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Nitzer Ebb returns after eight years and they have big surprises in store.

The singer and lyricist of Pet Shop Boys, Neil Tennant, is set to release a book with a selection of his lyrics.

Depeche Mode’s successful ”Global Spirit Tour” has come to and end. As previosuly reported, the grand finale is made up of two concerts at Berlin’s Waldbühne, together with DAF – on July 23 (see pics below) and 25. We can also reveal that Anton Corbijn’s film company is at the site, filming with multiple cameras.

Check out the autumn’s and winter’s live, festival and club dates in our Nordic guide On Stage (in all other sections we cover the whole world though).

If you like your electro fast, pulsating and full of vocoders and bleeps, you could do a lot worse than checking out the newly released album by Blastromen.

Back in 1990 the stars aligned and Bill Leeb from Front Line Assembly, and Dwayne Goettel and Cevin Key from Skinny Puppy joined forces to create the one-off project Cyberaktif. They released two singles and the album ”Tenebrae Vision”. Now Artoffact is re-releasing it on double CD, digitally remastered.

Amphi Festival is soon upon us for its 14th edition, at Tanzbrunnen in the center of the fair area in Cologne. They invite fans and supporters of the dark scenes to a massive ”family gathering” on the flood banks of the river Rhine.

Dark synthpop/goth/postpunk icon Henric de la Cour will release a new album in the autumn. It’s called ”Gimme Daggers” and will be out on Progress Productions.

Don’t miss our Playlist with new music recommendations, listed in the menu under Features.

Synthpop veterans Page have a new product: ”Start EP”, which included an Apoptygma Berzerk ”redux” of the song ”Krasch”.