As The Storm Before the Calm looms on the horizon, the dark alt. rock collective Beauty in Chaos continues to enthrall with new members added to the project’s collaborative ranks. With Curse Mackey having made an auspicious appearance on the “A Kind Cruelty” single in February, it is perhaps fitting that fellow Pigface alumni Steven Seibold would also end up lending his own distinctive style to Beauty in Chaos on the new single, “Almost Pure.” “What a great honor to write with such a longtime friend,” Seibold says [..]

 
Cajun electro/industrial act SINthetik Messiah has released a new EP, titled Split Damage. Although his past work has taken on the more abrasive sounds of industrial, rock, and aggressive electro, the EP’s two tracks find Bug Gigabyte pursuing a down-tempo atmospheric style, which he describes as “post-trip-hop.” Appearing on the EP’s first track, “Languish,” is Cat Hall of fellow electronic act Dissonance, lending her signature layers of emotive harmonized vocals [..]

 
With the need for social distancing now in effect to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Rodney Orpheus has taken advantage of the unexpected extra time in his home studio release a new ambient solo album, Places Beginning with N. Spanning six tracks, Orpheus describes the album as a collection of “journeys to imaginary places [..]

 
Florida industrial/metal band Machines On Blast has brought award-winning producer Henrik Udd onboard to mix and master the upcoming album, Black Market Happiness. Due out this summer, the album marks the first new release from the band since 2016 [..]

A Pigface tour can certainly yield some logistical challenges – as a band with an ever fluid lineup of musicians from all across the spectrum of the underground scene, one is never really sure what will happen. Who is going to be available? How many nights of the tour will any one musician be able to perform? What songs will the band play? Who is in the band for the first time? Is that a sitar on stage? Did I just hear a violin? Why is Krztoff from BILE in a neck brace? I thought those two guys hated each other, but they’re harmonizing vocals? How many drummers does this band have? Am I less drunk than the band? What is going to happen? You never really know… only that it is going to be a singularly awesome experience. [..]

 
Founded by Matt Collins, New York industrial/rock act Hazmat returned after a silence of nearly 11 years with the June 2019 release of Storming the Unreality Studio. Now, Hazmat breaks into audiovisual territory with “Design Flaw” marking the project’s first ever music video. Drawing upon images of classic works of art and architecture transposed into a post-modern CGI cornucopia [..]

 
With the band’s west coast tour postponed due to the current crisis, Portland, OR electro/punk act Die Robot is pushing forward with the release of a new single, titled “Fanatic.” Recorded at the band’s home studio by John Case at Retro Mechanical Labs during the quarantine in March and April, the song presents the first release of new Die Robot material since the Technopunk (Remix’d) album in November 2019 [..]