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🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Dark Line Spectrum, the Bordeaux-based dark industrial electro project of Jean-Philippe Torres, known as Drone, has brought its single “Born To Wait” to Spotify, dated June 22, 2026. The track blends dark electro, darkwave and industrial influences and is issued through Syn-Drone Record, the Bandcamp label associated with the project’s promotional partner Syn-Drone Production.

Norwegian artist kinGeorg releases the single “Kjærlighets Grunge” via Apollon Records, out now on streaming. The track moves between alternative rock, dark pop and electronic music, and is credited on Apple Music as released 19 June 2026. kinGeorg is the project of singer-songwriter Kim Georg Lunde, who has released music under the name since 2020.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support VNV Nation has postponed four European festival shows to 2027 and cancelled its Unity Festival dates in Oberhausen and Berlin, the band announced on 14 July 2026. Frontman Ronan Harris had a procedure to fix a problem causing severe back pain and now needs time to recover and undergo physiotherapy.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Coil’s 1987 album “Gold is the Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)” returns remastered on limited-edition vinyl, CD and digitally on 30 October 2026, released by Mute in partnership with Coil’s own imprint Threshold House. The reissue is the first in a planned series of early Coil releases and carries the catalog number COIL3.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Darkwave, industrial, and post-punk labels have never relied on radio play to survive. But the streaming era has introduced a different kind of pressure — one where catalog depth doesn’t always translate into sustainable income. For imprints releasing limited-run EBM 12-inches or archival synth reissues, the maths of per-stream payouts rarely adds up to a living wage for artists.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Calvin Hayes, keyboardist, drummer and co-founder of British pop group Johnny Hates Jazz, died on Thursday, July 9, 2026, after collapsing at his home in Spokane, Washington. He was 63. His wife, Kathy, confirmed his death.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Kontrast release their new album “Imperium” on 17 July 2026 through Danse Macabre Records. The German electro and EBM band’s sixth studio album arrives as a 20-track CD carrying the complete work, or as two separate vinyl records, “Tyrannis” and “Proteus”, each holding half the tracklist. “Tyrannis”, the first half of “Imperium”, has been out digitally and on vinyl since June 2025.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Dark alternative nightlife in Australia has quietly expanded past the club floor. Industrial, EBM and darkwave scenes are no longer defined solely by a Saturday night set and a sweaty warehouse. Instead, fans are building entire lifestyle routines around the music, folding fashion, ritual and post-event leisure into something closer to a full-time identity.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support Felsenreich release their sixth studio album, “Motiv und Tempo”, on CD via Danse Macabre Records on 17 July 2026. The German dark rock band, active since 1998, moves toward straightforward song structures on the record, with parts of the album recalling post-punk and wave. The album’s core lineup is Mathias Sohn, Carsten Schaller and Renato Wesely, the same trio that founded the band in Chemnitz in 1998.

🇺🇦 Side-Line stands with Ukraine - Show your Support German synth pop and future pop project Mechanical Horizon will release its new album, “Walking on Rainbows”, on CD through Danse Macabre Records on 17 July 2026. Mechanical Horizon mixes synth pop, future pop and wider electronic production on the 11-track record, pairing warm analog synths and programmed beats with vocals across pop structures and more atmospheric passages.