March 2011
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:CD Review: MALAKWA - Street Preacher
MALAKWA – Street Preacher Release Date: February 25, 2011 Label: Alfa-Matrix Website: malakwa.com Review by: Michael Faries Out of the depths of Marseilles, France, charge the self-described ‘digital punks’ MALAKWA with their sophomore effort, Street Preacher, an in-your-face electro/punk collage. Now signed to the label Alfa Matrix with the likes of Unter Null and Front 242, MALAKWA...
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:Podcast: Ominous Refrains - Episode Three
Amy Reynolds returns for episode two of Ominous refrains. There is lots of tour and concert information contained in this episode so be sure to pay close attention.
Tracklist:
Behind the Scenes - Human
Switchblade Symphony - Dirty Dog
Virgin Prunes - Pagan Love Song
The Merry Thoughts - We Love To
London After Midnight - Spider and the Fly
Synchro - Babes on Broomsticks
Machine in...
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:Music News: Tits, guns and gasoline on Malakwa...
Out now is the newest Malakwa album “Street preacher”. To celebrate the release the band finished a smashing video for the track “Make up your rules”. Be warned, it’s NOT worksafe but it’s a pleasure to watch for sure!
The video from our French electro punk terrorists was shot by Fabien Laubry with a team of no less of 15 people. The first scenes were shot...
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:Music News: X-Fusion album release March 4 on...
“Thorn In My Flesh” is the new masterpiece from X-FUSION. It will be released in 2 formats – One Ltd. CD-Digipack Edition in form of a DVD, which will contain 4 Bonus Tracks and one Standard Edition in Jewel Case. Habitually diversified and of highest standard of quality, X-FUSION easily succeeds in holding the attention of its listeners and taking them into an ominous...
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:Music News: Entire dAVOS Catalog Released...
The Austrian Synthpop-band dAVOS is re-releasing their entire back-catalogue, the EPs “What I Prefer” and “I Start Mourning”, and also the album “Just Like Mine” as a special edition digitally on Ionium Records.
A new album is also in the works for release later in 2011.
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CD Review: My Enemy Complete – My Enemy Complete
My Enemy Complete – My Enemy Complete Released: January 11, 2011 Label: Radio-Active-Music Website: myenemycomplete.com Review by: Neska Lapicki
The self-titled EP from Washington DC area band My Enemy Complete is, in a word, magical. A genuinely genre-bending exercise in soul mining. Combining heavy electronics with the organic fire of live guitar and drums, vocals you can actually...
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CD Review: Individual Industry – Dreams Never End
Individual Industry – Dreams Never End Released: January 3, 2011 Label: Wave Records Website: myspace.com/individualindustry
Review by: William Dashiell Hammett Individual Industry has started in the late 80s when Alex Twin began to work on his first demos. Over the next 25-plus years other partners came and went before Maurizio Bonito joined to stabilize the line-up for Dreams Never End, the...
February 2011
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:Podcast: The Oontzcast - Episode Six
Due to the shitty sound quality of Skype, episode six is sans Tiffany. Don’t fear tho, Christina still manages to keep herself amused.
Tracklist:
Incubite – Glowstix, Neon & Blood
Centhron - Die Sphären von Ost
Heimataerde - Gib Mir
Frozen Plasma - Hypocrite
Plasmodivm - Unbreakable Will
Code 64 - System Failure
Asphyxia - Obliterate my fate
Wumpscut - Corroded Breed
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:Download: Brand new Endif track, "Dislocated"
We’re back with another free track for your downloading pleasure. This time we bring you an exclusive sneak peek at the song “Dislocated” from Endif.
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“Dislocated” will be featured on the Signifier label’s forthcoming double disc compilation, These Sounds Will...
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:Concert Review: GenXX
GenXX February 11, 2011 Satellite Beach, FL, U.S. @ Sports Page Live Review By: Luzviminda Dela Paz Even if there were saints among the crowd, it was a sinners’ ball. The voyeuristic crowd enjoyed such a delightful and sexy time presented by Gen Vincent of the The Genitorturers who kicked ass in her combat boots and played a secret show at the sleepy, beachside town of Satellite Beach at the...
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:Podcast: Ominous Refrains - Episode Two
Amy Reynolds returns for episode two of Ominous refrains. There is lots of tour and concert information contained in this episode so be sure to pay close attention.
Tracklist:
The Cure - From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea
Love Spirals Downwards - The Sideways Forest
The Church - Under the Milky Way
The Legendary Pink Dots - Lucifer Landed
Peter Murphy - Cuts You Up
Christian Death -...
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:Contest: Remix Juno Reactor.
Juno Reactor are looking for an interesting and powerful remix of “Zwara” to include on the upcoming remix album Inside the Reactor. In addition to their remix being featured on the album, the winner also receives a new hardware Synth.
To enter, please read the rules of the competition, then register at junoreactor.com. All entries must be submitted by the end March 7th UK time. The...
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:Concert Review: Nitzer Ebb/Access Zero
Nitzer Ebb/Access Zero February 12, 2011 Scottsdale, AZ, U.S. @ The Venue of Scottsdale
Review by: Tiffany Angeney and Christina Cubel
The 2011 Valentines Fetish Ball in Phoenix Arizona was proud to welcome Nitzer Ebb and Access Zero to The Venue of Scottsdale on Saturday February 12. If you’ve ever been to a Horns n’ Halos Fetish event in Scottsdale then you must be aware that it isn’t your...
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:Podcast: The Oontzcast - Episode Five
For the 5th episode of The Oontzcast, we have a theme! On February 12th, j. and The Oontzcast girls took a trip the the latest fetish show here in Phoenix where Access Zero and Nitzer Ebb were performing. In addition to the music in this episode (all Access Zero and Nitzer Ebb), we also have a mini review of the show and an interview with Access Zero. Enjoy!
Tracklist:
Access Zero -...
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:Podcast: Blonde in a [COMA] - Episode One
It’s time to announce DJ Blonde N0ize’s role in COMA. Here, we present to you, Blonde in a [COMA], a monthly podcast featuring the best in bloody beats & aural cacophony as well as exclusive artist interviews and scene news. Blonde in a [COMA] will air here on the site the 3rd Friday of each month so make sure you check back for your monthly club night at home.
Tracklist:
AZ...
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CD Review: Resando – Secrets
Resando – Secrets Released: January 24, 2011 Label: Copro Records/Casket Music Website: resando.com Review by: William Dashiell Hammett Founded in 2006 in Italy and now based in London, the Electro-Rock outfit Resando has released their debut full-length album on Copro Records/Casket Music. While you can definitely hear the acknowledged influences of Nine Inch Nails and Depeche Mode, there is a...
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:Podcast: Ominous Refrains - Episode One
We started with The Oontzcast, now we bring you our newest podcast, Ominous Refrains. Ominous Refrains will be a weekly podcast hosted by Amy Reynolds and feature new and classic gothic rock and dark ambient. Today we present episode one. Enjoy.
Tracklist:
Attrition - This Girl Called Harmony
Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane
Sisters of Mercy - Driven Like the Snow
Rosetta Stone - The Witch
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:CD Review: (((S))) – The Deutsch EP
(((S))) – The Deutsch EP Release Date: December 14, 2010 Label: Danse Macabre / afmusic Website: myspace.com/fustydk
Review by: Christina Cubel
Copenhagen, Denmark is the land of smørrebrød, fancy expensive furniture, and the artist (((S))). This anonymous one-man project plays post-punk/darkwave music reminiscent of 80’s gothic-rock. (((S))) has released two full length albums, Phantom and...
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:CD Review: Unfactory – Lunacy
Unfactory – Lunacy Release Date: December 7, 2010 Label: afmusic Website: unfactory.com Review by: William Dashiell Hammett Unfactory is a transatlantic collaboration between Gustavo Storm and Chris Lima with Andrey Silva and Walmoli Gerber providing back up for the majority of the songs. Four years from their last release, Gustavo and Chris began to write together again with each recording the...
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:CD Review: Miss FD – Love Never Dies
Miss FD – Love Never Dies Released: February 14, 2011 Label: Quantum Release Records Band Website: missfd.com Fort Lauderdale, Florida based Miss FD has been steadily releasing dance oriented dark electronic music since releasing her first single in December 2009. Having previously worked, and released two albums, under the moniker Frightdoll, Miss FD released her second album in as many years...
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:Podcast: The Oontzcast - Episode Four
Tiffany and Christina return this week for our (anti) Valentines themed episode. Enjoy it with friends, loved ones or random hobos on the street.
Tracklist:
Faderhead - White Room
Blitzmaschine - Love and Pain
The Retrosic - Bloodsport
Unter Null - Destroy Me
Hocico - Dog Eat Dog
Icon of Coil - Other Half Of Me
SeaBound - Without You.
Razed In Black - Lie To Me
Uberbyte - Last...
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: Concert Revew: Nachtmahr/ Uberbyte/ Kommand +...
Nachtmahr/ Uberbyte/ Kommand + Kontrol February 4, 2011 Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England @ Corporation Review by: Jack Knowles The floor was lightest when the opening act Kommand + Kontrol took the stage—a dark electro act with a modest, underground following. However, their followers were obviously not present in the crowd. Donning Italian gangster outfits, Kommand + Kontrol gave a rather...
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:CD Review: Studio-X - Neo-Futurism
Studio-X - Neo-Futurism Released: January 14, 2011 Label: Alfa Matrix Band Website: officialstudiox.com Review by: Luzviminda Dela Paz Adelaide based duo Studio-X, comprised of Lawrie Masson (Project 2) and Matthew Martin (Mat-X) released their debut album Neo-Futurism under the labels Alfa Matrix (USA/Europe) and Death Watch Asia (Asia-Pacific). Depicting an adrenaline-rushing future that is...
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CD Review: Komor Kommando - Oil, Steel, & Rhythm
Komor Kommando - Oil, Steel, & Rhythm Released: February 28, 2011 Label: Alfa Matrix Band Website: myspace.com/komorkommando Review by: Christina Cubel Much can be said about Sebastian Komor and his work with Icon of Coil, Zombie Girl, Bruderschaft, Moonitor, and many others. His solo project Komor Kommando, is pure, hard, upbeat electronic power industrial. In 2009, Das EP was released which...
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:Podcast: The Oontzcast - Episode Three
Welcome to episode three of The Oontzcast. Tiffany came back from the dead and joined Christina to get back to the silliness of this awesome podcast.
**Don’t forget about the Bring the Oontz contest! it closes February 10, 2010. Don’t you want your music as part of this awesome podcast?**
Tracklist:
Komor Kommando – Predator (ft. Sascha of KMFDM)
Virtual Terrorist - DeAth 5ector
Grendal...
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:CD Review: Sensuous Enemy - Parity
Sensuous Enemy - Parity Released: October 26, 2010 Label: Radio Active Music Band Website: sensuousenemy.com Review by: William Dashiell Hammett After releasing their debut EP, Deadly Sins, in 2006 and first full length album, Fragments, in 2008 on the Sonic Mainline Records label, the darkwave outfit Sensuous Enemy has returned with a new EP on Radio Active Music. Comprised of Jai Ingersoll, John...
:Music News: reAdjust Announce New Record
German Dark Electro/EBM group reAdjust have announced the release date for their album Mindwalk. The release contains 11 new tracks and Remixes on it. Remixes were provided by Incubite, Dolls of Pain and Stereomotion.
Mindwalk will be released on April 18, 2011 on Steel Impact.
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:CD Review: Armageddon Dildos – Untergrund
Armageddon Dildos – Untergrund Released: February 18, 2011 Label: Alfa Matrix Website: armageddondildos.de
Review by William Dashiell Hammett
Armageddon Dildos (their name is a slang term for Intercontinental ballistic missiles) was formed in 1998 and went on to release seven studio albums and appear on dozens of compilations. Classified as an EBM outfit, Untergrund proves that Armageddon Dildos...
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:CD Review: Covenant - Modern Ruin
Covenant - Modern Ruin Release Date: January 17, 2011 Europe/February 8, 2011 North America Label: Metropolis Records Website: covenant.se
Review by: Jack Knowles
Futurepop band Covenant is back with their eagerly-awaited Modern Ruin. On their seventh studio album now, it’s pretty safe to say they’re one of the most established bands of their genre. Modern Ruin is just as (if not more)...
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CD Review: De_Tot_Cor - Dead Heart EP
De_Tot_Cor - Dead Heart EP Released: October 26, 2010 Label: Vendetta Music Website: http://musicadetotcor.blogspot.com/ Review by: Dawne Flanagan De_Tot_Cor, hailing from Barcelona, Spain, have garnered club fame with their single “Strawberry Panic” which had previously been released on compilations such as Endzeit Bunkertracks III in 2007. In November 2010, the duo released the EP Dead Heart...
January 2011
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:Podcast: The Oontzcast - Episode Two
Welcome to episode two. Tiffany came down with a case of death but Christina and j. soldiered on to bring you another great podcast.
**Don’t forget about the Bring the Oontz contest! it closes February 10, 2010. Don’t you want your music as part of this awesome podcast?**
Tracklist:
iVardensphere - Devils
Armageddon Dildos - Untergrund
Detroit Diesel - Not yet
Skylight Glare -...
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:Download: Get the new iVardensphere track...
COMA Music Magazine is proud to be the only place on the internet to download the brand new iVardensphere track “Devils”.
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:CD Review: RU.ARE - RU.ARE
RU.ARE– RU.ARE Released: October 26, 2010 Label: Synthematik Website: http://www.myspace.com/ruare Review by William Dashiell Hammett
RU.ARE is a sythpop outfit from Petrozavodsk, Karelia, a federal republic in northeast Russia. Formed by Alexey Odintsov and Anton Repnikov, veterans of metal bands who decided to part ways with their past, net label Synthematik has released their debut album...
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:Classic Review: Chemlab - Burn Out At The...
Chemlab - Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar Released: 1993 Label: Fifth Colvmn/Metal Blade Website:hydrogenbar.com/
Review by Jack Knowles
In 1993, Industrial band Chemlab released an album which set high standards for Machine Rock projects worldwide. This album, Burn Out At The Hydrogen Bar, is widely regarded as one of the most influential cult industrial records to date, and is characterised by...
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:CD Review: Nausea - Consequences of...
Nausea - Consequences of SelfMutilation (Remixes, Versions & Rare Noises) Released: May 5, 2010 Label: Orion Records Band Website: myspace.com/nauseatechnologic Review by: Michael Faries Chilean group Nausea present to you a remix and cover album entitled Consequences of SelfMutilation (Remixes, Versions & Rare Noises), a follow-up to their 2007 debut album SelfMutilation. If...
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:Podcast: The Oontzcast - Episode One
Welcome to the first episode of our brand new weekly podcast here at COMA Music Magazine. The Oontzcast will feature new and upcoming EBM and industrial as well as plenty of your old favorites and possibly artists you have never heard before.
**Don’t forget about the Bring the Oontz contest! it closes February 10, 2010. Don’t you want your music as part of this awesome...
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:Contest: Meet the Lords of Acid!
The Lords of Acid have announced a contest for the opportunity to meet them and hang out at the after party along with a guest of your choice
The Lords posted the following message on Twitter this morning.
Always wanted to hang out with Lords of Acid behind the velvet rope? Want to know what kind of fun debauchery goes on behind closed doors? Here’s your chance! The Lords of Acid...
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:CD Review: Art of Empathy - Posthuman Decadence
Art of Empathy - Posthuman Decadence Released: November 29, 2010 Label: afmusic Website: artofempathy.be Review by Jack Knowles
Neo-folk artist Art of Empathy burst onto the scene in April 2007 with Evening Session and was well received by intrigued listeners. Now they return with their sophomore album Posthuman Decadence with the intention of creating dreamy, beautiful soundscape. The album...
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:Feature: Elias Matt & (The) Rescue Mission
By William Dashiell Hammett
Due to be released on February 11, 2011 is the album Actung Alpha by Elias Matt & (The) Rescue Mission on Wannsee Records. Described as Retro-Electropop, the album is a departure from Elias Matt’s previous solo work as an avant-garde folk artist and from the promotional material released so far, Matt has crafted a sleek, authoritarian image for the group. ...
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CD Review: Alien Vampires - Harshlizer
Alien Vampires - Harshlizer Released: December 3, 2010 Label: Alfa Matrix Website: http://www.myspace.com/alienvampires666 Review by Tiffany Angeney Founded in 2000 and releasing their debut album Evil Generation in 2005, Alien Vampires gained a reputation in both the Industrial and Metal scenes. Past works have included numerous collaborations with artists like Suicide Commando, In Slaughter...
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:Music News: Aesthetic Perfection & Faderhead...
Aesthetic Perfection and Faderhead will be joined by Everything Goes Cold for select nights of their North American tour.
04.22.11 Los Angeles, CA * 04.23.11 Phoenix, AZ 04.25.11 San Antonio, TX 04.26.11 Austin, TX 04.27.11 Dallas, TX 04.28.11 New Orleans, LA 04.29.11 Atlanta, GA 04.30.11 Cincinatti, OH 05.01.11 Pittsburgh, PA 05.02.11 Columbus, OH 05.03.11 Rochester, NY 05.05.11 Washington, DC...
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:Music News: Das Ich to rerelease Egodram
Das Ich have announced the rerelease of their classic album Egodram. Originally released in 1998 and credited as one of the most significant influences in the development of the gothic sound, the album has been out of print for some time. The rerelease will include a bonus disc with demo recordings, English versions of some tracks and all pieces originally published in parallel as a singles,...
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:Music News: Mesh announce remix album "An...
Due out in May 2011, the Bristol-based synthpop band Mesh will be releasing a remix album entitled “An Alternative Solution”. Featuring remixes from Iris, Portion Control, Zeromancer, Parallox and Assemblage 23, the eleven track album was not just composed by “big band” remixers, but by artists whom Mesh had developed relationships with and call friends. “We didn’t want to have big...