Second ANTARES PREDATOR. Nice album, no revolution but it's nice to hear such modern extreme metal not falling into the traps of cheese & nostalgia.

Also, from what I've heard, the new ABSCESS is a killer.

A band you might be interested in checking out, aVoid... they have just released their secont EP. Black metal meets Power Electronics, isn't that aVoidian enough?

BESTALITA

I'm sceptical towards that mixture. BM to me is antisocial, inhuman, not belonging among people. PE, for all its extreme contents & viewpoints, has to exist within a scene - there is always a human behind Power Electronics; the music a channelling of that person's humanity in some aspect, whereas Black Metal channels something which is not human - even though some ideas may parallel, Black Metal always regards what is numinous, when Power Electronics regards society in some way (one collision being DIAPSIQUIR). But that's just me.

Interesting thread on that topic, from an Industrial/PE point of view:
http://www.special-interests.net/forum/ ... opic=398.0

Alrighty... interesting conversation on that other forum, thanks for the link. Anyway, give a try to that band, who knows! Only trying to sell underground locals to Europe. A possible solution to your problem I guess would be to inhumanize PE to a similar degree as BM, in order to form something which is neither pure PE nor pure BM, but which is completely inhuman from your point of view as well as partly PE and BM.

ALEKSI PERÄLÄ: MENTAL UNION, out on REPHLEX.

The guy behind Astrobotnia is back with a new album, and wow in my opinion it is some of the most well done analog beat idm I've heard in a while, with a bit of a cosmic acid swing and psychedelic techno thrown in...

inhuman PE: feels like it would kind of miss the poiint of the whole genre, at least as I perceive it.

not a cd, but release: MESHUGGAH - Alive DVD. only a few songs into it, but it conveys exactly what Meshuggah live is about. (if you like their music) they're definitely one of the best live metal bands around.

one release I haven't mentioned: THRONES "Late for dinner" 7". Joe Preston is awesome and this is some seriously good shit.


will be interesting to hear what VOID are capable of, 10 years later...

Two new favorites:

Fukpig - Belief Is the Death of Intelligence
Scuba - Triangulation

A new discovery...

PAUL WHITE - Paul White and the Purple Brain.

Excellent ambient drone...

Tatamax - Eres Parth.

some tapes that are fine shit:

BRANDKOMMANDO - Liquid Times
IRON FIST OF THE SUN - Blush
SOFT OPTION KILLING - Ever Brutal Act A Service

all high class pro-printed cassettes of heavy industrial / power electronics released on http://www.unrestprod.com/.

Soft Option Killing... hehe that's hilarious! Great band name.

D'Arcangelo - The Album.

Yeah, the mp3 version was released in december 2009, but you know, the cd version came out in 2010 so I took the freedom to mention it anyway, since it's a great IDM/acid album à la Rephlex from this famous Italian duo.

Wisp - We Miss You.

Full-proportions epic IDM with a touch of beat fantasy.

The new ÄTTESTUPA album Begraven Mot Norr is... wonderful. Bleak and windy but still very musical unlike their more industrial earlier releases. Distant organ, slow plodding guitars & drums, somewhere between ALUK TODOLO, early WHEN and BURZUM perhaps.

I remember liking some of Begraven Mot Norr but something also put me off. Too much non-music, perhaps.