Sonum Unum Addresses The Pain Of Loss Through Human Connection With New Album
Electronic rock duo, Sonum Unum have just unveiled their debut album, Signals From The Sun. The album is heavily inspired by 80s and 90s eras electronic and synth-pop music. Dark and ominous tones, ambient textures and thumping beats are abound while lush, layered vocals soar to epic and cinematic tiers.
Signals From The Sun is meant to be a personal and interpretive listen but many of the tracks touch on the power and the pain of love and loss through human connection. Overall, it's up to the listener to assign meaning to how each track relates within their own human experience.
Signals From The Sun is out everywhere NOW on Negative Gain Productions.
Today it’s been exactly 36 years since electro-industrial band The Klinik released their second full album Plague (Antler 065 - Release date: 25.09.1987). Originally released as a gatefold vinyl it was re-released again by Antler Records as a bonus CD with the release of the 1991 Time (Antler 5040) album.
Plague, with menacing sounds and engaging songs, can be seen as one of the darkest albums released by the band. Marc Verhaeghen’s uncompromising and unpredictable programming, sampling and synth manipulation revoke apocalyptic visions while the typical, sometimes hissing, sometimes shouting, vocals of Dirk Ivens complete the dark atmosphere perfectly.
Plague (Tracklist)
A1 World Domination
A2 Murder
A3 No Time To Win
A4 Outside
B1 End Of The Line
B2 Pictures
B3 Into Deep Water
B4 Plague
Today it’s been exactly 31 years since Nine Inch Nails released Broken (EP)
Today it’s been exactly 31 years since Nine Inch Nails released its first EP Broken (September 22, 1992). The EP was produced by frontman Trent Reznor and Flood and entirely consists of new material. The synth-pop style from the band's 1989 debut album Pretty Hate Machine was replaced by a heavier sound that would act as a precursor to their second album The Downward Spiral (1994). One of the reasons for this drastic change in sound and style being TVT Records, who had signed the band, pressuring Trent Reznor to record a similar synth-pop album as follow-up after the success of the previous Pretty Hate Machine album. As a reaction to this attempt to interfere with his artistic and creative freedom Reznor secretly started recording with Flood under various monikers to prevent TVT Records from confiscating and releasing their recordings.
In the end, a deal was reached with Interscope Records to release future Nine Inch Nails releases.
The accompanying short movie Broken, filmed and directed by Peter Christopherson (Trobbing Gristle / Coil / …) and based on a scenario by Trent Reznor, was never officially released due to its extreme graphic content but was leaked as a bootleg which became heavily traded amongst fans.
Although the videos were widely censored from television airplay, the song Wish made the band win the Grammy Award for Best Metal Performance (1993) while their Woodstock '94 performance of Happiness in Slavery won the same award at the 38th Grammy Awards (1996).
Broken peaked at the seventh rank on the US billboard 200 chart.
The original release of Broken was limited to 250.000 copies and included two bonus tracks on a separate 3" CD including a cover version of Physical, a song originally by Adam Ant, and Suck which Reznor had co-written with all-star industrial band Pigface.
A remix EP titled Fixed (with blue cover) was released late 1992.
Broken (EP)
1. Pionion
2. Wish
3. Last
4. Help me I Am In Hell
5. Happiness In Slavery
6. Gave Up
3" CD tracklist (Bonus)
1. Physical
2. Suck
Earlier this month NIN performed the Broken EP in its entirety on their Cold and Black and Infinite North America 2018 Tour (see video below).
Chicago-based electronic artist, royb0t asks “How does it feel to be a witch in the computer age?” This comes as a frenetic blend of industrial techno, cyberpunk-tinged acid, and glitched-out breakbeats on the new full-length LP, Void Guide.
Following the densely bleak IDM-inspired Black Burst Generator LP in 2020, royb0t has emerged from isolation with an eye to the dance floor.
The Void Glide LP injects a sense of levity into the darkness through a playful use of chopped up samples, rave stabs, and surprising turns, but the driving beats and distorted synths maintain a sense of menace throughout the 10 track LP. These elements are all on full display in the dancefloor-ready single “Cradle to the Rave”, which also features a music video that includes colorful analog glitch and 90s-inspired CGI visuals.
Canada's premier industrial act, 40 Octaves Below, has just dropped the ambitious and diverse remix release MetaVersUs Remixed.
The album contains tracks from the 40 Octaves Below release, MetaVersUs.
18 tracks remixed by the likes of DI Auger, Moris Blak, MXMS, Anthony (H), Angelspit, Live Evil Productions, Aesthetic Perfection, Blue Ant, The Gothsicles, DJ Underminer, Trick Casket, Diverje, Toxikk Deception, James Ghost, Dark The Keeper, Passion For Hypnosis, 40 Octaves Below.
MetaVersUs Remixed is available to stream on all major digital platforms including Bandcamp.
