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Icon of Coil

In 1997 Andy LaPlegua established the project, "Icon of Coil", which was primarily a concept built around a logo, graphic design and music. Soon after the inception, the music turned out to be the most important part of the concept and LaPlegua invited Sebastian R. komor, who he had worked with before on the project "Sector 9", (now called "Moonitor") in 1996, to work with him on the project as a live member. After just a couple of gigs and the release of IoC’s first single, "Shallow Nation", Seb became a full-time member.

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Backlash

There are more than one band with the name Backlash. 1) Formed in Lidkoping, Sweden in 1998 by three talented young men, Backlash now (2k6-08) two albums and a few Eps later stands at the frontier of Swedish electronic music. The combination of Niklas' sensitive compositions, Oskar's battering sound engineering and Erik's brute force of singing creates a new hard electronic sound that few others has manage to create. Music in the borderlands of minimalistic techno and electro-pop.

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Komor Kommando

After his success with Zombie Girl, Icon of Coil and Bruderschaft, renowned producer Sebastian R. Komor strikes again with this new hard-hitting guerrilla project – something he really had to get out of his system! The heaviest project he's ever done, KOMOR KOMMANDO is aggressive and loud, laden with a cynical sarcastic flair and wit! Pounding rhythms to assault your senses, plus a bit of a cheeky humour and socio-political bite. 100% club hit guaranteed – including the floor-packing "Das Oontz", "Love Your Neighbour" and "Triggerfinger".

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Angel Theory

The brain child of one Mr. Charlie Fenech, Angel Theory is a beautiful electro creation, melding smooth basslines, moving rhythms and haunting melody creating. The first EP 'Transmission' came out December 2003, and the album 'Fatal Condition' early February 2004. With excellent debut success, Angel Theory did a brief tour in August 2004 in Netherlands, Germany + UK - A few shows in the East of America Apr/May 2005 and pounded the outdoor Parkburhne venue at Leipzig's Wave-Gotik-Treffen with the release of the new EP 'Black + Blue'.

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Vigilante

There are four artists called Vigilante: (1) progressive/power metal band from Japan that was formed in 1988, (2) thrash metal band from Norway formed in 1988 (split up) (3) Jesse Taub's alias, a video games remixer; a strong contributor to OCReMix (since 2003) and some of its projects, (4) electronic/industrial metal band from Chile formed in 2004. (4) Vigilante is:
Iván Muñoz (Vocals/guitars/sequences) Vigilante Live are:
Iván Muñoz (Voice)
Lucia Ponticas (Keyboards)

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Bitch Brigade

Hailing from Brisbane, Australia, Bitch Brigade is dark electro band founded in 2006 by Agr1ppa Cry0fl3sh. Bitch Brigade began as an experiment for Agr1ppa and blends a mixture of power noise, industrial and electro-pop. The rest of Bitch Brigade members are Zero_ (keyboards) and Ping! (drums). Band image is full of pink colour and connected to cybergoth subculture. Bitch Brigade has released online their first EP "Pastel Aggressive" on 16 Feb 2010. Band has signed to the U.S. based Crunch Pod label to release her debut album "Dendrite".

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Blackie

More than one artist called Blackie: 1) Blackie real name is Peter Black and is guitarist and vocals for Aussie band Hard-Ons which are a punk rock band from Sydney that originally formed in 1981. They have been called Australia's most commercially successful independent band, with over 250,000 total record sales. In late 2010 He released his debut solo album called "Break Bread With The Mono Brows". 2) B L A C K I E german minimal synth/wave project, 1981

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Cervello Elettronico

As the solo project of New York City's DJ Snarf, Cervello Elettronico deftly crosses genre boundaries to create aggressive electronic dance music with a nod to rhythmic noise and classic EBM structures. Influenced by such artists as PowerPussy, This Morn' Omina, Hocico, Synapscape, Asche, Oil 10, and Autechre, Cervello Elettronico has performed live all over North America and Europe and shared the bill with a multitude of well-known industrial and power noise acts.

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NorthBorne

"NorthBorne" is all about electronic experiments, electronic beats, happiness, aggression, pleasure from pain and monotone grooves. All programming and production by Christian Lund, who also has been playing with Icon of Coil since 2000. Additional production and programming by Alexander Coucheron Jarl. NorthBorne is signed to Out Of Line Records in Germany, and the debut EP was released as a bonus disc on the ever popular Out of Line sampler "Industrial for the Masses vol. 3" in August 2006.

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Grendel

There is more than one artist with this name. 1). Grendel is a harsh ebm artist from Netherlands. They started out in 1997 under a different name, but due to the band splitting up the name was changed into the current one. VLRK continued under the name Grendel, which originates from a character from the old Anglo-Saxon tale 'Beowulf'. In 2000 Grendel's first promo CD was released which included the Dutch dance floor hit 'Strangers'. Within a very short period of time the promo was being played at many locations throughout the Netherlands and internationally.

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