News editor: Mikael Kahrle

Apoptygma Berzerk talk about dates
• Norwegian synth poppers Apoptygma Berzerk are working with their new album called "Harmonizer". The first single from it will be "Until the End of the World", and you can hear a short demo version on the bands web page. Those of you who watched APB play live at Electric Gathering in Stockholm have already heard the track in full, and it stays true to the established APB sound.
The album arrives on February 18, and the single on January 7. An extensive tour of both Europe and USA in support of the new album is also planned already, and will start on February 12. /Johan Carlsson

Time for "Freelove"
• This is how the Depeche Mode "Freelove" single will look like, when it's out on November 5. The date for the fourth single, "Goodnight Lovers", is January 14 as of now, but that may change of course.
In further News, a - very loose - rumour talks about a continuation of the "Exciter Tour" 2002 to, at least Asia and Australia. /Mikael Kahrle, Jesper Lakman (Uselink)

Depeche Mode and Rammstein to MTV Awards

• This year's MTV Europe Music Awards will be held in Frankfurt on November 8. Live acts include Rammstein and Depeche Mode. www.depechemode.com is nominated for the web award. There are also rumours about a possible life achievement award to good old Depeche Mode. Voting is open now. /Mikael Kahrle

Tinitus festival line-up finalised

Dance or Die at Tinitus.

• The line-up for this year's edition of the Tinitus festival (on November 3) holds some famous names, and some not so well-known. In no special order, they are: VNV Nation, Fleshfield, Rational Youth, Dance or Die, XPQ-21 and Suicide Commando. There will, of course, also be a large dance floor, food stands and lots of merchandise from PAF Mailorder and Hot Stuff, amongst others. Tinitus will this time be held at Allhuset at Stockholm University, which is a larger location than last years Elverket. /Johan Carlsson

Download and Tear Garden no longer on Nettwerk
• Cevin Key's projects Download and Tear Garden (together with The Legendary Pink Dots of course) no longer has contracts with Nettwerk. The label decided to not renew the contracts when they ended recently. Nettwerk will still distribute the Skinny Puppy catalogue. /Johan Carlsson

New album with Stina Nordenstam in one month

• Those of you who want to hear the beautiful voice of Stina Nordenstam don't have to wait that much longer. Stina's new album is called "This Is Stina Nordenstam" and will be released on October 22 by Sony Music. /Johan Carlsson

New music initiative in South Africa
• Darklight Nocturnal Entertainment and Moloch are teaming up to bring the people of South Africa Prophecy: In the Name of New Music. This is the name of both a publication and a series of events. The aim is to introduce new music and enliven the local scene and to present it to people who have not been exposed to it yet.
They will make a CD to go with the quarterly magazine at no extra cost, and the magazine will include interviews with the artists and reviews of the music. ./Johan Carlsson

Busy days for Haujobb's Daniel Myer

Daniel Myer (left) and Dejan Samardzic (right) of Haujobb.

• Since Haujobb's new album "Polarity" has just been released, we wanted to know what more was going on in the land of Haujobb and mastermind Daniel Myer. When asked about his feelings on the new album, he says:
- I am proud of the songs I wrote. I am also proud of that we are still able to create something new, something fresh.
The new album sees a change of style once again, and Daniel continues:
- The change is based on two individuals, who has worked in a band with music for ten years. We always try to please ourselves, but we also need to please our fans and with our last records, we lost a lot of our fans.
He goes on to say that he hopes there will be singles released from the album, but it is up to their label Metropolis. Right now Daniel is in the US, but when he comes back to Europe he will start planning a tour.
As usual, Daniel has been busy recording for his side projects, and an album with his solo project Clear Vision (formerly known as Cleaner) is now in the mastering process with a projected October street date.
A round up of some of the other Myer projects looks like this: Architect, album at the end of the year, S'apex in the beginning of next year, and Dots & Dashes also next year.
H_M_B is yet another project, this time together with Victoria Lloyd from Claire Voyant, and Dennis Ostermann from In Strict Confidence. According to Daniel, they make pretty harsh music with lovely melodic, dreamy vocals. The songs on www.MP3.com shows a more commercial side.
Furthermore, we hear that Daniel Myer's companion Dejan Samardzic has left the music business. /Johan Carlsson

Assemblage 23 tours Europe
• Assemblage 23 is making a tour of Europe this fall together with cut.rate.box and Diary of Dreams. They will be making a total of 21 dates between November 22 and December 15. Germany, The Netherlands, UK, France, Spain, Belgium and Switzerland will all be visited during the tour, but unfortunately not the Scandinavian countries. /Johan Carlsson

New free anti-war song by And One
• After the terrible terror act in New York last week, the members of And One didn't know what to do. So they locked themselves up in the studio for 72 hours and tried to put their feelings into music. The result is "Amerika Brennt" and it is the band's second anti-war song ("Aus der Traum" being the first), and it can be downloaded in CD-quality from their web site. /Jens Krause

Martin Gore DJ session on TV

• Martin Gore has made a selection of his favourite tunes. On September 22, you can watch the result on VIVA 2/2 Step. The program will include names such as Kid 606, Isan, Kreidler as well as more well-known artists like David Bowie. Mute Records will "release" this DJ session as a promo. /Jens Krause

Funker Vogt tour cancelled

• Funker Vogt had planned a tour of the US this October, but due to the very sad events of last week, the tour has been postponed to 2002. Funker Vogt's hard EBM sometimes has themes like war and terror. /Johan Carlsson

New Depeche Mode single includes unreleased song...

• "Freelove", the third Depeche Mode single from "Exciter", is moved to November 5. It will be released in two CD and one DVD edition.
It will feature a "Radio Mix" version by Flood, along with the new instrumental extra track "Zenstation". Other known remixers for the single include Deep Dish and David Bascombe. A tentative track listing for "Freelove" CDBONG32:
1) "Freelove" (Flood Radio Mix) 2) "Zenstation" 3) "Zenstation" (Atom Stereonerd Mix).
"Zenstation" is an instrumental track, but incorporates a vocal harmony performed by Martin Gore. The "Flood Radio Mix" of "Freelove" includes a different drum loop, and a few other effects, but overall, the track stays true to the original version. /Jesper Lakman (Uselink)

...and 72 000 watched the Hamburg gig
• The European leg of the "Exciter" tour is going well and Depeche Mode is now performing in Scandinavia together with Fad Gadget (except for Helsinki). Two more gigs have been added to the tour. Depeche Mode will play in Zagreb, Croatia on November 3 and in Mannheim, Germany on November 5.
Finally, some of you might be interested in a recent track list, this one from Hamburg. 72 000 people witnessed the show there.
1) Intro tape: "Easy Tiger", "Dream on" (live instrumental acoustic) 2) "The Dead of Night" 3) "The Sweetest Condition" 4) "Halo" 5) "Walking in My Shoes" 6) "Dream on" 7) "When the Body Speaks" 8) "Waiting for the Night" 9) "Sister of Night" (Martin acoustic) 10) "Breathe" 11) "Freelove" 12) "Enjoy the Silence" 13) "I Feel You" 14) "In Your Room" 15) "It's No Good" 16) "I Feel Loved" 17) "Personal Jesus" - Encore - 18) "Home" 19) "Clean" 20) "Black Celebration" 21) "Never Let Me Down Again". /Jesper Lakman (Uselink), Mikael Kahrle

Progress report from Dkay.com
• In the middle of October, Jürgen Engler will finish Dkay.com's new album. The recording has been interrupted a couple of times, first because of a remix for Letzte Instanz, and once more for a Prodigy tribute album, where they made a version of "Firestarter". The first single off the new album will thematically coincide with the events in New York. /Jens Krause

New York duo signed to A Different Drum

• New Clear Sky is a duo from New York making a crossover between techno and synthpop. They have now been signed by the US label A Different Drum, and will release their next album "Newer, Clearer…" in April 2002, with a single called "VAST" this December. /Johan Carlsson

Chemical Brothers album postponed to 2002

• The new album with the Chemical Brothers will not see the light of day until early 2002. The as yet untitled album will feature collaborations with Richard Ashcroft and Beth Orton, amongst others. The new single "It Began In Africa" is out now on Virgin. /Johan Carlsson

More and harder with Project Grudge
• There are many Projects out there and Mattias Johansson, the one man behind Project Grudge, is now working on his new album called "Silver Machine". The sound is supposed to be harder and louder than its predecessor "Between You and Reality". The new album will be out this fall or winter, with a US tour to follow in January 2002. /Johan Carlsson

Assemblage 23 switches to Metropolis
• The ever-growing US Metropolis label keeps adding artists to their stable. The latest to join them is one man project Assemblage 23, who left his label Gashed a short while ago. On November 13, Metropolis will reissue both "Contempt" and "Failure", and some time next year they will release A23's third release.
Accession will still be A23's label in Europe, and will soon release a "Disappoint" maxi single and the "Addendum" EP which features remixes off "Failure" as well as new material. Currently, there are no plans to release these in the U.S. /Johan Carlsson

High demand for industrial compilation follow-up

Apoptygma Berzerk goes for "Septic II".
Photo by: Olaf Heine © Eastwest/Hard:drive

• The "Septic II" compilation will be released on September 24 (Dependent) and will feature bands like Front Line Assembly, Apoptygma Berzerk, VNV Nation, Dismantled and Suicide Commando. Unlike the first compilation this will be an unlimited release, as the demand is much bigger for this one. /Johan Carlsson

Funhouse and Tenebre guitarist call it quits
• Jan Gajdos has suddenly left his position as guitarist in dark rock bands Funhouse and Tenebre. No replacement has been announced in any of the bands. /Johan Carlsson