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Slip into the post-industrial séance of SIXPOINTS’ slow-burning darkwave cut, ‘For Black Star’

Posted on 17 August 2026

SIXPOINTS explored ‘Negative Space’ in their latest darkwave post-punk LP, with For Black Star acting as its slow interstellar burn. Founded on Coast Salish territory on Vancouver Island by composer and instrumentalist Shaun Day Woods and poet-bassist Jimy Dawn, the post-industrial alternative project channels electro-poetica through sound and theatre while holding hope for the ground beneath us.

For Black Star smoulders in the middle ground between Sisters of Mercy and Bauhaus, letting gothic gravity pull the listener into a lullaby of dark decadence. Sermonic spoken-word poetry simmers through sparse production, sonically visualising the negative-space thematic core of the LP through tension-fraught spatial effects.

The arrangement lets tones leave trails of sustain behind them, from the rich, reverberant pulls of the bass strings to the maracas that sound as though a rattlesnake is set to sink its fangs into the production. The whole track moves with devotional patience, and that refusal to sprint becomes the single’s most unnerving pleasure.

Negative Space feels like an archaic revival for the Anthropocene, full of longings and bodily theatre. It’s the ultimate invitation to slip into a slower pace, resolved by a tempo that refuses to rush.

For Black Star is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

A Circle of Teeth exhumed industrial metal’s primal side in the cinematic volition of ‘Six Pale Fingers’

Posted on 29 November 2025
Primalistic by a Circle of Teeth

With beats that land like bloodied fists into the disquieting atmosphere instilled from the first note through droning oscillations of dark despondence, Six Pale Fingers exhibits how A Circle of Teeth knows there’s far more to industrial metal than caustically mechanised synthetics. The progressively blindsiding track slams through a myriad of stylistic twists, emanating the aggression of Static X, the storming rhythmic mercilessness of Mushroomhead, with how they ensure the lyrical cadence locks in perfect synergy with the beats, and the demonic snarl of Marilyn Manson. Yet through the sheer volition of the track, which isn’t short of cinematic panache, it’s clear the UK-based artist may have his influences, but his art is the result of his anger being uncaged.

As a centrepiece of the Primalistic EP, Six Pale Fingers unleashed something raw and unfiltered; a work forged in human fury, not digital detachment. The soundscape breathes with distortion and tension, exuding a sense of defiant physicality. It’s industrial metal stripped to its sinew, built from real flesh and blood rather than code and circuitry.

A Circle of Teeth made a deliberate move away from AI-generated artwork to reclaim the tangible by reworking the mixes, the masters, and the visual aesthetic to birth Primalistic as something authentic and alive. The result is a body of work that growls with conviction, refusing sterility while exalting chaos as its purest form of expression.

Six Pale Fingers is now available on all major streaming platforms, including Bandcamp. 

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Desk set tensile trepidation alight with caustic basslines and cinematic transcendence in Star 1

Posted on 15 October 2025
Desk

Star 1 is the first flare in what promises to be an expansive sonic constellation from Desk, the analog-driven industrial electronica artist sculpting emotive distortion into something that feels mythic in scale and meticulous in structure. Serving as a preview of his forthcoming 2026 LP, Starlight, the single delivers pure scintillation through a cocktail of caustically distorted bass, analogue synth pressure, and carefully weighted percussive strikes that land with intent.

Threaded through the circuitry is a melodic human narrative, almost imperceptible at first, but undeniable once the tensile momentum builds and you’re pulled into the track’s emotional orbit. Star 1 grips you with static-laced reverence and then drags you through lightless corridors where trepidation and transcendence co-exist. It’s the kind of track that makes you feel like you’re about to fall off the edge of something colossal, only to be snatched back by the undertow of its rhythm.

Working alongside Derek Linzy, Desk is refining a sound that’s raw, ambitious, and unafraid to hit where it hurts. Inspired by the emotional intensity of Till Lindemann and sculpted for those who crave the cerebral alongside the visceral, Desk’s industrial output doesn’t just follow in heavy footsteps; it carves out its own encrypted path.

Keep up to date with the latest releases from Desk on X and Facebook.


Review by Amelia Vandergast

The Primary Phase Principle has unveiled their cerebral post-industrial fable, The Subdued Mechanist

Posted on 12 June 2024

Taken from the debut EP, Echoes of the Mechatronic Age, the standout post-industrial electronica score, The Subdued Mechanist, from the Winnipeg-hailing solo artist, The Primary Phase Principle, paradoxically pacifies the senses while heightening emotions to such a visceral extent, it is almost primal.

The concept EP implants listeners in a fictional civilisation which depends on a universal mechanism they can no longer fully understand to deliver the ultimate parable of the AI-dominated future we are sleepwalking into.

The atmospherically filmic ambience of The Subdued Mechanist cerebrally alludes to Orson Welles’ belief that there is no confidence equal to sheer ignorance; it’s a liberating, quasi-Stoic score that holds a mirror to humanity and its willingness to evolve beyond its own comprehension.

By pouring influence of NIN, How to Destroy Angels and Tangerine Dream through a science fiction lens, The Primary Phase Principle unlocked the narrative power of post-industrial. He has a superlative gift in his ability to chronicle immersive fables simply through juxtapositions of harsh mechanical synthetics and crystalline flashes of enlightenment. His EP is so much more than just another addition to the airwaves, it’s a beacon of higher consciousness.

Stream The Subdued Mechanist on Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

Sonar Red is quite scintillating on the mighty survival anthem ‘Asleep at the Wheel’

Posted on 25 June 2022

Taken off their explosive 12-track release called ‘Nonunion‘, Sonar Red urges us all to wake up from that sleep-filled slumber that could destroy humankind if we don’t switch on now while we are ‘Asleep at the Wheel‘.

Sonar Red is a UK-based alt-rock/post-industrial duo who make the type of genre-bending soundscapes that feel so brilliantly cinematic at each turn.

”Sounding akin to A Perfect Circle, Muse and Radiohead; expect hard edged rock and electronica sitting alongside subtle, emotive and beautiful melodies.” ~ Sonar Red

With a quite striking single that needs to be heard far and wide, Sonar Red urges us to stop trying to seal the cracks and to reach out if help is needed. Showing that it’s okay to feel vulnerable in this crash-like world, this is an absolute gem of a song to give us some real clarity in a cloudy universe packed with evil paths that can lead you from your happy place..

”Nonunion is the embodiment of the band’s year long creative process and represents the band’s unashamedly intense response to the experiences of our time; an existential exploration of crisis, disintegration, vulnerability and what it is to weather the storm.” ~ Sonar Red

‘Asleep at the Wheel‘ from UK-based alt-rock/post-industrial duo Sonar Red might be one of the underrated releases so far in 2022. This impressive band is at their educational best and thunder in with barraging riffs that are never too much to handle. Crammed with quality and featuring superb vocals that might shake your earlobes alive, this is a magnificent song that has so much glorious energy wrapped inside for us to ponder.

With a stunning surge of soul-healing brilliance that seems to gather pace throughout and lift you away from the poisonous infestation that is currently devastating the innocent world, this is a reminder that music really can change your perspective.

Hear this new single on Spotify and check out the IG page for more.

Reviewed by Llewelyn Screen

The Drood protested the idiomatically sentimental in their post-industrial single, Psychic Institute

Posted on 22 April 2022

Denver Colorado’s most mindfully experimental duo, The Drood, have unleashed their latest single, Psychic Institute, which is a little dancier than the last time we heard the psychedelically inclined post-industrial mystics, but it more than hits the existential spot.

Lyrically, Psychic Institute derides the innate human tendency to sentimentalize everything while the vocals pay homage to one of The Drood’s main influences, Gary Numan and the glitchy, robotically hook-filled instrumentals ensure that your rhythmic pulses are well entwined with the cathartic furore.

Dark and dystopic music is one thing; bringing a sense of subversive spirituality to it that speaks to the soul is another thing entirely. I never thought that anyone would share the same visceral reaction to vapid sentimentality, but with the mindful scepticism and philosophised despair, the Drood is an intellectual cut above the rest.

We may not have seen Psychic Institute coming, but now that it is here, we’re endlessly gratified for the escapism it offers. If you aurally follow any artist through the impending apocalypse, make it the Drood.

Here’s what The Drood had to say on their latest release:

“We didn’t set out with the intention to write a dance song, but that’s what came out! Psychic Institute unintentionally evolved into an homage to the industrial music which shaped our musical proclivities. The lyrical message, if any, is a cautionary tale about the emptiness and transparency of foolish sentimentality.”

Check out the official music video for Psychic Institute via YouTube.

Review by Amelia Vandergast

 

Elitefitrea – Too Late: Caustically Indulgent Post-Industrial Rock

Posted on 13 March 2020
https://open.spotify.com/track/2XWMfeEtO71V6r4zy48TFj

Post-Industrial fans will definitely want to prick up their ears for the latest release from up and coming Denver-based artist Elitefitrea.

Ministry are great and everything, but we’ve already heard thousands of assimilations of their sound. So thankfully Elitefitrea stamped down their own atmospherically captivating style in their debut album “Lethe”.

While each track is as caustically indulgent as the last, the perfect introduction to Elitefitrea is undoubtedly “Too Late”.

With elements of Hard Rock intertwining with harsh Industrial Electronica, you’ll be able to soak up the virtuosity of the soaring guitar riffs while the entrancing electronic instrumentals ensure that there’s a danceable arrestive rhythm to keep hooked into.

And with vocals which are sure to appease fans of Godsmack, Fear Factory, Nine Inch Nails, and Alice in Chains alike, it’s hard to imagine any faction of the alternative community who wouldn’t want Too Late on their playlists.

You can check out Elitefitrea’s single Too Late for yourselves via Spotify.

Review by Amelia Vandergast