Release year: 1995/2024Label: Steinklang Industries/Aube Et Crépuscule This is a bit of a tricky release to review. You see, what we have on hand is a re-release of French Dawn & Dusk Entwined’s very first recordings, originally released as two … Continue reading DAWN & DUSK ENTWINED: Myth, Faith, Belief
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries On their follow-up to 2021’s Rottenverse (reviewed here), German Bresthaft are simply more. More vicious, more loud, more noisy, more sadistic. More. So no point to beat around the bush. I’m going to spoil the … Continue reading BRESTHAFT: Termination Transmission
Release year: 2024Label: Steinklang Industries A couple of years back, we took a stab at pulling apart and reviewing Belgian In Search Of Death’s previous release, simply titled II (see here). It contained material recorded in the early noughties, recently … Continue reading IN SEARCH OF DEATH: I
GOVERNMENT ALPHA: Mind-Altering Substance Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries Steinklang’s most recent batch of releases included a couple of pretty major names within the industrial/noise field. Maurizio Bianchi, whose newest album Geni-Z we recently reviewed (here) is of course a … Continue reading Mind alterations a’la Government Alpha
MAURIZIO BIANCHI: Geni-Z Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries Italian Maurizio Bianchi is right there at the genesis of the industrial music scene. He released his first tapes already in the 70’s, had releases out on Come Org. and Sterile Records, … Continue reading Maurizio Bianchi and the DNA of industrial music
DIVISION S: Something To Fuck And Lose Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries “Weird and alcoholic music since 2004”, proclaims a text on the covers of this album. And that’s pretty much a perfect description of the weirdness that is Division … Continue reading Fuck and lose with Division S
DARK AWAKE: Abaris Hyperboreios Release year: 2023Label: Steinklang Industries If you’d go by what artists are mentioned in various social media groups and forums, you’d think neofolk and martial industrial basically consists of Death In June, Arditi, Blood Axis, Forseti, … Continue reading Hyperborean awakening
ADRIANO VINCENTI & PAOLO BANDERA: Ossido Di Cromo (Anamnesi Mediatica Ricostruttiva) Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries As the liner notes of the thick booklet that accompanies this CD highlights, the cassette tape was a revolutionary musical format. On one hand … Continue reading A love letter to cassette culture
MOURN: Mastema Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries/999 Cuts The back cover of this CD proclaims that “Mourn is Destruktionsanstalt, Kadaver and Ideal Father“ – in other words, a collaboration between three established names in the industrial noise underground. Therefore, it … Continue reading Mourn and angels of all evil
REGARD EXTREME: Legacy Release year: 2022Label: Steinklang Industries French Regard Extreme are perhaps not one of the most famous names in the neoclassical and martial industrial genres but are, without doubt, one of the more long-lived acts. The project did … Continue reading Regard Extreme’s legacy
Only Death Is Real 