Industrial veterans Skinny Puppy deliver exactly the weird, wonderful sounds one expects on their 14th album. It’s all over the map, and all the better for it.
Eight tracks paint a robust and varied portrait of the band’s sound: “Beyond” snuggling with Depeche Mode while “Die Macht” does a Rammstein’s boot-stomp.
Type O Negative vocals with smooth synths and programming more like New Order than Skinny Puppy, Informatik writes electronic arena rock as well as club hits.
War Zone K17 is a double live CD, and my favorite parts are the songs I already love performed live. To me, the band’s best songs are from the Navigator days.
Sasha Konietzko (KMFDM) teams up with Tim Skold (Skold, Marilyn Manson, KMFDM) for a continent-crossing collaboration. Ground rules: No guitars, no drum kits.
Not anthemic enough to be Rammstein, not sick enough to be Skinny Puppy, not throbbing enough to be one of the bands I can never specifically remember.
To compare Ruby Bullet to a proggy version of Goth poppers Evanescence is just too easy, so I have faith that that’s exactly what 90 percent of reviewers said.
The Linkin Park of electro/industrial, MSI is a perfectly enjoyable band for the braindead. A pleasant band for those who find Marilyn Manson too intelligent.
I don’t know much about this shit. Drum’n’bass, uh-huh, breakbeat, yup, horror-fixation, know it. But if this is considered good or bad, man, it’s beyond me…
Singer Jason Novak is a fuck-everyone motherfucker, and while the tunes might not blaze a path of redemption or damnation, they’re kick-ass tunes for the trip.
Dark, violent, sensual, chilling: Everything a good aggro/rock/industrial/metal album should be. From Chicago, where this stuff was born, lives, and breathes.
Australian seductress/occasional Zero 7 vocalist Sia should be no stranger to anyone who indulges in the air-y, sensual chillout sort of TV soundtrack ambience.
So many styles of new wave: Siouxsie & The Banshees, Berlin, and more. Led by gritty guitars, with beats that could be hanging out at any retro club at 2 am.
Not everyone will be in the mood to slip under the covers of Pocket Symphony’s sometimes-sleepy atmospheres, especially those looking for booty-shaking.
Former vocalist of The Crystal Method, Trixie Reiss, and two-time Grammy nominee Ernie Lake. Cheesy dance music so bad I had to shut it off while typing this.
While Dead Can Dance utilized folk music to court Renaissance Goths, Sam Rosenthal went after high-brow graphic designers by means of darkwave chamber music.
God Head toured with Manson, Disturbed, Static-X, Mudvayne, and Rammstein. They were lame then, and they’re lame and half a decade older and no wiser now.
Goth is rarely funny intentionally. Voltaire is always a good time, with humorous songs about zombies, dancing skeletons, and all kinds of ghoulish goodness.
Highly anticipated as the successor to Northern Light. While not produced by Rammstein producer Jacob Hellner, it shows a return to the roots of their sound.
The songs range between 120-140 BPM, the music is grittier than the previous releases, and a more vibrant blend of electronica, trance, and melody is offered.