Category: industrial


Black Rain – Obliteration Bliss (2025)

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December 13, 2025

An expanded CD reissue of Black Rain’s Obliteration Bliss, originally released on cassette via Downwards in 2023.
Degraded, faded cities now empty of people. You can hear household appliances in the kitchens still talking, but only to each other.
The phrases are distorted, unclear; broken English, Japanese and a few Korean and Chinese automated voices, syllables, shopping lists, play lists for dinner and recipes.
Somewhere one of the machines is dialled in on an isolated pre Buddhist monk chant, distant like from a high cliff meditation cell. The flow of the wide, long Black Mother River Kali Gandaki below them. Here is Obliteration Bliss A world in a flash of light. The world running faster and faster.

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HEALTH – CONFLICT DLC (2025)

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December 10, 2025

What to make of the band that HEALTH have become? To keep up with them these past few years has been an often-dizzying endeavour; they’ve collaborated with everybody from Poppy to Nine Inch Nails, and undulated between refining their punishingly loud brand of industrial noise rock and attempting to tear apart its very esence at the seams by pushing it into uncharted territory – melodic one minute, avowedly experimental the next. Add to this that they’ve carved out what they describe as a “coalition of subcultures” in a fanbase, incorporating everybody from terminally online meme-botherers, to gamers, to enlightened true believers in the Los Angeles trio’s self-described brand of “cum metal”, and you wonder whether there’s another band quite like them.

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Sand – Beautiful People Are Evil | Still Born Alive | The Dalston Shroud (2025)

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December 5, 2025

There are few bands like Sand. Borrowing from jazz, industrial, techno and post-punk, somehow everything is mixed up to produce some seriously bowel-shifting grooves. Their 1999 debut Beautiful People Are Evil sees the York band still working on their formula which had been perfected by the time of 2002 follow-up Still Born Alive.
Sand musically walk the line between different worlds. They have played with, on the one hand, dance artists such as Robert Hood, Patrick Pulsinger, Andy Weatherall and Carl Craig and on the other hand with groups such as God Speed You Black Emperor, Squarepusher , Add N to X and ESG. Sand play diverse live events. They have performed on stage with the Karas Dance Company in Tokyo (where they played onstage with…

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Nine Inch Nails – Tron: Ares [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] (2025)

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September 16, 2025

Nine Inch Nails returns with over 70 minutes of new music for the motion picture Tron: Ares, the first soundtrack / score work from Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross that will live under the Nine Inch Nails moniker; consisting of all original music, complete at 24 tracks.
Reznor and Ross bring their Grammy and Oscar-winning sonic vision to the Grid, crafting a soundtrack that hums with menace, melancholy, and momentum. More than an album, its architecture in sound: pulsating synths, distorted textures, and haunting melodies that rewire the Tron universe from the inside out. It is the collision of analog soul and digital dread – a score that doesn’t just accompany the film, it possesses it. This release marks the first official film…

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Chris Connelly – White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle) (2025)

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August 9, 2025

Industrial music legend Chris Connelly returns to his first love with White Phosphorus (Chris Connelly plays Throbbing Gristle), a suitably uncompromising homage to the “random, tense, scary & compulsively fascinating” phase of industrial music’s catalysers and ur-agitators. Having carved a twisted career with behemoths Ministry and Revolting Cocks over the past 40 years, starting life with the formidable Fini Tribe and collaborating with disparate characters such as Killing Joke, Cabaret Voltaire, Jim O’Rourke, and too many others, Connelly has returned armed with nothing but a cassette recorder, a reel to reel, a razor blade and some tape.
The Scottish-born musician first discovered Throbbing Gristle through their…

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VA – Control I’m Here: Adventures on the Industrial Dancefloor 1983-1990 (2024)

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June 18, 2025

After compiling numerous anthologies charting the evolution of synth pop and post-punk, Cherry Red explores the harder side of alternative dance music with the three-disc Control I’m Here: Adventures on the Industrial Dance Floor 1983-1990. Like a lot of the label’s genre deep-dives, the set touches on several different scenes and movements within a larger whole, aiming to demonstrate the range of styles produced within the era.
Lots of big names and influential figures are present, including groups synonymous with EBM such as Nitzer Ebb and Front 242, but the focus is often on deep cuts or extended 12″ mixes rather than hits. Case in point: the compilers went with Twitch-era Ministry, rather than the group’s early synth pop incarnation or the heavy,…

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The Young Gods – Appear Disappear (2025)

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June 15, 2025

Swiss electro-rockers, Young Gods have been around for 40 years, but this in no way should suggest that they’ve gone soft in their old age. These days, vocalist Franz Treichler looks like the psychopathic Bob from David Lynch’s original Twin Peaks TV series and still exudes a certain malevolence – which is more than reflected in their new album Appear Disappear.
The Young Gods’ influence has been readily acknowledged over the years by the likes of David Bowie, Mike Patton and even U2, to name just a few. Their sound draws from the same sonic seam as industrial metalheads Ministry and Nine Inch Nails, as well as the proto-techno of Front 242, while they have also incorporated a broad range of other musical genres into their dark and…

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Model/Actriz – Pirouette (2025)

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May 2, 2025

You can see why Model/Actriz’s 2023 debut album Dogsbody attracted a lot of approving critical attention. In an era when rock music largely leans towards familiarity – where originality has essentially come to mean rearranging recognisable sounds from the past in a relatively fresh way – here was a band who genuinely didn’t seem to sound much like anyone else.
The Brooklyn quartet had released a handful of noisy singles pre-Covid, which attracted vague comparisons to the notoriously challenging clangour of the late ’70s no wave movement or the frenetic dance-punk of Liars, an outlier band on the far left field of the early ’00s New York scene that gave the world the Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. But on Dogsbody they honed…

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