Top 5 would be:
Boy Harsher - Careful
Acretongue - Ghost Nocturne
Numb - Mortal Geometry
Statiqbloom - Asphyxia
Twin Tribes - Ceremony
The way the cards have fallen this year, it’s mainly been gothy darkwavey rather than IDM.
I’ve stuck together a playlist:
Spotify – 2019
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EDITS / UPDATES TO INCLUDE ALL SUBSEQUENT YEARS
2022
Audio Abattoir 2022
2023
Audio Abattoir 2023
2024
Audio Abattoir 2024
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Audio Abattoir 2025
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2026 provisional
TOPS :
#1. Darkways - Rust
Hyper-catchy postpunk darkwave
#2. Actors - Our Love Will Live Forever
Vancouver, polished melodic post-punk
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Dryft – Particle
Dreamy post-industrial IDM
Diavol Strain - Eterno Retorno
Chilean, intense goth rock
Madeline Goldstein - Speaking To The Body
Dark synthpop
SDH - Rider
Electro darkwave
Miracle - The Living Likeness Of My Electric Daemon
Black Celebration goes all gnostic and esoteric
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Others To Note :
This Morn’ Omina – Insha
Dense ritualistic ambient
DSX - Cold Ballads EP
Industrial, Haujobb side-project
Vioflesh - Melancolia
Poppy darkwave
Sans-Fin - Grises Images
Hard industrial techno, with some rhythmic noise; sonic lobotomy guaranteed
Bent - Renascence
Dark electro; reminiscent of mid 90s Project Pitchfork
Thin Eater - Incisor
Goth postpunk, Pete Murphyesque vocals
Armours - Body EP
Dark synthpop meets light EBM
Nnhmn - Opera Of Lust And Art Of Sorrowing Part 2
Electro darkwave
Bestial Mouths - Dead Lines
Mix of postpunk darkwave and heavy industrial percussion; howling Diamanda/Siouxsie esque vocals
Tense - No Cure
Berlin, sharp combative postpunk
Boy Harsher - Get Mean
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TOPS:
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BEST OF THE REST :
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