Another One for the Fire
Category: Industrial Rock
Album: Contort EP
Stars: 2.5
Blurb: A raw and unpolished EP precursor to this young act’s debut album.

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Midwestern U.S. label Labtoy Music has signed Serbian industrial act dreDDup and industrial punk project Roughhausen. [..]

WTII Records will release a free 2013 digital sampler on May 14 through the label’s website, Amazon, and various other outlets. The 18-track sampler contains new and exclusive tracks [..]

EBM duo XP8 is on its way to releasing the newest album Adrenochrome thanks to the support of their fans, who fully funded the IndieGoGo campaign within 18 hours of its inception. Adrenochrome tells the story of two characters in futuristic London, based on a story written by XP8 co-founder Marko in the late 1990s. [..]

Swedish electro act Covenant will release its newest EP, Last Dance, worldwide through Dependent Records on June 7, with a North American release on June 11 through Metropolis Records. The EP features “a song written by each member of Covenant, including new live member Andreas Catjar, keyboardist Daniel Jonasson, and founding members Eskil Simonsson and Joakim Montelius,” as well as two remixes. [..]

Killing Joke has released the music video for “Corporate Elect,” from the band’s MMXII album. The song will be featured on Killing Joke’s anthology The Singles Collection 1979-2012 [..]

May 17-20, 2013

Fallen to the frozen beginning of spring, Leipzig stumbles back into the path that looms in the shadows – shop keepers plan their windows, removing the colorful pastel shades that once beamed out of their looking glass for monotones that only absorb light. Wave Gotik Treffen has reappeared for its 22nd birthday and will most likely be, again, the largest Gothic gathering on the earth’s soil. [..]