John Fryer is an English record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

. Best known for his production work, he also branched out as a musician as one of only two constant members of This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil

This Mortal Coil was a gothic dream pop supergroup led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom...

 (along with Ivo Watts-Russell

Ivo Watts-Russell

Ivo Watts-Russell was joint-founder with Peter Kent of the English indie record label 4AD. He has also produced several records, himself preferring to use the term "musical director" to explain his role in the creation....

), providing keyboards, strings and synthesizer sequencing for the band, and its offshoot, The Hope Blister

The Hope Blister

The Hope Blister was an ambient band founded by Ivo Watts-Russell, head of the 4AD Records label. The band was something of a continuation of the This Mortal Coil project, but with a fixed line-up on ...smile's OK and focusing on cover versions...

.

Career

Starting out at Blackwing Studios

Blackwing Studios

Blackwing Studios was an English recording studio, most notable for early Depeche Mode and Yazoo recordings in the early 1980s.-Background:The Blackwing Studios complex was housed inside a deconsecrated church in South-East London. All Hallows church was partly destroyed during The Blitz in 1941...

 in south London

London

London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...

, Fryer's early career saw him working with seminal bands on the 4AD

4AD

4AD is a British independent record label that was started in 1979 by Ivo Watts-Russell and Peter Kent, funded by Beggars Banquet Records, and is still active today...

, Mute

Mute Records

Mute is an independent record label based in the UK. It was founded in 1978 by Daniel Miller and featured several prominent musical acts on its roster such as Goldfrapp, Depeche Mode, Yazoo, Erasure and Fad Gadget.-Beginnings:...

, Rough Trade

Rough Trade (band)

Rough Trade was a Canadian new wave rock band in the 1970s and 1980s, centred on singer Carole Pope and multi-instrumentalist Kevan Staples. The band was noted for their provocative lyrics and stage antics; singer Pope often performed in bondage attire, and their 1981 hit "High School...

 and Beggars Banquet

Beggars Banquet

- Personnel :The Rolling Stones* Mick Jagger – lead and backing vocals, harmonica on "Parachute Woman"* Keith Richards – acoustic and electric guitar, bass guitar on "Sympathy for the Devil" and "Street Fighting Man", backing vocals, lead vocals on opening of "Salt of the Earth"* Brian...

 record labels, including Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode

Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...

, Fad Gadget

Fad Gadget

Fad Gadget is the stage name of Francis John Tovey , a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both New Wave and early Industrial music....

 and the Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins

Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...

. It was his work with the last band, helping to develop their pioneering ethereal and ambient sound, that led Watts-Russell to recruit Fryer as his musical and producing partner for This Mortal Coil.

Fryer is also known for his production work in the industrial rock

Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...

 genre, working with Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails

Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...

, Stabbing Westward

Stabbing Westward

Stabbing Westward was an American industrial rock and alternative rock band. They formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois and began recording in the 1990s. The band announced a dissolution in 2002.- Early years :...

 and Gravity Kills

Gravity Kills

Gravity Kills is an American industrial rock band from Jefferson City, Missouri. Their music was described by one critic as "a blending of eerie industrial rock with a pop-infused melodic chorus and a bit of hard-core head banging."...

. He worked with Dope Stars Inc, the Italian industrial rock

Industrial rock

Industrial rock is a musical genre that fuses industrial music and specific rock subgenres. Industrial rock spawned industrial metal, with which it is often confused...

 band, on their debut album, ":://Neuromance".
He also produced, engineered and mixed The Schools' Spellemannspris (which won a Norwegian Grammy), and mixed the US breakthrough album for Jesus Jones, Doubt. More recently, Fryer has also started his own label, Something To Listen To.

In early 2010, Fryer began collaborating with Stripmall Architecture

Stripmall Architecture

Stripmall Architecture formed when Ryan and Rebecca Coseboom's previous band, Halou, dissolved. The expanded band includes Tim Hingston , Patrick Harte , Erica 'Unwoman' Mulkey , and other supporting musicians for their live shows and recording sessions...

 vocalist Rebecca Coseboom under the name Dark Drive Clinic. The pair released their debut album, Noise In My Head, in October 2011.

Soundtracks

• Seven
  Seven (film)
  Seven is a 1995 American thriller film, which also contains horror and neo-noir elements, directed by David Fincher and written by Andrew Kevin Walker. It was distributed by New Line Cinema and stars Brad Pitt, Morgan Freeman, Gwyneth Paltrow, R...
  
   (1995)
• Mortal Kombat (1995)
• Faust (2001)
• Resident Evil: Apocalypse
  Resident Evil (film)
  Resident Evil is a British-German 2002 horror film written and directed by Paul W.S. Anderson. The film stars Milla Jovovich, Michelle Rodriguez, Eric Mabius, and James Purefoy...
  
   (2004)
• Clerks
  Clerks
  Clerks is a 1994 independent comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also appears in the film as Silent Bob. Starring Brian O'Halloran as Dante Hicks and Jeff Anderson as Randal Graves, it presents a day in the lives of two store clerks and their acquaintances...
  
   (1994)
• Johnny Mnemonic (1995)
• Mortal Kombat: More Kombat (1996)

Producer

• Fireside Favorites (1980) - Fad Gadget
  Fad Gadget
  Fad Gadget is the stage name of Francis John Tovey , a British avant-garde electronic musician and vocalist. He was a proponent of both New Wave and early Industrial music....
  
  
• Dome (1980) - Dome
  Dome (band)
  Dome was a musical group consisting of Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis .-Background:...
  
  
• Dome 2 (1980) - Dome
• 3R4 (1980) - BC Gilbert
  Bruce Gilbert
  Bruce Gilbert is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, Gilbert branched out into electronic music, performance art, music production, and DJing during the band's extended periods of inactivity...
  
   / G Lewis
  Graham Lewis
  Graham Lewis is an English musician.Lewis is the bassist with punk rock/post-punk band Wire, a band formed in 1976...
  
  
• Dome 3 (1981) - Dome
• Incontinent (1981) - Fad Gadget
• Speak & Spell
  Speak & Spell (album)
  Speak & Spell is the first album from the British electronic group Depeche Mode, recorded and released in 1981. The album peaked at #10 in the UK Albums Chart.-Overview:This was the only Depeche Mode album with Vince Clarke as a member of the band...
  
   (1981) - Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
  
  
• Upstairs at Eric's
  Upstairs at Eric's
  Upstairs at Eric's is Yazoo's first album produced by the band and E.C. Radcliffe with assistance from Daniel Miller. It reached # 2 in UK and # 92 in US...
  
   (1982) - Yazoo
  Yazoo (band)
  Yazoo are a British synthpop duo from Basildon, Essex. They had a number of Top 10 hits in the UK charts in the early 1980s...
  
  
• MZUI (1982) - BC Gilbert / G Lewis / Russell Mills
  Russell Mills (artist)
  Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK in 1952. He paints, creates multimedia installations, designs stage sets and lighting and has produced record covers and book covers for Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins,Michael Nyman, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, and Nine Inch...
  
  
• Head Over Heels (1983) - Cocteau Twins
  Cocteau Twins
  Cocteau Twins were a Scottish alternative rock band active from 1979 to 1997, known for innovative instrumentation and atmospheric, non-lyrical vocals...
  
  
• Sunburst and Snowblind
  Sunburst and Snowblind
  Sunburst and Snowblind is an EP by the Scottish rock group Cocteau Twins, released on the 4AD label in September 1983. The EP features an extended version of "Sugar Hiccup" from the album Head over Heels, as well as three other tracks...
  
   (1983) - Cocteau Twins
• Fetisch (1983) - Xmal Deutschland
  Xmal Deutschland
  Xmal Deutschland , often written as X-Mal Deutschland, was a musical group from Hamburg, Germany. Founded in 1980 with a completely female line-up, they became successful outside their native country. The lead singer of the band is vocalist Anja Huwe...
  
  
• Or So It Seems (1983) - Duet Emmo
• From The Promised Land
  From the Promised Land
  From The Promised Land is a 1984 album by Play Dead, and the original version of the band's Resurrection . Only 1000 copies of this LP were pressed because the band members decided they were dissatisfied with the album....
  
   (1984) - Play Dead
  Play Dead (band)
  Play Dead were an English Goth rock group from Oxford that grew out of the fading English punk scene in 1980. Though the band was identified with groups like UK Decay and Sex Gang Children, the band felt they didn't belong under the "Gothic" title...
  
  
• It'll End in Tears
  It'll End in Tears
  It'll End in Tears was an album released in 1984 by 4AD using the name This Mortal Coil as an umbrella title for a loose grouping of guest musicians and vocalists brought together by label boss Ivo Watts-Russell. When released in late 1984, the album reached #38 on the UK Albums Chart...
  
   (1984) - This Mortal Coil
  This Mortal Coil
  This Mortal Coil was a gothic dream pop supergroup led by Ivo Watts-Russell, founder of the British record label 4AD. Although Watts-Russell and John Fryer were technically the only two official members, the band's recorded output featured a large rotating cast of supporting artists, many of whom...
  
  
• Tocsin (1984) - Xmal Deutschland
• Ricochet Days (1984) - Modern English
  Modern English (band)
  Modern English are an English rock band best remembered for their songs "I Melt with You", "Hands Across the Sea", and "Ink and Paper". The group disbanded for a period in 1991, but later recorded in 1995 and 2002 with new members...
  
  
• This Way (1984) - Bruce Gilbert
  Bruce Gilbert
  Bruce Gilbert is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, Gilbert branched out into electronic music, performance art, music production, and DJing during the band's extended periods of inactivity...
  
  
• Legendary Wolfgang Press and Other Tall Stories (1985) - The Wolfgang Press
  The Wolfgang Press
  The Wolfgang Press was an English post-punk band, active from 1983 until 1995, recording for the 4AD label. The core of the band was Michael Allen , Mark Cox , and Andrew Gray , with many guest musicians....
  
  
• Fad Gadget Singles (1985) - Frank Tovey
• Clan of Xymox [Bonus Tracks] (1985) - Clan of Xymox
  Clan of Xymox
  The band Clan of Xymox, also known as Xymox, formed in the Netherlands in 1981. Clan Of Xymox featured a trio of songwriters - Pieter Nooten, Ronny Moorings and Anke [also Anka] Wolbert - and gained success in the 1980s, releasing their first two albums on a prestigious independent UK label, a...
  
  
• Fad Gadget Singles (1985) - Fad Gadget
• Filigree & Shadow
  Filigree & Shadow
  Filigree & Shadow is an album released in 1986 by Ivo Watts-Russell's supergroup, This Mortal Coil. The supergroup consists primarily of artists attached to the 4AD label, of which Ivo was the co-founder and the owner and president...
  
   (1986) - This Mortal Coil
• Standing Up Straight (1986) - The Wolfgang Press
• Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
  Should the World Fail to Fall Apart
  Should the World Fail to Fall Apart is the first album by the British solo artist Peter Murphy, formerly of the gothic rock band Bauhaus. The album contains Murphy's covers of Magazine's "The Light Pours Out of Me" and Pere Ubu's "Final Solution." It was released in 1986.-Original LP track...
  
   (1986) - Peter Murphy
  Peter Murphy (musician)
  Peter John Murphy is an English rock vocalist. He was the vocalist of the rock group Bauhaus, and later went on to release a number of solo albums, such as Deep and Love Hysteria...
  
  
• Hail (1986) - He Said
  He Said
  He Said was the name used by Wire member Graham Lewis for his solo record releases in the 1980s.-Background:The first He Said album titled Hail was released by Mute Records in October 1986. It was produced by Graham Lewis and John Fyer and recorded at Blackwing Studios in London...
  
  
• The Shivering Man (1986) - Bruce Gilbert
• Children of God
  Children Of God (album)
  Children of God is the eighth album by the American band Swans, released in 1987. It was re-released along with some songs by World of Skin on CD in 1997, as Children of God/World of Skin. On this re-release, the original album version of Our Love Lies was replaced with the version included on the...
  
   (1987) - Swans
  Swans (band)
  Swans are an influential American post-punk band initially active from 1982 to 1997, led by singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Michael Gira. The band was one of the few groups to emerge from the early 1980s New York No Wave scene and stay intact into the next decade. Formed by Gira in...
  
  
• Lonely Is an Eyesore (1987) - Various Artists
• Pump Up The Volume (Remix) (1987) - M/A/R/R/S
• Figure One Cuts (1987) - Minimal Compact
  Minimal Compact
  Minimal Compact were an Israeli rock band associated with the post punk and indie rock movement of the 1980s.-Biography:Between its foundation in 1981 and its dissolution seven years later, Minimal Compact played a small role in the European rock scene...
  
  
• Medusa [Bonus Tracks] (1987) - Clan of Xymox
• Three Times and Waving (1987) – Breathless
  Breathless (band)
  Breathless is name of English band which has existed since the 1980s, led by Dominic Appleton, who made a guest appearance on This Mortal Coil's Filigree & Shadow album.- Members :* Dominic Appleton...
  
  
• Raindancing (1987) - Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet
  Alison Moyet , is an English singer, songwriter and performer noted for her bluesy voice.Her UK album sales have reached a certified 2.3 million, with 800,000 singles sold, all in the UK, where all seven of her studio albums and three compilation albums have charted in the Top 40 UK Album Chart,...
  
  
• Dawnrazor (1987) - Fields of the Nephilim
  Fields of the Nephilim
  Fields of the Nephilim are an English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer Alexander "Nod" Wright...
  
  
• This Way to the Shivering Man (1987) - Bruce Gilbert
• 8 Time (1988) - BC Gilbert / G Lewis
• Take Care (1988) - He Said
• It's Beginning to and Back Again
  It's Beginning to and Back Again
  It's Beginning To And Back Again, also known as IBTABA, is the sixth album by the British post-punk group Wire, released in 1989.The record mostly consists of reinterpretations of live performances of material from the band's previous record, A Bell Is a Cup...Until It Is Struck...
  
   (1989) - Wire
  Wire (band)
  Wire are an English rock band, formed in London in October 1976 by Colin Newman , Graham Lewis , Bruce Gilbert , and Robert Gotobed...
  
  
• One of Our Girls (1989) - A.C. Marias
  AC Marias
  AC Marias was the name under which Wire collaborator Angela Conway released a number of records during the 1980s and early 1990s. She was assisted by Wire's Bruce Gilbert on many releases, and on the single "Time Was" and album One Of Our Girls was also assisted by other Mute Records musicians...
  
  
• Love and Rockets [Compilation] (1989) - Love and Rockets
  Love and Rockets (band)
  Love and Rockets were an English alternative rock band formed in 1985 by former Bauhaus members Daniel Ash , David J , and Kevin Haskins . Former Bauhaus vocalist Peter Murphy had embarked on a solo career after Bauhaus split in 1983...
  
  
• Very Special Christmas (1989) - Various Artists
• Words for Our Years (1989) - Hugh Harris
• Clan of Xymox [Import] (1989) - Clan of Xymox
• Love and Rockets (1989) - Love and Rockets
• Pretty Hate Machine
  Pretty Hate Machine
  Pretty Hate Machine is the debut album by American industrial rock act Nine Inch Nails, released October 20, 1989, on TVT Records. Pretty Hate Machine is compiled of reworked tracks from the Purest Feeling demo, as well as tracks recorded after its recording...
  
   (1989) - Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails
  Nine Inch Nails is an American industrial rock project, founded in 1988 by Trent Reznor in Cleveland, Ohio. As its main producer, singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist, Reznor is the only official member of Nine Inch Nails and remains solely responsible for its direction...
  
  
• Magic Seed (1990) - Easy
• Indie Top 20, Vol. 9 (1990) - Various Artists
• Livonia
  Livonia (His Name Is Alive album)
  Livonia is the debut LP by His Name Is Alive. It was originally released on 4AD in the UK in 1990 and in 1992 on 4AD/Rykodisc in the USA.-History:...
  
   (1990) - His Name Is Alive
  His Name Is Alive
  His Name Is Alive is an experimental rock band/project from Livonia, Michigan. After several self-released cassettes, they debuted on 4AD Records in 1990, starting a long run at the label...
  
  
• Chasing Promises (1990) - Breathless
• Head Down (1990) - Moev
  Moev
  Founded in 1981 by Tom Ferris and Cal Stephenson, Moev is an electronic music group that recorded on Atlantic Records, Nettwerk Records, Go! Records and Cop International...
  
  
• Singles Box 2 (1991) - Depeche Mode
• England Made Me (1991) - Cath Carroll
  Cath Carroll
  Cath Carroll is a British musician and music journalist.-Career:Carroll was raised in Swansea, then Manchester. She played guitar in post-punk band Property of... in 1978, which also included former Warsaw drummer Tony Tabac. In 1979 she formed the band Glass Animals with her friend Liz Naylor...
  
  
• The Drill (1991) - Wire
• Doubt
  Doubt (album)
  Doubt is the second album by the British rock band Jesus Jones in 1991 through Food Records, distributed by SBK Records and via Parlophone. The album reached #25 in the US and topped the UK chart....
  
   (1991) - Jesus Jones
  Jesus Jones
  Jesus Jones are a British rock band. The Wiltshire-based group, formed in late 1988, recorded and performed in the late 1980s, throughout the 1990s, and into the 2000s. They are best remembered for their track, "Right Here, Right Now", an international hit and subsequently globally appropriated for...
  
  
• Blood (1991) - This Mortal Coil
• Hoodoo (1991) - Alison Moyet
• Nettwerk Sampler, Vol. 3 (1991) - Various Artists
• Whirlpool (1991) – Chapterhouse
  Chapterhouse
  For the religious buildings, see Chapter houseChapterhouse are a British shoegazing band originally of the early 1990s, from Reading, Berkshire, England. Formed in 1987 by Andrew Sherriff and Stephen Patman, the band began performing alongside Spacemen 3...
  
  
• Home Is in Your Head
  Home Is in Your Head
  Home Is in Your Head is the second studio album by His Name Is Alive, originally released via 4AD in the UK on September 9, 1991, and on Rykodisc in the USA in 1992.-History:...
  
   [Rykodisc] (1991) - His Name Is Alive
• Singles Box 1 (1991) - Depeche Mode
• familiar! (1991) - Invisible Limits
• Resurrection (1992) - Play Dead
  Play Dead (band)
  Play Dead were an English Goth rock group from Oxford that grew out of the fading English punk scene in 1980. Though the band was identified with groups like UK Decay and Sex Gang Children, the band felt they didn't belong under the "Gothic" title...
  
  
• Storybook (1992) - The Beautiful
• Blind (1992) - Sex Gang Children
  Sex Gang Children
  The Sex Gang Children are a positive punk group that formed in the early 1980s in England. Although the original group only released one official studio album, they remain one of the more well-known bands out of the early Batcave scene and have reformed for new albums and touring various times...
  
  
• Blow (1992) - Swallow
  Swallow (band)
  Swallow were the British-based duo of Mike Mason and Louise Trehy. Signed to 4AD, they only released one studio album and one special remix collection before leaving the label...
  
  
• Ungod (1993) - Stabbing Westward
  Stabbing Westward
  Stabbing Westward was an American industrial rock and alternative rock band. They formed in 1985 in Chicago, Illinois and began recording in the 1990s. The band announced a dissolution in 2002.- Early years :...
  
  
• Mid-Eighties (1993) - Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt
  Robert Wyatt is an English musician, and founding member of the influential Canterbury scene band Soft Machine, with a long and distinguished solo career...
  
  
• Tribute to Metallica [Bonus Tracks] (1993) - Die Krupps
  Die Krupps
  Die Krupps is a German industrial rock/EBM band, formed in 1980 by Jürgen Engler and Bernward Malaka in Düsseldorf.-History:Their initial sound throughout the 1980s combined synthesizers with metallic percussion...
  
  
• First Flower (1993) - Play Dead
• Cyber Core Compilation (1994) - Various Artists
• Heartburst (1995) – Breathless
• Sharks Patrol These Waters (1995) - Various Artists
• Metalmorphosis of Die Krupps: 81-92 (1996) - Die Krupps
• Sweet F.A. (1996) - Love and Rockets
• Supersexy Swingin' Sounds
  Supersexy Swingin' Sounds
  Supersexy Swingin' Sounds is a remix album by White Zombie. It was released through Geffen Records in 1996 and was the band's final album. The Wal-Mart and K-Mart clean version of the album depict the cover model in a blue bikini rather than totally nude....
  
   (1996) - White Zombie
  White Zombie
  White Zombie was a Grammy Award-nominated American heavy metal band. Based in New York City, White Zombie was originally a noise rock band. White Zombie are better-known for their later heavy metal-oriented sound...
  
  
• Plasticized (1997) - Pink Noise Test
• Before X (1997) - Various Artists
• Wither Blister Burn & Peel (1996) - Stabbing Westward
• Gravity Kills (1996) - Gravity Kills
  Gravity Kills
  Gravity Kills is an American industrial rock band from Jefferson City, Missouri. Their music was described by one critic as "a blending of eerie industrial rock with a pop-infused melodic chorus and a bit of hard-core head banging."...
  
  
• Children of God/World of Skin (1997) – Swans
• Manipulated (1997) - Gravity Kills
• Tiny Warnings (1997) - Radio Iodine
  Radio Iodine
  Radio Iodine was an alternative rock band from St. Louis, Missouri.-Members:* Ellen Bledsoe - vocals* Tom Bramer - guitars* Anna DiPiazza - keyboards, backing vocals* Tony Persyn - bass and sequencing* Greg Miller - drumsFormer member original drummer...
  
  
• Telepathic Last Words (1998) - Course of Empire
  Course of Empire
  Course of Empire was an Alternative / post-punk band based in Dallas, Texas.- Biography :Course of Empire was a hard-edged, post-industrial, alternative music group based in Dallas, Texas from 1988 to 1998. In the early days, large drums would be placed throughout the audience as a means to...
  
  
• Messiah Meets Progenitor (1998) – Messiah
• Singles 81>85 (1998) - Depeche Mode
• Words Become Worms (1998) - Love in Reverse
• Messiah Meets Progenitor (1998) - Messiah
• Singles 81>85 [Australia] (1998) - Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
  
  
• Singles Box, Vol. 3 [Import CD][Limited Edition] (1998) - Depeche Mode
• Whilst Climbing Thieves Vie for Attention (1998) - P'O
• Anakin (1998) - Various Artists
• ...smile's ok (1998) - The Hope Blister
  The Hope Blister
  The Hope Blister was an ambient band founded by Ivo Watts-Russell, head of the 4AD Records label. The band was something of a continuation of the This Mortal Coil project, but with a fixed line-up on ...smile's OK and focusing on cover versions...
  
  
• Speak & Spell [Bonus Tracks] (1998) - Depeche Mode
• Singles Box, Vol. 2 [Import CD][Limited Edition] (1998) - Depeche Mode
• Postpunk Chronicles: Left of the Dial (1999) - Various Artists
• Underarms (1999) - The Hope Blister
• Best of Yazoo (1999) - Yazoo
• Dawnrazor [Bonus Track] (1999) - Fields of the Nephilim
  Fields of the Nephilim
  Fields of the Nephilim are an English gothic rock band formed in Stevenage, Hertfordshire in 1984. The original line-up consisted of vocalist Carl McCoy, saxophonist Gary Whisker, Tony Pettitt on bass, guitarist Paul Wright and drummer Alexander "Nod" Wright...
  
  
• Postpunk Chronicles: Left of the Dial (1999) - Various Artists
• 1980's New Wave (1999) - Various Artists
• From the Cradle to Enslave
  From the Cradle to Enslave
  From the Cradle to Enslave is an EP by Cradle of Filth. It contains two original tracks; the title track and "Of Dark Blood and Fucking". The rest of the disc consists of two cover versions and a re-recording of a track from the album Dusk... and Her Embrace...
  
   (1999) - Cradle of Filth
  Cradle of Filth
  Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
  
  
• Acoustek (2000) – Instrumental
• Dr. Wu 2000 (2000) - Various Artists
• Corrode (2000) - Groundswell UK
• Yclept (2000) – Dome
  Dome (band)
  Dome was a musical group consisting of Bruce Gilbert and Graham Lewis .-Background:...
  
  
• Midian
  Midian
  Midian , Madyan , or Madiam is a geographical place and a people mentioned in the Bible and in the Qur'an. It is believed to be in northwest Saudi Arabia on the east shore of the Gulf of Aqaba and the northern Red Sea...
  
   (2000) - Cradle of Filth
• Razorblade Romance
  Razorblade Romance
  Razorblade Romance is the second studio album by HIM, released on 19 December 1999 in Finland and 24 January 2000 in the rest of Europe - except for the UK, where it was released 15 May 2000. It was produced by John Fryer and recorded at Rockfield recording studios in Wales by John Fryer and Paul...
  
   (2000) - HIM
• Complete Sex Gang Children (2000) - Sex Gang Children
• Rough Trade Shops: 25 Years (2001) - Various Artists
• Driving A Million (2001) - Gwenmars
• Fall: The Complete Singles (2001) - Sex Gang Children
• Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights [Bonus Tracks] (2001) - HIM
• Raging Speedhorn [UK Bonus Tracks] (2001) - Raging Speedhorn
  Raging Speedhorn
  Raging Speedhorn were a British metal band, founded in Corby, Northamptonshire.-Career:Raging Speedhorn were formed in 1998 from the merging of the bands Soulcellar and Box...
  
  
• Believe in Nothing (2001) - Paradise Lost
  Paradise Lost (band)
  Paradise Lost are a heavy metal band that formed in 1988 in Halifax, England.-History:Their first three full-length albums are examples of the death/doom style, although the latter two incorporated some melodic and gothic elements...
  
  
• Everything Is Beautiful: 1983-1995 (2001) - The Wolfgang Press
• Modern Sound Files (2001) - Various Artists
• Best of Fad Gadget (2001) - Fad Gadget
• Ciao! 1989-1996 (2001) - Lush
  Lush (band)
  Lush were an English alternative rock band, formed in 1987 and disbanded in 1998. They were one of the first bands to attract the "shoegazing" label...
  
  
• The Single Collection (2002) - HIM
• Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
  Lovecraft & Witch Hearts
  Lovecraft & Witch Hearts is a compilation album by Cradle of Filth. It is described in Dani Filth's sleeve notes as "a favoured grimoire of tracks coupled with the rare and unreleased, rather a 'mess of' than a 'best of'..." It was one of two releases in 2002 and was designed to round off Cradle...
  
   (2002) - Cradle of Filth
• Never Enough: Best Of (Remastered) (2002) - Jesus Jones
• Doubt [2002 Reissue] (2002) - Jesus Jones
• Spring Hill Fair [Expanded] (2002) - The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens
  The Go-Betweens were an indie rock band formed in Brisbane, Australia in 1977 by singer-songwriters and guitarists, Robert Forster and Grant McLennan. They were later joined by Lindy Morrison on drums, Robert Vickers on bass guitar and Amanda Brown on violin, oboe, guitar, and backing vocals,...
  
  
• Love & Rockets / Swing Ep (Remastered) (Dlx Ed) (2002) - Love and Rockets
• Spring Hill Fair (2002) - The Go-Betweens
• Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
  Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights
  Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights is the third album by HIM, which was released on 27 August 2001. This is the first album that new keyboardist Janne Puurtinen took part in, thus making it the first album with HIM's current line-up...
  
   (2002) - HIM
• Sorted!: The Best of Love and Rockets (2003) - Love and Rockets
• Cradle Of Fear / Various (2003) - Various Artists
• Head Over Heels (2003) - Cocteau Twins
• Essential Stabbing Westward (2003) - Stabbing Westward
• Stars And Topsoil: A Collection 1982-1990 (Remastered) (2003) - Cocteau Twins
• Feedback to the Future (2003) - Various Artists
• This Is Electroclash / Various (2003) - Various Artists
• Glass Bead Game (Eng) (2003) - Breathless
• Mzui (2003) - Gilbert
  Bruce Gilbert
  Bruce Gilbert is an English musician. One of the founding members of the influential and experimental art-punk band Wire, Gilbert branched out into electronic music, performance art, music production, and DJing during the band's extended periods of inactivity...
  
  /Lewis
  Graham Lewis
  Graham Lewis is an English musician.Lewis is the bassist with punk rock/post-punk band Wire, a band formed in 1976...
  
  /Mills
  Russell Mills (artist)
  Russell Mills is a British artist who was born in Ripon, Yorkshire, UK in 1952. He paints, creates multimedia installations, designs stage sets and lighting and has produced record covers and book covers for Brian Eno, the Cocteau Twins,Michael Nyman, David Sylvian, Peter Gabriel, and Nine Inch...
  
  
• Head Over Heels (Remastered) (2003) - Cocteau Twins
• And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997-2004
  And Love Said No: The Greatest Hits 1997-2004
  And Love Said No The Greatest Hits 1997–2004 is HIM's first greatest hits album. It contains two unreleased songs: "And Love Said No" and "Solitary Man", the latter of which is a Neil Diamond cover. The British version also has a re-recorded version of "It's All Tears "...
  
  (2004) - HIM
• Singles Box 4 (2004) - Depeche Mode
• MTV
  MTV
  MTV, formerly an initialism of Music Television, is an American network based in New York City that launched on August 1, 1981. The original purpose of the channel was to play music videos guided by on-air hosts known as VJs....
  
  2 Headbangers Ball, Vol. 2 (2004) - Various Artists
• Terra Incognita (2004) – NON
  Boyd Rice
  Boyd Blake Rice is an American experimental sound/noise musician using the name of NON since the mid-1970s, archivist, actor, photographer, author, member of the Partridge Family Temple religious group, co-founder of the UNPOP art movement and current staff writer for Modern Drunkard...
  
  
• Singles Box 3 (2004) - Depeche Mode
• Louder Than the Crowd (2004) - Various Artists
• Remixes 81-04 (2004) - Depeche Mode
• Remixes 81-04 (2005) - Depeche Mode
• Hurry Home Early: The Songs of Warren Zevon
  Warren Zevon
  Warren William Zevon was an American rock singer-songwriter and musician noted for including his sometimes sardonic opinions of life in his musical lyrics, composing songs that were sometimes humorous and often had political or historical themes.Zevon's work has often been praised by well-known...
  
   (2005) - Various Artists
• Conspiritus (2005) – Ewigkeit
• Underarms & Sideways (2005) - The Hope Blister
• Mystery Of Faith (2005) - Jarboe
• The Fool (2005) - Esoterica
• Neuromance
  Neuromance
  Neuromance is the debut studio album by Italian industrial rock band Dope Stars Inc. and is also the first project by the band released under the Trisol Music Group label. Lyrically it focuses on traditional cyberpunk beliefs and themes...
  
   (2005) - Dope Stars Inc.
  Dope Stars Inc.
  Dope Stars Inc. is an alternative and industrial rock band formed in Rome, Italy in late 2002, though the band was not officially formed until 2003. The band was founded by Victor Love, Darin Yevonde, Grace Khold and Brian Wolfram. They have four albums and three EPs released, with the latest being...
  
  
• These Things Can't Hurt You Now So Throw Them In The Fire (2005) Colt
• Cradle of Filth Box Set (2006) - Cradle of Filth
  Cradle of Filth
  Cradle of Filth are an English extreme metal band, formed in Suffolk in 1991. The band's musical style evolved from black metal to a cleaner and more "produced" amalgam of gothic metal, symphonic black metal, and other extreme metal styles, while their lyrical themes and imagery are heavily...
  
  
• Lullabies to Violaine (2006) - Cocteau Twins
• Life Less Lived: The Gothic Box / Various (2006) - Various Artists
• Filthy Notes For Frozen Hearts (Bonus Tracks) (2006) - Lacrimas Profundere
• Lullabies To Violaine: Singles & Extended Plays 1 (2006) - Cocteau Twins
• Filthy Notes for Frozen Hearts (2006) - Lacrimas Profundere
• Uneasy Listening Vol. 1
  Uneasy Listening Vol. 1
  Uneasy Listening Vol. 1 is HIM's second compilation album. It contains special versions of various songs from their albums Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666, Razorblade Romance, Deep Shadows and Brilliant Highlights and Love Metal, most of which have already been released on various special limited...
  
  (2006) - HIM
• Body of Work 1984-1997 [UK] (2006) - Nitzer Ebb
  Nitzer Ebb
  Nitzer Ebb is a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris , Douglas McCarthy , and David Gooday .-Band name:...
  
  
• Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1 [CD/DVD] (2006) - Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
  
  
• Lonely At The Top + Extras (2006) - Hermine
• Spring Hill Fair [Bonus CD] (2006) - The Go-Betweens
• Speak & Spell [Bonus Track] (2006) - Depeche Mode
• 80's Dance Gold / Various (Rmst) (2006) - Various Artists
• Broken Frame (2006) - Depeche Mode
• Best of De/Vision (2006) - De/Vision
  De/Vision
  De/Vision is a German synthpop musical group. The band started as a quartet consisting of Thomas Adam, Steffen Keth, Stefan Blender, and Markus Ganssert. They formed the band in 1988. The name De/Vision is a play on words. The majority of the band's lyrics are in English, but they have had some...
  
  
• Body Of Work 1984-1997 (Bonus Cd) (Rmxs) (2006) - Nitzer Ebb
  Nitzer Ebb
  Nitzer Ebb is a British EBM group formed in 1982 by Essex school friends Vaughan "Bon" Harris , Douglas McCarthy , and David Gooday .-Band name:...
  
  
• Speak & Spell [Rhino US CD/DVD] (2006) - Depeche Mode
• Best of Depeche Mode, Vol. 1 [CD/DVD] (2006) - Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode
  Depeche Mode are an English electronic music band formed in 1980 in Basildon, Essex. The group's original line-up consisted of Dave Gahan , Martin Gore , Andy Fletcher and Vince Clarke...
  
  
• Best Of (2006) - Depeche Mode
• Tears, Love, Religion (2006) - Sundealers
• Stain (2006) - Everything On Black
• Espionage (2006) - The School
  The School
  The School is a Norwegian indie rock and post-punk revival band from Trondheim, formed in 2004. In January 2006, the band released its self-produced Mädchen EP. It was only available in local shops. It contains four tracks and is now sold out...
  
  
• Press Fire To Continue (2006) - LICKY
• Metodos Del Caso (2006) - Rabia Sorda
  Rabia Sorda
  Rabia Sorda is the side project of Erk Aicrag, lead singer of the Mexican aggrotech band Hocico. Rabia Sorda, like Hocico, is electronic music, though it is somewhat less aggressive and noisy than Hocico....
  
  
• Rock & Science (2006) - Ranheim
• From Brussels With Love / Various (Rmst) (2007) - Various Artists
• Construction Time Again (W/Dvd) (Rmst) (Dig) (2007) - Depeche Mode
• Unison (2007) - Angels & Agony
• Cold (2007) - Alucard
• Three Cheers For The Newlydeads (2007) - Ashbury Heights
  Ashbury Heights
  Ashbury Heights were an electronic music band formed in 2005 in Sundsvall, Medelpad, Sweden. The group's original membership consisted of Anders Hagström and Yasmine Uhlin...
  
  
• End of an Error
  End of an Error
  End of an Error is the second studio album released by DeathBoy. A successor to DeathBoy's debut release Music to Crash Cars To, End of an Error was a much more polished release...
  
  (2007) - DeathBoy
  DeathBoy
  DeathBoy is the pseudonym of Midlands-born musician Scott Lamb, and also the name of his band.-Scott Lamb:Lamb started making music at the age of thirteen, creating music in the breakbeat and rave genres using OctaMED on the Amiga...
  
  
• The Sound Of Crash (2007) - Din{A}Tod
• Songs for the last view (2008) - Lacrimas Profundere
  Lacrimas Profundere
  Lacrimas Profundere is a gothic metal band from Germany. Their name means "to shed tears" in Latin. Their stylistic aesthetic has evolved over time, originally a death doom rooted gothic metal band, they have progressively changed their style to a more mainstream gothic style with the late...
  
  
• Morningstar In A Black Car (2008) - Ashbury Heights
• Dark Romantism (2009) - Alucard
• Rabia Sorda (2009) - Noise Diary
• Social Experiment (2011) - Ronni Le Tekrø and Augustin Granados
• Wars of the Roses
  Wars of the Roses (album)
  -Reception:The album received high praise from Sea of Tranquility webzine. Commented reviewer Murat Batmaz: "it amalgamates musical traits from its predecessors while re-shaping them with a more direct approach."-Credits:...
  
   (2011) - Ulver
  Ulver
  Ulver is a musical group from Norway. Since their first, folklore-influenced black metal release entitled Bergtatt – Et eeventyr i 5 capitler , Ulver’s musical style has been fluid and increasingly eclectic, blending genres such as rock, electronica, symphonic and chamber traditions, noise and...
  
  
• Noise In My Head (2011) - Dark Drive Clinic
• Escape (2011) - Orient Xpress

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