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HER OWN WORLD return with “Like a Moth”: dark elegance, sharp light and a beautiful kind of danger

HER OWN WORLD return with “Like a Moth”: dark elegance, sharp light and a beautiful kind of danger
HER OWN WORLD have opened their 2026 chapter with "Like a Moth", released on 26 June 2026 via darkTunes Music Group, and it feels like one of those moments where the song and the video do not merely accompany each ...

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Editors announce “Surface, Echo & Sound”: nerve, echo and tension

Editors announce “Surface, Echo & Sound”: nerve, echo and tension
Editors are back with a new album, and after the first listen to "The Rush", it already feels like more than a simple announcement added to the calendar. "Surface, Echo & Sound" will be released on 30 October 2026 via ...

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​Amorphous — Devour. A single that thinks, bites and kicks

​Amorphous — Devour. A single that thinks, bites and kicks
Gil Os, aka Amorphous, did not arrive at this sound by accident. Before the current Amorphous phase, he had already moved through different electronic territories under the Gil Mahadeva / Mukunga Umbura name, working with lounge, chill out, freestyle and ...

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The Sound Veil Society – Things We Kept

The Sound Veil Society – Things We Kept
The Sound Veil Society – "Things We Kept": What Fragile Things Can Carry I had seen The Sound Veil Society only once before Things We Kept reached me, at E-Only Festival in Leipzig earlier this year. What I remember most strongly is not simply that they were good, although they were remarkably so, but that their music seemed to alter the proportions of the room. There was scale in it ...

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Error Fate – 10 GOTO 10

Error Fate – 10 GOTO 10
Debut albums usually come with a certain allowance for uncertainty. We expect an artist to be testing proportions, discovering which influences need to be discarded and which instincts are genuinely their own. 10 GOTO 10, the debut full-length by Anastase Kyriakos under the name Error Fate, immediately complicates that expectation. It sounds far too deliberate to be treated as merely a promising first attempt. After years of listening to EBM, ...

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PYRROLINE – Ambiguity

PYRROLINE – Ambiguity
PYRROLINE have been working within dark electro and electro-industrial for years, with roots firmly in the old-school tradition, but I have never found their music particularly interested in reproducing a fixed genre formula. There is too much atmosphere in it, too much attention to texture and psychological space. "Ambiguity" takes precisely those qualities and makes them central to the album. For me, its greatest strength is unquestionably the music itself. ...

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Grendel out, Agonoize in: Wrocław anniversary show gets a major line-up change

Grendel out, Agonoize in: Wrocław anniversary show gets a major line-up change


The Wrocław stop of the 2026 Anniversary Tour has undergone a significant line-up change. Agonoize will replace the previously announced Grendel at Klub Łącznik on September 25, joining System Noire for the latter's tenth-anniversary celebrations, with Antibody remaining on the ...

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GRENDEL and SYSTEM NOIRE bring their double anniversary tour to Wrocław with ANTIBODY

GRENDEL and SYSTEM NOIRE bring their double anniversary tour to Wrocław with ANTIBODY
Two anniversaries will meet at Klub Łącznik in Wrocław on September 25, 2026, when GRENDEL and SYSTEM NOIRE bring their joint Anniversary Tour to Poland. GRENDEL are celebrating 25 years, while SYSTEM NOIRE mark their tenth anniversary, with both acts ...

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NACHTMAHR to launch the “IMPERIVM” tour in Wrocław with Cygnosic and Bagger 258

NACHTMAHR to launch the “IMPERIVM” tour in Wrocław with Cygnosic and Bagger 258
NACHTMAHR will return to Poland on October 1, 2026, opening the "IMPERIVM" tour at Klub Łącznik in Wrocław. Thomas Rainer’s Austrian industrial project will be joined by Greek dark-electro act Cygnosic and German EBM duo Bagger 258. The Wrocław concert ...

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