Free Darkness: July 2017

Schwarzwald - Smell of Pain

In this single Schwarzwald give you some dirty, industrial influenced EBM as well as some more club oriented remixes of the title track.

Free download from Bandcamp.

Resist Concept - Defect

The album cover may look like a high-school metal band, but the music is actually aggrotech/industrial.

Free download from Bandcamp.

Night Voices: Volume 1

Released on tape, but also available as a free digital download this compilation from Occult Whispers Records is of interest to those who like a bit heavier goth.

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Night Terrors - Beyond Human

Dirty beats and distorted vocals are the main ingredients of this release. Suitable if you like industrial or EBM.

Free download from Bandcamp.

33 Goth Bands You Should Know VI

The sixth compilation of gothic music curated by Oskar Terramortis of gothic music from all around the world.

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Synthetische Lebensform - Extravagant

Synthetische Lebensform is a duo from Murmansk and this is their first full length release. Some say they remind of Front Line Assembly and I can notice the relationship both in the music and the design of the cover.

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B.T.D.O. - Homebrew

B.T.D.O. is an old school/anhalt EBM act from Poland. There seems to be a good electronic scene in Poland and this is one example of it.

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Underground Industrial Movement

As the name hints this compilation from Werkstatt Recordings focuses on industrial music in various forms, but it also contains some other types of electronic music.

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Paranoia Musique Vol. 1

Paranoia Musique is a label from Brazil focusing on gothic, electronic, post-punk and synth and this is their first compilation.

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AnalogueTrash: Label Sampler Vol. 2

The second album sampler from AnalogueTrash.The content ranges from ambient via synthpop to EBM.

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Lindsay Schoolcraft - Nymphetamine

Here is an interesting Cradle of Filth cover. I like it when artists can really make a song their own like Johnny Cash did with Hurt. Here Lindsay Schoolcraft takes a Cradle of Filth song and makes it sound like something entirely different, but without loosing the feeling.

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Body Virus

This is a compilation from Body Music and as both the name of the label and the compilation hints it contains at least some EBM, but is also contains some other types of dark and heavy electronic music.

Free download at Bandcamp.

AnalogueTrash: Label Sampler Vol. 3

This is a compilation with acts signed to AnalogueTrash with new tracks and remixes of old tracks. There are several styles covered from poppy to heavy.

Free download from Bandcamp.

2017 WTII Records Label Sampler

WTII Records have released a free compilation with unreleased tracks from artists signed to the label.

Free download at Bandcamp.

Ötzi - Ötzi

This self-titled EP was originally released on tape, but it's sold out and now it's available as a free download.The sound is somewhere between Siouxsie and The Banshees and Sisters of Mercy with a bit of Bikini Kill thrown in.

Free download from Bandcamp.

Salome's Dance - Salome's Dance

If you like your goth noisy and punky here is a self titled release from Salome's Dance that I think you will find interesting. Salome's Dance got a fresh and yet old school sound that I like.

Free download from Bandcamp.

Give Me Industrial or Give Me Death

The blog Brutal Resonance have made a promise to keep publishing a compilation a month. A very ambitious project and this is the second release.
As the name hints it's focused on industrial music, but it covers a very wide selection of styles so it also includes meta, synthpop, trance and so on so if you want hard core, old school industrial you may be a bit disappointed, but if you approach it with an open mind I think you can find it very enjoyable.

Available as a free download from Bandcamp.