A year after ICON, Swedish electronic artist EMMON returns with ICONMIXED, a 15-track remix album that opens her songs to an international network of producers and musicians. Bringing together Rhys Fulber, SIIE, The Foreign Resort, Randolph & Mortimer, Agent Side Grinder, Kris Baha and more, the record explores how the same material can find different lives across electronic music and alternative club culture. EMMON explains: - “There’s something truly magical about hearing my own music transformed through another artist’s creative mind and soul. My songs get to wear new clothes and reveal sides of themselves I never knew existed. Every...

After more than a decade spent building one of Sweden's most unpredictable underground universes, HAERDSMAELTA return with HAERDROCK, their third full-length album and first release through Icons Creating Evil Art. If previous releases hinted at societal collapse, HAERDROCK walks straight into the fire. Across ten relentless tracks, the band tears into anti-intellectualism, extremism, consumerism, environmental destruction, guilt, anxiety and the absurdity of modern existence. Equal parts dystopian satire and psychological horror, HAERDROCK is delivered with crushing riffs, industrial noise, hardcore aggression, punk urgency and the band's unmistakable dark humour. The campaign began with the explosive first single Enjoy The Feast,...

Swedish rock duo The Gristle team up with Handsome Dick Manitoba, the longtime voice of New York punk pioneers The Dictators, for a collaborative version of Kick Out the Jams. The single brings together a band rooted in blues, punk and heavyweight garage rock with a singer whose own history reaches directly into the world of MC5. For Manitoba, the song carries a personal connection. Alongside decades fronting The Dictators, he sang with DKT/MC5, performing with original members Wayne Kramer, Michael Davis and Dennis Thompson. His involvement gives the collaboration a connection to the musicians who first turned Kick Out...

 EMMON continues the journey towards ICONMIXED with a new interpretation of Dark by Randolph & Mortimer. Emerging from Sheffield’s electronic underground, the project connects industrial music with Belgian new beat, EBM and the grit of early ’90s rave—a distinctive combination that has earned an international cult following. Randolph & Mortimer’s reach extends well beyond the industrial scene. Tracks have found their way into sets by Phase Fatale, Pablo Bozzi and Cormac, while Ancient Methods, Schwefelgelb, Curses and Kris Baha have contributed remixes. The 2023 album The Incomplete Truth topped A Model of Control’s year-end album list and placed second in...

Following a string of acclaimed singles and the arrival of a revitalised line-up, Swedish rock outfit Åskväder are ready to unveil Wax, their third full-length album, released October 2nd via Icons Creating Evil Art. Marking the beginning of a new chapter with Saga Flygare Täll joining as lead vocalist and guitarist, Wax captures a band at full strength. Across eleven tracks, Åskväder sharpen every element that has made them one of Sweden's most exciting modern rock acts—blues-soaked riffs, infectious melodies, raw Scandinavian energy and a live intensity that refuses to let up. Built over months of writing, rehearsing and recording,...

Swedish art-pop artist Bonander continues the journey beyond her latest album, and we stood there, with a new remix of clay by acclaimed electronic artist EMMON. Released September 25 via Icons Creating Evil Art, it is the third collaboration from Bonander’s forthcoming remix EP, following reworks by MANX and Comfort Module. The original recording turned persistent anxiety into forward motion through fractured drums, sampled voices and an unrelenting pulse. EMMON takes that tension into a new environment, transforming clay into a hard-hitting, techno-inspired club track driven by forceful rhythms, cold electronics and dark dancefloor energy. The remix retains the sampled,...