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🦠 Flesh Field Reissues Viral Extinction in Remastered Glory

The electro-industrial classic returns June 27th via Metropolis Records

Flesh Field resurrects its monumental debut, Viral Extinction, now fully remastered and available once again to ignite speakers and summon shadows. Originally released in 1999, the album fused cinematic electronics, fierce guitar work, militant percussion, and choral samples into a signature sound that pushed the boundaries of industrial music.

📅 Viral Extinction returns on June 27th, 2025, via Metropolis Records and includes the haunting new single:

🎧 “Where Angels Go to Die” — a darkly angelic descent into spiritual decay, described by Ian Ross as “apocalyptic in language, but musically designed to feel beautifully bleak.”

👉 Stream the album – Bandcamp

💿 VIRAL EXTINCTION (Remastered) – Tracklisting

  1. Heretic
  2. Inside
  3. Overload
  4. The Plague
  5. Silicon Skies
  6. Where Angels Go To Die
  7. Prophecy
  8. My Saviour
  9. Utopia
  10. Animal
  11. Fallen Angel
  12. Cyberchrist
  13. Prophecy (Nostrothomas A23 Mix)
  14. My Saviour (Violated Beauty Remix)

👁 Flesh Field: Reawakened and Reforged

Formed by Ian Ross in Columbus, Ohio in 1996, Flesh Field erupted onto the scene with an aggressive yet orchestrally grand vision of electro-industrial. Their debut, Viral Extinction, quickly earned attention for its layered textures and dramatic sonic architecture—setting a benchmark for dark electronic music at the turn of the millennium.

After releasing the Redemption remix EP in 2000 and the critically lauded albums Belief Control (2001) and Strain (2004), the project went silent. Despite that, Flesh Field’s music endured—appearing in the soundtracks of True Blood, The Mill, and Project Gotham Racing.

Ross eventually reemerged in 2023 with the concept album Voice of the Echo Chamber, examining the psychology of political radicalization. A companion EP, Voice of Reason, followed in 2024.

Now, 25 years after its initial release, Viral Extinction is reborn—remastered and once again relevant in a world teetering on its own digital precipice.

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Cutting Edge Culture Updates, Metropolis, New Music Release

🎧 KMFDM Announces “HAU RUCK 2025” Reissue – Remixed & Remastered for 20th Anniversary! 🎧

KMFDM is set to re-release their classic fourteenth album, “HAU RUCK,” on May 23rd, 2025, via Metropolis Records. This special 20th-anniversary edition, titled “HAU RUCK 2025,” has been completely remixed and remastered, and will be available on 2xLP, CD, and digital formats. Fans can get an early taste with the newly available audio for ‘FREE YOUR HATE’.

The original “HAU RUCK” was recorded in Seattle and released in 2005. Following their industrial/metal assault with 2003’s ‘WWIII’, KMFDM sought a fresh direction. Band leader Sascha Konietzko expressed the desire for something “more noisy, more dance-y, more electronic, and less butt rock.” The album’s concept was playfully dubbed FUBAR – ‘Fucked Up Beyond All Recognition/Repair’ – reflecting their aim to push boundaries.

From the politically charged anthems of ‘Free Your Hate’ and ‘New American Century’ to the grimly emotional grooves of ‘Real Thing’; from the confrontational dancefloor venom of ‘Ready to Blow’ and ‘Professional Killer’; and encompassing a swinging cover of Jacques Dutronc’s ‘Mini Mini Mini’ and the self-effacing snark of ‘Feed Our Fame’, the album proved anything but FUBAR. It showcased KMFDM at its most concentrated, sharply focused, and aggressive, imploring audiences to fight corruption and embrace individuality. The powerful German phrase ‘HAU RUCK’ (meaning ‘Heave Ho’) perfectly captured this defiant spirit.

The original lineup for ‘HAU RUCK’ included:

  • Sascha Konietzko – vocals, synthesizers, sequencers, engineering
  • Lucia Cifarelli – vocals
  • Jules Hodgson – guitars, bass, programming, engineering
  • Andy Selway – drums, programming
  • Steve White – guitars, programming
  • Mina Stolle – trumpet on ‘Auf Wiederseh’n’

“HAU RUCK 2025” Tracklist:

  1. FREE YOUR HATE
  2. HAU RUCK
  3. YOU’RE NO GOOD
  4. NEW AMERICAN CENTURY
  5. REAL THING
  6. EVERY DAY’S A GOOD DAY
  7. MINI MINI MINI
  8. PROFESSIONAL KILLER
  9. FEED OUR FAME
  10. READY TO BLOW
  11. AUF WIEDERSEH’N

KMFDM Biography

Hamburg-based industrial rock pioneers KMFDM have carved out a unique path since their founding by Sascha ‘Käpt’n K’ Konietzko in 1984. They’ve continuously refined and redefined modern music while boldly addressing social and political issues. After early albums recorded in Germany, the band moved to the US and gained widespread recognition with Chicago-based Wax Trax! Records.

The 1990s saw KMFDM become a household name in the global industrial rock scene. Their 1995 hit ‘Juke Joint Jezebel’ propelled them onto the Billboard charts and earned them placements on film soundtracks like ‘Bad Boys’ and ‘Mortal Kombat’. Future titans such as Rammstein and Korn even started their careers opening for KMFDM tours.

After a hiatus in 1999 following their tenth album for Wax Trax!, Konietzko resurrected KMFDM three years later, signing with Metropolis Records. This new era featured American singer Lucia Cifarelli (from Drill) and Tim Skold (who later joined Marilyn Manson). Konietzko and Cifarelli returned to Germany in 2008 and have consistently recorded and toured. Their most recent album, ‘LET GO’, released in 2024, coincided with the group’s 40th anniversary.

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Cutting Edge Culture Updates, New Music Release, Projekt Records

Projekt Records just released The Transcending Quest (2019 remaster) by vidnaObmana.

Projekt Records has just released the remastered version of vidnaObmana’s seminal 1994 work, “The Transcending Quest”! This influential release in tribal ambient and experimental music is now available as a name-your-price download on Projekt’s Bandcamp and will be hitting streaming platforms this Friday.

Originally released as a 3″ CD on the Italian Amplexus label, this 20-minute piece has been meticulously remastered by Dirk Serries in March 2019.

Soundohm describes “THE TRANSCENDING QUEST” as perfectly representing the sound of Vidna Obmana, concentrating all the atmospheres and moods later developed on albums like “THE RIVER OF APPEARANCE” and the collaboration with Steve Roach, “WELL OF SOULS.” They also note it as the beginning of the “wonderful and unforgettable adventure called Amplexus,” deeming it a “must for any Ambient connoisseur!”

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