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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...
 

NEWS ARCHIVE
 

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

K M F D M

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...

Watts Going On

"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..."
 

Asian Dub Foundation

"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

Pitchshifter

JS Clayden explains about the "Exploitainment" album

Consolidated

"It's about the politics of emotion"
 

New Mind

"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

Single Reviews

Including Divine Comedy and  Fatboy Slim
 

Album Reviews

Including VAST, NIN and Delerium

 
Live Reviews

Including Pig, Placebo, Swervedriver and the Monsoon Bassoon
 

Film Reviews

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...
 

Apollo 440

From Gaye Bykers on Acid, through Pigface to @440, Mary Mary reveals his incredible rock and roll story...

 
Rhys Fulber

...on Front Line Assembly, Devin Townsend and why smoking pot is hell in a convenience store...

Strapping Young Lad

Devin Townsend and co on music, life and a certain suicidal wood pigeon...

 
Pitchshifter

"Everywhere's the same... everyone knows who Coolio is"
 

Inertia

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..."

Circus of Horrors

The comic-horror circus comes to town
 
 

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