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This week: Hello folks and happy Bloomsday weekend!! This week is we drop a bomb on you like never before: Lowe Tenant Remixed! A two-disc set featuring 21 remixes including awesome versions by the likes of Iris, Colony 5, Rupesh Cartel, Minerve, Rezonance, and more! This release is a limited edition and will go fast. Grab your copy today! Metropolis Records releases its 500th release this summer in the form of KMFDM's new album. Tohuvabohu is sure to please all KMFDM fans with its raging guitars and slamming beats. Voltaire drops his new album for Projekt soon. Mixing klezmer, swing, and salsa to create a gothic trip all his own, Voltaire is easily one of the coolest artists today. Breakcore guru Sickboy returns with a new album for Very Friendly. Zonk't gives us a new release of interesting experimentalism. Angle Records gives us a new release of high-quality sound manipulations from Netherworld. Yuno releases their debut album for Germany's Major Records. Infacted Records continues to find the EBM gems with releases from newcomers Menticide and classic stompers Orange Sector. Now shipping a pile of great new releases sure to make your Bloomsday merry: check out the new release from Pumice for something completely new. Psyche's latest album is now shipping. In your mailbox right now are new albums from Trance To The Sun, Homicide Division, The Pain Machinery, Telepherique, Marilyn Manson, Grendel, and more! Enjoy the tunes! Read on...
 

*****THIS WEEK'S MUST-HAVE RELEASE:

LOWE "TENANT REMIXED"
AMAZING RELEASE!!
Tenant Remixed is an exclusive 21-track (with previously unreleased tracks), 2-disc Limited Edtition digipak, and will be available in July. Meanwhile, Lowe are working hard in their studio to finish the recordings of their upcoming album, Kino International, which is planned to be released in October 2007. The remix album includes mixes by Iris, Colony 5, Rupesh Cartel, Minerve, Rezonance, and more! Includes a special guest appearance from Elegant Machinery! Released on Megahpye and available July 23rd, 2007.

Disc 1
1. AHEAD OF OUR TIME [CHOY'S GARDEN REMIX] remixed by Viktor Ginner
2. FACE TO FACE [MINERVE REMIX 2007] remixed by Minerve
3. THE VANISHING [PEOPLE THEATRE'S NOCTAMBULE MIX] remixed by People Theatre
4. SIMPLICITY [HÅKAN LIDBO EXTENDED REMIX] remixed by Håkan Lidbo
5. MY SONG [MAFIA MIKE EXTENDED REMIX] remixed by Mafia Mike
6. HEAR ME OUT [4TUNE8 VS WARP ACHT REMIX] remixed by 4tune8 vs Warp Acht
7. NEVER FELT SO LOW [NFSL REMIX] remixed by Shoe
8. MOVE ME [BLIP-BLOP EDIT] remixed by Fredrik Skeppholm
9. FALLING STAR [DISKODIKTATOR REMIX] remixed by Diskodiktator
10. GRAVITATION [IRIS REMIX] remixed by Iris
11. DOWN THE WATERLINE [REZONANCE VERSION] remixed by Rezonance

Disc 2
1. MY SONG [RUPESH CARTEL 2007 REMIX] remixed by Rupesh Cartel
2. SIMPLICITY [POPISH REDUX] remixed by Lowe
3. HEAR ME OUT [INQUIREMIX] remixed by Tobias Ersson
4. AHEAD OF OUR TIME [CELLAR DOOR REMIX] remixed by Colony 5
5. THE VANISHING [74262056 MIX] remixed by Emplosia
6. MOVE ME [AMBRA RED EURODISCO RMX] remixed by Ambra Red
7. DOWN THE WATERLINE [ROSSISDEAD'S LACK OF DISTINCTION VOXAL MIX] remixed by Rossisdead
8. THE VANISHING [SISTER WASABI REMIX] remixed by Lowe
9. MY UNIVERSE [LOWE EXTENDED REMIX] remixed by Lowe
10. SAVE ME [LOWE VERSION] - Lowe feat Elegant Machinery
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*****OUR HOT PICKS FOR THE WEEK:

KMFDM "TOHUVABOHU"
KMFDM, now in their 23rd year, remain a musical entity to be reckoned with. Through relentless experimentation and reinvention they have continued to unleash a barrage of songs that allow their fans to dance with abandon, bang their heads or dissect the band's cuttingly cunning lyrics – sometimes all at once!

KMFDM's new album on Metropolis Records, Tohuvabohu, is no exception. 'Tohuvabohu,' an Old Testament word meaning "wild and chaotic," perfectly captures the spirit and energy behind the tracks contained therein. Sascha Konietzko, the band's founder and leader, conducts his army of analog synths and wields his razor sharp lyrics and vocals. Chanteuse Lucia infuses her tracks with a fiercely powered urgency alternating with soft beauty. The KMFDM core remains solid as ever with Jules Hodgson, Andy Selway and Steve White providing the cranking guitars and forceful beats that KMFDM is known for.

While staying true to the Ultra Heavy Beat, Tohuvabohu also dares to venture into new territory, ultimately destroying everything in its path. The album offers up servings of dance ("Looking For Strange"), metal ("Saft Und Kraft") and industrial ("Spit Or Swallow"), along with the somewhat unexpected elements of darkwave ("Tohuvabohu"), sweeping epic ("Bumaye") and even rock/pop ("Fait Accompli").

Tohuvabohu adds to the growing list of languages sung in the KMFDM catalog – Latin, Hebrew, Lingala (an African language) and Spanish can all be found within. The Spanish language cover of Liaisons Dangereuses' dancefloor favorite "Los Niños Del Parque" provides a perfectly retro/electronic departure as one of the album's most memorable tracks.

Continuing the band's one of a kind relationship with their followers, Sascha K. invited the fans to participate in the creative process via the Fan Phone. For a couple of weeks fans from all over the world called in and recorded stories of what KMFDM means to them. Kapt'n K., as he is known to the devoted horde, wove their voices throughout the album's opening track, "Superpower", demonstrating once again that KMFDM belongs to the people (and vice-versa).

KMFDM invites you to celebrate chaos with Tohuvabohu. "Get ready, set, all systems go!" Released on Metropolis and available August 21st, 2007.

01. Super power
02. Looking For Strange
03. Tohuvabohu
04. I Am What I Am
05. Saft Und Kraft
06. Headcase
07. Los Ninos
08. Not In My Name
09. Spit Or Swallow
10. Fait Accompli
11. Bumaye
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VOLTAIRE "OOKY SPOOKY"
"It's a Halloween party in a jewel-box," Voltaire comments about Ooky Spooky, his most hilariously irreverent CD to date. Years in the making, Voltaire's 5th album contains a duet with The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer, a track from a Cartoon Network movie plus his crowd-pleasing songs about zombies, devils and dancing skeletons. In fact necrophilia, cannibalism, prostitution, buggery, blasphemy, sacrilege, going to hell, bombing New Jersey and anal rape with a lightsaber are just a few of the charming topics covered on Ooky Spooky.

Back are the violins and cellos but new to the Voltaire sound is a horn section that brings to mind images of a mariachi skeleton band. But there is no doom and gloom here, mind you. The album bounces along with a mixture of klezmer, swing and ska that brings to mind such spooky-fun classics as Oingo Boingo's "Dead Man's Party" or "Hell" by the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Voltaire's love for Cab Calloway is evident in the song "Cannibal Buffet" (which seems straight from a Betty Boop cartoon) and more so in "Land of the Dead" which Voltaire wrote for the opening credit sequence of the Cartoon Network movie "Billy and Mandy's Big Boogie Adventure."

As serious as it gets on Ooky Spooky is "Stuck With You," a duet with The Dresden Dolls' Amanda Palmer. It's about a bickering married couple, but even on this one kittens are drowned, Korean bayonets are employed and skeletons sing to each other from side-by-side coffins. "I got all of the serious songs out of the way on Then And Again," comments Voltaire, "specifically so that Ooky Spooky could be a non-stop party of fun songs about the undead and hell and devils and skeletons and all of the other fun stuff that's so close to my heart." Released on Projekt and available July 31st, 2007.

1. Land of the Dead
2. Zombie Prostitute
3. Cannibal Buffet
4. Day of the Dead
5. Blue-eyed Matador
6. Bomb New Jersey
7. Cantina
8. Stuck With You
9. Dead
10. Reggae Mortis
11. Hell in a Handbasket
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*****HOT PRE-ORDERS!

SICKBOY "MUSICAL THERAPY"
the long-awaited third album by belgium's biggest breakcore artist sickboy. with an unique and fresh sound, this 8 track album doesn't fail to surpirise you with its efforts to combine fun and raw breaks. some say this isn't the usual sickboy we can expect - others say you can expect anything from sickboy - but what he did on this album is taken all his musical influences and simply made a difference that leaves you feeling of warmth and bass. it sounds like a very personal album. remarkably are the countless synthesised landscape feel atmospheres that overule the overall sample-based work of sickboy. if one thing stands out on the album is its wicked programmation, variation and innovation. it almost doesn't sound like laptop music anymore and yet this album truely sounds like a breakcore record that you've never heard before. Released on Very Friendly and available July 23rd, 2007.

1 The Return Of The Tigermask (4:00)
2 Heyo Rhythm (4:33)
3 The Drifter (3:19)
4 Quicksand (3:22)
5 The Riddler (3:26)
6 Meet Me On The Moon (4:34)
7 Mood Swinger (2:37)
8 Metropole Hysteria (4:31)
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ZONK'T "TROPE"
after having been creating a minimal ambient sphere with 'falling down fearless of bruises',and having kept tied links between dub and industrial in the album 'itching',having preserved an omnipresent low bass frequency, oscillating between click'n'cut, digital bones,a minimalist rhythmic and pulsed trance in 'purr', zonk't is coming back with a fourth album, which could be a synthesis of all of them. but one can at once recognize that '-trope' is a rhythmical album,quite close in this way to 'itching', his second album released on brume records, but this without taking 'purr' into consideration. if laurent perrier preserves his trademark, namely big dub bubbles, frictional clinking, mechanical repetition, high-pulse sequences, maintained tension, '-trope' manages to exude a clever syncretism of past and present works keeping its coldness by borrowing some elements from the elegant idm, filtered and sophisticated (somersault), powerful and jerky rhythmic à la lfo (throb), saturated hip-hop/big beat drums on high tech microsound (disruption), motives sometimes more playfull (look.part.5), airial dubby cocoon (solar), pronounced melody, to end in a minimal electronic sound which could appear in 'purr',without giving away his intent on the next album. the general feel of the album, different from his previous works,moves away from the dark industrial musicality,to lend it a more abstract, brighter and futuristic tonality,but still keeping its clinical cold effect. the compositions stay very precise, rather minimal, opening up more and more to bring out the texture and the topography of the sound without losing its continuous flow. Released on Sound On Probation and available June 26th, 2007.

1 somersault 4'39
2 throb 4'19
3 spark 4'06
4 disruption 5'10
5 look part.5 10'39
6 solar 4'11
7 Bubbleman 8'21
8 limelight 3'54
9 meter 5'06
10 crux 7'15
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NETHERWORLD "KALL: THE ABYSS WHERE DREAMS FALL"
Always concerned with pushing even further its explorations on the side of ''drone'' drifts, angleREC adds to its parallel series, that is the MONDES ELLIPTIQUES label, a new release in the form of the first official CD production of Italian project NETHERWORLD. This CD has the rather evocative title of ''KALL - The Abyss Where Dreams Fall''. Alessandro Tedeschi's project previously gained a fair share of attention with CDR or mini-CDR releases on fine labels such as UMBRA, GEARS OF SAND, TAALEM/KOKESHIDISK! Alessandro also runs the GLACIAL MOVEMENTS label, which gave us, in 2006, the acclaimed CRYOSPHERE compilation. In a tradition that is anchored, at the same time, in avant-garde, ritual soundz and dark ambient, with a typically Italian touch, NETHERWORLD gives a peculiarly and elegantly organic and palpable feel to sounds that, in the hands of others, would maybe fall flat …and it is as if the sound universe conjured by the magic of NETHERWORLD was strangely…how could one say? OCCUPIED. Each moment, each twist and turn of this sound adventure bears infinite richness and elasticity, at all times …those are rather 'busy' sound layers but each of the elements has sufficient breathing space and can differentiate itself from the other surrounding components. This antagonism represents one of NETHERWORLD's greatest strengths. Another noteworthy antagonism: this tendency to propose us ambiences that are excessively introspective, subdued, withdrawn into themselves, but which, at the same time, expand, subtly dilate to occupy an incommensurable space. Upon the first notes (or pulses??) of the opening track, ''KALL'', this infinite abyss, envelops us and our dreams sink, dissolve, reinvent themselves…The sound propositions found on''KALL'' have enough movement and density to please the ones fond of depth in their music, but the overall 'purified' feel will please the most discerning purist. For the occasion, MONDES ELLIPTIQUES once again used the mastering talents of JOHN SELLEKAERS @ METARC and it is CHRISTIAN SALETTE who put his savoir-faire in our service for the design of the sleeve and images. Limited to 441 copies! Deluxe cardboard sleeve. Released on Angle Records and available June 30th, 2007.
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YUNO "SATELLITE"
The Hamburg based band YUNO find their own unique sound between New Wave, Indiepop and Disco elements. They count on strong melodic songwriting with catchy hooks and danceable rhythms. Yuno have a classic lineup (Guitar,Drums,Vocals) with 2 keyboards /synth players, which make them sound different and give them a very strong live sound. With playing a lot of shows they have built up a strong following in their native country Germany already. Their concept is „handmade Pop with synthesizers" as YUNO don`t use backing tapes or sequencers on stage at all. Everything is played by hand! They took their name from the legendary Roland synthesizer Yuno which is a collector item nowadays. Released on Major Records and available July 10th, 2007.

1 Fading Grey
2 California
3 Untitled
4 It's Not Getting Better
5 The Glances You Give Me
6 My Day
7 From a Distance
8 In and Out
9 Contagious
10 Forever
11 She's Not Leaving
12 Stand and Wonder
13 It's Not Getting Better (Airmate Remix)
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MENTICIDE "N.M.E."
Newest discovery of German Electro label Infacted : MENTICIDE offer up "N.M.E" - a debut album of uncompromising power split between agressive uptempo EBM and hardcore dancefloor anthems : Industrial Body Music at its best ! 12 harsh tracks including live favourites such as "Wrong", "Search And Destroy", "Rise", and "Komm Zu Mir". "N.M.E." looks set to redefine the live circuit of current soundalikes and reek havoc on dancefloors across Europe... Released on Infacted and available June 28th, 2007.
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ORANGE SECTOR "PROFOUND"
Classic Zoth Ommog EBM'ers Orange Sector return after their Best Of collection ( "Here We Are, Back Again" ) with Brand New album "Profound" : For the first time using English lyrics and with a sound that is rawer, more sharp edged and more solidly furious than ever before, old masters Orange Sector forge a sophisticated EBM barrage of modern sounds and club hit potential as demonstrated on the tracks "R.I.P", "Bible Hammer", "Invasion", "Life's A Bitch And Then You" and the pummelling "Noise"... Released on Infacted and available June 28th, 2007.
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PUMICE "PEBBLES"
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Island living affords absolute polarities in both geography and the psyche - tranquility & isolation. This duality is present in the music of Pumice - the eccentric, flummoxing and oft-gloomy one-man band helmed by Stefan Geoffrey Neville, a resident of the cultural hamlet of Auckland, New Zealand. Though Pumice's skewed take on experimental folk and pop songwriting is firmly rooted in the outsider vibes of downunder stalwarts like Pip Proud and Alastair Galbraith, the fruits of his labor are singular in scope as Neville weaves his own personal mythology mired with comedy, melancholy, humility and tragedy and delivered with vivid clarity. Pumice's pesky brand of loner Kiwi DIY - precariously devoid of fatuous pose - is a colorful, desolate soundworld unto itself.

On Pebbles, the umpteenth Pumice full-length outing, Stefan Neville excavates the mutant rock of Simply Saucer & the idiosyncratic, rhythmic compositions of Moondog (at his most playfully abstract), and re-contextualizes those touchstones via the pages of a mid-70s Incredible Hulk comic book. Pebbles offers the unlikely marriage of astute refinement and wild abandon, with songs uplifting & sincere, yet dark, with oddball substance to spare. Featuring some of Pumice's best makeshift pop songs to date, Pebbles even manages a few excellently fractured instrumentals that harkens to The Clean circa Oddities.

01. Eyebath
02. Bold / Old
03. Brown Brown Brown
04. Stopover
05. Greenock
06. Northland
07. Spike / Spear
08. Both Beasts
09. The Only Doosh Worth Giving
10. Onion Union
11. Pipi
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PSYCHE "CLUB SALVATION"
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To go with Psyche's Australian Tour, and the rest of their worldwide 2007 dates until September, Psyche has released a limited edition "club" oriented album, with tracks that were previously only avilable on compilations, CD singles, or never before released!

This Limited CD compilation includes previously unreleased versions of the following club tracks: Final Destination (Controlled Collapse Version), Defenseless (On The Bridge Mix), Thundershowers (12" Remake) plus a new remix edit of Six Feet Under and 15 Minutes, and a mix update of Wanting.

01 The Quickening (Club Mix)
02 Absolute
03 Final Destination (Controlled Collapse Mix)
04 Goodbye Horses (Single Edit)
05 Sanctuary
06 Unveiling The Secret
07 Gods And Monsters
08 Snow Garden
09 Six Feet Under (Re-Edit)
10 Brain Collapses (New Version)
11 Thundershowers (12" Remake)
12 Wanting (Remix)
13 Defenseless (On The Bridge Mix)
14 15 Minutes (Lights Out Edit)
15 The Hiding Place
16 The Outsider 2001
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TRANCE TO THE SUN "SPIDERS, AETHER, & RAIN (THE FINEST WORKS OF...)"
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Projekt is proud to announce the release of a 'best of' compilation album from the legendary surrealist goth / dream-pop / darkwave ensemble, Trance to the Sun. Ground-breaking and critically acclaimed in their time (1990-2001), this compilation coincides with the band's first performance in half a decade, at Convergence 13 in Portland (last weekend of May, 2007). Spiders, Aether & Rain features thirteen tracks spanning the entire Trance to the Sun oeuvre; from haunting, spindly ballads to thunderous goth-rock waltzes; from freaked-out electronic gems of hypnotic rhythm to heavily orchestrated pseudo-symphonic cacophonies. Whether you're a long time devotee, or just discovering this critically acclaimed, elegant music for the first time, this release is for you.

Spiders, Aether & Rain is released in a limited edition Digi-Pak which features newly created cover artwork by vocalist Ingrid Blue, plus a 12 page booklet filled with rare and previously unseen photos! Extensive liner notes, an unreleased track (from 1997's unfinished Equinox sessions), and Trance to the Sun's ultra-rare cover version of the Cocteau Twins "When Mama Was Moth" round out this no-holds-barred release. It's definitely a must have! Released on Projekt.

1. Olive the Slut
2. Homewrecker
3. Spider Like
4. Spider Planet
5. August Rain V.3
6. Execution of the Stars
7. Winter Furnace Winds (previously unreleased track)
8. A Sun Lingering Disease
9. When Mama Was Moth (Cocteau Twins cover)
10. Slave
11. Thistle Lurid
12. The Nun V.V.
13. August Rain V.
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HOMICIDE DIVISION "NO TEARS TO WAR"
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Homicide Division is a hard elektro / power EBM band hailing from beautiful Brazil. The project was formed in 2004 and steadily amassed followers around the world since that time, now breaking loose with a full-length album that is certain to deliver full impact, spine-shattering sound to elektro listeners around the globe. Homicide Division's distinct and stylized approach to audio inspires thoughts of a world torn by war, the formalized and approved "homicide" that men inflict upon each other and the band gives a symbolic acknowledgment of the terror of this self-inflicted apocalypse in their use of gas masks and camouflage when performing live. The conflict-oriented imagery of their CD booklets was created by Austrian graphics master, Dead Dreamer, deaddreamer.com in perfect complement to the band's identity. BLC is proud to present this excellent debut as we take the hard march forward yet another step into hell. Drop a bomb on boredom with one of the most exciting elektro projects in some time: Homicide Division. Released on BLC.

1. Dust to Dust
2. No Tears to War
3. Premonition
4. Homicide
5. Lies
6. Evil Burns in Your Mind
7. Funeral of Mankind
8. Freedom
9. Seven Days to Die
10. I Know
11. Then
12. Dressed in Black
13. No Tears to War (Terror Mix)
14. Evil Burns in Your Mind (Remix)
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THE PAIN MACHINERY "CHAOS TRANSMISSIONS"
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TPM, after more than a decade of face-smashing, fist-pounding anarchy in their home environs of Sweden and now several years in force with USA label, BLC Productions, now presents a double-disc set that offers up pure visceral excitement. On one disc, "Chaos Transmissions", the band culls the finest of their audio from early days to present, profiling the project's electronic evolution from near-minimalism to high-tech programming and production, moving from a down-and-dirty grunge and punk feel on earlier compositions to more current compositions that are equally aggressive but more melodic in nature. Chaos Transmissions stands as a brilliant testament to the longevity of the band and is packed to the gunnels with pristine electronica. "Chaos Live", on the other hand, is precisely what the name implies – a blistering, full-length concert from musicians who really come into their own when performing for an audience, revealing a dimension that is impossible to resist. The Chaos set will unquestionably be a collector's edition as well as a daily driver that will stay in the CD player long after other releases are ejected and put to one side. Released on BLC.


Disc I: Chaos Transmissions
1. Enter
2. Revenge
3. Urban Paranoia
4. Monster
5. Everything is Wrong
6. Psychotic Disorder
7. Already Dead
8. Fear Me, Hate Me
9. What did you just do to me?
10. Ecstatic
11. Get Away
12. Time Heals Nothing
13. Acid Attack
14. Quiet Lies
15. Heading for the Void

Disc 2: Chaos Live
1. Exit (Live 2002)
2. Like a Dark Storm (Live 2002)
3. Monster (Live 2002)
4. Live 2006
5. Outbreak
6. Revenge
7. Pre-Programmed Automatic
8. Crushed
9. System Error
10. Bugs
11. Dominator
12. One
13. Dehumanize
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TELEPHERIQUE "SLOW MOTION"
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One of Germany's most recognizable names has returned with another ambient master piece. Ritualistic, flowing, with moments of rhythm and complex soundscapes. With releases on many labels, including Ant-zen, Msbr, Old Euroupa Cafe and many more. Released on Force Of Nature.

Step 1--Out of balance
Step 2--A Downshifting
Step 3--fountain of flow
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MARILYN MANSON "EAT ME, DRINK ME"
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Four years since his last studio album, and following up on his highest charting radio single ever ("Personal Jesus", from Lest We Forget), Marilyn Manson returns with "Eat Me, Drink me". Art openings, soundtrack appearances, and personal circumstance have grabbed headlines for Manson in recent months, setting the stage for the release of Eat Me, Drink Me, which is unquestionably the artist's most personal statement yet. Always the provocateur, in what may be the ultimate subversion of the code of aggro-rock, the songs are immediately catchy - all jagged guitar hooks, anthemic choruses, with an overlying glam-rock sheen. Lyrically Manson has never been more riveting, seemingly having enough to draw from in his own life and from society at large to present a fresh, snarling vision. Released on Universal.

1. If I Was Your Vampire
2. Putting Holes in Happiness
3. Red Carpet Grave
4. They Said the Hell's Not Hot
5. Just a Car Crash Away
6. Heart-Shaped Glasses (When the Heart Guides the Hand)
7. Evidence
8. Are You the Rabbit?
9. Mutilation Is the Most Sincere Form of Flattery
10. You and Me and the Devil Makes 3
11. Eat Me, Drink Me
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GRENDEL "HARSH GENERATION"
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Grendel started out in 1997 under a different name, but due to the band splitting up the name was changed into the current one. The name Grendel originates from a character in an old mythological tale entitled 'Beowulf'. In this tale a beast, namely Grendel, would lure people from the nearby villages and take them to the bottom of a marsh and drown them.

In the beginning of 2000 the first promo CD was released which included the Dutch dance floor hit 'Strangers'. Within a very short period of time the promo was being played at many locations throughout the Netherlands and internationally.

Half a year later the first demo CD was releases entitled 'Inhumane Amusement'. This demo caught the ear of the German record label NoiTekk (a sub-division of Black Rain records), which convinced the label to such an extent that they signed Grendel immediately. This demo was re-mastered, re-designed and released in combination with new material in 2000 as the band's debut album.

This first release set the band's name and received praise from throughout the scene. To follow this up, the ''End of Ages EP'' was released in 2002 and marked the project's international breakthrough with tracks such as the hit song ''End of Ages'', the pounding ''Catastrophe'' and the intrigueing ''Noisome''. Next to this, the EP was completed with remixes done by FEINDFLUG, ARZT+PFUSCH and GOD MODULE. With the unorthodox and original use of orchestration, obscure samples incorporated with harsh and pounding EBM structures, this release again received great reactions from both the media and listeners and would set Grendel's sound for the future. In 2003, Grendel recorded their second full-length release, entitled ''Prescription: Medicide''. This album was another step deeper into the world of [Grendel] with it's complex, yet harsh, pounding & danceable structures, dismal orchestration and distressed nature.

It meant a big step forward for the band, receiving overwhelming reviews, becoming album of the month in Zillo and Orkus plus reaching top positions in underground charts worldwide (incl. position 1 for several months on the Dutch Underground Charts). Most recently Grendel recorded their latest EP, entitled ''Soilbleed''. This release is, yet again, another big leap ahead in their progress and blows away everything the band has produced before. 2007 now will see the release of the long awaited third studio CD entitled ''HARSH GENERATION'' the band's best release to date. Released on Metropolis.

01 Intro
02 Harsh Generation
03 Void Malign
04 The Judged Ones
05 Remnants
06 B.A.A.L
07 Dirty
08 Hate This
09 New Flesh
10 Outro
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