With only one week ago to go we like to present you the complete program of the already 12th Industrial Festival in the beautiful Polish city Wroclaw.

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ONE

The new True Zebra album is mixed and will be mastered in november by the one and only 

Uwe Teichert (dEUS, Soulwax, The Subs, Gabriel Rios, Meat Beat Manifesto and many more…)

TWO

True Zebra is previewing the new album live this halloween together with Vive La Fête in CC 'T Vondel, Halle.

THREE

True Zebra is featured on the 10th anniversary limited edition boxset of La Fille d'O: UNDER COVERS. 

TZ doing the vocals on "Temporary Secretary" a song originally by Paul Mccartney.

Part Time Punks (Pascal Oorts, Mintzkov) did the music. Other bands on this compilation

include : Vive La Fête, Triggerfinger, The Subs, The Hicky Underworld and a few more…

FOUR

True Zebra can use any help possible. Everything is still done by True Zebra but a booker, plugger, 

record label is more than welcome.

TRUE ZEBRA IS KEVIN STRAUWEN.

CONCEIVED AS ROCK BUT MISTAKEN WITH ELECTRONIC TRIES AND TECHNIQUES.

IN THE PAST COMPARED TO: LCD SOUNDSYSTEM, DEPECHE MODE, NINE INCH NAILS, FAD GADGET,...

Not ones to rest, Cryogenic Echelon are back with their latest release Taste of Failure. Cryogenic Echelon's previous album Anthology took you on a tour of their history with some previous released tracks but remade and remixed as well as new material. Taste of Failure is a companion to Anthology, which contains remixes but some of the Industrial and EBM scenes top artists while introducing a new track by Cryogenic Echelon called Full Throttle. Lending their craft to Taste of Failure are Grendel, Nitro/Noise, The.invalid, Studio-X and many more tearing up and remixing it making the Taste of Failure delicious.

Out on Static Distortion Records October 19th.

Tracklist
1) Full Throttle
2) Fall of the Reptiles (Grendel Remix)
3) Elixir (The.invalid Remix)
4) Pandora (Sagitario Remix)
5) Soulstorm (Machine Rox Remix)
6) Hate Yourself (Nitronoise Remix)
7) Soulstorm (Ctrl Alt Del Remix)
8) Pandora (Defeat Remix)
9) Indigo Children (Studio-X Club Mix)
10) Elixir (Draconic Elimination Projects Remix)
11) Space Monkey (Feat. Studio-X)
 

The voice of Athan Maroulis will always be linked to the seminal Los Angeles based trio Spahn Ranch, a band that pounded the ’90s Industrial scene with a daring mix of electro-flavored Synth Pop fused with a menacing pall of atmospheric Goth. To this day, a number of Spahn Ranch songs like “Vortex” and “Heretic’s Fork” still pack dark dance floors around the globe. In the aftermath of Spahn Ranch, Athan returned to his native New York City where he took a decade-long break from performing, and instead produced countless reissues of 1930s and 1940s jazz and blues music while working behind the scenes advising a number of varied Darkwave bands. In those years, Athan occasionally appeared as a guest on albums by Razed in Black and Black Tape for a Blue Girl. He joined the latter officially in 2009, cutting an album while also completing tours both here and abroad, highlighted by a packed show at the Leipzig Opera House during the 2011 Wave-Gotik-Treffen Festival.

While on hiatus from Black Tape, Athan conceptualized NOIR as a project where his Industrial and Gothic past would walk the wire between retro and futuristic sounds, brought into a moody electronic present by synth-laced hooks meshed with elements of dance, dark ambient and touches of glitch-induced EBM. The result is Darkly Near, an album influenced by an idealized black-and-white perception of New York City, where yesteryear’s views of tomorrow are pressed against the machinery of today. Lyrically, Darkly Near is an album of endings, a montage that travels through a dreamy death trip of sensuality littered with faded film stars, Rod Serling scripts, Weegee snapshots, con artists, replicants, and the layered recollections of a solitary man waiting for a train.

Released on the heels of 2012’s successful digital single “My Dear” (that featured an exclusive Assemblage 23 remix), NOIR’s mature yet strikingly refreshing Darkly Near album will be supported by a select string of exclusive live dates.
 

If there is one thing the music scene in Iceland is known for, it's interesting collaborations and unexpected, often brilliant results. That may well be an understatement for the new split 7" collaboration between two Icelandic acts that defy categorization: Sólstafir and Legend. The split 7" finds each band covering a track from the other band, in a mixture of post-metal, rock, and dark-pop that is hard to categorize.

Sólstafir, whom AllMusic referred to once as "Robert Smith playing Krautrock in a fjord," does a long, post-metal version of one of Legend's best tracks: Runaway Train. The result is a haunting mixture of rock, pop, and post-everything angst that high-lights singer Addi Tryggvason's unmistakably unique vocal talents.

Legend does their own version of the Sólstafir mega-hit Fjara, on which frontman Krummi Bjorgvins (also of Minus fame) sings beautifully. Choosing to do Fjara was perhaps ballsy, but Legend pulls it off with flare, making the rock anthem into a dark-pop number worthy of Depeche Mode or The Mission.

The 7" vinyl features an exclusive photo by Icelandic artist Iris Sigurdardottir with the band-members lined up in a black room, side-by-side. The cover premiered exclusively on Terrorizer Magazine's website last week. The vinyl is limited to 300 copies worldwide, half of which have already been sold: 140 black and two mixed colour editions:

1. Crystal clear with silver (90 copies)

2. Crystal clear with little bit of mixed solid red (70 copies)

The two artists have often collaborated in the past. Halldor Bjornsson, Legend's keyboarder, played keyboards and assisted with production on Solstafir's 2011 album Svartir Sandar (which went to number 7 in Finland and number 1 in Iceland). The artists have also appeared on the same bill at many festivals, including Iceland Airwaves, Eistnaflug, and Reykjavik's 2012 Anti-Christmas Festival, where Legend's Krummi got on stage with Solstafir and aided with vocal duties.