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By now, in addition to our regular mailorder Emmo.biz, you will find a "Black Rain Shop" at Spreadshirt, the famous online shop for individual T-Shirts. Take advantage of Spreadshirt and choose from the huge amount of merchandise material to print our designs on. Initially, there will be designs of Tactical Sekt, FGFC820, Feindflug, Tyske Luddder and our cool EBM logo, more great designs will follow!
Exclusively for our fans in America, we have started an online-shop at CafePress.com. There you will find lots of T-Shirts which are not available in our regular mailorder â?? you can also get some great label fan-merchandise stuff there. Have fun exploring our new shopâ?¦

Perfectly on time for the new releases of CEDIGEST, HIOCTAN and PSYBORG CORP, you will be able to purchase all of our new CDs as legal MP3-downloads for little money in our own web portal "Black Rain Digital Store"! Bit by bit we will include our whole back-catalogue there. Just click by: www.blackrainload.de

Coinciding with the release date of their new album "The Mechanical Renaissance" the Colombian HarshElectro-band PSYBORG CORP offers the great single "Technocracy" to all of their fans as a free download. Click here to download! Check out YouTube for the new PSYBORG CORP album trailer.

Check out the video trailer for the new CeDigest album "Walking in the Flesh" on our www.youtube.com/BlackRainMediaGroup! The album already entered the sales charts of our British partner mailorder www.musicnonstop.co.uk.

The Dark Electro-project HIOCTAN from the North of Germany finished work on the third longplayer "Under Control". The CD will be released on NoiTekk on 26th February. The same day Psyborg Corp "The Mechanical Renaissance" and CeDigest's "Walking in the Flesh" will be released.

The following NoiTekk/Black Rain-bands are confirmed for the Kinetik-Festival (12.-16. May) in Montreal/Canada: TACTICAL SEKT, FGFC820, TYSKE LUDDER.

Black Rain has gone crazy! Never believed that there will ever be a Christmas compilation with Electro- and Gothic-tracks? Here it is! "Black Snow" - the ultimate but completely different Black Rain Label Group Christmas/Yule compilation! 16 songs - rocking and crazy - contemplative and funny - all mixed up in one unique melange of Dark Wave, Industrial and Electro sounds. All bands contributed nothing but great songs - cover version from the 1940's and 50's ("I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" - Dandelion Wine, "Tausend Sterne sind ein Dom" - Plane To Pia) - folk songs ("Hava Nagila" - Hioctan, "Little Drummer Boy" - DYM) and a lot of exclusive compositions ("xparty" - Jabberwock, "Wintergedanken" - Feindflug, "A Wish" - The Pussybats). You don't believe that this will work? Just get the CD and be surprised! The compilation will be released at November the 20th, you can pre-order the CD in our Webshop www.emmo.biz right now.

Tracklist:
01. Feindflug "Wintergedanken (Spekulatius Mix)"
02. Hioctan "Hava Nagila"
03. Dandelion Wine "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas"
04. + 05. Tyske Ludder "Fairytale Of New York" + "Fairytale Of The North"
06. killedbycandy "Cinnamon"
07. Atomic Neon & 6.6.6 feat. Angel Of Night "We Die At Christmas (Rio Black Mix)"
08. Oil 10 "Christmas Machine"
09. Die Perlen "Ohne Strom Kein Weihnachtsmarkt"
10. Jabberwock "xparty (xmas xceptional version)"
11. DYM "Little Drummer Boy"
12. Panic Lift "Hourglass"
13. This Vale of Tears "Frozen Zone"
14. Novalis deux "Halleluja (live)"
15. Plane To Pia "Tausend Sterne sind ein Dom"
16. The Pussybats feat. Meli (Livid Halcyon) "A Wish" 

Confirmed release date for C-Drone-Defect "Dystopia" is November 27th (exclusive double digipac inclusiv bonus CD). The album will be released in North America as well by COP International.

By the end of November, NoiTekk will release the third full-time album of C-DRONE-DEFECT called 'Dytopia'. The first edition comes up as limited DCD in an exclusive digipac - but before, C-DRONE-DEFECT offers you a great bonus: The net-EP 'Letters from Dystopia' will be available as free download! The EP contains 2 preview tracks and 7 great remixes - a really promising preview on the upcomming album 'DYSTOPIA'. Click here.

FGFC820 will play the following European shows with Vigilante (Chile):
October 09 - FGFC820 @ Helldorado in Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
October 10 - FGFC820 @ PinUp Bar in Porto, Portugal

The awakening of Xentrifuge began in 2005 eventually bringing the well recieved debut album "Light extinguished" on NoiTekk Records in 2007. Now, 2 years in the making, Xentrifuge is reborn and unleashes the followup to "Light extinguished" with their latest arsenal of audio weaponry known as "Converting infinity". Xentrifuge has built "Converting infinity" with high energy, raw emotion, and pure rage resulting in a innovative form of Dark Power EBM. Combining harsh synths, crushing noise, tormenting vocals with brutal beats all set in a cold dark atmosphere, "Converting infinty delivers to the dance floor and the moshpit alike. From the opening track "Dormant" the listener is given the sense that mankind is lost and fallen. This topic along with self annihilation, curse of religion and many other dark realities are echoed throughout the album till the final track "Immune". Xentrifuge's "Converting Infinity" is made of relentless Harsh Industrial built to please all fans of Hard edge electronic music. Xentrifuge continues to wage war against an already dying future.

track list:
01. Dormant
02. Into descent
03. Pathogen
04. Strain
05. Black horizon
06. Error seven
07. Watch you burn
08. Penance
09. Converting infinity
10. Immune

By this year's September, all our CDs will be distributed by Non Stop Music Records in the Swiss area - so they are now much better available in the land of chocolate.
Besides our exclusive license productions on DeathWatch Asia in Japan (refer to the limited collectors editions in our shop), the rest of our back catalogue will be distributed there by Darkest Labyrinth by November.

The new shirts + girlies "Stand your ground" by FGFC820 can be ordered in our webshop www.EMMO.biz now.

XENTRIFUGE 'Converting Infinity' => 25th September! The release can be pre-ordered in our www.emmo.biz webshop.

The whole NoiTekk team congratulates the German U21 team for winning the European Championship!!!

The new Acylum album will be released this September and the bonus CD will feature not less than three NoiTekk acts (FGFC820, DYM and Xentrifuge)!

Under the following link a very positiv German review of the new Life Cried album 'Banished Psalms' can be found on: www.musik.terrorverlag.de/rezensionen.php?select_cd=9097

We are very pleased to warmly welcome CeDigest (UK) as well as Psyborg Corp. (Columbia) in our NoiTekk family. Both bands are currently working on their debut albums and their release can be expected in 2009. In the meantime check out myspace and other websites to get a first impression. We are very happy about these signings and we are looking forward to releasing this great music!

Under the following link a very positiv German review of the new label compilation 'United Vol. II' can be found on
www.musik.terrorverlag.de/rezensionen.php?select_cd=9039

Haunting, Beautiful and Intense, are several words that can describe Life Cried’s sophomore album ‘Banished Psalms’, the follow up to the band’s critically acclaimed 2006 release ‘Drawn & Quartered’ (NTK 021). Band leader Chris Reject continues to push the boundaries of personal expression with his unique mix of introspective lyrics fused with dark electro and classical gothic influences. Founding the band in 1999, Reject worked on his debut for 5 years before choosing to release it, similarly he spent 3 years working on the songs that would become ‘Banished Psalms’.
 
With ‘Banished Psalms’ listeners get a rare glimpse into the mind of this eccentric front man, with tales of personal strife, love and addiction carefully interwove with an underlying theme of a loss of faith. Musically, we find Life Cried firing on all cylinders, from the pounding stomps of ‘Bloodstained’ and ‘Forbidden’ to the fragile atmospheres in ‘More To Tarnish’ and ‘Alone’ Reject has pushed the sonic envelope of Life Cried into something much more than what we have come to know as ‘Dark EBM’.
 
Life Cried has toured relentlessly since the release of ‘Drawn & Quartered’ including concerts supporting Taktical Sekt, The Birthday Massacre, And One, and many more, establishing them as one of the rare powerful live acts within the electronic scene. With ‘Banished Psalms’ coming this May on NoiTekk Records, We find Life Cried ready to take the scene by storm and raise the bar for all the bands left in their wake, this sentiment is echoed by Reject’s closing words in the song ‘Preacher’ - In the end there is no place to hide.

Tracklist:
01. Another sacrifice
02. Bloodstained
03. Dressed in filth
04. Bound in hate
05. Alone
06. Preacher
07. More to tarnish
08. Procession, Rigor Mortis
09. Solemn
10. Forbidden
11. Derelict

The song 'Bound in Hate' features Nero Bellum of Psyclon Nine.

Get your copy now!

We've been asked if we are okay with the posting of the bands concert videos to YouTube...the answer is that we are absolutely okay, so long as they don't include footage of Dräcos or Rik falling off stage (although, admittedly, such videos might be more entertaining)! so post away!

FGFC820 headlines Sudamerica Electronic Music Festival In Lima, Peru!

Under the following links you can find videos from the FGFC820 performance at Kinetk festival:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CoDmtuCFU34
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H50Gm_RrMyo Â
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4EAUeGaBU-M
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhw0u3QOibw

Check them out and make sure you will be at the bands performance at Wave Gotik Treffen!

This year C-Drone-Defect will release an exclusive Net-EP as a foretaste of the upcoming full length album 'DYSTOPIA' and your remix can be featured on it!

Do you want to give it a shot and put a song through the mangle? You can find all the details and where to download the C-Drone-Defect samples here:
On www.cdronedefect.de/ individual tracks of the new songs 'Morituri te salutanta' and 'Mundus vult decipia' will be provided and you do what you want with it! Preferably, something that can be recognized as a C-Drone-Defect remix.

Please note the following:
The provided samples are in an uncompressed wav-format. Please work on the highest quality level, with completely uncompressed material. After all, your remix has a chance to be released! Furthermore, please take care of the used samples copyrights.

Do you think your remix is ready for the public? Send a mp3-file with at least 192kbit via uploader like YouSendIt or Sendspace to the following address: remix@cdronedefect.de.

Please do not forget your name, as well as the title of the remix.

Shortly after deadline an internal voting will be initiated and the best remixes will be elected. In the final instance, the band decides about the release.

Deadline for transmissions: June 21st 2009.

And now... go nuts!

After 2 years since our first release 'Light extinguished' on NoiTekk, We are proud to announce that our second release 'Converting Infinity' is finally complete and will once again be released on NoiTekk Records! 'Converting Infinity' contains 10 brand new songs. The sound of this album has evolved into a brutal onslaught of pure aggression, rage, and darkness created for the dance floor as well as the moshpit!!! The album is currently being mastered by Koltron and the artwork is being done by Carbon nine design. We are very happy to have both of these talented artists involved with the completion of this chapter for Xentrifuge! An official global release date is in the works for all territories! New clips from the album are now posted and we hope you enjoy them as much as we enjoyed creating them.

The tracklist is as follows:
01 Dormant
02 Into descent
03 Pathogen
04 Strain
05 Black horizon
06 Error seven
07 Watch you burn
08 Penance
09 Converting infinity
10 Immune

New promo pics have also been added to our pics section. Check them out! A big thanks to our good friend and awesome photographer, Pat M. and the extremely talented artist, Teodora Taneva. The addition of these two friends have made a great visual representation of the way the music would look like. We will be posting more new pics as the release date for 'Converting Infinity' approaches. Hope you enjoy! We would really like to thank all Xentrifuge supporters! You have made this possible for us and in return we hope you enjoy the album as much as we enjoyed creating it! More news to come. Thanks again! Chris (Xentrifuge)