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Just last month, UK musician Martin Bowes gave us a taste of the latest offering from his legendary gothic/industrial music project Attrition, in the form of the digital Ep Narcissist (check it out here), which represents the band in a more intense, heavy beat-driven mode while still maintaining the hypnotic ambient soundscapes that Bowes brings to the game. Ever since hearing him describe the band's new stylistic direction in an earlier interview, I've been anxious to hear the entirety of The Unraveller of Angels, the band's highly-anticipated sixteenth studio album. The roster of guest artists on this record is impressive enough – Tylean, Mona Mur, Matt Howden, Ian Arkley, Jyri Glynn and Erica Mulkey are among the contributors – and many musical genres are represented, from straight-up electro to neoclassical to dark ambient noise. That said, Unraveller is still pure Attrition: dark, mysterious and sexy at any speed.

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When we last checked in with Attrition – a groundbreaking UK band considered one of the pillars of early gothic music – I chatted with founder Martin Bowes and his wife & creative partner Kerri about Invocation, their first album-length horror score (composed for the indie film G.H.O.S.T.) and one of the best horror-themed albums of 2012. In that interview, which you can read in its entirety here, Martin hinted at some big 2013 projects from the group, including their long-awaited studio album The Unraveller of Angels. That record is coming later this spring, and we'll definitely be talking more about it soon... but in the meantime, Attrition has released preview and interim material in the form of their new digital Ep Narcissist. If this is just an appetizer, then I'm going to be ravenous when it comes time for the main course. Martin is describing The Unraveller of Angels as a new direction for the band,...

Legendary German artist Mona Mur – one of the leading names in Berlin's '80s industrial & post-punk music scene – will be joining forces with former Kmfdm member En Esch to compose a "Symphony of Terror" for Io Interactive's upcoming video game sequel Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days. It's certain to be an unusual and unique project, so we dug a little deeper... read more about it on the other side! According to Mur's game-music MySpace, she's been contributing original compositions over the past ten years to games like Balance, Culpa Innata 2: Chaos Rising and Velvet Assassin. For this project, she plans to create an unsettling "Industrial Terror Ambiance" for the game's...