. I think that is just part of growing old sadly. Falling back on the music you first strongly connected to. Q. For you, what are some of the best parts of the alternative scene that you want to see continue and grow; and what are some of the not so great parts of the alternative scene that you’d like to see change? A. I think one of the best parts is that the majority of the people making the music are or at least started off as fans themselves. I think this shows most of the time in how approachable and grounded most bands are with their fans. Sadly that’s not always the case. There are a few people who seem to believe they have all the answers for everyone and every situation regarding the music scene. Sadly this probably won’t change and seems to be spreading now that everyone is on social media pretending to be whatever they want to tell people they are. Q. What life advice can you share from your experience over the years in the music and alternative scene? A. It's hard to give any overall advice because everyone’s situation is different, even within the same scene. But stay humble, to an extent. All art is subjective and everyone has opinions on everything. But if you believe in your art and enjoy doing it then if it ever seems like you are the only one who does at times you are still good. Q. Is there anything any of you would like to say to your fans? A. Well it’s been a long time since we were on tour so I hope to see as many of them as possible, as soon as possible! Review Funeral Flowers is a pleasure to listen to from beginning to end. It follows that rather wonderful formula of beautiful sounding melody with - what on first listen, are equally beautiful vocals. In true Gothic style though, once you process the lyrics that you're hearing and the theme they follow, you realise how sinister the lyrics truly are; The impressively sharp thorns amongst the roses. There is always a very fine line between signature sound and having track sound too similar from one to the next. What Jasyn has crafted here however is nine songs that alone are all unique from one another but conceptually back to back, they flow so well together and so free that most of the way through the album, you hardly realise the tracks have been changing. In essence, it feels like one long beautiful story that seamlessly bridges from chapter to chapter with pure delight. We start off with a joyously upbeat and somewhat retro 'Erase Yesterday' and Jasyn was certainly right when describing Hexheart as nostalgic because that's what this track brings to the fore; It reminds me of childhood gameshows on the TV but strikingly, some of the memories I really wish I didn't have as well, you know, those intrusive ones that suddenly pop up and make you cringe? Not the song's fault of course, but it's amazing how a piece of music can take you on little journeys you weren't expecting at all. 'RED' feels like a sci-fi adventure, 'OV ME' feels like a thriller set in an arcade, and '(bottom of) BELOW' has you exploring some quite interesting corners of your mind as the music and distorted vocals weave their way through your skull. 'The Funeral Party' kicks in a little of that 80's themed chillstep mixed with a helping of 90's rave nostalgic. It's quite an upbeat and dance friendly track even as the tone feels like the music is stuck beneath the surface of some invisible barrier, like the music is under your skin, inside your skull, or inside the coffin, thumping to be released from it's confinements and make some more 'treble'. A great piece. 'See in the Dark' is a slower but no less enjoyable track, as this one really did tickle my brain and satisfy something in my core that just absolutely loves this chilled out synth style. Again, It's a track that sounds lovely, but the lyrics are far darker, which is perfect! Everything's wrong with the world tonight Strangers falling from the sky Make me feel so alive Don't look for answers You might not like what you find I want to make this last forever Or until were sure everyone else has died 'Psychic Friends' brings another interesting bounce about session of rhythm followed by 'After This' which is by far my favourite track on the album. It's like Depeche mode on LSD and stimulants, and It seems to be able to touch every part of your body and mind - From the electronic shivers of a sudden urge to dance running up your spine, to the clearing of brain fog from the deepest corners of your brain. I adore 'After This' and I'm sure you will too! Lastly we have '(so far) BELOW' which lowers the tempo back down to the melancholic with the power of intense piano notes and heavy percussion and bass. This track is another rendition of the previous '(bottom of) BELOW' and it makes for a tragically beautiful twist to end upon and mellow out to. Track List Erase Yesterday RED OV ME (bottom of) BELOW The Funeral Party See in the Dark Psychic Friends After This (so far) BELOW Conclusion Hexheart is a fantastic project by Jasyn Bangert and one that I hope continues to grow in recognition and appreciation because this is the ideal music for any Gothic occasion. Feeling, happy, sad, or indifferent? Put Hexheart on! Hosting a house party, a date night, a family dinner, getting ready to go out, or just a night in with friends? Put Hexheart on! A beautifully melancholic ensemble from start to finish, Funeral flowers is an album that finds its home in the deepest crevices of your mind and fill them with a healing balm of acceptance, vindication, and acknowledged pain in order to make way for joy and recovery. Funeral Flowers is a must hear album for any Goth electronic fan. Scores Technicality: 8/10 Soul factor: 9/10 Energy: 8/10 Vocals/Samples: 9/10 Re-play value: 9/10 Overall score: 8.6/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! 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Nero returns to us with a masterpiece of an album. Less To Heaven is an incredible journey of interlacing sounds and experimentation that brings his particular genre of industrial to new life. I never thought I would describe aggrotech as sexy but here we are, this album and its imagery are sexy A.F! Having said that, I don't want to detract from the skill and talent so vividly on display with this release and I am glad I was able to ask some question to the legend himself.. The music of Psyclon Nine is not for the faint-hearted. The brainchild of Nero Bellum, the dark, aggressive electronic assault of his group’s 2003 debut album ‘Divine Infekt’ immediately earned them popularity and notoriety worldwide. Its follow-up, ‘INRI’ (2005), displayed a marked evolution with a lyrical focus on religious themes. In the ensuing years, Bellum's music has taken him down an even darker path, his distinctive whispered-scream vocals guiding us through an idiosyncratic take on modern underground music that has implemented elements of black metal and post-punk influences that, although often featuring haunting melodies, has often had an undercurrent of unbridled menace. The new album, ‘Less To Heaven’, is a complex and immersive work that sees Psyclon Nine at a creative peak, with concussive, machine-precise drums, hammering guitars, scathing vocals and evil electronics all interplaying seamlessly. It also sees the group charting undefined musical territory that bridges elements of metalcore with doom electronics, trip-techno with black metal, and experimental cinematic soundscapes with alternative rock. While many acts have a constant faster-louder approach to industrial-black metal, Bellum is unafraid to use all manner of tempos to build atmosphere. This is evident in the record’s first single, the seething ‘Money And Sex And Death', which builds with writhing tension, like a snake preparing to strike its victim, before exploding into an all out audio assault. Bellum states of the song that.. “It was inspired by the excitement we feel when we see the world burning around us and the abhorrent personal truths that we hold as sacred. The misery of others has never been viewed by so many angles, and strictly for our entertainment. With ‘Money And Sex And Death’ I am presenting your reflection to yourself.” (Possibly some of the best promo pics of an artist I have ever seen) Interview Strong Dark-Anime main character vibes.. I want this as a poster! Q. Hi Nero! It was amazing to see a new Psyclon Nine album in my inbox as it has been a while. How have the last few years of pandemic madness affected your musical journey? A. Aside from not being able to perform, the pandemic didn’t affect my lifestyle much. I spend a lot of time in isolation, writing, experimenting with sound. Q. I believe you did some solo work with your album NFRN a few years ago, as well as re releasing the incredible 'We The Fallen'. For those who have not heard this new album, how would you say the musical direction has changed and what remains similar? A. I try not to look backwards when writing new material. What changes is perspective as time passes between albums. I feel that too many bands are afraid to experiment and lock themselves into a cycle of rewriting the same album/songs ad infinitum. It’s a horrifying prospect as an artist. Q. In terms of this release, not only is it a new album but a whole new aesthetic too, your artwork and overall style, especially in the new video are insanely gorgeous! Honestly some of the promo pics of you are some of the best I've ever seen from an artist. So in terms of imagery and meaning; What did Psyclon Nine mean to you when you first started out releasing music under that name, and what does it all mean to you now? A. Thank you for the kind words. The aesthetic and the sound are married. I’ve always felt that a live show should be a visual representation of the music that you hear and that extends to the artwork / film as well. Psyclon Nine has always been a vehicle of self-expression. A necessary therapeutic outlet. It’s what’s prevented me from becoming a mass murderer. Q. There is a very clear anti-Christian theme in this album and it's content. 'THE POISON WILL DEADEN THE PAIN' also conjures up a strong image of hell with screams of the damned. So please tell us about the albums concept, and the messages you wish to convey! Could you also tell us a bit about the imagery seen in the music video for 'SEE YOU ALL IN HELL'? A. While I don’t like to demystify my lyrics, The Poison Will Deaden The Pain speaks of the society and cultural zeitgeist that we’ve manufactured, the despair that results from multiple choice rather than open essay and our need to numb ourselves to the cycles that we succumb to. I prefer that people conjure their own interpretations. Music is personal. This album is incredibly personal and these songs mean a great deal to me, but once the album is released it doesn’t belong to me any longer. Q. Which song/s are most important to you on this album and could you give us a breakdown of some of the lyrics which you most want conveyed? A. As I’ve mentioned, I don’t want to demystify the lyrics. I can say that each song is important to me and each song was necessary to create. As a whole, Less To Heaven is a showcase of my rage and anguish. Q. What are the most important parts of creating music and songs for you and where do you tend to find your inspiration and drive to create them? A. Every aspect is important. The music is the world that the lyrics reside within. Every sound paints a picture of that world and the lyrics tell the story. Inspiration can come from anywhere. Sometimes it’s a single sound. I’m always recording sounds. It can be on my phone while I’m outside, or in the studio messing around with a new pedal / module etc. There are moments during experimentation that give you chills. That’s when you press record. Q. What artists have you been listening to most lately? A. I don’t listen to as much music as you might think. Typically, if I’m in the mood for music I will patch something up on my modular system, or pick up a guitar / violin etc and play something. When I’m in the car I’ll often reach for modern artists like Surachai, Snakes Of Russia, Thy Art Is Murder and some of the older bands that I loved when I was younger, Death, Morbid Angel, Deicide etc Q. What life advice can you share from your experience over the years in the music and alternative scene? A. Persistence is more important than anything else and don’t rely on others when it comes to your passions. Q. Is there anything you would like to say to your fans? Thank you for the love and kind words surrounding Less To Heaven. We’ve been fortunate to have the fan base that we have. Sending love right back. Thank you for your time Nero! Review We are greeted by an unexpected piece of music for the return of Psyclon Nine with 'BLOOD IN'; A beautiful melancholy of repeating keys lulls us in gently but is soon complemented by some hard striking percussion and guitar repeating notes - In to a rather powerful build up of riffs and intensity. 'SEE YOU ALL IN HELL' Quietly introduces us to some low key dark lullaby like rap; When the soul scathingly good guitar riffs kicks in for a short time and the vocals distort back to the aggrotech signature sound of Nero's supressed screams, it takes you to all the right places. Welcome back Psyclon Nine! This is a deeply profound track with some gorgeous artistry in the video. There is something about the low intensity guitar riffs, especially around the 1:46 mark, alongside the vocals that absolutely 'does it for me'. This is insanely beautiful and deeply iconic. With no respite, we are thrust in to the gates of 'MONEY AND SEX AND DEATH'. The music video for this has touches of paganism imagery which is great to see come through in yet another Industrial band. This track is darker and more refined than aggrotech has ever been. Guitars and vocals blast out their sections, and the quitter slower sections seem no less powerful for it, this is a deeply satisfying song that grinds right at your core. “This song was inspired by the excitement we feel when we see the world burning around ourselves. The abhorrent personal truths that we hold as sacred. The misery of others has never been viewed by so many angles, and strictly for our entertainment. With MONEY AND SEX AND DEATH I’m presenting your reflection to yourself.” - Nero 'THE POISON WILL DEADEN THE PAIN' has some very impressive synths that add a huge touch of cyberpunk urgency, interlaced with seething spoken vocal growls. Within this track, the screams of the damned interrupt the progression but quickly give way to a crashing and high tempo ending that is impressive to say the least. We all love a bit of mid-tempo, and in 'OFF WITH THEIR HEADS' we get just that, a nice spooky mid-tempo vibe that really shows off how haunting Nero's vocals can truly be. This track has some brutally delicious lyrics and is a satiating aural feast for the darker souls. 'X'S ON HER EYES' changes things up with a more dark wave approach to the vocal style from Nero, and brings a touch of the romantic, emotional poetic. This is of course blown out of the water by a heavy guitar riff and blistering return to his signature vocals. In this way the song takes turns to poetic, to intense several times and makes for a fist pumping, feet stomping power track. 'CATASTROPHIC' gives way to far more of an introspective instrumental track, peppered with Nero's poetics throughout. 'APRÉS MOI LE DÉLUGE' is a beautiful and experimental soundscape of cinematic proportion, the kind of music that would play out an emotive scene in a blockbuster sci-fi. For some context 'After me, The Flood' which is what this translates to, was a nihilistic quote by King Louis XV of France that shows indifference to anything that happens to the world after his / your own death. In this sense I feel Nero has perfectly captured in a musical sense, the world ending all around us and the apathy that not only the powers that be show towards it all, but even within our own selves.. 'BLOOD OUT' tugs at the heart strings and the darkest recesses of the mind. It is heavy with lament but also frustration, and pain. This is an incredibly unexpected style and direction that conveys a bit more of the 'emo' style of music but Nero has delivered this so well that it doesn't feel out of place on this album at all. This is another new blending of genres with industrial and I am impressed at how weighted with poignancy and value this song feels. Track List BLOOD IN SEE YOU ALL IN HELL MONEY AND SEX AND DEATH THE POISON WILL DEADEN THE PAIN OFF WITH THEIR HEADS X'S ON HER EYES CATASTROPHIC APRÉS MOI, LE DÉLUGE BLOOD OUT Conclusion Less To Heaven is a truly euphoric evolution of aggrotech in to something much more profound and mature. There is a devastating emotional beauty woven amongst the passion, and aggression that Psyclon Nine has been well known for. Nero Bellum has arisen Psyclon Nine to decadent new heights of luxurious sound and indulgence that brings the listener a new found sense of gratification for distorted industrial. This much needed delve in to finding a relevant place for the 'aggrotech' genre in the modern day is something many artists have striven for and not quite hit the mark, but this album has done so with elegance and grace. With Less To Heaven, Nero has proven his ascension! Scores Technicality: 9/10 Soul factor: 9/10 Energy: 9/10 Vocals/Samples: 9/10 Re-play value: 9/10 Overall score: 9/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. 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To say that HATARI are unlike anything you have ever experienced would only just begin to describe the amazing artistry and performance of the band, but where they excel most, is the characterisation of HATARI as a whole. On stage HATARI are an aggressive, deadly serious Anti-Capitalist band laced with charm, intensity, and poignant apathy that enhances the experience. Their artistry really puts their work and live shows on to a very complex and intellectual plane of dance floor exploration of the self and the wider world. This is then completely shattered off stage with their ridiculous humour, playing to capitalist stereotypes, and poking fun at everything and everyone, especially themselves! This is humorous corruption and they demand we all dance the Spillingardans (Corruption dance) or die.. Interview Back in 2020, I had arranged for a video interview with the band before their London show but then we all went in to lockdown. I was reminded of HATARI finally coming back to the U.K just a few days before their London show and made sure I didn't miss it. So although I did not have the time to reschedule our interview, Matthías was kind enough to agree to the following interview! ALSO! Check out our 2020 written interview with the band HERE Klemens, Einar, and Matthias Q. We last spoke in 2020 shortly after you had to cancel your Europe must crumble tour, and it was worth the wait to see you in the U.K as that London performance was absolutely incredible. Since 2020, what changes and events has HATARI gone through and what were some of the high points and low points for you all? A. The Icelandic gas station chain Olís went ahead and changed their logo and brand during this period. Not only was this a personal shock to us, the members of Hatari, but no less a national scandal. The new logo is such an affront to Icelandic design history that we have yet to recover personally. We tried recording a reggae album but some members within the band felt that Matthias's distorted vocal style, or "shouting", didn't fit the vibe. We started a Bitcoin mining operation during this period and at first things seemed to be working well. Using the profits, we invested heavily in Dogecoin and lost everything. We sold the Bitcoin-computers to break even. We bought some lovely lazer-gloves and thought they were a good addition to the wardrobe and performance. We also bought a lazer-whip but Klemens doesn't feel confident enough with his lazer-whipping skills to use it on stage yet. Q. You gave a great mid-show speech saying we are all the consumer and the consumed, and that we are all HATARI. For those who were not there to hear it, can you elaborate on that message for your fans and what HATARI continues to represent? A. The message is deliberately vague and open to interpretation. This is mainly to avoid a potential clash with any potential sponsors who might be interested in working with us in the future. Q. How was it playing in the UK and did you all enjoy the experience? A. We were invited to an orgy in London but our sound guy had a bit of a tummy ache and an ear infection so we called it a night. Once we got to the hotel, Einar showed us a neat trick where you can poke something like a pin into the British sockets and that way you can still use our European plugs for telephone charging purposes. (Don't stick pins in to sockets! You will die - E.V) So yes, it was a lovely experience except for that time when Klemens fell off the stage and hurt his knee a bit in Manchester. We used an extended lunch break to visit the Pier in Brighton and went on some fun rides and created precious memories as friends and took a selfie to send home. 64 images of the London show to slide through! Full review just past the interview. Q. Sólbjört and Ástrós were incredible as ever with their dancing, I noticed Andrean was not with you; How is his LGBTQIA+ activism progressing, and can we expect more backing vocals from Sólbjört and Ástrós in future releases? A. Ástrós was not with us this time. Instead, we introduced the world famous actress Íris Tanja Flygenring, as seen in award-winning TV series Katla, to the stage. We are not at liberty to discuss future vocal arrangements. Q. I have often talked about how I see a strong connection between the modern day Gothic Industrial / Techno scene and strong Norse Pagan tribal music such as Heilung. In fact your performance in London almost put me on the same spiritual connection level with the Norse Gods as when I have witnessed Heilung; It was at that point I realised Einar's drum area was decorated with the Maður (Mannaz) rune which, to my knowledge represents the connection between man and Gods, especially in ritual practise. So was this a coincidence or precisely the reason the rune was shown so clearly? - And if so, can you tell us more about the bands connection to spirituality if any, as we also had an interesting moment with a chalice which seemed like two different extremes at once? A. Indeed, before every show we sacrifice a ram to our great protector Þór and of course the wise Óðinn the all-father. Also, Klemens does a ritualistic dance that his cousin Sven taught him. We don't quite know what it means. We love spirituality, it's our fourth favourite thing. Q. Is there a new album or release in the works and can you tell us something about it and what we might expect? A. Well as we said before, listeners will not be expecting a reggae album for the reasons stated above. Nevertheless, there is more music expected. It will be even more spiritual and pagan than our earlier work and about six times more spiritual than Heilung. Q. For each member of Hatari, could you please describe yourself in one sentence, and each member's favourite quote please? Einar: A man's face is his autobiography. Klemens: I can resist everything but temptation. Matthías: True friends stab you in the front. Q. What is the band's favourite track to play live and why? A. Þamba drullu. In the English language that would be "Chugging Mud". We haven't played it in years but it's due for a comeback. Q. What life advice can you each share from your experience over the years in the music and alternative scene? A. Travel your own journey, everyone else's is taken. Also, there is a neat trick where you can poke something like a pin into British sockets and that way you can still use your European plugs for telephone charging purposes. (Please DON'T -E.V) Lastly, when life gives you lemons, dance a freely interpreted ritualistic dance. Q. I asked this before but finally, is there anything any of you would like to say to your fans? A. Remember that life is a season of friendship. This might seem confusing but the explanation will be made apparent in our new TV-series which is now on the drawing board. Thank you so much for your time Matthias! Full live review below Review Ash Kenazi Ash Kenazi was an absolute joy to behold from start to finish. I didn't expect any support at the event so to be surprised by a drag performance was a real treat! I will try not to give too much of the performance away but Ash started in the way of some very impressive operatic vocals, with humorous pauses for breath, followed by one hell of a great set of costumes as the show went on. What I found particularly clever was when Ash's wig fell off, and there was also an apparent sound problem with the laptop at two separate points. However I genuinely could not tell if these really were things going wrong or that they had been part of the show all along. The mark of true stagecraft.! Either way Ash did a wonderful drag and kept us all smiling and joyous throughout. When Ash asked if there were any fellow Queers in the audience, the house erupted with cheers and I think Ash and all the rest of us were deeply touched by that moment. If you get a chance to see Ash Kenazi then please do so, they were an absolute joy! 9/10 HATARI Full image gallery in the interview section Welcome to the 'Dance or Die' tour. I'm struggling hard to think of when I've felt such electric excitement for a band from an indoor audience, even when I've stood amongst tens of thousands at open air music venues, I still don't think the air felt so charged with anticipation as it did with the audience at London Camden's Electric Ballroom. A burst of text appeared on the screens speaking out about HATARI's message and poignancy, almost too quickly to appreciate and comprehend. Then.. Einar strolled on to stage to a rapturous applause, his ever silent, ever dangerous persona radiating so much power and style. Forgive my quality of photos, I was stood a fair way back with only my phone! Once Matthias and Klemens joined him, the built up tension detonated in to deafening cheers. There is clearly so much love for this band and they play well to this shower of love. How? Klemens' erotic movements emphasise a sense of appreciation and acknowledgement of that love, whereas Matthias for the most part shows pure apathy and some anger; Einar watches on like a menacing voyeur, and the dancers seems to feed off of that love and passion, and twist it in to ritualistic magic on stage. Whether intentional or not, this seems to show the main range of the human experience towards love and devotion.. 'You worship me and I love it!' or 'You worship me and I don't care.' If that isn't art, what is? HATARI are a living masterpiece of artistic expression in all forms of interpretation and vague representative meaning. Very few artists the world has ever seen can pull of such incredible juxtapositions of character and political satire. HATARI are the dystopian band of our dreams. If we have to live in a crumbling world, at least the soundtrack is epic! Each member of the band, as well as the songs, flowed so smoothly together and at one with each other with very little effort, like watching a master painter create a photo perfect sketch without even trying. Several songs in, Matthias stopped to give a speech on who HATARI and by extension, the audience of HATARI are and that we are all HATARI, which then led perfectly in to us being told to join in the Spillingardans. It was at this point the dance and the music took over me, and as mentioned in the interview above, I found myself dancing on a spiritual level, losing my mind to the rhythm and sounds. It took me a good couple of songs to pull myself out of that trance; Making HATARI one of only four bands that have ever had such an effect on me. HATARI as ever showcased an incredible fashion sense. From Klemens' battle vest, to Matthias' mic holding armour, the dancer's body suits and harnesses, to Einar's cyber warrior fit. Very few bands dress as industrial as this group do. Nearer the end, the show slowed down for Nunquam Iterum, Op. 12 (Never again) A hymnal choir piece. Klemens and Matthias took it in turn to pour and drink from, and sprinkle the crowd with water from a chalice making for a beautiful change of pace before blasting us all to piece again with Klámstrákur. (That is, if I recall correctly) Another great highlight of the show was the track Klefi featuring Bashar Murad. The sections of the music video with Bashar's face in were mixed in very well to the on stage screens and the overall colour scheme, which continued to change colour with each few tracks. (From a photography point of view, that's amazingly helpful!) Were I to say more, I would only spoil the experience or repeat myself. If you are lucky enough to be in a country where the tour is yet to reach, then make sure you go and see HATARI because they are by far one of the most incredible acts live .ON. .THIS. .PLANET.! 10/10 Remaining tour dates: ✦ Mon 10 Oct ✦ Tallinn, Estonia HALL CLUB ✦ Tue 11 Oct ✦ Riga, Latvia MELNA PIEKTDIENA ✦ Thu 13 Oct ✦ Warsaw, Poland PRAGA CENTRUM ✦ Fri 14 Oct ✦ Kraków, Poland HYPE PARK Updated ✦ DANCE OR DIE ✦ Tour 2022 As the continent rises from the ashes, HATARI, along with its global affiliates, hereby announce the re-rescheduled tour dates with HATARI. Ticket holders are encouraged to hold on to their tickets. Multi-award winning anti-capitalist performance art collective HATARI is renowned in the field of dystopian Euro-techno music performance and are devoted to finish their dance among the ruins of the continent. Members of the group are blacklisted by respectable institutions the world over, including five national secret services. Members are also known to be social media influencers. HATARI was founded in 2015 to obliterate the capitalist world order by way of sponsorship with SVIKAMYLLA EHF, their publisher. To this end they participated in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2019, where they were wildly popular and incurred considerable fines as punishment. Dance or die at a locale near you: hatari.is/live Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! 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Hardcore music is something a lot of us Goth types love, don't deny it. No matter what genre of Industrial or electronic you listen to, it's clear that hardcore always find at least some foothold in each one. Be it the drum and bass, trance, and super fast BPM influences or remixes, or the amazing mash ups the like of which Karkasarus play, there's always something very happy about mixing in to hardcore. For change we bring you a different genre than usual, gabber, a type of hardcore with its roots in 1990's Rotterdam. In 2002, Alexander Azzi, otherwise known as the hardcore/gabber electronic act, Perfect Dark dropped a six-song EP titled Here I Stand. It was released by DJ Rob GEE who signed Perfect Dark to a record deal and helped the project break out into the aggressive hard dance scene. After an indefinite leave and losing touch with his label, Alexander moved onto other things including a venture into the dubstep genre under the name, Drop Goblin which received notable success. Now, 2022 marks twenty years since the release of "Here I Stand" as an EP and song. Alexander Azzi says, "I thought it would be fitting, two decades later to release a single titled "Still Standing" to mark my re-entry back into the genre of hardcore/gabber music for anyone that remembers me. I haven't truly gone anywhere and I am still standing to this day." www.patreon.com/ElektroVox Interview Q. For those unfamiliar, how would you describe your music, and where does your inspiration come from? A. To describe my music would be to first describe the overall genre itself. A great way that I can describe Hardcore/Gabber music is Angry Electronic Dance Music. Depending on where you are in the world, you may find yourself in the eye of the storm of a mosh pit at a rave or possibly doing some crazy European style dancing known as “Hakken” dancing. That kind of dancing is a whole different type of story, so I suggest anyone wondering how to “Hakken” to do a Google or YouTube search for that. The elements of Hardcore/Gabber is a much faster BPM tempo ranging from 160’ish to 200+ depending on the type of hard dance sub-genre you are listening to. My style sits nice at around the 185BPM tempo. Slow enough to feel the ingredients of the music and dance to without fainting from exhaustion, but fast enough to give you an aggressive adrenaline rush where you feel the fast-paced energy. My music I produce personally includes elements of what’s expected in Hardcore/Gabber music such as dark sinister style synth leads, doom and gloom vocal phrases while moving at a frantic pace from the beat of crushing distorted 4/4 and 3/4 signature kickdrums patterns. Occasionally, I incorporate Hardcore-Metal style elements into my mid-break parts with real guitar breakdowns and Hardcore-Metal style lyrics and gang vocals. Bands like Sheer Terror and BLood for Blood are my main influences on those breakdowns. As far as genre specific inspiration, I would say the likes of Neophyte, Rotterdam Terror Corps, and Art of Fighters would be some good mentions among many. I feel that my personal synth pattern style comes from Neophyte primarily. They have a very bouncy but scary sound that I am heavily influenced by. I would suggest looking up the song “Skullfuck” from Neophyte (they are also known as Masters of Ceremony) on YouTube to get a good idea of that specific influence. Q. What is it about hardcore that attracted you to the scene and what are the best parts, and potentially some of the not so good parts of it for you? A. Coming from a Hardcore-Metal and Punk/Oi! background, discovering and producing aggressive EDM was an absolute requirement. I love that fact that you can take what is generally a “happy” and “feel good” type of music, push it down the stairs into a dark and dirty basement owned by John Wayne Gacey and then kick it around on the floor for a while and suddenly you have Hardcore/Gabber music. I mean, if I put a mental picture in my head, that’s what I see. I might be clinically crazy, I don’t know. Anyway, to me this is what I consider the positive parts of what attracted me to this genre. When I made the decision to focus on electronically programmed music, there really is nothing better. As far as any not-so-good parts. I really hate to admit it, but the truth is the truth; Hardcore/Gabber is the bastard stepchild of an elephant man like humanoid with acidic diarrhoea. Or in other words, to most people that are into multi genre EDM, they either hate it, or are terrified of it. It’s usually because they were introduced to it in a sloppy way. That bugs me because there are countless amazing Hardcore/Gabber anthems that exist in this world and most first-time listeners are instead presented with noisy crap. Or Hardstyle. (OK I admit I don’t hate Hardstyle, I have a whole playlist of it in my car, but Hardstyle is NOT Hardcore/Gabber) Anyway, a negative always has a chance at turning into a positive if approached with respect and care. A well-placed turntable needle drop on the second half of Angerfist’s song “Creature” might make quite a few sceptics start nodding their head to the synth lead that hits them and they may change their opinion a bit. Q. I know the hardcore scene is huge in Europe, what is the scene like over in America and what are some of the best Hardcore events there? A .The scene in Europe dwarfs the USA Hardcore/gabber scene here. It is dwarfed 10X in comparison. That doesn’t mean it’s not flourishing here, but things are vastly different even if the very same music is played. One big difference is here in the USA, the genre is given a spot at multi genre EDM music festivals and Rave events as its own “room” or “stage”. It’s very rare and only a handful of event promotions create strictly Hardcore/Gabber events. Army of Hardcore USA out in Los Angeles California is the only event promotion I can think of as I am typing this that promotes and offers just this one genre. I am sure there are some others but that’s the only one I can think of right at this very moment. Back in the late 90’s and early 2000’s though, when I was breaking through, there were more Hardcore/Gabber specific events being put on, but yeah, that has since died down considerably overtime to just a handful now. But hey, mega events like EDC have a Hardcore/Gabber stage so that alone is proof that this style of music still has some American demand. The scene in Europe however thrives on it. I could list countless event promotions that put or used to put on Hardcore/Gabber specific events, on a yearly basis. Masters of Hardcore being the big daddy of them all, then there is Harmony of Hardcore, Thunderdome, Nightmare in Germany, Defqon.1. The list is endless. I mentioned in the beginning of the interview about mosh pits in the USA vs. “Hakken” in Europe. There is an obvious difference there as far as dancing style. It’s like night and day. Here in America people use this music to justify punching people in the face in the pit (I'm all for it) but across the pond overseas, the popular “Hakken” dance is seemingly individual but done as a group with vibrancy and positivity. The one major thing I want to bring up is that while the genre originated mainly in Rotterdam Holland, there are many names that need to be recognized as the pioneers of the sound here in the USA. Rob GEE from New Jersey being not only one of the pioneers of American Hardcore/Gabber, but of all the DJ’s that have ever played the legendary Limelight nightclub in New York City, he was hailed as THE hardest DJ to ever play there. Other legends of the American scene would be Lenny Dee, Ron D. Core, Omar Santana, and Delta 9. It was these legends that allowed America to take notice of this crazy aggressive genre of music known as Hardcore/Gabber. Q. How has your sound and direction changed in the 20 years since your previous release and what direction do you expect to take in the future? A. I think my mentality in what I want my music to sound like hasn’t changed much. The times have changed obviously and so hasn’t certain sounds and processing of those sounds, but I feel my core standards in the type of product I put out remains intact from then until now. I will be the first to admit that what Hardcore/Gabber was back then sounds much different now. Back in the day the synth patterns and other elements drove the track from beginning to end. Today’s Hardcore/Gabber seems more kick-drum prioritized. I hear a lot of music where the kick-drum takes centre stage as the lead and other elements follow that as just a compliment to the kick. The overall tempo has gotten much faster as well. It’s a little bit too different for my taste but it’s not discouraging me in the slightest of concerns. I have no difficulty respecting the new style of sound while still adding elements of the older era to my workflow. In the present day, any time I make a synth pattern that is to represent a lead part in one of my songs I realize I now also need to engineer harder and more brighter kicks of the modern. By doing so I confidently believe that I can give the modern day Hardcore/Gabber fans the current sound they need while blending the energy of the millennium era straight through it. If I had to create a title for what I make I would say “Modern Millennium”. (With some Hardcore-Metal thrown in here and there for good measure) Q. Do you have any more music in the works, maybe even working towards an album? A. I have quite a few tracks finished and in line for release. My debut single “Still Standing” was produced after some of these tracks were already finished. I just was very adamant that “Still Standing” had to be the first original to come out under my name since my first release that was ever put out in 2002 was “Here I Stand”. There are two remix’s I did that were released before “Still Standing” in 2021 and early 2022 but since they are my re-imagined versions of other people’s original tracks, I didn’t count those as anything that would take away from the specialness of my debut original. I don’t think I will put out any albums in this new day and age. We live in a world now where single tracks can travel far quickly and make just as much of an impact as albums used to back in the old days. I figure this gives me a justified reason to put out single releases over a longer period as opposed to blowing my wad too fast buy dumping a whole bunch of tracks at once. This also allows each individual single release its own chance to shine and not be diluted among other tracks. Q. Who has been your top three music inspirations of the past, and who are your current top three inspirations or favourite artists? A. When I need to feel the musical aggression, I put on Sheer Terror or Blood for Blood. They will stand the test of time for as long as Hardcore metal exist. If I am in the mood for some Hardcore/Gabber I listen to Neophyte. They too will stand the test of time for as long as Hardcore/Gabber exists. As far as current favorite artists. I am talking about overall favorites, not so much inspiration to my own music. The top one would be John Denver. Didn’t expect that one, did you? I have been a fan of him my entire adult life. Whenever I am driving or flying to play an event, I have John Denver playing in my ears. Whenever I am done playing an event and going back to the hotel or coming directly home afterwards, I have John Denver playing in my ears. If Hardcore/Gabber represents the “Yin”, then John Denver is the “Yang”. He keeps me sane when throwing myself into the insane. The other two would be Nightwish and Ghost. I have been listening to Nightwish ever since their formation in 1996. Amazing Power Metal. And lately I have had Ghost playing in my car almost on repeat. Love them or hate them, which I know is a very mixed bag among the masses, I absolutely love what Tobias Forge has created visually and musically is something I have never encountered before. A few other honorable mentions; King Diamond, GWAR, Alestorm, The O’Reilly’s and the Paddyhats, and Volbeat. These are some of my other bands I enjoy. Q. Is there a favourite funny or important moment story from your music career you can tell us? A. Well, just yesterday, when I posted another interview where I mentioned Sheer Terror, they removed the tag I did on them and then the infamous front man of the band Paul Bearer kindly commented “Please stop tagging us with this crap”. Talk about catching me off guard considering I was tagging the band because they were a primary influence of mine ever since the beginning. Anyway, as a knee-jerk reaction I removed the comment, but in hindsight I wish I kept it public. He is a self-proclaimed “professional asshole” after all. Still a great band. As far as memories of the past, I remember playing a very large music festival called Boo 6 in New York (Randalls Island) in April of 2002 along with Rob GEE, Neophyte, Gizmo, Buzz Fuzz, Omar Santana, among others. Neophyte and I at the time were a live act which means we were playing out our original music elements literally live with computers and keyboards, but because of the logistics of flight travel from Holland, they didn’t have any of their keyboard gear with them to trigger and output music. They were in a situation where they would have had to play off of audio CD’s or something not as flashy. But, by a sheer stroke of luck my gear was compatible with their arrangements so the lead “trigger man” asked if they could use my gear for their performance which I happily allowed. It might not matter to the entire world, but for a young guy like me at the time who was directly inspired by their Hardcore/Gabber style, it was a very satisfying moment to know that I was able to now help them in their time of need. We went to breakfast the morning after. Q. Anything you'd like to say to your fans? A. First and foremost, I want to thank all the fans I have had over the years. Then, now and hopefully as life goes on. Secondly, here is some deep talk: Sometimes crazy things happen at the most least expected moments. These moments can change your life’s trajectory. If that trajectory goes in a direction that you feel in your heart will impact your life in a positive way, then go with the flow like a twig on the shoulders of a mighty stream. Don’t force a thing. And when you find yourself at the starting line of that new adventure for yourself, sprint out of the gate fast and hard and don’t let anyone slow you down for any fucking reason. Thank you for your time! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! 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Welcome to something new and a real treat for the ears, DJ DeadDancer has mixed up an energetic but easy to listen to collection containing some of the most current and influential artists on the electronic scene and with some very impressive art work too as you can see! This is the first time that I've covered a mix compilation and as such this won't be an in depth review as usual. It's also the first time I've covered Drum and Bass even if it is somewhat industrial themed, so it's definitely not my reviewing area of 'expertise. DJ DeadDancer, or DD for short not only DJ's some great tunes but has a bi-weekly twitch stream (Which I sometime join) and impressive graphic design service as you can read from his Bio below. Hello there! My name is Jack, aka DD, aka DeadDancer! I'm a DJ, Graphic Designer and Gamer! I also talk about polyamory, relationships and dating. I mainly play Roguelites like Hades and Dead Cells, then sometimes dabble in Soulslikes and RPGS. I am always open to new suggestions for games to play and if you have a recommendation let me know in the chat! We also play community games on and off stream, if you see us playing, feel free to hop in! (Link tree for DJ DeadDancer can be found at the end of the article!) Review The great thing about this mix is it gracefully dances in and out of artists both recognisable and new to me. Starting off with the ever fantastical Scandroid who we should all know and love by now - sets the melodic cyberpunk mood nicely, still retaining that great energetic spark that DNB exudes. The mix keeps the energy high yet retains a nice sense of comfort even against the intensity. It's one of those mixes that's adaptable for workouts, parties, studying, or background noise whilst you do practically anything. Throwing in Eurhythmics that then transforms in to the voice of Keith from Mechanical Vein was a very nice touch that made my industrial mind quite happy indeed. Throughout, the mix rises and crashes in intensity and speed. Some of the different vocals of the artists are beautiful indeed, whilst a couple of others.. not so much for me personally, but you can't possibly like every artist can you? None the less, DJ DeadDancer has masterfully picked some great tunes and vocals to make a well rounded and magnificent piece anyone can enjoy. Throwing in the legendary Depeche Mode was another slow down I really was not expecting but further adds to the great structure of the mix picking up and easing off on the intensity to make it easier to process and unwind to as it comes in waves. The second half of the mix throws in a lot of changes and curveballs in genre including metal, more industrial, some more famous names such as Pendulum and The Prodigy. It is of course great to see Biomechanimal so artfully mixed in as well. As we all know, that's one of the top industrial bands around in my opinion. Anything else I have to say would probably just be me repeating myself. Overall though, this has been a really enjoyable mix, especially for the DNB genre which I usually tend to avoid or have little interest in. In that respect DD has peaked my curiosity and interest and I may have to start listening to, and covering, a fair bit more! Tracklist 3Force feat. Scandroid - Abyss (Gancher & Ruin Remix) Jack Mirror feat. flowanastasia - With You Andromedik feat. Ayah Marar - First To Go Voicians - We Won't Be Ever There Maduk feat. Gid Sedgwick - Poison Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Airglo Bootleg) Saltee & Mechanical Vein - All Gods Fall Down (Zardonic Remix) The Qemists - Crevasse Fleur & Cutline - Broken Mirror (Metrik Remix) Hyperforms - Always Gone The Prototypes feat. Ayah Marar - Kill The Silence Subsonic - Last Time Muzzy, Koven & Feint - Worth The Lie Cluster Patrol - Dualistic Cartoon & Andromedik feat. Jüri Pootsmann - Whatever Metrik - Utopia Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence (Ripple Bootleg) Rameses B - Samurai Pendulum - Nothing For Free (Kove Remix) Futurebound feat. Dolly Rae - Fall Culture Shock - Visions Skrillex & Diplo - To Ü (Lateral Bootleg) Andromedik & Used - Take Me Guru Groove Foundation - Golden Love (Mr. Frenkie Remix) Grafix feat. Metrik - Skyline Delta Heavy feat. DJ Rae - Heartbeat Manila Killa feat. fknsyd - Take Me Higher Feint & Boxplot - Heartstrings Muzz - Out There Rameses B, Feint & Veela - Space Boy Solomon France feat. Oli Scott - Peace of Mind Neonlight & State of Mind - Prophecy Prolix & The Qemists - Feel Alive Blue Stahli - Enemy (Gydra Remix) The Prodigy - Nasty (Spor Remix) Teddy Killerz & Celldweller - Clone The Carnage Corps - Deathwish L 33 - Bloodbrain (VIP) Kill The Noise & Eda Lovelace - Higher SEMARGL - Credo Revolution (Zardonic Remix) Drumsound & Bassline Smith - Violator Toronto is Broken feat. BVLVNCE - Paragons Biomechanimal - King of Cups (Saltee Remix) Gancher & Ruin - Gangsta BLVCK CROWZ - Jungle Demon Raizer - Against Myself Score: 8/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! Thank you for viewing and please feel free to share on social media and like us on Instagram, YouTube, and Facebook @ElektroVox

Something a little different this time, delve into the world of nature and witchery with the single 'Dream Curve'. The concept is really interesting and shines some hope on the difficult world we find ourselves in as you can read in the bio below.. “With her dramatic soprano voice, enchanting stage presence, and marvellous flute solo, Margot Day’s music with Metamorph is an illuminating force...her new single with Metamorph inspires us to imagine a better future”. – Synthbeat.com Our lives are on a new dream curve. We are all going through the darkness of grief. Bravely we traverse today's shifting cataclysm. Would you use this portal of change to dream a brighter future for yourself and our planet? We are the dream weavers, and we are interwoven. Together we embrace the unknown on our new dream curve. "Inspired by nature I am writing and recording alone in the jungle. I send the songs into the ether via the web to Producer Erik Gustafson (of Adoration Destroyed). He is brilliant. Erik seems to internalize and live and dream these songs too. Songs that are interlaced with magic, with vibes that are both dark and heavy as well as dreamy and hopeful. I deeply appreciate Erik’s immersion while producing the Kiss of the Witch EP and I’m thrilled to share and drop this new Metamorph song collection later in 2022."- Margot Day Margot Day was an integral part of the 80’s NYC underground music scene while fronting the legendary Goth band “The Plague”. (Naraka album 1987). Witchy Goth Rock band Metamorph began in 2016. A pulse driven entry into other dimensions of song and dance, a vortex of melody and throbbing rhythms capable of awakening human potential. Songstress Margot Day's multi-range vocals and mastery of the flute entwine with multi-instrumentalist Kurtis Knight casting a spell of love in their Metamorph releases “Sigils & Spirals” 2020, “Ether” 2017, and “The 4 Elements” 2017. With well over 100,000 views on the Metamorph YouTube channel – featuring the music videos “Daisy Logic" and the prophetic “Spelldance” music video from the Sigils & Spirals EP 2020 and Love in the Wreckage. Metamorph tuning is A=432hz - natures frequency. Live concerts and festivals with Metamorph duo Day & Knight (and their tiny mascot Melody) in Costa Rica, Guatamala and the East and West Coast of the USA. The Metamorph Band concerts in 2019-2020 on the East coast in Salem MA, Boston, NYC, Montreal, Vermont and PA with Margot Day, Kurtis Knight and Drummer Joe Netzel, Anomaly on Bass, and dancers Rivqah Cas and Kitten.. Duo Margot Day and & Kurtis Knight are also known for their album “Sacred!” 1999, and “Moss Circle” 2010. Margot Day a native New Yorker who has escaped temporarily to the jungle in 2020 is conjuring a new collection of Metamorph songs for the “Kiss of the Witch EP” to be released in 2022. First single “Love in the Wreckage” launched Valentines 2022 - on all platforms. LITW transforms the worlds chaos into love. View the “Love in the Wreckage” Lyric Video. The second single Dream Curve dropped on Beltane May 1, 2022 on all platforms. Produced by Cleopatra recording artist Erik Gustafson of Adoration Destroyed. Metamorph is “music for morphing”. Inviting the listener to welcome change and “become the wave, the witch, the butterfly, the pirate, the phoenix…” Review (No bandcamp player available) I think it is an easy thing to relate to the message of this track. There are countless numbers of us desperately dreaming of a better world, one that should have been, and one that still could be if things change soon, but drastically. The artistry of the video is rather unique and enjoyable. The emotion of the vocals is highlighted well by the 80's style darkwave keyboard that eludes to a realm of unknown and that's always a little spooky right? Besides, what is Gothic, if not a little spooky and fantastical? Margot pulls off some impressive vocal ranges and high notes throughout which brings a nice variation to the smooth and steady formulae of track. It very relaxing and comforting in style which helps to aid towards the concept of the song overall I think. The single feels like a cinematic piece suitable for either a fantasy or sci-fi thriller, such is the duality of the world we currently find ourselves in of the old struggling with the new and all the space in between. It is definitely a song that grows on you, once you have grasped the concept and listened a few times, it becomes more and more enjoyable. The rhythm and instrument loops really do relax and engulf you in to the music like a warm blanket. A very interesting an different piece but one I have enjoyed. Available on Bandcamp for just $1 HERE 7/10 Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. 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Karkasaurus are the ultimate party animals who never fail to knock us all off our feet with incredible sets, so to further augment that power with the legendary might of the bands they brought with them to London? it really was fantastic, and if you can catch them at one of the other tour shows, make sure you do! Review Bein-E Wherever Beat:Cancer is, Simon is almost certain to be there too helping out with the stage, spinning a DJ set or bringing us another experimental ambience offering with Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand (Bein-E). This time he had taken to a more industrial-esque choice of music with some great samples thrown in from the likes of Night of the living dead. Not only that but he rounded the set off with some absolutely filthy tracks. In this way he had built up steadily for one hell of a second half to his set and in so doing, the venue felt alive and fired up with the anticipation of more great music. This was the best music I've heard Simon spin live, and it was really impressively done. Red Meat A live set performance that I have been waiting to see for quite a while. Rhys has been killing it with the astonishingly angry, hedonistic, and ear rending beats of the industrial lane he has charged head first in to. The soundcheck had me extremely excited and the performance itself really did deliver. I was on the Merch table most of the night but I had people coming up and buying his shirts throughout his impressive performance - with people commenting how good he was and quite a few of us agreed that he sounded very similar to Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist! He smashed that one right out of the proverbial park. A video interview with Rhys will be uploaded to YouTube soon! Biomechanimal Matt hit us with one hell of a DJ set playing some very unique tracks including opening up with the industrial-folk-viking artist Errrilaz much to my utter delight; As well as playing some new and unreleased Bio tracks which all went down like a fresh vein of ore at a gold rush. Which is to say, he did well, exceptionally well, that crowd were dancing their asses off and the atmosphere was ecstatic, he even brought a lot of mods and synths to really mash up the sounds and tracks in to some really beautiful musical alchemy! (or as the talented Matt would call it, just another day ending in a 'y'.) iVardensphere Scott Fox the legend once again returns to UK stages for this tour. He brought all of his equipment and drum machines etc in hand luggage this time around to save the same one drum machine disaster of lost luggage that happened at Tanz from repeating. iVardensphere Singularity is different each time, Scott approaches it with an idea in his head and then just starts throwing his equipment and samples through stunning - one of a kind performances. This time he had matt from Bio join him for a time which sent the crowd stomping and raving away even harder than before. Scott is a man who has achieved perfect mastery over electronic audio, and weaves musical spells like a cybermancer or sci-fi bard of legend. Don't ever miss out on a chance to see Scott play be it with the full band or as his singularity! Karkasaurus The two Dino dudes who we all know and love, who make so many of these great events possible, need no introduction. Once again they took turns to throw a song in to the mix and tear the audience a new hole with each track spun. Intensity, speed, action, these aren't just Hollywood film elements, these are elements of a Karkasaurus dance floor and they bend them to their will with unimaginable ease, casting absolute fire out across the dancefloor. The Dino duo have always put on the most entertaining, fun, and pure bliss dancefloor sets be they online, live, or regardless of genre they happen to be spinning on any given night; These guys are true legends of dancefloors everywhere and there 'aint no party like a Karkasaurus party! So a huge thank you to them both for running such a great event and kicking our asses once again. One more thing.. James has been going to Beat:Cancer events for a long time. He even drove me to my first few B:C gigs and because of that Elektro Vox now exists and my love for industrial was originally ingrained by this great guy! The weird thing? He (or at the very least someone he has brought with him) has always won one of the B:C raffle bundles! Myself being one of them many years ago. In true fashion, he won one of the three raffles at EVM fest recently too. When I got on stage to do the raffle draw for two different prize bags, I joked briefly with the audience about his luck, and you'll never guess who's number Vampyr Brat picked out of the tin for the second prize... That's right.. James, the lucky sod! A huge, huge thank you to everyone who takes part in B:C raffles, it really is the best way to support the charity and get more funding to the places that need it! Quick note: Elektro Vox is an ad free site that costs a lot to run and get content for. If you like our work please consider commissioning an article, making a small donation to keep us running, or sub to our YouTube for band interviews and music streams. You can also list your band or business on our Alternative Directory! Thank you! Check out the alternative directory for E-stores, online Goth goods, and new bands to discover. Get yourself listed with us! 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