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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"
     



     
    REVIEWS

    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"


    archive

     
    A Bluffer’s Guide to Drum and Bass by Paul McGee

    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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    Contributors - Kenny J, Peter Morrison, Nik De Wolfe, Paul McGee, Rachel Hamilton

    Thanks to all who made this possible - the bands, the labels, the press agents, the promoters, the managers... you know who you are

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