Montreal QC, May 26 photos : Chris Christian
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Kinetik Festival 5.5 2013 day three in photos.
On their sixth album, the British punk band went full-on goth. With vampy singer Dave Vanian at the forefront, the band’s sense of humour took a turn for the black.
Kinetik Festival 5.5 2013 day two in photos.
Happy birthday, Godfather of Goth.
Brooding Swedish brother and sister duo, The Knife, have gone in a new direction with their newest single off their latest album Shaking The Habitual, “Raging Lung” our video of the week.
Dallas based Forrest Carney, aka Mr.Kitty, releases his new album LIFE today and we are proud to premier it with a free stream on the album this weekend.
A new regular feature that looks back at notable dates in the dark culture calendar, beginning with the 20th anniversary of Debut, the first solo record from Björk.
This new video for VOWS’ track “Symbol System” off their new self titled EP mixes dark imagery with infectious beats, grinding synths, and mechanistic, postpunk tinged guitar lines.
The gothpop princess from Florida Miss FD is back with her third studio album Comfort for the Desolate released on Quantum Records and it’s our release of the week!
This week’s music video brings some new music from postpunk revival band Editors with “The Weight” off their upcoming album due out July 1st.
Our release of the week is Celldweller 10 Year Anniversary Edition, Celldweller’s reissue of his self-titled debut album.
This week’s music video is another from Butterclock. The track is “Holograms” off her EP First Prom. Against all reasoning, I find this video so endearing. – Jennifer Link
It’s time once again to stow the earplugs, apply shoe glue to your big stompy boots, and take stock of another Kinetik Festival, Montreal’s 6 year old premium industrial electro music festival.
Chris Corner talks about the upcoming fifth IAMX album, The Unified Field, and his insights as an artist on topics including making it on your own and human nature.
“Affection”, currently my favorite song on Crystal Castle’s latest album (III), is this week’s featured music video. Lately I’ve enjoyed imagining Alice Glass to be Nancy from The Craft as played by Fairuza Balk. This video would fit nicely in with the forest frolicking scenes in the movie.
On the eve of their new album, How I Learned to Stop Giving a Shit and Love Mindless Self Indulgence, and supporting tour, frontman Jimmy Urine got in front of our camera and shared his experiences with the Kickstarter, the new album, geek culture, and what makes MSI have such huge and diverse appeal.
Kinetik Festival is the crème de la crème of North American industrial electro festivals featuring the best in class from across the broad spectrum of alternative electronic music worldwide. 2013’s four day event is really the hot ticket and could be sold out as we write.
In 1982 Douglas McCarthy founded Nitzer Ebb with Bon Harris. They combined a variety of genres to build their own unique sound within the then still young EBM genre. Over the years they
evolved, took breaks, collaborated with other artists, and solidified themselves as a pillar in the industrial community. Thirty years have passed and McCarthy has only just released his first solo album, Kill Your Friends.
This week’s video is from Austra for their single “Home” off their upcoming album Olympia. Having fallen in love with this track over the last couple months and jumping into the video with no background info on it, it left me feeling torn about it.
This week’s video “c.c.c.p.c.c.t.v.” comes from Implant who release their new album The Productive Citizen this week on May 17th!
This week’s review of the week is OOFJ’s Disco To Die To.
The Knife return after a long seven years with their new album Shaking The Habitual!
This week’s video “Devil’s Night” is a new music video from Shiv-r the Australian industrial artist who never fail to understand the importance of the visuals of a band.
Depeche Mode are back once again with Delta Machine! And it’s our release of the week!
Team Ghost, the five piece band founded by ex-M83 co-founder Nicolas Fromageau, recently released the music video for “Curtains” off their forthcoming album Rituals due out April 16th.
IAMX has a new music video out for “I Come With Knives” off his upcoming album The Unified Field. I say a big “yes” to Chris Corner dancing around at dusk or dawn in Joshua Tree National Park!
Ghost & Writer present music, melodies, and lyrics that cut through you like a knife and leave you bleeding from the heart. It’s our release of the week!
More new music from The Knife! The new music video for “A Tooth For An Eye” is from their forthcoming album Shaking The Habitual.
This week is all about How To Destroy Angels with their first full length release Welcome Oblivion coming out. It’s our release of the week!
The release of the week is Chainreactor’s The Silence & The Noise. It’s time to get angry and let out all your frustrations out on the dance floor and Chainreactor will help us get there.
Interview with Sascha Konietzko of KMFDM for their new album Kunst from the February/March 2013 Issue.
The music video for “Jubilee Street” by Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, featuring Ray Winstone and directed by John Hillcoat (who also teamed up with Cave on his screenplay for the Western The Proposition) is this week’s video.
