Pander! Panda! Panzer! - Mark E. Smith

Mark E. Smith (5 March 1957 - 24 January 2018) was the lead singer, lyricist, co-composer and frontman of The Fall, a renowned and idiosyncratic offshoot from the UK post-punk / new wave music scenes. Mark Edward Smith was born to a working-class family in Broughton, Salford, in Lancashire, England, moving to nearby Prestwich, near Bury early in his life. He formed The Fall (named after the novel by Camus) with friends after dropping out of college at the age of 19.

#spoken word #the fall #manchester #experimental #post-punk

The Pleasure of Penetration - Leæther Strip

Leæther Strip is an EBM project from Denmark founded on January 13, 1988 by Claus Larsen (Klutæ), whose influence has been most felt in the electronic body music (EBM), elektro industrial music, and futurepop music genres. Leæther Strip was one of the earliest and most prominent acts on Germany's now defunct Zoth Ommog record label, Leæther Strip's music has also been released on the also defunct Zoth Ommog successor: Bloodline Records and in the US on Cleopatra Records and Metropolis Records labels.

#ebm #industrial #electronic #darkwave #dark electro

The Comforts of Madness - Pale Saints

Pale Saints was a British shoegaze band formed by Ian Masters (bass/vocals), Graeme Naysmith (guitar), and Chris Cooper (drums). They began as a three-piece band based in Leeds, England, in 1987. The band was signed to 4AD records by 4AD chief Ivo after their first London show. They were amongst a number of groups in the nineties who were dubbed as shoegaze by the NME and Melody Maker. Early band interviews showed them to be a fun-loving bunch in contrast to their dark, lyrically pessimistic pop music.

#shoegaze #1990 #dream pop #4ad #indie

Congregation - The Afghan Whigs

American band The Afghan Whigs were a soul-influenced, alternative rock band that was mainly active in the 1990s. While achieving only moderate commercial success, the Afghan Whigs attracted ample critical acclaim and deeply loyal fans, Rolling Stone described the band as spending “the bulk of their career on the brink of stardom”, yet they’ve “never quite broken beyond a substantial legion of devotees enamored of their thinly veiled sleaze.”

#1992 #rock #alternative rock #1991 #1990s

Black Leather - Klinik

1) Klinik is project of Belgian musician Marc Verhaeghen, who is continuing (but without "The") his own dark experiments (sometimes as a solo, sometimes with various other members, like Mark Burghgraeve and Thorsten Stroht in 1995, Stefan Mertes and Tom Claes from 1996 to 1998, and Nickanor in 2002), after Dirk Ivens, half of The Klinik, left the band in 90~91 to concentrate on his own project Dive. Verhaeghen has been involved in several projects outside The Klinik / Klinik

#ebm #industrial #10 of 10 stars #noise #new wave