With their EP "Endzeit" a few rebellious young musicians, calling themselves 'mundtot' - present a debut that really shows some of the old hands in the gothic scene what's what.

That the roots of the Munich-based trio comes from post-punk and new wave is really unmistakable. Likewise, they mix elegiac wavy guitars with synthpop-hooks and aggressive punk-rhythms with pounding industrial elements.

In which they are indifferent building on the roots of a music - that hardly anyone knows today - expanding this with modern Industrial-Gothrock, they create an exciting, raw, uncut and rebellious music.
The vocals move smart on the line between accusatory sadness and aggressive rebellion.

Died at the age of 30, Ian Curtis is reminded by the photographer Katja Ruge from Hamburg (Germany) with the exhibition "fotoreportage23 - in search of ian curtis". The legendary singer of Joy Division will be remembered from 19th of May in the cultural realm Gallery Hamburg in 23 places and 23 portraits, which goes to the artist in search of clues to Curtis. This led them to include London, Manchester, Birmingham, Brussels and Berlin and documented sites that are related to the life of the musician in context. At the opening on 18 May, and by DJ Benny Ruess. On 06 of June it will occur including with Sarah Blackwood from client to live in the cultural realm gallery. Even the former Joy Division bassist Peter Hook remembers his friend and brings on 18 May in Manchester, the hometown of the band's debut album "Unknown Pleasures" live on stage. More info at www.katjaruge.de

It is with great sadness that we inform you that Type O Negative front man, bassist, Peter Steele passed away last night of what appears to be heart failure.

Ironically Peter had been enjoying a long period of sobriety and improved health and was imminently due to begin writing and recording new music for our follow up to "Dead Again" released in 2007.

The official cause of death has yet to be determined pending autopsy results. The funeral services will be private and memorial services will be announced at a future date. We’d like to share our thoughts and those of Peter’s family below.
We are truly saddened to lose a great musician and appreciate the tremendous outpouring today from around the world.

Sincerely, GothVille

Born out of a love for the amalgamation of music & computers by bands
such as Prodigy,
Chemical Brothers, Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly, Killing Joke,
Rammstein, Kraftwerk,
 Nitzer Ebb, etc. b.o.s.c.h. stands for absolutly no rules in making music.

b.o.s.c.h. is
"difference" everytime and everywhere. That difference can be heard in each of the band's new tracks.

b.o.s.c.h. was formed nearly 4 years ago by original members, Kai and Lutz. In the beginning, b.o.s.c.h. was a pure fun project, with absolutely no intentions to take it to a professional level. Born out of a love for the amalgamation of music & computers by bands such as Prodigy, Chemical Brothers, Fear Factory, Front Line Assembly, Rammstein, Kraftwerk, Pink Floyd, Nitzer Ebb, KMFDM,Sex Pistols, Dead Boys, Misfits etc.

But what does b.o.s.c.h. stand for? No rules in making music. b.o.s.c.h. is "difference" everytime and everywhere. Tht difference can be heard in each of the band's tracks. "We supported each other for realisin`what ever he/she wants to do (Music). It is a musician and Artist Project For-Feelin Free."

Hail you mortal,

thought I was dead? Nope, I'm still here...
Getting warm for the upcoming summer festivals, and hoping to get one step closer with the final radio project. I'm finishing the latest alpha release of the radio panel, hoping to go beta afterwards a lot quicker then this release.

GothVille Radio Panel Alpha 1.5 on it way...

- Make your own shows, even the non-registered DJ's
- Request to change genre and mood
- Integration of your favorites of radio schedule when you're on-line
- Integrated GothVille browsing to our websites with only one login
- Upload of audio and video
- Audio Player finally integrated in panel
- Better search features to find your track
- Add your personal web-sites to our Gothle Search Bot....

Once again, sorry for the silence on site and e-mails, I need to kick some functions out of my life urgently !

Cu!

Dear Amphi fans,
We have fresh news about the Amphi Festival 2010. As promised they intensively used the past weeks and advanced the planning of the sixth Amphi Festival.

While the first WARM-UP PARTIES head towards the clubs soon, we may present you the brand-new supporting programme of the Amphi Festival 2010 today. 
We would also like to draw your attention towards our new MERCHANDISING SHOP which will start its sale on the 1st April 2010. Additionally we prepared a little Easter action for you!


1. THE AMPHI FESTIVAL SUPPORTING PROGRAMME 2010
While 34 bands will again be enriching the Amphi Festival with an unparalleled music entertainment, you may also be looking forward to a spectacular supporting programmme this year. Apart from the charm of the music, the scene’s culture will be in the focus of the events. You can expect movies, lectures, parties, readings etc. as manifold as never before. And all this without time-killing marches through the city and delivered free in the Theatre of the Tanzbrunnen. Intended are:

With COVENANT, SAVA, SCREAM SILENCE and XP8 for this year's Black Field Festival now the visitors can expect a great line-up for 2010.

Running-Order:

SATURDAY - June 12th, 2010
FRONT 242
COVENANT
DEATHSTARS
VIVE LA FETE
DIORAMA
ZEROMANCER
GIRLS UNDER GLASS
AESTHETIC PERFECTION
SAVA
XP8

"A decade in glitter and danger", this ‘Best Of’ is acting as a reminder of this a decade of joy, and pain.

With influences from Placebo to Nine Inch Nails, Porn combine rock and electro sensibilities: a perfect hybrid of biting guitar action and toiling machines enveloped in glamorous and sensual aesthetics.
From the churning electro-rock of “Baby Smack” and “Soft Machine” to the unplugged quietness of “Stiff Little Things”, passing by the rhythmic industrial snarling attitude of “Superfurry”, this album is the best way to discover PORN's universe.

The French & Belgian EBM communities are quite tight and tend to stick to the "roots" of the Electronic Body Music sound.

France’s Void Kampf does exactly that, and keeps the "Body" in EBM, as any fan that attended a live performance can attest to. In February 2010, Void Kampf releases powerful sound on the world with the album, Severe Mais Juste.

The album contains 14 original tracks, 6 remixes. Guest re-mixers include; Signal Aout 42, Darkmen, Steril, Autodafeh, & K-Bereit.
Over an hour of music, this album is sure to hit the dance floors hard with their clean, well produced electronics and aggressive vocals and a Void Kampf attitude.

After two years of intense production work, PROSPECTIVE return with their brand-new album.

With their highly emotional way to combine catchy melodies, driving beats, DarkElectro-sounds and sensitive female vocals.

PROSPECTIVE became recognised with their first album "The Dark Side of Life". The follow-up "Perfect Evolution Of Humanity" builds on these characteristics and refines this unique style.
Improved harshness and strictly club-oriented tracks embedded in a harmonious diversity of sounds will let you dive into the world of PROSPECTIVE.

Check it out!

„So “While I was in love I was the happiest man on earth; but no one can love who has not a heart.” (“The Wizard of Oz”)

The odyssey continues: Earlier this year, THE GIRL & THE ROBOT set out in their quest to find love in our heartless society on their double feature single “Whole/Flowers”. Now they expand their mission. Like the Tinman desperately seeking his lost heart in the wonderful world of Oz, also the debut album of Plastique and her Swedish Tinman Deadbeat has become a quest for warmth, love and passion.

In twelve timelessly beautiful, crystal clear Electro pearls, the gorgeous girl acts side by side with an intrinsically cold-hearted robot, causing him to produce anything but deadhearted or cold melodies with his sequencers. No wonder with a personified sin like Plastique by his side. Ethereal, enigmatic, bewitched and utterly succumbing, her voice instills this certain little something into the floating tracks between retro charm and urban chic. And when she sensually sighs the words “I will always love you until the end of time” in the last song, listeners and robots alike have become highly addicted to her.

A few weeks ago, the new IN STRICT CONFIDENCE-Album "La Parade Monstrueuse" has seen the light of the world. But a week ago, on Feburary 18, an additional EP-CD has been silently released on Sonic Seducer magazine. Containing 8 tracks and named "Silver Bullets", it came as CD with the print issue of the world-reknown mag in Germany.

Release-Date:
February 18th, 2010

Genre:
Alternative / Electro

Year of foundation:
1990

Portion Control is a British electronic and industrial band formed in London in 1980. The band calls its music style electropunk or hard rhythmic electronics. They are one of the most famous obscure electronic music acts in the world and have been honoured and name checked by the likes of Depeche Mode, Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, NiN & Orbital.

Portion Control is now highly active and creating innovative, uncompromising electronic audio.
After their return in 2004 they have self-released a steady stream of critically acclaimed CDs and EPs, as well as actively presenting their live transmissions at festivals such as the Tinnitus Festival (UK), Reverse Forward festival (Germany), Wave Gothic Treffen (Germany) and the BodyBeats Festival (Belgium), just to name a few.

Interview: about the new Album "The Death of Romance" and touring

Andre asked the guys from zeromancer about their new album "The Death of Romance" and about touring. Enjoy the interview ;)

Hello again, nice that you have some time again for us to ask you about your new album today!
Your new album „Death of Romance“ has now been released. Musically, how is the new album different from the previous ones?

ALEX: The making of “Sinners International” was such a huge inspiration to us. Finally we produced, recorded and mixed the album ourselves and we found the perfect way to work, both technically and creative. With “The Death of Romance” we continued and upgraded the workflow from Sinners and the result is fantastic. Better sounding, exiting, intense and a very personal album. I’m proud! With Dan and Lorry onboard we’ve worked as a band 24/7. All five giving the best we have and inspire each other all the way. We are family now. You can’t beat that!

KIM: I feel this one is Zeromancer to the bone. We have sort of perfected what we did on Sinners and taking it a a lot further. We have dug a little deeper into the dark aspects of the band since last time. I see the Death of Romance as a deeply personal document for the band. It’s a kind of celebration of Zeromancer I think and the unity we feel we are right now. Though it was hard work it has been the easiest puzzle to do in our career. I believe it’s our determination we can thank for that.

Have you tried something that you haven’t done before or maybe you went back to the roots?

Spring 1982. The American computer company Commodore releases the first really potent home computer, which impressed the growing computer community  with technical specifications like 64 Kilobytes Ram or an 8 bit processor with separate graphic and sound chip units: The Commodore 64. This device opened a whole new world for home computer users, it became the world's most popular and successful home computer in the 80ties and still holds that title today. The reason was not only a separate cutting edge graphic accelerator that enabled high resolution gaming and fluent scrolling, but also the unique SID sound chip which was equipped with modern sound effect generators and the capability of a three track polyphonic playback. The result was a new synthetic sound aesthetic which also made the C64 one of the first stand-alone synthetic music production devices.

This unique sound kept ringing in the memory of Austrian Stefan Poiss, founder and singer of Mind.In.A.Box. . He was intrigued by the catchiness and the different sound-design of early computer game classics like "Lightforce" or "Last Ninja 3". By the age of 12 he started his first Stepps to compose music on its own on the C64, and even wrote his own sequencer music software for the Commodore to put tracks together himself with more ease.

That which accumulated during the years of tranquility and silence seems to have been quite something! With undiminished, exuberant creativity and strength, MANTUS release their latest masterpiece, ‘Demut’, even as the last sounds of ‘Requiem’ have barely faded away.

On ‘Demut’, MANTUS continue the lyrical themes of ‘Requiem’ in that they grapple with the subject matter of the ‘vanitas’ art movement of the 16th and 17th centuries, which held that man should visualise the finality of all things and that death stands by as the omnipresent power over us all, so as to teach us humility (Demut in German).
Nevertheless, or perhaps indeed because of this, MANTUS have created an extremely powerful, indeed rocking album.

A trip to the purest and coldest essence of Electronic Body Music. A sunset over a desolated land in which frontiers move from Front 242 to Calva y Nada, from ‡;GRUMH to Nitzer Ebb, from DAF to Absolute Body Control.

The awaited Mekanik Disorder’s first release shows, in 12 awesome tracks, its strong personality inside the current old school EBM scene. Cold and visceral electronics as a last way to escape of feelings, expressed in four languages English, German, Spanish and Dutch, in an extraordinary variety of tempoes, melodies and vocal records.

The first EP of Alien Produkt in a series of TWO, which mark "two" phases of the band, - goes out to selling at the hungarian label Advoxya records.

Rhythmic EBM machines combined with a powerful voice and a melodies will stay with you from the start. Alien Produkt makes a great return with their newest release „Honour vs Falsehood - The first Step EP“.

This production included 14 songs, more than 70 minutes in total and contains 2 new tracks and unpublished remixes from A7IE, Asseptic Room, Retractor, Drained Scorn among others.
Pure EBM beats with a perfect combination of club oriented sounds, hard, emotional and danceable. Release has done in the band’s unmistakable own style, well known from their previously published albums on BLC production (2005 Revenge, 2007 Ignorance).

A milestone of dark romantic, folk-influenced music is now being re-released.
With their album „Ignis Fatuus: Irrlichter“ German band ENGELSSTAUB created a fascinating piece of dark music.

Based on trance-like percussion basements, beautiful and softly plugged acoustic guitars create impressive folk melodies.
Medieval flutes and the male-female vocal dualism rise a sacred lure comparable to DEAD CAN DANCE. The decent use of synthesizers on top of the neofolk rhythmic pattern spreads a fragile charme like DEATH IN JUNE.
Skillfully the music flows between apocalyptic folk, neoclassic and fascinating eternal and modern arrangements.

Astonishingly this records has been created already in 1994. But the Label APOLLYON/Musique Indépendante Noire brings this uncarved diamond of acoustic orientated, melancholic folk music back into the light by a re-release in 2010.
The Re-Release comes in a 6-panel DVD-Digipak with a completely reworked audio material and an additional, previously unreleased track. Thus, this CD is a must have for every collector of neofolk / neoclassic or darkwave.

Fascinating, beautiful romantic, hypnotic, fragile and far away from being a commercial sell-out, there is just one question to ask:
Why did we have to wait such an incredibly long time until the re-release of that magnificent milestone?

Hard Edged & Beautiful Analog Electronic…

The Belgian duo, NTRSN (pronounced as “intrusion”) deliver old-school electronic sounds that only can be heard by utilizing 100% analog equipment, and still deliver a sound that is current, modern…almost futuristic. Supported by Maurizo Fasolo (Pankow) and Peter Van Bogaert (Liquid-G), this release offers the hard cutting edge alongside the beautiful melodic.

NTRSN inspired by bands like Cabaret Voltaire, Front 242, SPK, are fanatical synth-enthusiasts, with a passion for analog systems, machines and visual presentation. Pieter David, is known from his with the bands Carbon Twelve, DKW, Minimalistix and Code by Code. In 2005 Pieter began working with Bram Declercq, who works in the Photography industry, brought NTRSN into its present form; more than just music, they offer an audio-visual experience to their live audiences.

The fascination of evil. There are few bands that manage to adapt the most extreme sides of human behaviour to club-compatible electronic sounds as effectively as SUICIDE COMMANDO, the evil musical brainchild of Belgian hard electro legend Johan van Roy. On his newest long player "Implements of Hell", he effectively pulls out all the stops of a career spanning more than two decades to send the listener on a rollercoaster ride through all the hellish ingredients that make for the sonic phenomenon known as SUICIDE COMMANDO. Lashing aggro-dance tracks like the single "Die Motherf*cker Die" alternate with heavy, dark and rhythmic synthesizer monsters that are not only a massive modern-day reminiscence of the early works of the band, but that also make "Implements of Hell" the darkest excess from SUICIDE COMMANDO ever, and the most menacing dance album of the last few years. Had Charles Manson been wreaking havoc in the Techno Age, his music would probably have sounded like this. The killer is striking terror into people's hearts on the dance floor... and you, sure as hell, won't be able to escape him this time!

Now on GothVille Radio !

&

Buy Motherf*cker BUY !!!

'Extreme Gentleman' is the new solo project of enfant terrible Luc Van Acker (known from himself, Arbeid Adelt!, Revolting Cocks, Ministry, Shriekback and much more!). This time our dare-all is armed only with his voice, a tape-machine and projection slides confronting the audience, as well as himself, with an experimental trip going from dark industrial and noisy soundscapes to more accessible tunes and back again.

Supportband 'Companions in Art (CIA)' rarely comes out of the dark with their electro-wave beats, but for this occasion, the Gothville Gothfathers made an exception. And they'll bring a few brand new non-released songs.

Place to be : Bar Mondial, Suikerrui 13 Antwerp : http://www.barmondial.be

Event link : http://www.bodybeats.be

The Belgian Alfa Matrix label (home to Front 242, Ayria, Leaether Strip, ...) has been chosen to release the newest album by Nitzer Ebb, "Industrial Complex", for Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Italy and Luxemburg (in collaboration with Major Records).

This special "Belgian" edition released by Alfa Matrix will feature a bunch of exclusive remixes not available on any other version of "Industrial Complex".

http://www.alfa-matrix.com/news_comments.php?id=1802_0_2_0_C