The Italian duo skilfully guides listeners through a blasphemous sonic experience, narrating the unconventional saga of their “Anti”-hero. From the euphoric synthetic creation of a new messiah in a world in chaos and in search of guidance, to the temptations of death and ascension, miracles, passion, and ultimately, a descent into pathetic misery.

“Anti” showcases SYNAPSYCHE’s mastery, seamlessly blending opposites – distorted darkness with ecstatic grooves, catchy melodies with incisive assaults. With 12 hard-hitting tracks, the album features a vocal guest appearance by AESTHETIC PERFECTION and LORD OF THE LOST on “Silvertongue” and “The Last Dying Flame,” respectively, both also contributing to this delicious clash of harsh devilish growls with heavenly future pop choruses.

In this magnum opus, SYNAPSYCHE exudes majesty, elegance, and might, mirroring their “Anti-hero”. Their sound identity spans dark-electro to synthpop, industrial to EBM, aggrotech to techno, appealing to fans of VNV NATION, COMBICHRIST, SOLAR FAKE, FADERHEAD, GRENDEL, and more.

There’s no turning back—”It’s too late to apologize.” God is dead, long live SYNAPSYCHE!

The limited edition 2CD digipak of the album includes a lush booklet artwork and an exclusive bonus CD, “Apocryphal Psalms,” featuring unique versions and remixes by artists such as DARKNESS ON DEMAND, LOVELORN DOLLS, AIBOFORCEN, ACYLUM, MISS SUICIDE, FRAGILE CHILD, ZEITGEIST2511, STATIK SEKT, MATT HART, DILATORY DESTRUCTION…

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“God In Vitro” describes the beginning of the album’s conceptual journey: the “birth” of the 21st century messiah, modern and synthetic, which would try to retrace Christ’s steps but in the end will follow a completely different path… watch out!

Musically, this new song gathers on its own all the features that made the sound of SYNAPSYCHE a trademark: powerful and cold rhythmic beats, futuristic dark-electro tapestries blended with harsh noises, amazing synth melodies and heavy beautiful leads. Everything is topped with the versatility of Marco’s voice that gives once again a strong character to the track, passing with great ease from gentle whispers to dark and piercing clean vocals to harsh and furious screams and growls.

Besides quite diversified remixes of the title song by bands in the likes of MISS SUICIDE, STATIK SEKT, DIARBLACK, ALEXIS CORVUS BLACK, BOLPAVOX and RERUMO, SYNAPSYCHE also added the previous minimal industrial pop hit single “Silvertongue” (in its original version without guest vocals by AESTHETIC PERFECTION) plus remixes by BLUE ANT and MARTIUS.

Another 10-tracker nicely illustrating SYNAPSYCHE’s unique and multi-facetted sound identity merging various styles together from dark-electro to synthpop, from industrial to EBM, from aggrotech to techno and appealing to fans of VNV NATION, COMBICHRIST, SOLAR FAKE and AESTHETIC PERFECTION.

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Musically, SYNAPSYCHE present here two dark elektro songs which are quite opposite in style. “Silvertongue” is rhythmic, slow, lascivious and minimal and features Daniel Graves (AESTHETIC PERFECTION) as a guest vocalist. It is industrial-pop in the vein of the latest AESTHETIC PERFECTION stuff actually, with some very stunning screams and growls, and an amazing call-and-response duality between the two singers. “Silvertongue” is about believing in ourselves, and living our lives at the highest level, trying to find our own way to feel ourselves complete. In the gospel’s metaphor, this song is about the temptations of Christ by the devil, and this time our messiah will give in to the serpent tongue…

“Anti Manifesto”, on the other hand, is a fast, violent, hard-hitting industrial track, with heavy beats, a superb duality between harsh and clean vocals, electronic voices and an exploding chorus full of rage and fury. It’s a kind of satanic song, ’cause all precepts follow the thoughts of LaVey, Crowley, Aquino. Our new Jesus here gathers his disciples and found his own church, very different from the old Christianity!

SYNAPSYCHE once more confirms their multi-faceted sonic approach bringing them from dark-electro to synthpop, from industrial to EBM, from aggrotech to techno! No surprise they keep pleasing fans of bands like GRENDEL, early-COMBICHRIST, AESTHETIC PERFECTION and HOCICO.

The EP features a total of 10 songs including a large diversity of bonus remixes signed by friends of the artists and is also accompanied by the release of a highly professional video clip for the title-song “Silvertongue”.

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On this EP, the Italian duo pushed forward with two brand new songs that arose their artistic level to the limit, fantastically top-balancing their tracks with heavy beats, powerful synth lines and a great alternation from clean to harsh vocals. The title track is another great hit, an angry and rhythmic piece of art with a great taste for groove and melody, with raging vocals and tasty synth licks.The floor-killer song “God’s Special Little Creature” is fast and intense, with both Stefano and Marco always searching for new sounds and effects. The remixes by classy acts like C-Lekktor, Freaky Mind, Unity One and the emerging fellow countrymen T-Error Machinez all contribute to the high quality level of this dark elektro assault.

A must for fans of COMBICHRIST, ALIEN VAMPIRES, GRENDEL, ICON OF COIL, SUICIDE COMMANDO and HOCICO.

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Originally released on May 13th 2016, “The Abyss Effect” is the masterpiece album that let SYNAPSYCHE’s talent explode all over the world. Another conceptual album that allowed the duo to expand their sound-style and sharpen their lyrical approach and enhance their established trademark on the dark electro / harsh EBM scene. Fully loaded with stomping beats, heavy grooves, vicious melodies, and a constantly expanding diversified vocal range, SYNAPSYCHE drag us down through a modern Dante’s Hell, wherein every song is an interface to an infernal circle of the damned. From the danceable “We All Suck”, the lascivious “Venereal”, the creepy “The Flesh Party” and the hit single, “Hate And Psyche”, to the hard melody of “Angel On Vicodin” and the Italian guitar-synthed big-shot “Tabula Rasa”, this album reaches the top of creativity and quality of the band from that very moment, which they became one of the underground leaders of the rising dark electro movement.

A must for fans of COMBICHRIST, ALIEN VAMPIRES, GRENDEL, ICON OF COIL, SUICIDE COMMANDO and HOCICO.

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Originally released on December 4th 2015, “Hate And Psyche” EP was a real milestone in the band’s discography that put SYNAPSYCHE in orbit and apart of the EBM constellation. All the songs featured are destined to fill the dancefloors with their pounding industrial dance beats, hyper melodic synth lines and that now characteristic perfect mix of clean and harsh vocals.

While the title track “Hate And Psyche” announced the band’s progression from their harsh uncompromised dark elektro past to a new and more melodic attitude adding catchiness and dynamics to their sonic palette. The enthralling Manson-esque “Whore Wide Web” and the top-dancefloor banger “Breath Control” raised the bar of creativity and sound refinement even more, while the remixes by ZWEIFELHAFT and DEVICE NOIZE set the intrinsic value of this EP to top-notch quality.

A must for fans of COMBICHRIST, ALIEN VAMPIRES, GRENDEL, ICON OF COIL, SUICIDE COMMANDO and HOCICO.

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Originally released on January 31st 2013, the “Wait/Hate” EP is the very first self-released EP from SYNAPSYCHE! We here feel the raw and wild rage of our Italian duo in their early days. It’s upbeat harsh and noisy dark elektro EBM assaults from A to Z. Stomping, heavy, angry and oppressive, these sonic assaults simply do not give us any room to breathe!

An uncompromising powerful attitude which back in the day brought them logical comparisons to good old dark elektro bands like HOCICO, SUICIDE COMMANDO, X-FUSION or yet GRENDEL!

The re-release of this EP features the exclusive bonus remix of “Hyperfuck” by T-Error Machinez.

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Originally released on September 30th 2015, the “Meds” EP put the Italian gang of SYNAPSYCHE in orbit. Having then found the perfect balance between their harsh EBM roots and their more melodic synthetic side, the duo invaded all dancefloors of the world with their stunning cover version of PLACEBO’s “Meds”. Next to these 4 new tracks, including the other club hit “Push”, this 9-track EP also served exclusive bonus tracks from the “Crashdown Connected” album by dark industrial/elektro friends like Chamaeleon, First Black Pope, Binary Division, M.O.D. and Thornsectide.

A must for fans of HOCICO, ALIEN VAMPIRES, SUICIDE COMMANDO, AMDUSCIA, VNV NATION, GRENDEL or yet ICON OF COIL.

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Originally released on December 19st 2014, “Crashdown Connected” is the very first self-released album from SYNAPSYCHE! It was already at that time that the Italian duo started developing strong conceptual albums with that time a focus on schizophrenia leading us through violence, murder, extreme sex, mind manipulation and self-destruction! Starting from this stunning opus, we also started perceiving Marco and Stefano taking time to refine their writing and production skills. The violent aggrotech style is still the core of SYNAPSYCHE’s trademark, but we enjoy more complex song arrangements, giving room to somber atmospheric moments reinforcing the harsh and powerful side of their dark elektro productions. The duo also starts widening their sonic spectrum by incorporating more diversity in their upbeat rhythm patterns, fusing technoish ingredients into their old school elektro industrial sound, sharpening their vicious synth melodies and incorporating more catchy vocal parts next to the characteristic distorted growls through catchier choruses and vocoder effects, their cover of HIM’s “Your Sweet 666” being the perfect example.

An album that will bring SYNAPSYCHE on the forefront of the dark elektro and future pop scene while acknowledging influences from HOCICO, ALIEN VAMPIRES, SUICIDE COMMANDO but also VNV NATION and ICON OF COIL.

The re-release of this album features the exclusive bonus “requiem version” of “Suicyber Girl” by First Black Pope.

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Besides the harsh dark-electro fugue of the title-track and 8 bonus remixes by artists as diverse as AIBOFORCEN, TECHNOID, CIRCUMPOLAR, ANTIBIOSIS, STATIK SEKT, SCHWARZSTERN, EXEMIA or yet T-ERROR MACHINEZ each bringing their own reinterpretation of various album songs from industrial dance to future pop through darker psychedelic elektro moments; this new EP also offers us some 3 exclusive bonus brand new tracks for the ultimate pleasure of their fanbase!

“Nod!” is a heavily fused track with a MARILYN MANSON-esque touch and some powerful gritty guitars, while “Time Destroys Everything” is another upbeat floor-killer track with epic melodic moments. And last but not least, SYNAPSYCHE enjoyed making a cover of 30 SECONDS TO MARS’ cult song “Attack” giving it a tortured EDM/synth pop twist.

Once more, Stefano “Mannequinetik” (machines) and Marco “Katatronik” Mantovani (vox) confirm here how much their sonic identity and aestheticism has been evolving and expanding the last times offering an impressive and addictive sound duality made of soothing melodic synths and massive heavy beats, between lush catchy pop choruses and harsher vocal outbursts. SYNAPSYCHE stands for a multi-faceted mixture of catchy electro pop with very strong vocals, harsh dark elektro assaults the whole topped with powerful industrial guitar riffs and a touch of goth-wave darkness. Definitely recommended to fans of GRENDEL, COMBICHRIST, AESTHETIC PERFECTION, ALIEN VAMPIRES and VNV NATION.

Viva insanity!

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