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: 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: 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.…
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 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…
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 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…