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Reviews
and Interviews from ReGen
Magazine
Live Concert Review:
ASSEMBLAGE 23, ANGEL THEORY, AND SAVI0R – San Francisco,
CA
May 9,
2010
The Awakening
Tales of Absolution + Obsoletion
The Awakening knows what dark romantic means
and they do it with all the velvety style it deserves.
May 8, 2010
Heavy-Current
Push the Fire
Heavy-Current's Push the Fire explores the shiny-happy side of EBM.
May 8, 2010
Kristeen Young
Music for Strippers, Hookers, and the Odd On-Looker
Music
for Strippers, Hookers, and the Odd On-Looker = piano rape, heavy
vibrato, and frenzied eardrum-piercing soprano.
April 6, 2010
Orange Sector
Mindfuck
Orange Sector's Mindfuck is classic EBM with
strong vocals and a few great tracks, but would benefit immensely from some
rhythmic diversity.
March 25, 2010
Die Rostigen Löffel
Artificial Stupidity
Never predictable or dull, Artificial Stupidity is dangerously
enjoyable, as long as you keep the tracks on shuffle.
March 16, 2010
The Shadows Smile
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors
Unoriginal and predictable, Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horrors plays like an amateur
tribute to Cradle of Filth.
March 9, 2010
Savi0r
Gray Matter
Gorgeous and intriguing, Savi0r's
instrumentals will set them free.
February 17, 2010
Sonik Foundry
Mechanized
Mechanized has a surprisingly
slick and well produced sound featuring solid vocals and lively melodies.
February 7, 2010
organicArma
Discordia
Awarned
organicArma's special blend of
philosophy you can dance to is highly addictive and leaves you breathlessly
waiting for a complete album.
December 14, 2009
Mesh
Only Better
Mesh continues with its patented formula of
emotional vocals and nonstop dance beats to create what is sure to be another
unforgettable album.
November 30, 2009
Live Concert Review:
KMFDM: KEIN MITLEID TOUR #5 - SAN FRANCISCO, CA
October 20, 2009
Roche Limit
Sometimes We Must Change Shape
Strange and beautiful, Roche Limit's latest
effort creates a new balance between art and experimentation.
October 10, 2009
Tapeworm Vessel
Twelve Atmospheres
Twelve
Atmospheres is yet another high-concept musical art experiment with lots
of style, but no function.
September 4, 2009
Osman Arabi
Burning Sigils
Burning
Sigils'
enticing exotic flair is tempered by the fact that it is just one really long
song.
August 17, 2009
Generic
Torture
Torture lives up to its name
very well, offering soundscapes that will force you
confess to anything.
August 14, 2009
Tearwave
Different Shade of Beauty
Tearwave's second album is
typical shoegazer: soft, sweet, and unremarkable.
August 4, 2009
Cosmic Love Child
We Are Medicine
Soothing, melodic, and full of life, We Are Medicine is a must-have for
people who like music.
July 6, 2009
The Cheaters Club
QQROFL
QQROFL is both emotionally and aurally
disturbing yet oddly hypnotic.
February 11, 2009
Amanda
Palmer - Eat, Play, Love: The Guide to Eternal Life
An Interview with Amanda Palmer
January 9, 2009
Vermillion
Lies
An Interview with Kim Boekbinder
December 14, 2008
Blind With Rain
A Transmission of Data in the Static
A collection of solid industrial tracks, you
will quickly realize the daring talent of Blind With Rain.
December 14, 2008
Repo the Genetic Opera - The GraveRobber's
Tribulation
An Interview with Terrance Zdunich of Repo! The Genetic
Opera
November 2, 2008
The Repo Man will
steal your heart...and your lungs, your eyes, your liver...
Oct 3, 2008
Remixes by some of the best in the business, "V"
is for Viagra is an essential companion to the original Puscifer release.
Sep 19, 2008
Intriguing and inexplicably magnetic, The Cyclothymic Panopticon is a
solid introduction to Poland's
Hesperus Dimension.
Sep 19, 2008
Stiff Valentine's Loveless EP is dull
and disjointed, at best.
Aug 21, 2008
As Savi0r complete their third album, Gray
Matter, the Sacramento-based trio discusses the history of the band and
gives props to the greats: Justin Timberlake and Kanye
West.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
With IAMX's
sophomore album, Chris Corner brings a hint of maturity to his glam and
seduction.
Jul 15, 2008
Seductive and dreamy, IAMX provides bargain
basement glamour at its finest.
Jul 2, 2008
Strong from the starting gate, Silent Hill's Find
Me EP offers masterful mixing and unforgettable vocals.
Jul 1, 2008
As IAMX finally releases 2006's The
Alternative and 2004's Kiss and Swallow for U.S. audiences,
flamboyant front man Chris Corner talks to ReGen
about the benefits of control and why Berlin has taken a hold on him.
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Outdated but addictively catchy, Matinee
Club's The Modern LP triggers nostalgia for the early days of
electro-pop sweetness.
Jun 24, 2008
With a blend of painful sounds and sickening
distortion, Phog Masheeen
may have captured the resonance of nausea.
Jun 17, 2008
The A.K.A.s' brand
of youthful rebellion and "whoa-oh"s help
punk music resist evolution for just a bit longer.
May 30, 2008
MSI's If is exactly what you would expect: a sex drenched, multi-genre
injection of concentrated energy.
May 9, 2008
Sultry and brazen, V is for Vagina
will leave you breathlessly ready for action.
May 8, 2008
Former Bad Seed, Mick Harvey surprises with
this bluesy homage to the good old days.
May 6, 2008
Hobson's Journey is more laughably
geek than inspirationally chic.
Apr 22, 2008
Evil mastermind Tim Thwaites
discusses the source of the band name, how Radium88 has avoided becoming the
next Dido, and why you may never see them perform live.
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Freudstein's remixes feel shiny
and new while holding on to the darkness within.
Apr 1, 2008
Gasp buries music in noise and hopes you'll
like the sound effects as much as he does.
Mar 11, 2008
Radium88 has created a futuristic soundscape that beautifully merges gentle instrumentals
and science fiction.
Mar 6, 2008
Black Sorraia's Extonaire EP is a perfect partnership of alluring
vocals and masterful string instrumentals.
Feb 7, 2008
White Darkness has Nothing to offer
fans of doom metal.
Feb 6, 2008
Jetstream Lovers' only release
is dull with a touch of promise. Too bad it's a promise that won't be kept.
Jan 15, 2008
Take away the uninspiring vocals and Changing
Wind could be a fascinating blend of folk-jazz fusion and modern
electronic music.
Jan 3, 2008
As their latest album Alles
Wieder Offen
("Everything Open Again") is released for public consumption, front
man Blixa Bargeld
discusses the transformation of the music industry and how he plans to make
record labels obsolete.
Sunday, December 09, 2007
Deviant UK has presented a solid debut
with Barbed Wire Star. A study in dark alternative and new wave music,
its only failing is Jay Smith's limited voice.
Nov 30, 2007
OTX presents a solid electronic album but
fails to revolutionize the genre.
Nov 13, 2007
I Swear by All the Flowers is a terrifying
collection of sounds, designed to inspire fear, sadness, or madness. On the
right stormy night, it may just do all three.
Oct 31, 2007
Nymph explores various musical genres to find
a sound that's all their own. Chances are that you'll find something that
suits you, too.
Oct 17, 2007
After-hours soundscapes
can be a tricky undertaking if the artists don't keep the right balance of
mood and tempo. Midnight Soul Dive does it right.
Oct 9, 2007
And the children of God rejoiced for they saw
the faces of angels in the boy's voice.
Sep 27, 2007
Tearwave effectively captures
the dark ambience of the shoegazer genre in their
debut album. If you love Cranes, this was made for you.
Sep 26, 2007
Roche Limit is what Beck would be if Beck
still sounded like Beck.
Sep 25, 2007
Typical Celtic music fare, OakSong's best moments offer little more than the
surprisingly odd.
Sep 12, 2007
Velvet vocals and understated melodies
highlight this beautiful collaboration between beauty and the freak.
Aug 7, 2007
Super Ready/Fragmenté is just another
example of why The Young Gods have continued to be so influential in the
world of industrial and alternative music.
Aug 6, 2007
For those of us who have been desperately
waiting for trip-hop and down-tempo music to make its big comeback, Digital
Bliss' first compilation is a highly anticipated gift.
Aug 1, 2007
Inchoate's Sterile
starts with promising industrial/EBM soundscapes,
but fizzles at the halfway point. 14 is an unlucky number.
Aug 1, 2007
Random noise or high art, Retconned's
sound experiments paint a pretty picture, as satisfying to decipher as a
Jackson Pollock masterpiece.
Jul 18, 2007
Without harming their cores, Sally Doherty
has harvested an apron full of gently ripened folk songs and polished them to
a blinding gleam.
Jun 22, 2007
Devo has been raging
against machines since the '70s, warning us of a potential future as seen
through red plastic hats, but founding father Gerry Casale
wonders if it hasn't stepped beyond possible and fallen into probable.
Sunday, June 17, 2007
Rhapsody in Black is a rancid burrito
full of synthpop, folk, and unintentional comedy.
May 22, 2007
Radical Turf holds its finger solidly on the
fluctuating pulse of modern music, and pushes it a few steps into the future.
May 2, 2007
Electronic music has changed a lot since
1981. Mark Lane
shows us where the evolution began.
Mar 13, 2007
Inspired by cotton candy, childhood,
fairytales, and the loud clanking machines that pass your window while you
sleep, Fancy Feast is a magical ride through a dark play land you’ll
be afraid to enter and unwilling to leave.
Feb 21, 2007
Das Gift (literally
translated from German as "the poison") is a collection of bland,
moody ballads that tries desperately to be something more.
Feb 21, 2007
Ross Tregenza's
voice just barely manages to save "Journey to Storyville"
from being a typical '90s dance club remix.
Feb 16, 2007
Voltaire's Zombie Prostitute is the
perfect gift for any guy who still laughs at Uranus jokes.
Feb 13, 2007
Electr-Ohm Compilation 1 features talent from
various international DJs, a wonderful introduction to a promising Japanese
label.
Feb 2, 2007
Dream Wide Awake uses a mixture of
genres to send listeners on a European vacation without leaving the comfort
of their own imaginations.
Jan 30, 2007
Smoke and Origination is trite,
self-serving, and somehow brilliant.
Jan 26, 2007
Behind White Faces lies a black soul,
reminding us what gothic music is supposed to sound like.
Dec 14, 2006
A journey through Wastelands is well
worth the trip. No gas mask required!
Dec 12, 2006
Acid Ear is a painful affliction but easily
cured.
Nov 15, 2006
Gorgeous and so completely alive, Driftwood
is a triumph in electronic and classical instrument fusion.
Nov 10, 2006
For a band named after the dance club in a
Schwarzenegger movie, this EP is strangely lacking in originality.
Oct 19, 2006
Norway's Northaunt brilliantly portrays dark desolation through
chilling soundscapes, minimalist instrumentals, and
haunting drones.
Oct 13, 2006
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