With the unapologetic rallying cry “Fight! Victory or Death,” ACYLUM thrusts us back onto the merciless battlegrounds, where the echoes of war persist eternally. Humanity, it seems, remains blind to its own follies, perpetuating a cycle of chaos. ACYLUM’s trademark confrontational stance immerses us in the unbearable ambiance of the Cold War, gulags, murders, massacres, betrayals, madness, and unrelenting misery.

This is undeniably ACYLUM’s most sombre and despair-ridden album to date. The tone plunges to profound depths of tragedy, the beats resound with martial heaviness, the music emanates noir coldness, vocals are aggressively charged with emotion, and the atmosphere lingers in profound sadness. ACYLUM’s potent and sinister sound seizes you, gripping your throat and suffocating you with its oppressive industrial noise sequences, fortified by bombastic orchestrations and sense-inflicting vocal sample manipulations. A mystical touch of Nordic mythology also looms ominously in the background.

Despite the darkness, ACYLUM’s unique songwriting alchemy transforms these harsh electro-dark tunes into addictive melodic anthems from the underworld. Tracks like “Gabriel” and “1000 Meilen” introduce slower, melancholic moments, evoking the haunting sound of their TOTEM OBSCURA side-project.

Let the parade of fools commence…

The initial release of the album emerges as a limited 2CD digipak edition, featuring remixes by formidable bands including :WUMPSCUT:, SUPREME COURT, DIFFUZION, DARKNESS ON DEMAND, STUDIO-X, NEIKKA RPM, RROYCE, PROJECT ERRATIC, WINTERHART, SAY JUST WORDS, HUMAN VAULT, ALIEN:NATION, DYSKOLIA, DEADLY INJECTION. The cacophony of darkness awaits.

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With their renowned frontal provocative attitude, ACYLUM question you whether it’s time to celebrate the creator or blame human’s neverending stupidity. When shall we ever learn from our mistakes?

With the harsh and hammering “Tears Of Blood” and the oppressive, sombre and lingering title-track “Gulag – Kalashnikov”, ACYLUM blow a devastating icy blast and plunges us into the intolerable atmosphere of cold war and gulags. A first glimpse on the band’s forthcoming album “Zuchthaus” that is announced as ACYLUM’s darkest and craziest release ever. Watch out!

We will also notice the strong contribution of the following remixers on this 7-track EP: :WUMPSCUT:, WAJIDAN, 13TH ANGEL, ELEKTROSTAUB and MISERIA ULTIMA.

Na zdrowie, mazel tov – Gulag, Kalashnikov!

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On this 12-track album, Pedro “ACYLUM” Engel and Nadine “COORAZ” Engel drag us one more time on the battlefield and bring us close to the overall bloody atmosphere of hatred, violence, terror and war. Faithful to their provocative approach, ACYLUM do not hesitate confronting humanity once again with its miserable existence, placing it in front of a mirror and challenging all of us to stand up strong beyond our ideas and own beliefs rather than getting preconceived concepts and opinions fed to us, pushing us into corners where we don’t feel comfortable to sit.

Musically, ACYLUM fans will recognize the barbarian hellektro duo’s characteristic sound: rough and powerful, hammering and almost deviant, but the new tracks also reveal a subliminal catchiness and melodic approach through noise that reinforces their addictive force. Our daily orgy of violence and cowardice translated and distilled through boiling synth machines, oppressive (mostly German) vocal samples and aggressive distorted vocals.  Besides a heavy load of new harsh hammering dark elektro club hits, we will also notice an impressive multi-lingual collaboration effort with 6 other bands on the remake of the band’s classic song “The Enemy” as well as the icy and oppressive “Masquerade” evoking a jamming session between :WUMPSCUT: and HAUS ARAFNA around the hot thematic of the Covid19 pandemic.

The first edition of this album is released as a deluxe double-CD digipak edition, revealing the amazing deviant and noir art of talented Japanese designer Tomoki Hayasaka (www.sheerheart.jp) and offering some 14 exclusive bonus remixes by SUICIDE COMMANDO, ARMAGEDDON DILDOS, IMPLANT, AESTHETISCHE, MENTAL EXILE, NANO INFECT, ASSEPTIC ROOM, ICE AGES, LARVA, ADVENT RESILIENCE, PROJECT ERRATIC, DIRTY K, SCHWARZSTERN and DAVID BLACKSTAR.

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Another interesting back-to-the-roots exploration, sometimes quite far away from the stunning sound production force and recording skills that ACYLUM has reached today, but definitely worth the experience, and above all reminding us how rough, angry, dark and powerful ACYLUM was already sounding like back in the day. The beats are heavy and pounding, the vocal samples are already vicious and omnipresent, the vocals are harsh and incisive and the melodic lines shine by their noir melancholy.

We will also notice interesting collaborations with artists like Wynardtage, Animassacre, Darkmen, Haushetaere, Davantage, Polarlicht or yet May-Fly.

With an impressive discography under his belt, ACYLUM can proudly contemplate his legacy to the dark elektro genre. Throughout the years, ACYLUM has become an unavoidable reference in the scene, often described as a devastating sonic machine ingeniously blending harsh powerful assaults with suffocating oppressive bombastic orchestral arrangements. A band also known for its confronting provocations, making no artistic compromise, a band that we either love or hate – nothing in between!

“Filthy Memories – part 2” is dedicated to the evergrowing and very faithful ACYLUM army of fans and will help the hardcore fanbase in their long wait until the new much anticipated studio album “Kampf Dem Verderb” comes out this Autumn 2020. Countdown until the next ACYLUM noize assault!

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Recognized today as an unavoidable reference in the scene for its devastating blend of harsh powerful dark elektro assaults with suffocating oppressive bombastic orchestral arrangements, ACYLUM is also known for its confronting provocations, making no artistic compromise! The use of expressive German samples sometimes lead to misunderstandings and unjustified conclusions. So far that some targeted claims against specific ACYLUM songs lead several digital aggregators to take down the full “The Enemy” album from the market although the band could explicitly prove them that ACYLUM is neither a fascist nor a racist project. Strict censorship was immediately taken without even an understanding of the messages and meanings behind these German words.

In order to keep the uncontested part of this album available to all fans on digital platforms, we decided to digitally re-release a “censored” version 2.0 of “The Enemy” and compensated the few removed songs by adding several bonus tracks and remixes from the same recording period: “Breaking The Chains”, “Without Breath (vs. Wynardtage)”, “Deathwish” plus remixes by Diabolic Art, Vigilante and CeDigest.

Just like our dear friend Rudi Ratzinger who also kept repeating it for his :WUMPSCUT: project, we repeat it once more out loud that ACYLUM is neither a fascist nor a racist project.

The uncensored original version of “The Enemy” is of course still available on the Alfa Matrix official Bandcamp page alfamatrix.bandcamp.com/album/the-enemy-bonus-tracks-version as well as on CD format.

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TOTEM OBCURA stands for aggressive dark elektro, tortuous Middle-Age tonalities, lingering oppressive atmospheres reinforced by German lyrics and contrasting vocal duets between Nadine’s bewitching chants and Pedro’s powerful distorted growls. Strongly recommended to fans of :WUMPSCUT:, ACYLUM, HEIMATAERDE, YELWORC and DAS ICH.

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“Zucht” confirms that AENGELDUST has definitely found the perfect balance between her uncompromising heavy industrial noise influences and her taste for aggressive dark elektro assaults, delivering highly addictive hypnotik elektro noizz tormented by repetitive provocative voice samples. 

AENGELDUST stands for harsh elektro industrial to play at MAXIMUM volume. Your neighbours will love it: “What the fxxk is wrong with you people?”. 

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Rising from her uncompromising roots of strict industrial noise, AENGELDUST adds structure in her compositions and injects harsh elektro layers and heavy provocative samples to make her work progress more towards bands like early-DIVE, FEINDFLUG or yet DIOXYDE. Adding this way some kind of hypnotic noise melodic sequences and viral synths layers to her “AK47 industrial sounds” à la SONAR versus MARITA SCHRECK. “Agent Orange” is there to atomize all underground clubs playing merciless industrial tunes to their dislocating masochistic audience. Oppressive vocal samples (mostly in German) reinforce the dense atmosphere of the songs while the hammering beats keep on marching till the edge of the “endzeit” world. The machine noises act like electro shocks and trigger an overwhelming sensation of contradictory neural reactions intensifying the addiction to these alien mesmerizing tunes. AENGELDUST is harsh industrial noize to play at maximum volume.  AENGELDUST is not for the fainthearted and requires parental advisory.

“Agent Orange”’s sonic warfare even gets augmented here by blasting guest appearances by CIRCUITO CERRADO, FABRIKC, PROJECT ERRATIC and DJ Ele.  

The underworld bitch is back once again with her sonic army to blow up your industrial standards at full blast… Enjoy the kick!

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DJ’s and hardcore fans of the ACYLUM family gang will enjoy the 10 bonus remixes offering alternative noise industrial, dark elektro & old school EBM remixes including reworks by acts like WOLFCHILD, CYNICAL EXISTENCE, PROJECT ERRATIC, ALIEN NATION, ANTIBODY and many more.

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