Karo Kratochwil

Statiqbloom interview on sound as pressure + new album 'The Casket Nest' On the eve of the new Statiqbloom album "The Casket Nest", we connected once again, and Fade agreed to answer a few questions.

Happy release day STATIQBLOOM
"The Casket Nest" out today via @hands-official.bsky.social
We caught up to talk about the new release and more.
Interview available at Side Line Magazine

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Sonic Area – and shadow and shadow feels like techno that has been left alone with its thoughts for a very long time. On the surface, the new SONIC AREA album moves through familiar territories; 4/4 pulses, sequencer lines, ...

Sonic Area - and shadow
"and shadow feels like techno that has been left alone with its thoughts for a very long time."
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ReView: Rotoskop - Passive / Aggressive Rotoskop Album: Passive / Aggressive Category: Dark Electro / Dark Rock Label: Infacted Recordings Release Date: 2025-06-27 Author: Karolina Kratochwil (Karo)   After more than two decades of activity...

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ReView: Matt Howden & Keith Howden - Language For Stone Matt Howden & Keith Howden Album: Language For Stone Category: Neoclassical / Dark Folk / Spoken Word Label: Archaeological Records Release Date: 2025-08-08 Author: Karolina Kratochwil (Karo)   There ...

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ReView: Trepaneringsritualen - A Diadem of Fire EP Trepaneringsritualen Album: A Diadem of Fire EP Category: Ritual / Industrial Label: Ant-Zen / Raubbau Release Date: 2025-09-19 Author: Karo Kratochwil (Karo)   Each release from Trepaneringsritualen ...

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ReView: SKOLD - Caught in the Throes SKOLD Album: Caught in the Throes Category: Industrial / Rock Label: Metropolis Records Release Date: 2025-10-10 Author: Karo Kratochwil (Karo)   Instead of trying to reinvent himself, Tim Sköld tight...

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Sonic Seducer 03-2026 + CD: Unheilig Comeback - Geboren um zu versagen? + Project Pitchfork + Mesh + Depeche Mode + Tarja + Stahlmann + Schattenmann + Bauhaus + Rob Zombie - Sonic Seducer Sonic Seducer 03-2026 + CD: Unheilig Comeback - Geboren um zu versagen? + Project Pitchfork + Mesh + Depeche Mode + Tarja + Stahlmann + Schattenmann + Bauhaus + Rob Zombie

The new Sonic Seducer 03/2026 is out now – and I’m happy to share that I contributed three pieces to this issue:
Ladytron, Cut.Rate.Box and Carpenter Brut.

📖 Grab your copy here:
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"This machinery never stands still."
Great interview with Jurgen Engler @diekruppsband.bsky.social tonight ahead of DK US tour

Nitzer Ebb (Bon Harris) interview on 2026 tour & new album Catching Bon Harris in the middle of Nitzer Ebb’s Europe 2026 run feels a bit like trying to grab a moving train. We spoke by phone on 24 February - EBM Day.

@nitzerebb.bsky.social bon harris interview on the 2026 European tour, new album and keeping EBM alive
Interview for Side Line Magazine
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TRAITRS – “Dream Drowning” TRAITRS have been one of my most beloved projects for years, the kind of band I reacted to instantly and instinctively from the very first listen. Their songs always seemed to meet me exactly where my...

TRAITRS – “Dream Drowning”
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THIS MORN’ OMINA "Insha" Here, This Morn’ Omina sound like a project that has walked through fire, gone silent, and decided to speak again with fewer words and more intention. Insha arrives after shutdown, disillusion and reb...

THIS MORN’ OMINA "Insha"
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Lifelines: Albums That Stayed – Volker Radau The idea behind Lifelines: Albums That Stayed is simple and a bit audacious: ask people from the scene - musicians, festival organizers, concert goers, journalists, photographers – about the albums th...

Lifelines: Albums That Stayed – @vradau.bsky.social
The idea behind Lifelines: Albums That Stayed is simple and a bit audacious: ask people from the scene - musicians, festival organizers, concert goers, journalists, photographers – about the albums that formed them.
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NNF - Independent New Wave in Wrocław – Between Shadows, Sound, and Community When the idea first appeared in 2024 at Centrum Kultury Nowy Pafawag to combine concerts with exhibitions in a darker, more atmospheric setting, nobody yet knew that "Projektogranie" would grow into a...

NNF - Independent New Wave in Wrocław – Between Shadows, Sound, and Community
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Photoshoot with Basia

Interview: Auger - February 2026 Interview withKyle Blaqk (vocals) from AugerIn the autumn of 2025, just after an intense co-headline night with DIARY OF DREAMS in Dresden, I caught up wit

Inrerview with @augerofficial.bsky.social for reflections of darkness

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Interview: Auger - February 2026 Interview withKyle Blaqk (vocals) from AugerIn the autumn of 2025, just after an intense co-headline night with DIARY OF DREAMS in Dresden, I caught up wit

Inyerview with @augerofficial.bsky.social for RoD
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Photoshoot with Anita

Castle Party in the Club - Aux Animaux, A Projection and Je T’Aime Valentine’s Day brought another edition of Castle Party in the Club to the legendary Liverpool club in Wrocław, with Aux Animaux, A Projection and Je T’Aime sharing the bill. For anyone who chose this...

Castle Party in the Club - @auxanimaux.bsky.social , A Projection and @jetaime-music.bsky.social

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Hiroszyma & Ultra Sunn in Wrocław dark wave precision meets EBM fever dream On a cold February night in Wrocław, Klub Łącznik turned into exactly the kind of space you want for dark electronics: low ceiling, dense sound, no escape from the bass once the first kick hits. The b...

Hiroszyma & Ultra Sunn in Wrocław dark wave precision meets EBM fever dream
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35 Jahre KiEw Jubiläumsfest 35 Jahre KiEw Jubiläumsfest – 6/02/26 Hafenklang, Hamburg, Germany. Line-up: KiEw (anniversary show), Philipp Münch vs Mandelbrot, Aktion:Fiasko, Maschinenkrieger KR52, bass+arts, hugging hate, Interi...

Complete gallery 35 Jahre KiEw Jubiläumsfest – 6 February 2026, Hafenklang, Hamburg, Germany. with KiEw (anniversary show), Philipp Münch vs Mandelbrot, Aktion : Fiasko , bass+arts Interim Dissonance, Spherical Disrupted
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COVENANT 1986–2026 plus special guest: Isaac Howlett COVENANT 1986–2026 plus special guest: Isaac Howlett 05.02.2026 // Berlin, Columbia Theater

Complete gallery @covenantsweden.bsky.social 986–2026 plus special guest: @isaachowlett.bsky.social
05.02.2026 // Berlin, Columbia Theater
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Test Dept – Recalibrating Noise for a Collapsing World When Test Dept played Wrocław Industrial Festival 2025, it didn’t feel like a comfortable victory lap of "industrial legends." It felt raw, focused and strangely contemporary: two figures on stage, a ...

Interview with the legends of industrial Test Dept for Alternation Magazine

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Sonic Seducer 02-2026: The Damned - 50 Jahre! + Special: 30 unterschätzten Alben + Depeche Mode exklusiv Interview + Within Temptation + Bianca Stücker & Mark Benecke + Versengold + KMFDM + Beyond The... Sonic Seducer 02-2026: The Damned - 50 Jahre! + Special: 30 unterschätzten Alben + Depeche Mode exklusiv Interview + Within Temptation + Bianca Stücker & Mark Benecke + Versengold + KMFDM + Beyond The...

Sonic Seducer Musikmagazin 02-2026 is out now.
In this one I take part in the big special “Die 30 meist unterschätzten Alben” - my choice is The Klinik. Plus interviews and reviews with xotox and Rafael Anton Irisarri
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Wieloryb interview: ‘No Flag’ brings EBM without borders This is an interview with Paweł Kmiecik (Wieloryb), about the early days, visuals, and what “no flag” means in a world eager to label everything.

Wieloryb interview: ‘No Flag’ brings EBM without borders
For Side-Line Magazine
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Hiroszyma – ROOM 237 Released on January 30, 2026 by Requiem Records, ROOM 237 is the second solo album from Warsaw-based producer Hiroszyma, a key figure in the Polish dark wave scene and former co-leader of Das Moon. Wh...

Hiroszyma – ROOM 237
Review for Alternation Magazine
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Project-X – 13:13 After sixteen years of studio silence, Swedish electro/EBM act Project-X return with the single "13:13," written and performed by long-time members Torny Gottberg and Björn Lager. It’s their first new...

Project-X – 13:13
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Review for Alternation Magazine
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ReView: Thorofon - Guilty Thorofon Album: Guilty Category: Industrial / Experimental Label: Ant-Zen Release Date: 2025-09-15 Author: Karo Kratochwil (Karo)   Thorofon has long treated abrasive sound as a sculptural material, a...

Thorofon - Guilty
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ReView: Kadaitcha - Urban Somnambulistics (2017 Reissue) Kadaitcha Album: Urban Somnambulistics (2017 Reissue) Category: Post-Industrial / Experimental / Noise Label: Ant-Zen Release Date: 2025-04-07 Author: Karo Kratochwil (Karo)   With the reissue of Urba...

ReView: Kadaitcha – Urban Somnambulistics (2017 Reissue) for @regenmag.bsky.social
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