The Industrialized Metal Webzine is a webzine that concentrates on the industrial metal

Industrial metal

Industrial metal is a musical genre that draws from industrial music and many different types of heavy metal, using repeating metal guitar riffs, sampling, synthesizer or sequencer lines, and distorted vocals. Founding industrial metal acts include Ministry, Godflesh, and KMFDM.Industrial metal's...

 subgenre and everything related to it. It contains album reviews, concert reviews and interviews, as well they're known for organising underground live shows, DJ sets and compilation

Compilation album

A compilation album is an album featuring tracks from one or more performers, often culled from a variety of sources The tracks are usually collected according to a common characteristic, such as popularity, genre, source or subject matter...

 releases.

The webzine is existing since 2004 and has managed to gain an excellent reputation within the worldwide industrial metal scene. From the start it has always been more focussed on independent

Independent record label

An independent record label is a record label operating without the funding of or outside the organizations of the major record labels. A great number of bands and musical acts begin on independent labels.-Overview:...

 and unsigned

Unsigned artist

The term "unsigned artist" or "independent artist" is used in the music industry as a marketing technique.-History and current scene:Many unsigned artists used to sell their music and music-related merchandise without the financial support of a record label, while often seeking a recording contract...

 bands, giving them space to promote and express themselves.

Content

The Industrialized Metal Webzine is a large webzine including different sections and contents.

Band profiles

The Industrialized Metal Webzine includes a large database of band profiles of bands that have been reviewed or interviewed on the page, or just fit within the industrial metal genre in any way. Sorted on alphabetical order, the band profile itself contains information about the roots and links to their webpages.

Reviews

The album reviews section contains currently over 500 reviews, of full-lengths, EP's, demo's, free download releases and websingles. The section gets updated usually a few times a month. There is also a small live review section, consisting mostly of tour reports. Live reports by Industrialized Metal Webzine crewmembers have been published on webzines such as Gothtronic in the past as well.

Interviews

Bands from all over the world, including from countries such as India

India

India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...

, Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

, Philippines

Philippines

The Philippines , officially known as the Republic of the Philippines , is a country in Southeast Asia in the western Pacific Ocean. To its north across the Luzon Strait lies Taiwan. West across the South China Sea sits Vietnam...

, China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

 and South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

, have been interviewed on the Industrialized Metal Webzine. Some of the more known names that have been interviewed are Vigilante

Vigilante

A vigilante is a private individual who legally or illegally punishes an alleged lawbreaker, or participates in a group which metes out extralegal punishment to an alleged lawbreaker....

, Ewigkeit

Ewigkeit

Ewigkeit was the experimental extreme music project, formed in 1995 by James Fogarty . On 28 March 2007, Fogarty announced the end of the project on Blabbermouth, the Death To Music website and also on Myspace.-Band history:...

, Undercover Slut

Undercover Slut

Undercover Slut is a French/American Shock Rock and Glam Punk group.Throughout the history of the band there have been multiple line-up changes, more than twenty different people have been involved with the band, while certain musicians do contribute music, vocalist and lyricist 'O' remains the...

, Punish Yourself

Punish Yourself

Punish Yourself is a French electronic rock band best known for their stage theatrics and innovative style of industrial/punk music. They describe their style as "Fluo Cyber Punk".-Current members:...

, DyNAbyte and Omega Lithium

Omega Lithium

Omega Lithium is a Croatian industrial metal band. Despite its origins, it is classified as a Neue Deutsche Härte band. The band was formed in 2007 and is signed to Drakkar Entertainment, a part of Sony BMG. The band's debut album, Dreams in Formaline, was released on 18 September 2009.The first...

.

Live gigs and DJ sets

Since 2004 the webzine has rarely organized live shows and mini-tours, bringing foreign underground bands such as DyNAbyte (Italy), Golem 101 (Germany), No Forgiveness (Italy), Volkmar (Australia) and Neon Synthesis (Italy) to Dutch stages to perform with local industrial metal bands such as DeadCell, REEL, 3rd Machine and Next Waste Dimension. Live pictures are spread all over the net, including the MySpace profile of the webzine and official band websites.

The Industrialized Metal Webzine founder, Gerardo, has been doing DJ sets all over the country too - sharing the stage with bands such as Deathstars

Deathstars

Deathstars is a Swedish band from Stockholm that perform industrial and gothic metal. Formed in 2000, the group are noted for their dark horror-themed lyrics, pessimistic and misanthropic social commentary, distinctive trademark face paint, dark stage uniforms and physical appearances that...

, Deadcell, Golem 101, Next Waste Dimension, Sybreed

Sybreed

Sybreed is an industrial metal/groove metal band from Geneva, Switzerland.- History :Sybreed was formed in 2003 by vocalist Benjamin and guitarist Drop, after they previously worked together in a band, called Rain. In 2004, Sybreed released their debut album Slave Design...

and Obszön Geschöpf. As well he has done a few remixes that can be heard on the MySpace profile.

Compilations

Together with Death To Music Productions, the Industrialized Metal Webzine is responsible for the release of the F**k Em All compilation series. These compilations have mostly been filled with independent and unsigned bands and Death To Music bands fitting into the industrial metal genre. All releases are downloadeable for free on the Death To Music webpage and come with full artwork and band interviews.

Podcasts

Recently Gerardo has agreed to play podcasts on the industrial metal webradio Radio Godmode. It consists of a two-hour podcast every other week, being broadcasted four times a week.

Links

• Industrialized Metal Webzine
• MySpace account