Staying Sane with Fix8:Sed8 – interview

Fix8:Sed8 have steadily been rising through the ranks of the electro industrial scene, getting stronger and stronger with each release. Melding Vancouver industrial à la Skinny Puppy and Front Line Assembly with its own twists and turns, the latest album ”The Inevitable Relapse” further cements the band’s position. So we figured it was time to …

The Damage Control collective shares the love for old school industrial – interview

Collaborations are common on the industrial scene, but Damage Control takes it to the next level. So be warned: there’s some serious namedropping in this interview, including Chris Peterson, Phil Western, Greg Reely, Claus Larsen and Gin Devo. Damage Control is quite new on the scene, having only released one album so far. It’s quite …

New songs about faith and emotions – Hurts interviewed

Release writer Sebastian Hess talked to Adam Anderson, one half of Hurts, about their 5th album ”Faith”, partly recorded in Release hometown Gothenburg, struggling like Depeche Mode and the fact that singer Theo spent the first two weeks of lockdown in the company of only an octopus named Arnold. 

Singer Theo Hutchcraft has said that …

Indochine 40 and more Swedish connections – Nicola Sirkis and Ludwig Dahlberg interviewed

In 2015 Sebastian Hess and Henrik Wittgren from Release interviewed Nicola Sirkis in Stockholm, which resulted in our ”Indochine – The Swedish Connection” feature. In 2021 Indochine will celebrate 40 years as a band and we got the opportunity to talk to Nicola again. We also talked to Swedish drummer Ludwig Dahlberg to hear how he …

A different electronic beat – the Orb’s Alex Paterson interviewed

It’s not often, if ever, you get a chance to meet your heroes. So when Alex Paterson, the only ever-present in the collective known as the Orb, pioneer of ambient electronic music, and the creator of the iconic tracks “Little Fluffy Clouds”, and “Blue Room” appears on your radar – even during times of lockdown …

Music and performances of soaring imagination – Kårp interviewed

Several breakthrough acts are now creating a vibrant new Gothenburgian underground, a scene with and enduring legacy built on bands from a wide range of genres as The Knife, In Flames, José González, Ace of Base, The Soundtrack of Our Lives and Mickey Dee, the former drummer in Motörhead. Like those before them, many of …

Exclusive Mortiis video premiere – a return to ”dungeon synth”

Release hosts the premiere of the new Mortiis video ”A Dark Horizon” (for Scandinavia except Norway). The clip will be unlisted until Sunday. The track is taken from his upcoming album, which marks an expansion of the ”dungeon synth” (as he calls it) and ambient industrial sound of his early Cold Meat Industry days. Watch …

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