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We're back! - This time with even more invigorating chatter and gasp-worthy information. So, sit down with a cup of tea and read on for the latest news, reviews, interviews and gossip on all your favourite alternative artists...
News
LATEST NEWS
Earache Records, Misery Loves Company... Generation
X-ed... U2 and Rushdie... My Drug Hell with Whitney?... Industrial festival...
INDUSTRY
UPDATE
News from the music and internet industries
METAL NEWS
Newsflash from Hate Eternal, Century - Skinlab,
Stuck Mojo, Iced Earth, Dynamo...
LIVE SHOWS
ULTRAVIOLENCE SUPERPOWER SHOWCASE
Whatever the rumours regarding the acronym
KMFDM are, there's certainly no denying that KMFDM write the catchiest, funkiest,
coolest, most enjoyable industrial music in the world.
Every song bounces along with glorious aplomb, filled with wry humour and
scream-along choruses - not to mention bucketloads of raw funk.
EN ESCH explains how...
"RAYMOND WATTS is the founder member and voice
behind KMFDM's most memorable songs; the sole full-time member of formidable
industrial act PIG and occasional drinking buddy of FOETUS man Jim Thirlwell.
The king of the catchy chorus and star of deep-voiced crooning - come in,
Mr Watts, you have some explaining to do..."
"We've been waiting for this a very long time"
Everything
You Ever Needed To Know About Twin Peaks
The low down on the hot spooky series
Fear Factory
JS Clayden explains about the "Exploitainment" album
Consolidated
"It's about the politics of emotion"
"Uhhh, this would relate to my choice of female
vocalists would it ??"
Cyclefly
"It's been a long time coming"
Reviewing
Policy
The criteria we use to review gigs and releases
The Ultimate Review of the 1990's
Music and popular culture of the last decade
Including Divine Comedy and Fatboy
Slim
Including VAST, NIN and Delerium
Including Pig, Placebo, Swervedriver and the
Monsoon Bassoon
Including "The Prince of Egypt", "The Exorcist" and "Ever After"
An introduction to the hugely influential
dance music that has shaken everyone from Roni Size to David Bowie...
From Gaye Bykers on Acid, through Pigface to @440, Mary Mary reveals his incredible rock and roll story...
...on Front Line Assembly, Devin Townsend and why smoking pot is hell in a convenience store...
Devin Townsend and co on music, life and a certain suicidal wood pigeon...
"Everywhere's the same... everyone knows who
Coolio is"
The industrial noiseniks give us an earful
55 Signs of Overindustrialisation by Kenny J and PTR
"... your last band broke up because everyone wanted to play lead anglegrinder..."
The comic-horror circus comes to town
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