EBM Lovers - Some lesser-known albums for you.
 

So, I've really been filling out my EBM card lately. Here are a few extremely worthy releases that you all should check into if you like EBM and Synthpop.

Echo Image - Compuphonic
This is PURE synthpop. It takes synth and pop and exploits every meaning of both words. It's arguably the 'gayest' sounding music that I've ever heard, but what makes it so enjoyable is that it's GOOD FUCKIN' MUSIC. If you have any sense of humility about your music, then you can listen to this album with no problem. Notable tracks are Standing Alone and Skurk. The site that I learned about this album from gave it a 10/10.

Solitary Experiments - Advance Into Unknown
This is a mix of styles within dark EBM. While the music is very skilled and layered, it's lyric-driven music like Assemblage 23. I've had this CD in my car for a few weeks and I enjoy it every time it comes on. The cool thing about EBM is that more artists produce albums where every single song is worth listening to. This is no exception. Some notable tracks are Miracle, Do You Feel, Secrets, Wasteland, Paradise.

Seize - The Other Side Of Your Mind
This is less EBM than it is dark trance. Dance music with slightly repetetive lyrics. The female voice is very soothing and addictive. I played this in my car for my sister and she immediately wanted a copy. Notable tracks are The Other Side, Don't Let Me, Unbreakable, Eyes Water, Because of Me.

Emergence - The Science of Suffering
I'm listening to this right now. It's got great page and a good mix of harsh and gentle. The whole album is a good listen straight through with a few songs that you'll listen to over and over. Some notable tracks are Scarred, Blue Muse, The Tower, Shahda.

Some singles that I've really enjoyed:
Seabound - Smoke
Glis - Resolution
Evil's Toy - Style
Stromkern - Night Riders
Ayria - Horrible Dream

Well.. hope you check 'em out and enjoy. Feel free to suggest some other lesser-known EBM.

Sheesh.. or not

whats EBM?
i dont recognize any of those bands...

We just put them in the "synth"-genre, here, but here are some suggestions:

Alice in Videoland
Wumpscut
And One
Angels & Agony
Apoptygma Berzerk
Assemblage 23
Beborn Beton
BlutEngel
Cause & Effect
Covenant (of course)
D pressiv
DAF (especially "Der Mussolini")
Dark Side Cowboys
Das Ich
De/Vision
Die Form
Elegant Machinery
T.O.Y
Feindflug
Front 242
Front Line Assembly
Funker Vogt
God Module
Grendel
Haujobb
Headscan
Hocico ("Where Ange's Don't Sing")
I, Parasite
Icon of Coil
Imperative Reaction
Informatik
KOMPRESSOR
L'áme Immortelle
Laibach
Leather Strip
Mesh
Mentallo & The Fixer
NCC (highly recommended)
Negative Format
Neuroactive
Neuroticfish
Project Pitchfork
PUSS
S.P.O.C.K
Second Decay
Statemachine
Cate Rapes Dog
Suicide Commando (especially "Hellraiser", VNV Nation mix)
Terminal Choice
The April Tears
Welle Erdball
Zeromancer
Kevorkian Death Cycle

This might be EBM, synthpop, industrial, whatever for you, but in Sweden we call it "synth".