Members: Mark Rydyger. Genre: Ambient, Electro, EBM, Synthwave. Biography: Started sometime around the 2000, Holon is the solo vision of musician Mark Rydyger. Know for his tight programming style of sharp rhythms and fluid medolies, Mark describes his methods as being “half human and half Artificial Intelligence. Heavily inspired by cyberpunk and 90s-era electronica, Holon takes techno-EBM techniques flood it with a spacy, ambient fullness.…
Members: Derek Brown, Kate Lambert. Genre: Industrial, Rock, Metal. Biography: We Are All Zeros! DK-Zero is the brain/lovechild of Seattle musician and bassist D-Punk and Welsh born steampunk fashion icon, TV personality, erotic model, and entrepreneur Kato. Sometime in late 2015 the duo began a collaboration to write and record music that had the energy of their favorite artists from the late 90’s and early…
Members: Mark Pritchard, Tom Middleton. Genre: Techno, Ambient, Industrial. Biography: Originally a solo venture for the highly prolific Mark Pritchard, Reload truly found its voice when Tom Middleton joined the project for the “Autoreload” EP. As Tom became more heavily involved, the duo produced their now legendary “A Collection of Short Stories” album–which due a limited pressing, remains highly sought after to this day. The…
Members: Colin Fraser. Guest Vocals: Nicky Cairney, MC G Real, Allie Moodie. Genre: Techstep, IDM, glitch, industrial. Biography: Biomechanoid is an experimental D&B/IDM band from Scotland. Biomechanoid describes itself as, “Political dissatisfaction expressed via brutal electronic noise experiments. May contain undercurrents of hope and beauty.” Albums: Systematik (1999) Unknown Entity (2001) Shapeshifter (2002) Arkhive01 (2006) Arkhive02 (2006) Control Systems (2016) Machine Code (2020) EPs: Codes EP…
Core Members: JP Anderson, Jennifer “Sum Grrl” Bernert. Members Past / Present: Amelia Arsenic, Coleman Thornburg, Dan Gardner, Kent Ames. Genre: Digital Hardcore, Industrial Metal. Biography: Rabbit Junk is a Seattle based band, formed in 2004 by former The Shizit frontman JP Anderson and his wife Jennifer “Sum Grrl” Berner. Taking influences from diverse music genres such as hip hop, black metal and new wave, JP…
Members: Uwe Schmidt (aka Atom™) Genre: EBM, Techno, Glitch, Biography: Atom™ (real name Uwe Schmidt) is a German composer, musician, and the mind behind Lassigue Bendthaus. He began making music in the early 1980’s, first playing drums, then switching to programming a drum computer after he had heard a Linn Drum on the radio. In 1986 he debuted Lassigue Bendthaus’ first single, “The Engineer’s Love,”…
Core Members: JD Tucker, Erik Gustafson, Neal Reed, Ben Tourkantonis. Members Past / Present: Anita Drost, Floris Noordman, Marco Visconti, Marc Martinez, Adam Milner, Paul James, Mel Allezbleu, David Chapman, Sascha Pnio. Genre: EBM, Electro-Industrial, Aggrotech. Biography: Formed in 2000 by JD Tucker, Grendel was quickly picked up by the legendary German label NoiTekk upon hearing the club hit “Strangers.” After two years of touring…
Members: Andrei Dragoș Gabriel, Florin Costăchiță, Teddy Bejenaru, Tudor Nica. Genre: Cyber Metal. Biography: Dark Fusion is a cyber metal band from Bucharest, Romania. Highy aggressive, the band’s sound is a mix of old school metal underscored with elements of thrash and electro-industrial. Influences include: Bathory, Hypocrisy, Machine Head, Kalmah, and Amon Amarth. Albums: • InFusion (2012) • Cyber Nation (2016) LINKS: Homepage: dark-fusion.weebly.com Bandcamp:…
Members: Stef, Mazu, Wintermute. Genre: Cyber Metal. Biography: Fukushima is a cyber metal band from Monpellier, France. Their music is a harsh blend of thrash metal and gabber techno with a touch of industrial. Their sound could be best described as akin to early Slayer with the addition of driving gabber basslines and distortion heavy vocals. On the group’s Bandcamp account they offer this single…
Members: Amnesy, Arnaud Coeffic, Sylvain Coeffic. Genre: Dark Trance, Electro, EBM. Biography: Chrysalide are an aggressive and highly erratic electronic/industrial trio from France. Founded 2002 by brothers Arco and Syco Trauma, they created Chrysalide with the intention of creating extremely heavy electronic music by merging elements of dance EBM with raw edge of digital hardcore and the power of industrial noise. Pushing aside any connotation…
Members: Claude Charnier, Christian Pomerleau. Genre: Dark Trance, Electro, EBM. Biography: A collaborative work and a multidisciplinary project, Headscan is a shared vision of Claude Charnier and Christian Pomerleau. Intended as a synthesis of styles that embody observations and reflections of human behavior, cultural evolution and the impact of information technologies on modern society. Fusing futuristic dancefloor music with dark cinematographic soundscapes, Headscan’s sound meshes…
Core Members: Daniel B, Dirk Bergen, Patrick Codenys, Jean-Luc De Meyer. Line-up Past/Present: Luc Van Acker, Tim Kroker, Jean-Marc Pauly, Pierre Pauly, Kristin Kowalski, Eran Westwood, John Dubs, Jean-Marc Lederman, Valerie Jane Steele, Sylvain Guigon. Genre: Industrial, Electro, EBM. Biography: Front 242 were formed in 1981 in Aarschot, Belgium, by Daniel Bressanutti and Dirk Bergen, who wanted to create music and graphic design using emerging electronic tools.…
Members: Unknown. Genre: Ambient, Downtempo. Biography: Central Industrial is a shadowy collective of seasoned producers who cut their teeth with breaks, IDM, ambient and all other late 90’s forms of UK underground music. Inspired by the works of William Gibson and Mamoru Oshii, Central Industrial‘s music flow in an almost narrative fashion, weaving an aural stories without words. The band’s first album, “Tuned To A Dead…
Founding Members: David Dutton Genre: EBM, Darkwave. Biography: Exploding from out of nowhere, like an aneurysm in a closed mind, comes genCAB, combining genres and rewiring the sound of EBM for a new generation. Dissatisfied by the direction that modern dark electronic music was going, David Dutton kept “generation CABLE” in the shadows since its inception in 2003. Rather than tapping into the trends of…
Founding Members: Doug “dOGulas” Sudia, John “Xe” Monette. Members Past/Present: Greg Sirfer, Kurt Samuels. Genre: Electro-Industrial, Rock, IDM. Biography: UCNX is an audio assault project based out of NJ/Philly. Founded by Doug Sudia and John Monette, the duo experimenting with election music in high school, dabbling in everything from electro-industrial to ambient and techno. As UCNX this experimentation has bloomed into a unique fusion of…
Founding Member: Sami Mark Yahya. Biography: Professionally known by his stage name, Faderhead, Sami Mark Yahya is a German electronic music producer from Hamburg, Germany. Musically, his work tends toward heavy EBM club tracks and futurepop with elements of big beat and techno. Lyrically, Faderhead is known for his witty tongue-in-cheek, self-aggrandizing humor, that occasionally delves into more serious, melancholy themes. In 2020, Faderhead released…
Founding Members: Daniel Myer, Dejan Samardzic, Björn Jünemann. Biography: Founded in 1993 in, Haujobb began life as a Germany EBM band skill for generating driving dance music with dark, experimental edge. Taking their name from the slag term for replicant in the film Blade Runner, Haujobb loosely translates to mean “skinjob” in German.* After the release of a cassette-only album named Drift Wheeler, Haujobb signed…
Founding Member: Bryan Barton, Eric Powell. Past/Present Members: Jared Louche, Dylan Thomas More, Ned Wahl, John DeSalvo, Charles Levi, Raymond Watts, Martin Atkins, Jason McNinch, Lee Fraser, Jordan Nogood, Rob Williams, John Irish, Jeff Leyda, Joel Allard, Steve Aylett, John Golden. Genre: Industrial, Rock, EBM. Biography: One of the few true industrial rock supergroups, H3llb3nt was a collaborative project featuring the talents of Eric Powell…
Founding Member: Kevin Gould. Past/Present Members: Richard McKinlay, Ian Taylor. Genre: Electro, Industrial, EBM. Biography: Emerging in 1990 from the wreckage of Johnson Engineering Company, Electro Assassin were one of several bands that helped define England’s EBM movement during the early nineties. Founded by Kevin Gould in 1990 as an outlet for his solo compositions, he soon brought Ian Taylor aboard as the band’s vocalist. Jamming…
Members: Sean Payn, Tal “Talon” Kliger, Jesse Hunt. Genre: Industrial, Metal. Biography: Part band, part machine, the Chicago-based angry robot outfit Cyanotic, has been producing their own hybrid of angry robot music since forming in 2002. Striking balance between synthetic order and frenzied chaos, the band’s 2017 release “Tech Noir” serves as a welcome updating of their loving homage to electronic music culture and classic cyberpunk…
Founding Members: Chri5 Harri5, Sean Payne. Genre: EBM, Industrial. Biography: From the official CONFORMCO PR office: “CONFORMCO, not trading on NASDAQ as (CNFCO), is led by the innovative investors of CEO Sean Payne, the venture capitalist behind industrial corporations Cyanotic and Vampyre Anvil and Chairman Chris Harris whose firm, project .44, was acquired by Invisible Records in the early ’00s; but after an internal insurrection…
Founding Member: Andy LaPlegua. Past/Present Members: Eric13, Will Spodnick, Dane White, Trevor Friedrich, Tiffany Lowe, Wes Borland, Jon Horton, Shaun F, Kourtney Klein, Mr. Bjoern Petersen, Syn M, Abbey Nex, Z. Marr, Brent Ashley, Joe Letz, Elliott Berlin, Nick Rossi. Genre: Electro, Industrial, EBM. Biography: One of the most popular acts in the electro-industrial related “aggrotech” movement, Combichrist is Norwegian Icon of Coil founder Andy LaPlegua…
Founding Members: Karl Learmont, Amelia Tan. Line-up Past/Present: Kitsu Noir, Valerie Gentile, Chris Kling, The Liar, Nick Delavega, AJ Gapsevic, Lorelei, George Bikos. Genre: Industrial, Electro, Electropunk. Biography: Always pushing the cyberpunk envelope, Angelspit’s music throws the listener in the middle of a sonic war zone. Their live shows ARE a war zone. Their design and fashion is fierce. Their photography is visually arresting. Their artwork…
Founding Members: Michael F Ninethousand, Peter Jobson. Past/Present Members: Antoine Kerbérénès, Jimmy Shogren. Genre: Electro, Industrial, EBM. Biography: Chrome Corpse is an electronic body music band founded in 2011 in Seattle, WA by Michael Pinch (aka Michael F9000) and Peter Jobson (aka Peter Fracture). Chrome Corpse began recording in 2015 and released the “Body to Flesh” EP in 2017. Later the same year, Peter left…
Founding Members: Joey Blush. Genre: Electro-Industrial, EBM. Biography: Blush Response is an American Industrial Techno project based in Berlin, Germany. It is the solo project of Cuban-American musician, Joey Blush. He began Blush Response in New York City in 2009, and has released several albums to date, each album showing an evolution in sound. His early worked touched on EBM and synth pop influences with…
Founding Members: Shikhee D’iordna. Genre: Industrial Biography: Android Lust is just one person and the brainchild of musician Shikhee D’iordna. Born in Bangladesh, grew up in England and later moved to the New York City. After two independent label releases Shikhee released The Dividing on her own in 2002, bringing her to the attention of Projekt Records, who signed her and re-released the album. Outburn…
Founding Members: Amelia Arsenic. Collaborators: Pete Crane, Ben Buli, Sean Payne. Genre: Industrial, Electro. Biography: Amelia Arsenic is a visual artist and fashion designer originally from Sydney but now based in London. A founding member of cyberpunk band Angelspit, Amelia also work under her own name as a music solo project. A singular vision of broken and beautiful sounds, she describes the project as, “harsh beats…
Founding Members: Adi Newton, Steven “Judd” Turner. Members Past/Present: Alessandro Cellai, Barry R. Harden, Charlie Collins, David James Hammond, David Palmer, Dean Dennis, John Valentine Carruthers, Maurizio Martinucci, Michael Ward, Nick Sanderson, Panagiotis Tomaras, Paul Browse, Paul Widger, Robert Baker, Roger Quail, Shaun Ward, Simon Mark Elliot-Kemp. Genre: Industrial, Electro, Experimental. Biography: One of the first groups to arise during the formation of the Sheffield Electronic…
Founding Members: Jared Louche, Dylan Thomas More. Members Past/Present: John “Servo” DeSalvo, Mark Kermanj, Geno Lenardo, Charles Levi, Greg Lucas, James McAndrew, Regan Miller, Gabriel Shaw, William Tucker, Kraig Tyler, Ned Wahl, F.J. DeSanto, Steve Watson, Paula “Shark” Wood. Genre: Industrial, Rock, Goth, Synthpop. Biography: Originally out of D.C., Chemlab is a very unique band, with a electronic/industrial sound. The core members of the original…
Founding Members: Rodney Orpheus, Paul Dillon, and Andy Booth . Members Past/Present: Volker Zacharias, Axel Ermes, Jez Willis, Keith Langley, John Marchini, John Galvin, Jurgen Jansen, Patrick Gordon, Gaz Wilson. Genre: Industrial, Rock, Goth, Synthpop. Biography: Cassandra Complex formed in 1980 when Paul Dillion and Rodney Orpheus sought playing big music events specifically tagged as “complex events.” Soon after Andrew Booth, formerly a journalist who…