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Genre: Industrial, Punk

Hæckefløsse are German duo who started out by playing comedy punk. They quickly moved on to playing punk-influenced industrial, described as sounding like “a herd of mammoths”.

The album is released for free on Death to Music Productions, an antirecord label that offers releases for download. However, one may also download the release for the Internet Archives.

The music is heavy and thrashy. Hæckefløsse enjoy using samples in their music too, in fact their first song Who Am I opens with a sample from the Matrix. Tracks of note include Icons of Morality and The Decay of a 21st Century Ghostbuster.

The album may be downloaded from the following link.

Genre: Punk, Electronic

For those of you who frequently follow the blog, Avenpitch have been mentioned before. In fact, they had some of their songs featured in the Twin Cities Electropunk Compilations.

Todd Millenacker contacted me recently to send me a 10 track sampler available on Avenpitch’s website. It contains some tracks already featured on the Electropunk Compilations, but also some tracks from their older albums and their latest, upcoming album Cast Off.

Millenacker has very specific voice, but it works very well with Avenpitch’s sound. Nothing has quite a heavy riff as a chorus, and remains quite dissonant and dystopian during the verses. Jack The Idiot Dance, one of my particular favourites, is catchy and upbeat, as are Maybe I Was Wrong and Pregnant Pause, two songs from Avenpitch’s latest album Cast Off. Songs like Hacienda and Reactor are slower, more ballad-type songs which still work well.

The ten track sampler may be downloaded as 192kbps mp3s from Avenpitch’s official site over here.

Genre: Electronic, Punk

Bands from Minneapolis-Saint Paul have started fusing electronic and punk ideals together to form an interesting sound, sometimes more on the electronic side, sometimes more on the punk side, and at other times, sounding a lot like EBM.

The project, led by Todd Millenacker from Avenpitch, is an effort to showcase electropunk bands, In its fourth volume, the series presents different examples and several good songs worth listening to.

Tracks of note include: most of Avenpitch’s songs, Elevator Operator by TELEPHONE!, All Eyes Nation by Heliosphere and Goodbye Cruel World by ikki.

You can download all 4 volumes from here.