http://www.brutalresonance.com/Latest 50 updates on Brutal ResonanceWed, 22 Feb 2012 17:08:20 +0100en-ushttp://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1368http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1368Wed, 22 Feb 2012 17:08:20 +0100

]]> An X-ray image of Daniel Menche’s dog Arrow serves as the cover of Menche’s latest in his long history of releases, “Guts”. Based the title and cover image, you might expect Guts to feature biological sounds as his source material, and this wouldn&...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1366http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1366Tue, 21 Feb 2012 09:24:16 +0100

]]> have done as this record asked, I have taken my time with it and have this to report: there is much more going out there besides the holy trinity of Tympanik, Ad Noiseam and Hymen. This album is wildly imaginative, almost to the point of completely being overrun by chaos incarna...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1365http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1365Mon, 20 Feb 2012 22:08:47 +0100

]]> Immediate suspicions tell me that this isn't going to a fun ride. Nekkro-Electro are an Adelaide-based duo, citing influences from an almost exclusive spectrum of Industrial-Rock and Shock Rock. With an EP entitled 'Whoretopsy' and a cover that quite frankly, is not up to the...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1364http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1364Mon, 20 Feb 2012 21:07:43 +0100

]]> I missed you, Fernando. Three years is a long time to gloss over your decadent style of Dark Electro, and await the return of your eccentric, hellishly deviant character-ism. 'Killer Speaks' was brilliant, if not misunderstood, and with 'Midnight Sessions', the crazed lu...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1363http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1363Mon, 20 Feb 2012 10:30:02 +0100

]]> We are moving our demo section and integrating it with the regular reviews. Demos will now be identifiable by the 'Demo' tag under the 'Label' section. Having 12 demos a year on average simply doesn't justify a stand-alone section. The existing space on the tool...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1362http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1362Sun, 19 Feb 2012 22:21:59 +0100

]]> Fall of the Reptiles marks the first release of Cryogenic Echelon of the Crunch Pod Label. With 6 original songs (1 being an intro) and 4 remixes by artists such as Dawn of Ashes, this EP totals an impressive 10 tracks. Taking premise from the mixing of electronic music and philo...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1361http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1361Sun, 19 Feb 2012 20:12:35 +0100

]]> Somewhere along the lines of listening to this, I put it in my portable cd player and wandered outside through the deserted streets of 4am. I looked up and down the avenue lined with trees and watched their branches swaying in the early morning gusts of wind and then this album b...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1360http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1360Sun, 19 Feb 2012 16:15:07 +0100

]]> FallOut Nation by Extize is a noise-filled cyber-goth extravaganza holding 15 dancefloor tracks with 2 remixes by FabrikC and The Ladder. This album isn't quite my cup of tea and by reading a few reactions and comments online, it's safe to assume that feelings are positive, bala...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1358http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1358Fri, 17 Feb 2012 09:51:12 +0100

]]> I used to love the Old School genre back in the days with its roughness and lyrics of disappointment and hatred towards the society. Nowadays though, making Old School seems to be something everyone does. All citizens go to work, pay their taxes and make some amateur Old School f...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1357http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1357Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:54:18 +0100

]]> A few of you will recognise this band name, as they've been in existence in the form of a single track 'The Incident', which was found on a compilation CD in 2009. Personally, I'm delighted to finally have a release by them, as Rhythmic Noise is a genre in which I like 1 in about...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1356http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1356Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:30:06 +0100

]]> Unless you have this site bookmarked at a retarded location, and don't know how to use the front page, you'll already be aware of this single due to the news article. Since last year's "Force Majeure" full-length, Trakktor have built up a sturdy reputation as an act t...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1355http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1355Thu, 16 Feb 2012 21:04:12 +0100

]]> Unless you've been living on Mars, it's no secret that [dk] and I haven't got off to the best of starts. I slated both of the EPs I had previously been sent, for various reasons that simply didn't work for me - namely the amount of remixes against original tracks, and the strong ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1354http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1354Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:23:30 +0100

]]> Cynical Existance is the solo project of Fredrik Croona (Project Rotten, ex Menschdefekt) and he is about to release his debut EP called ‘A Familiar Kind of Pain’. The EP will contain 9 tracks and is limited to 100 copies world wide. You can listen to a teaser ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1353http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1353Thu, 16 Feb 2012 10:09:15 +0100

]]> After the release of Titans' debut single 'All There Is' on Christmas Eve 2010, many have longed for their debut album 'For The Long Gone'. Now a release date has been set to the 21st of March. You can check out the great video for "All There Is" right her...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1352http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1352Wed, 15 Feb 2012 14:11:58 +0100

]]> In my review of the EP 'Whisper Goodbye', that was the teaser for this new album 'Memories Behind Closed Curtains', I wrote that it felt like Suicidal Romance was in an identity crisis. I was hoping for a much more arrow headed approach, gathering all their strengths in the right...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1351http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1351Tue, 14 Feb 2012 09:38:20 +0100

]]> There is a lot of feeling in Kirlian Cameras music in general and especially in their latest album 'Nightglory'. Well written music which pends between up tempo and driven to sometimes sounding symphonic and close to sacral. The music is written by Angelo Bergamini, performed by ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1350http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1350Sun, 12 Feb 2012 17:02:11 +0100

]]> Take a stick of chalk, snap it in two, grind the pieces against one another until they're a fine powder. Next, throw it up in the air, now walk through it. Feel the finite particles coat your skin and creep down your throat with a burning urgency. Get in your cart and enter the m...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1349http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1349Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:31:12 +0100

]]> In the span of a few days, this album has completely taken over every audio device I have by virtue of just what an incredible musical trip it is to listen to. When I first got it, it sounded tepid and rushed, but after repeated listens it grew into a fiendishly addictive release...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1348http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1348Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:05:19 +0100

]]> Already with his debut album, "Antipathy" (2009), nolongerhuman mastermind Clint Robertson managed to gain a lot of attention and praise in the electro/industrial scene. Now it's time for a second sound rocket: The American sound conjurer presents his new album &quo...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1347http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1347Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:46:53 +0100

]]> Release date: April 27 2012 Already with their debut album "The Silence Progression" (2008) and the EP "Tendencias Suicidas" (2010), Mexico's harsh electro wizards C-Lekktor managed to cause a sensation on the dance floors. Time for another tone attack ....http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1346http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1346Sat, 11 Feb 2012 14:45:19 +0100

]]> Littered with references and name drops on this site (Usually courtesy of Peter Marks), and allusioned to in the review of 'Old School Electrology Vol. 1' (in which they provide an exclusive track, 'Misdiagnosis'), "One Eye Wanders" are an act which the sharper of you w...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1345http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1345Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:48:03 +0100

]]> It was only until VERY recently that the majority of us began to accept that Old School EBM is making a resurgence. It took a superhuman effort to make this the case, and I think most of the credit for that has to go to the Old School Electrology boxset that was released on E.A.R...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewdemo.php?id=1344http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewdemo.php?id=1344Thu, 9 Feb 2012 21:25:58 +0100

]]> Another year, another hybrid collaboration. Maybe this year I'll see one that stays around? Combining the talents of Hydrocyanic's Miko, and Vault-113's Joe, Terra:Cide is challenged by the distance between these two young men, and the competitive nature of a very demanding sub-...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewvideo.php?id=1343http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewvideo.php?id=1343Wed, 8 Feb 2012 22:32:17 +0100Video for Henric de la Cour's track "My Machine" taken from the untitled debut album. The video directed by Per Norman (who also made the video for "Dracula") was recorded in the first ever Swedish Nuclear plant facility located deep underground in Stockholm....http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1342http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1342Wed, 8 Feb 2012 16:00:58 +0100

]]> After leaving Infacted Recordings during 2010/2011 the Italian XP8 has started to release their own products through their own label 2393 Records (as well as Deathwatch Asia). You could say that ‘X: A Decade of Decadence’ is their first true release, since the fir...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1341http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1341Tue, 7 Feb 2012 14:30:47 +0100

]]> Try as I might to confine this album to just one mood, I cannot do so. Straight out of Denver, Colorado comes a work which is part celestial, part terrestrial and thoroughly enjoyable. It begins in a spacey manner which belies the warmth at it's center with some very icy atmosphe...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1340http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1340Mon, 6 Feb 2012 17:42:07 +0100

]]> Swedish duo Spark!’s debut album ‘Ett lejon i dig’ (A lion in you) was one of those albums that is good, but you can sense that it’s something in it that could have made it great, but it did not quite reach its full potential. After the release,...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1339http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1339Sat, 4 Feb 2012 23:15:56 +0100

]]> Ten years is a long time to be away but some things in this life never change, the duo of Felix Flaucher and Frank Schwer maintain their ability to combine the best of multiple musical worlds into the bewitching beauty that is 18 Summers. Felix's voice remains as riveting as ever...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1338http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1338Thu, 2 Feb 2012 23:45:35 +0100

]]> Although it's been overshadowed in recent years by the Resistanz festival's all-star club smash industrial billings, the long standing Bradford-based industrial/electronic music festival Infest is still kicking strong, and although there's only been a few bands announced so far, ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1337http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1337Wed, 1 Feb 2012 09:17:10 +0100

]]> As soon as industrial music becomes more and more popular for a last decade, there are lots of newcomers which try to bring some new sounds, kind of fresh air into the scene. They run around making so much deal and noise even when there is nothing behind to reveal. All those that...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1336http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1336Tue, 31 Jan 2012 20:45:07 +0100

]]> You may recognise this act from the previous two lps, and two eps, recorded under the name n.e.e.d.[le].w.i.r.e. A lot has changed since the evolution of Dominik's project - the majority of the previous four releases are now unavailable (the entire catalogue was up for free downl...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1335http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1335Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:45:47 +0100

]]> After his last release of 'A Violent Emotion' in 2008, Daniel Graves returns more powerful than ever with his newest 12-track album, 'All Beauty Destroyed'. This album takes a turn away from the very harshness of 'A Violent Emotion' and brings into light much more of Da...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1334http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1334Tue, 31 Jan 2012 09:27:01 +0100

]]> Swirling layers of slowly washing pads, chirps of warbling electronic manifestations. This is the latest record from the Disharmony side project Oxyd and it has been a curious journey getting here. From the ominously dark debut on Polymorph, 'Deep Core' through the fantastical ab...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1333http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1333Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:21:25 +0100

]]> Psy'Aviah's 'Eclectic' really impressed me when it was released back in 2010, and even though it was a very varied music experience, it got well knitted together and truly impressed me. For some reason, on this brand new ‘Introspection/Extrospection’, I feel that ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1332http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1332Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:44:56 +0100

]]> Whoa whoa whoa! Over the last few days we've had a pretty full-on stream of announcements of pretty damn promising releases. Here's my pic of the best of 'em: Mind.In.A.Box - Revelations - 24/1/12 ------------------------------------------------------- The long...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1331http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1331Thu, 26 Jan 2012 12:57:23 +0100

]]> Controlled Collapse is back again with a brand new EP called 'Distorted Dreams' and basically it's the usual thing you get with a EP, half of them are new tracks and the other half is remixes (in most cases the remixes are more or less crap and maybe 1 out of 5 are good), but wai...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1330http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1330Wed, 25 Jan 2012 23:03:54 +0100

]]> At first glance one notices the album cover. Simone sits and stares out of the picture and looks bored. He looks so bored, bored, bored that you really get the impression that he deeply regrets that he agreed to be on the cover of his album. It doesn't help that the cover also lo...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1329http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1329Tue, 24 Jan 2012 00:33:30 +0100

]]> So, for anybody who's been living in solitary confinement for the past month or so, the issue of piracy seems to be higher on everyone's agenda of stuff to talk about than ever before, be it SOPA/PIPA, the ACTA treaty, or indeed the abrupt shutting down of MegaUpload â€'' I...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1328http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1328Sat, 21 Jan 2012 21:16:31 +0100

]]> With 4 releases since its formation, and home to bands such as God Destruction, Say Just Words, and Angels of Suicide, American label 'Engraved Ritual' has made a big name for itself among the Dark Electro audience. Mastered by DSBP's Tommy T Rapisardi, and dedicated to further...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1327http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1327Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:44:34 +0100

]]> In the the movie "Parents", Randy Quaid's character looks at his son and states: "You really like the dark, don't you? Well there's one dark place we have to be very careful of..." after which he points to his head. Welcome to Therradaemon's debut. It is the ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1326http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1326Sat, 21 Jan 2012 19:21:27 +0100

]]> In the season of mass psychotia , when the world is going crazy from minute to minute, when the global economics is collapsing, the riots and death are everywhere, when your family is being torn apart, and you feel like the ground is washed away below your legs, it is more than i...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewdownload.php?id=1325http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewdownload.php?id=1325Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:09:36 +0100

]]> 'Redo From Start' is the third album from San Francisco-based synthpop band Some Desperate Glory. Sometimes you have to come back home to find you are right where you belong....http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1324http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1324Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:58:44 +0100

]]> Imagine a cold, damp and foggy night. Our bold investigators make their way through a neighborhood where every single light is turned off. Somewhere out there in the dark lurks horrors that no man can imagine. In the background of this movie, to enhance the ambience. We hear chos...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1323http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1323Wed, 18 Jan 2012 13:53:19 +0100

]]> It's been soon a decade since [:SITD:]'s "Snuff Machinery" became viral and spread like wildfire. Little would we know back then that the band would evolve to one of the more recognized artists within the genre? The experienced gained during the decade has done Shadows ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1322http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1322Tue, 17 Jan 2012 22:03:21 +0100

]]> It's the year of the supposed armageddon, and what better way to kick it off than have Swedish nuts Trakktor instigate it? Release for the Blitzkrieg Galaxy Single will be the 20th of February across all major digital stores and Spotify. ...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1321http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewnews.php?id=1321Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:52:36 +0100

]]> Midnight Sessions is the new album from the Brazilian master of Electro-Industrial Nahtaivel. Taking advantage of the proximity to the end of the world Nahtaivel is releasing its new album, Midnight Sessions, an industrial/EBM album that brings new features to its heavy and ag...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1320http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1320Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:37:45 +0100

]]> The bouncy, melancholic co-ordinations of Austrian two-piece 'Xanthippe' struck a chord with me earlier in 2011, and eight years on from 'Soulstripes', 'The Love Zombie' is their 5th full-length. It's immediate to the consumer that if you're not wholly keen on...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1319http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1319Tue, 17 Jan 2012 10:25:28 +0100

]]> My, this is a record full of sunshine. The follow up to his 2009 album 'A Wave of Bitterness', Arcana's Peter Bjargo has plainly not been having the greatest time in the last couple of years and if this album is any indication of where he's at then perhaps I'll finally get a...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1318http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewreview.php?id=1318Mon, 16 Jan 2012 13:17:45 +0100

]]> It's strange when you listen to a release in the end of 2011 and can tell it's going to be one of the best releases of 2012. American The New Division with their album 'Shadows' is going to be one of my favorites from the upcoming year, I can tell. With the last few releases like...http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewinterview.php?id=1317http://www.brutalresonance.com/viewinterview.php?id=1317Mon, 16 Jan 2012 12:57:10 +0100

]]> [b]Hey The New Division, thanks for doing this interview. How are you guys?[/b] - "We are doing great! Currently we're stocking up on some new gear for the holidays, live shows, etc... and we're getting ready to start writing new material for a "post-Shadows" rele...