Industrial Electronic Rock Artist Blue Eyed Christ have released their long anticipated album A Rush and a Thrill!

This album is really special to me because I’ve been working on and off on it for over 10 Years! I’m in the studio everyday helping other artists work on their music so often I go though periods of time of putting my songs aside but am always drawn back to them. 

I still approach albums in a holistic cinematic sense where I like them to have an arc and take me into their world. Too many albums these days are just a collection of songs that are all the same length, tempo, and style while all trying to be the single. A Rush and a Thrill is a diverse album that takes you on a journey from start to finish. Some songs are more guitar oriented, some more electronic, some are the heaviest and fastest songs I’ve ever released, and some are slow and melancholy. There really should be something here for everyone… from Heavy Industrial Rock to EBM. - John D. Norten

Track List:

1.The Haters 

2. Freakshow 

3. Last Days 

4. In Transition 

5. Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) 

6. The One 

7. Push It! 

8. Dirty (Pretty) 

9. Into the Vortex 

10. Somebody Else 

11. Something Wonderful

About Blue Eyed Christ:

Blue Eyed Christ is the Industrial Rock Project of established Mixer/Producer/Engineer John D. Norten. John has worked with many of the biggest artists in music helping them achieve their visions (Cee Lo, Dr. Dre, Lady Gaga, Taboo of the Black Eyed Peas).

In contrast, Blue Eyed Christ is 100% John’s artistic vision. That vision is a dark, powerful, and visceral combination of heavy electronic rock mixed with personal lyrics and just the right amount of hooks and noise.

In 1991, while still in his teens, Chicago's John D. Norten signed his first international recording contract under the name Blue Eyed Christ to Europe's infamous KK Records. The first Album, Leaders + Followers, was released that same year. The album received universally excellent reviews worldwide in numerous publications including Alternative Press. Blue Eyed Christ still enjoys a loyal following today and Leaders + Followers is considered an EBM classic.

In 1995 John wrote the second Blue Eyed Christ Album, Crash. At the same time he assembled an intense live band that helped further create a buzz throughout the music industry.

In 1996 John moved to Los Angeles to further his studio career with other established artists. Still desiring his own creative outlet, 2002 saw the release of the third Blue Eyed Christ album, American Whore.

Now, 12 Years since American Whore John resurrects Blue Eyed Christ once again to show the world his own unique brand of songwriting, production, and studio savvy. The new album, A Rush and a Thrill, is a whirlwind ride straight into the psyche of John D. Norten and the world of Blue Eyed Christ.

The Berlin-based Electro-shockers Agonoize have always managed to be one of the most polarizing and popular bands in the scene. With this comprehensive anthology of their first decade of work on 4 CDs in a lavish Digibook, limited to 1000 copies and including a lot of rarities and unreleased songs, they are not only effectively drawing a line under this first chapter of their career, but also delivering an essential milestone for any collector of hard electronic music.

For many of those who are notoriously living in the past, Agonoize have been and will always be “the scene's downfall”, while they are “the hottest shit” to enter the world of Electro in the past decade for the vast majority of the rest of the scene: Agonoize love to polarize and they are doing so with a big grin on their faces. A major key to their popularity is probably that they've never really cared too much about what other people expect from them. With their very own vision of Harsh-Electro that is built on a plethora of ultra-fattened-up beats, hard bass lines and brutal shouts, but always infused with an addictive sort of catchiness, they manage to turn any club into a slam dancing hell. In their lyrics, they love breaking just about any kind of taboo you can think of and are never shy of picking a fight with all the organized religions, states and idiots in this world, while being so tongue-in-cheek about it that they actually make hitting it where it hurts tremendously fun.

If you add their massive blood-soaked live shows to the mix, it is hardly any wonder that this group has enjoyed quite some popularity in the scene. “Reborn In Darkness” - The Bloody Years 2003-2014” celebrates the first decade of work from the Berliners on a whopping 4 CDs, with CD 1 containing a selection of the best club hits from the band, including the long-deleted club-standards “Koprolalie” and “Glaubenskrieger.” The second disc sports a selection of remixes of the band's biggest club hits, a lot of them also deleted and rare, while disc 3 and 4 contain a wealth of rarities, alternative versions and (the holy grail for diehard fans) previously unreleased material. This strictly limited anthology is not only the unique opportunity to own all the most important tracks from this seminal band, but also a must-own for fans and long-time followers! (...and experience from the past tells us that limited Agonoize-editions are usually sold-out rather fast.) Caution! There is blood on the dance floor!

Rizzle Kicks star Harley Sylvester makes his feature film debut, alongside a host of top British acting talent in hard-hitting, stylish thriller The Guvnors. Directed by Gabe Turner (In the Hands of The Gods, The Class of ’92), it’s produced by Fulwell 73 Productions and co-produced by author and bona fide football firm insider Cass Pennant, the film comes to DVD and Blu-ray on 29 December courtesy of Metrodome Distribution.

It’s dog eat dog on a South East London Estate, gangs rule with fear and intimidation and gang leader Adam (Sylvester) will stop at nothing to earn respect and prove he runs things. 

Mitch (Doug Allen – The Firm, Gangster No.1) has left behind his tough estate upbringing, and violent past as leader of a notorious football firm The Guvnors. Now living in the suburbs, he’s the doyen of respectability and quiet confidence, until young upstart Adam attempts to drag him back in, desperate to inherit Mitch’s reputation and vanquish his legend. 

Two generations steeped in violence collide and the two men are forced to reconcile their past and face the future as secrets are revealed, blood is spilt and lives are shattered. 

Turner’s violent thriller explores the sinister, inescapable legacy of a life of violence in all its forms. 

The Guvnors stars David Essex (Stardust, Eastenders), Martin Hancock (Coronation Street, Kingdom of Heaven), Jay Simpson (Utopia, Foyle’s War), Charlie Palmer Merkell (Plastic, Our Girl), Paul Reynolds (Trevor’s World of Sport, Press Gang), Vas Blackwood (Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Mean Machine), Tony Denham (The Football Factory, Vendetta) and Richard Blackwood (Anuvahood, The Richard Blackwood Show).

The classic television series The Six Million Dollar Man is going to be remade as a film — but now that we're in 2014, its star is going to be at lot more expensive. Deadline reports that Mark Wahlberg is going to star in the remake, which will instead be called The Six Billion Dollar Man. The film will have Wahlberg playing Steve Austin, who in the original series was a former astronaut who is saved after a terrible accident thanks to some very expensive equipment that effectively turns him into a cyborg. With those added powers, he then goes on to be a secret agent for the government.

There isn't a lot more known about the film right now, though Deadline reports that it'll be directed by Peter Berg, who was behind Battleship and Hancock. The property is very much in a strange spot: though it's ingrained in pop culture, it's far from a familiar name with younger viewers. Perhaps its longevity has Wahlberg and Berg thinking that it's worth attempting to revive and reintroduce. At the very least, doing that successfully will require a lot more than accounting for inflation.

Drawing inspiration from a wide range of EBM and industrial based music such as VNV Nation, De/Vision, Nitzer Ebb and KMFDM, Vain Machine’s signature sound features dirty-driving bass lines, sweeping pads, razor sharp leads and rhythmic electronic percussion underpinning infectious melodies. 

Established by Beau Baker and Omar Quinones in 2013, the two met in a chance encounter when Beau answered an ad Omar posted looking for musicians to assist in remixing a single for Omar’s project, ROOM 1202. While ROOM 1202 dissolved in 2007; the two musicians remained in close contact and after working with various partners, the duo began pushing forward and creating new ideas that formed the core sound of Vain Machine. 

In May 2013 the band self-released a series of tracks which generated a great deal of interest in their music, both online and in their hometown of Los Angeles. The band began playing live shows in November 2013, including the 24th anniversary of local goth-industrial store Ipso Facto, and supporting for the Los Angeles Synthpop Society with local band Savi0r. After only a few live shows they were also selected to open for legendary German electropop act De/Vision. 

In September 2014, Vain Machine signed a contract with UK-based independent electronica label AnalogueTrash Records for the release of their upcoming single and album. Their label debut, Push, is released in November 2014 as a digital single featuring the original mix of the track and three remixes from Slave Unit, Mykyl Pagan and David Burdick. A full length album is currently in the final mastering stages and will follow shortly.