Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio - Make Love, And War (The Wedlock Of Roses) (2001)

Ordo Rosarius Equilibrio (ORE) is a neofolk and martial industrial music group from Stockholm. The band is composed of its founding member and vocalist Tomas Pettersson, and Rose-Marie Larsen, who replaced Chelsea Krook on backup vocals. 

In 1993, following the discontinuation of Tomas Pettersson's previous band, Archon Satani, he decided to start a new project. This project was initially called Ordo Equilibrio and joined by Chelsea Krook, his then-girlfriend. Together they made three full length releases and one 7". In 2001 the band had a change in line-up; Chelsea Krook was gone and replaced by Rose-Marie Larsen. This also spawned a change in the bandname; the word Rosarius was added. The couple has so far released five albums, one 10" and a split album with Spiritual Front.

Country : Sweden
Genre : Neofolk / Martial Industrial

In Slaughter Natives - Resurrection (2004)

In Slaughter Natives is the piooner band in the symphonic industrial field. Their music is a mix of heavy electronics, martial percussions, religious chants, orchestral samples and gruesome demonic vocals. After releasing some great albums on Cold Meat Industry and Staalplaat, the project remains dormant since many years but keeps getting on stage from time to time.

Country : Sweden
Genre : Industrial / Dark Ambient / Symphonic

Collection D'Arnell-Andrea - Un Automne A Loroy (1989)

Collection d'Arnell~Andréa is a French band based near Gien (a town on Loire river, 130 km south of Paris). Jean-Christophe d'Arnell composes a melancholic music combining cello and keyboards with the oustanding voice of Chloé Saint-Liphard, the female-singer. ''Un Automne A Loroy'' was their debut.

Country : France
Genre : Darkwave / Electronic

Tristesse De La Lune - A Heart Whose Love Is Innocent (2003)

Tristesse de la Lune (translates to "Sadness of the Moon" in French) is an electropop group founded by German musicians Kati Roloff and Gini Martin, who gained fame as the female vocalists in Blutengel for songs as "Weg Zu Mir," "Fairyland(Female Version)", "Seelenschmerz", "I'm Dying Alone" among others. Both left Blutengel at the end of 2001 for personal and unknown reasons, and as they said in a 2002 interview "Blutengel was becoming too cliché", and formed Tristesse de la Lune. Their songs typically have romantic lyrics usually inspired in their personal lives or books. They are on Out of Line Music and are one of the main bands of the label.

Kati left Tristesse de la Lune early 2007 but Gini carries on the name and has recorded six songs (as of February 2007) for a new album. A sound sample is available on the official website.

Country : Germany
Genre : Electro / Dark Romantic / EBM
Official Site : Tristesse de la Lune
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Various Artists - Machineries Of Joy Vol. 2 (2002)

Machineries Of Joy is a Out Of Line series compilation (as far as I know there’re 3 sets of compilation: the first volume (2000), the second (2002), the third (2004). The bands are very well known (Hocico, BlutEngel, Assemblage 23, and much much more). Here is sample of that great collection, Hocico with a non-album track : La Gloria del Odio.

Asphyxia - Sense Of Decay (2009)

Asphyxia is a french electro dark solo-band, a project started in fall 2005. In 2009 finally, Asphyxia launched it first official web release called Sense of Decay. A great album indeed. How much long we’ll have to wait for another brilliant album such as this one?

Country : France
Genre : Dark-Electro / Industrial
Official Site : n/a
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The Frozen Autumn - Fragments Of Memories (1997)

The Frozen Autumn is an Italian darkwave band, formed in May 1993, characterized by a blend of melancholic vocals, atmospheric gothic-wave and 80s-style electropop.

Country : Italy
Genre : Darkwave / Synth-Goth
Official Site : The Frozen Autumn
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Blutengel - Seelenschmerz (2001)

Blutengel (German: Blood Angel) is a German Futurepop musical group. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl (also of the groups Terminal Choice, Tumor, and Miss Construction and the owner of the Fear Section label) after he had to leave Seelenkrank due to contractual and legal problems. Formed in 1998, Blutengel uses melodious electronic tunes in combination with both male and female voices, with songs often focusing on all aspects of love, from the tragedy of hopeless romance of vampires (all the way to the more animal aspects of desire) and aspects of death and the beyond travel. The first album Child of Glass, released in early 1999 and soon conquered the clubs and the hearts of the already existing fan community but also attracted a huge number of new fans with songs like "Weg Zu mir" and "Beauty of Suffering". Kati Roloff and Nina Bendigkeit were responsible for the female vocals at that time. However, although the album was still present in the minds of the people, things became quiet for the project itself for quite a long time.

Finally, in 2001, the second anxiously anticipated album Seelenschmerz was released and initiated a new era in Blutengel's short band history. In my opinion one of the best albums in the past ten years.

Country : Germany
Genre : Electro / Goth / EBM / Darkwave
Official Site : BlutEngel
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Terminal Choice - Keine Macht (2009) CD-EP

Terminal Choice is a German electronic rock band. It was formed by singer Chris Pohl (also of Blutengel, Tumor, Pain of Progress and owner of the Fear Section label) in 1993. Their lyrics are sung in German and English. The sound was originally primarily electronic music, but with the 1998 album Navigator, guitars were added.

Country : Germany
Genre : Dark-Electro / EBM
Official Site : Terminal Choice
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Seelenkrank - Engelsschrei (1997)

Seelenkrank was a German music project of Chris Pohl. The objective was to create a more intimate sound than the industrial stomp of Terminal Choice. Female vocals were included in this project, all them performed by Nina Bendigkeit. However, Nina's main job during concerts was performance rather than singing. Chris would go on to record two albums for the Machinenwelt Records in this style, though the name had to be dropped after Pohl left the label due to contractual issues. The project lives on today with a new label and also a new name: Blutengel.

Due to legal difficulties, the albums were out of print for 10 years, although Chris Pohl has recently won the legal battle which has allowed him to reissue them on his own label Fear Section.

Country : Germany

Genre : Electro-Goth / Darkwave

Official Site : Seelenkrank

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