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CORRO and Boy Destroy announce a collaboration from the dark side of hyperpop on new single "Gun To My Head"
· By Mattias Forsgren
Emerging alt-pop artist CORRO is releasing a collaboration with Boy Destroy with new single "Gun To My Head", staying true to the dark side of pop music. The collaboration has been brewing for quite some time and finally happened earlier this year. Boy Destroy had this to say about the single: - "Gun To My Head" is about being on the knife's edge between ecstasy and despair. Not really knowing where you want to go but at the same time not being able to stay in the place you're in. Corro and I have had our minds set on making...
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Genre-bending metalcore band Horror Dance Squad team up with dark drum & bass producers Zardonic and Code: Pandorum to rework their Taste of Doom single Released August 7 on Icons Creating Evil Art
· By Mattias Forsgren
Horror Dance Squad has been blasting stages throughout the Baltics and beyond since 2014. Hailing from Tallinn, Estonia, the band unapologetically blends metalcore and punk with vibrant electronics and delivers it to their audiences with unforgettable ferocity and contagious energy. Their new album All I See Is Black (May 2024, Out Of Breath Records) has brought the band to new heights, earning “Album of the Week” on Raadio 2, Estonia’s naitonal public radio station, and receiving a 4/5 review in the popular Eesti Ekspress. Produced by Federico Ascari (Within Destruction, Signs Of The Swarm), the album is a culmination of...
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Washington DC based Visors double down on Texas together with YATTE on the new Ishi remix of 'The Scene' - giving the soft rock tune a chillwave setting Released August 2nd via Icons Creating Evil Art
· By Mattias Forsgren
Washington DC based Visors double down on Texas together with Austin based YATTE on the new Ishi remix of 'The Scene' - giving the soft rock tune a chillwave setting.---YATTE (pronounced YAH-tay) craft the soundtracks for top-down drives home from your next technically illegal all-nighter. Operating out of Austin, Texas, YATTE is a collaborative enterprise piloted by vocalist, synth player and producer Alex Chod. He comments this new collab like this: - "I embarked on a mission to “throwback” the retrowave EDM vibe even further then it already was thrown. Attempting here to land into the world of ‘80s Don...
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A Paradise Dot - A Picture of the Sun Dying Debut album out now!
· By Mattias Forsgren
"A summer of lightning with the feeling that after it's over we'll never be able to go back again.In a cemetery in October 2021 and my friend is talking about serotonin, all I can think about is swarms of locusts. A Renaissance painting in the light that rotates around the ceiling lamp.I sing.And so last Saturday I had a dream about a predator that spoke a language I understood. It drifted around the ruins and swallowed families whole, saying "I feel such incredible love when I devour them, why would I do anything else?".If we speak the truth, say exactly...
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REACH bring on board the dark synthwave artist Priest to dissect a poignant reflection on the chilling reality of school shootings on the new remix collaboration 'A Million Lives' Released June 14 via Icons Creating Evil Art
· By Mattias Forsgren
Swedish hailing rockband REACH is making waves in the international Rock scene with their new album "Prophecy" (March 29, 2024). This highly anticipated full-length featured the electrifying single "Mama Mama,"received excessive airplay on Radio Bob [DE], also supported by Star FM [DE] (Berlin/Nürnberg), and Radio 21 [DE], the album was also supported by a radio ad on Rock Antenne [DE] which places REACH on all four of the biggest rock stations in Germany. Further album singles, "Little Dreams" and “A Million Lives” are winning ground in Sweden and Finland, each earning spot plays on leading national rock stations Bandit Rock...
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Majestoluxe unload the full sonic arsenal of his massive modular synth system on his new EP "Stolid State"
· By Mattias Forsgren
Majestoluxe, the enigmatic figurehead of Stockholms underground electronic scene, is announcing the release of a new captivating EP titled "Stolid State". The release marks the start of the artist’s new collaboration with Stockholm-based Boutique Label Icons Creating Evil Art, which also is the home of genre-sibling EMMON. With this new offering, Majestoluxe promises bass lines covered in concrete dust and beats infested with severe rust damage. At the core of Majestoluxe's sonic arsenal lies a massive modular synth system, exclusively utilized to craft each composition on the EP. The result is an intriguing fusion of noisy techno and experimental electroacoustic...
