Darkwave Duo, THE COLD FIELD Bring Triumph Against Darkness With New Album, 'Hollows'
Darkwave duo THE COLD FIELD has just unveiled their highly-anticipated new full-length album, Hollows.
Conceived when hospitalized, songwriter and producer Ian Messenger wrote and produced a prolific forty-odd dark-minded songs the following year, of which ten were chosen for Hollows..
Depressive themes of gloom and emptiness pervade the album but there is also a triumph against the darkness, a fist-waving into the void, and intimacy along with detachment.
Built on the sonic foundations of drum machines, bass guitar, synthesizers, electric guitars and distorted, cavernous vocals, THE COLD FIELD’s sound not only harks back to the early 80’s and Joy Division but contemporary bands such as Lebanon Hanover and Soft Kill.
Available on CD, vinyl LP and digital formats from COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC
Electro-Industrial Band UNITCODE:MACHINE Turns Loss & Regret Into 'Themes For A Collapsing Empire'
Electro-Industrial Band, UNITCODE:MACHINE has unleashed their new full-length album, Themes For A Collapsing Empire. After three weeks on the DAC (Deutch Alternative Charts) and two successful singles, this new release comes as highly-anticipated.
Themes For A Collapsing Empire is a journey through the mind of Eric Kristoffer after a series of tragic events that 2020 brought. It explores a path of loss and regret, and struggling to cope with such stressful personal events while also trying to endure a global pandemic.
This release is written more from the perspective of Eric the person, and less UNITCODE:MACHINE the project.
Themes For A Collapsing Empire is available NOW on CD and digital formats.
Industrial Band MALICE MACHINE Turns A Hostile World Into 'Chemical Violence'
Pennsylvania-based industrial band MALICE MACHINE have just unleashed their highly anticipated new full-length album Chemical Violence.
The lyrics on Chemical Violence express some of the darker sides of our nature. Cold landscapes combined with twisted and tortured concepts of what reality is or what the human experience can be for some of us. It's not always a pleasant journey. One thing is certain; this sick machine will grind all of us down eventually.
All songs are written by Syn and Ammo and recorded and mastered by Syn at Prototype Studio. "Restrict" and "Dead Circuit" were co-produced and mixed by John Bechdel from MINISTRY.
For fans of: FRONT LINE ASSEMBLY, KMFDM & :WUMPSCUT:
Today, it’s exactly 32 years ago that Nitzer Ebb released Join In The Chant (12mute64 / 10th August 1987).
It was the 3rd and last single to be taken from their debut album That Total Age. Like the album this 7” / 12” was released by the renowned British label Mute Records. The song hit #9 on the US dance chart in 1987 and became a Balearic Beat anthem in clubs around the world. Even to this day this track is still a dance floor filler.
Tracklist 12"
A1. Join In The Chant (Burn!) - Remix by Phil Harding
B1. Join In The Chant (Gold!) - Remix by Miller*, Flood
B2. Join In The Chant (Lies! - Instrumental)
Lyrics
Lies, lies, lies, lies
Gold, gold, gold, gold
Guns, guns, guns, guns
Fire, fire, fire
Gold, gold, gold, gold
Church, church, church, church
Guns, guns, guns, guns
Fire, fire, fire
Muscle and hate
Muscle and hate
Muscle, muscle, muscle, muscle
Lies, lies, lies, lies
Books, books, books, books
Burn, burn, burn, burn
Fire, fire, fire
Gothic/Post-Punk duo CYBORG AMOK have recently unleashed their debut, self-titled LP. The album covers conflict, hope, loss, betrayal, estrangement and depression, looming in the darkness on the fringe of the gray.
CYBORG AMOK resides somewhere between the brilliance of twilight and the apocalyptic darkness. Their gothic infused synth-rock sound delivers the listener a panorama of synthetic waves, twisted organic tones and a slightly pop crust … the language angels speak in the darkness.
Greg Bullock states: "Much of the inspiration for my music comes from life experiences. I will also read or see something going on in the world that moves me to write a song to chronicle the event."
CYBORG AMOKs self-titled album was released in both digital and CD formats. The album is a compilation of two previous EPs that are now extinct. New music blog Right Chord Music described the release as “Gloriously brooding and timeless in its introspection.”
