WGT 2014 reviews
*excitement*
...while I'm on the subject, I'm trying to persuade some people that they want to come to WGT next year. Might you be one of them? I will post nearer the time (need to decide October-ish) but in the meantime, have a think about it...
0 OMG no - really avoid
* no - avoid
** tolerable - wouldn't mind going if others want to
*** OK but not worth a special trip
**** would like to see if possible
***** must see
****** I will cry if I don't get to see this band
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/forumwgt3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19543
001 - *** - Frontline Assembly - slightly dancey/trancey doof-doof, poor at getting to the point, otherwise passable (maybe I'm just in a good mood)
002 - **** - Der Fluch - rock'n'rolly horrorpunk, rough round the edges
003 - ** - Siva Six - dull but inoffensive breathy electro-industrial
004 - *** - !Distain - heartfelt Depeche Mode style vocals, slightly out-of-keeping jolly bleep-bloopy synths, bit generic
005 - *** - Sieben - very modern slightly-folk/pagan acoustic, some better than others, makes D bellydance which is disturbing
006 - **** - Aeon Sable - heavily guitarry goth rock, borderline metal in places, not incredibly original but pretty good
007 - * - Lebanon Hanover - minimalist 80s synth demonstration mode music, irritating vocals
008 - ** - Mantus - OTT operatic metal music, varying quality depending largely on which vocalist is singing
009 - ** - Tarjus - excessively warbly female-fronted metal, would like to be Evanescence, or possibly Ravel (apparently Nightwish's singer)
010 - 0 - This Morn' Omina - noises, sometimes with a drum line
011 - ** - The Klinik - unnotable electro-industrial, not very interesting
012 - **** - Ost+Front - very Rammstein-esque metal
013 - **** - Collection D'Arnell Andrea - interesting, very interesting. Strings and voice and 80s-ish backing track
014 - *** - Zwielicht - young and implausibly good-looking bouncy mittelalter band with a bassoon
015 - *** - Rainy Days Factory - shoegaze goth, pleasant background music but all very samey
016 - ***** - Apoptygma Berzerk - quite excited! Though I gather they're less beepy these days
017 - ** - The Bellwether Syndicate - William Faith's generic late-80s goth dullness
018 - ** - Heimataerde - electronica with a Knights Templar theme. No seriously! (sadly it sounds a bit dull, but it might be worth a trip just for the boggling)
019 - *** - Orphaned Land - Israeli metal band, some interesting middle eastern influences but mostly completely OTT operatic metal with heavily religious themes
020 - * - Schneewittchen - goth music of extremely dubious musical standing, seems mostly to exist as an excuse for the lead singer to take her top off
021 - *** - The Cruxshadows - passable if slightly obvious beepy EBM. A bit Beborn Betonish, a bit Last Dance in places
022 - ** - Ikon - extremely old-school darkwave. Not hugely interesting
023 - * - Folk Noir - particularly wet folk
024 - *** - Vomito Negro - electro-industrial, percussion includes oil drums. Somewhat like an electronic Gravity Kills
025 - * - Hamferð - particularly sore-throated Faroese metal band
026 - **** - Oomph! - tanz metal, fun and bouncy
027 - **** - Primordial - atmospheric epic prog metal, like a pagan Litmus, ambivalent relationship with the key but actually pretty good
028 - * - Ingrimm - mittelalter metal. Hurdy-gurdy in evidence
029 - **** - Inkubus Sukkubus - bouncy pagan goth
030 - *** - Persephone - voice + strings. Hm, it's interesting but I can't decide if I like it. I think on balance yes
031 - * - Klangstabil - computery noodling, goes plink a lot
032 - ** - Poupee Fabrikk - generic electro-industrial EBM
033 - 0 - The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus - wet tootling
034 - ** - Chrom - generic Depeche Modey electro, OK but nothing wildly exciting
035 - ** - God Module - unnotable generic synthy EBM
036 - ** - The Fair Sex - repetitive EBM
037 - **** - Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space - jolly psychobilly/horrorpunk
038 - 0 - Imminent - thud-merchants
039 - *** - The Hiram Key - very Cure-y
040 - ***** - Fetisch:Mensch - Henke's current band (saw Goethes Erben live a couple of WGTs ago and they were magical)
041 - ** - Anne Clark - 80s-influenced synthy dancey electronics, terribly earnest vocals
042 - *** - Nachtblut - gloriously OTT metal, though too growly to be a must-see
043 - *** - The Marionettes - UK 2-hit wonders, staples of the bit at Slimelight when you'll dance to anything because it's that or fall over
044 - **** - Little Nemo - coldwave, pretty good
045 - *** - Wolfenmond - electronic mittelalter. It's... a lot better than it might be
046 - *** - Illuminate - some of this is fun operatic metal, but much of it sounds wetter
047 - **** - 7jk - interestingly mysterious sampled electronica (with a violin) - a combination of Sieben and Job Karma
048 - *** - Ignis Fatuu - metallic mittelalter with a high tootling quotient
049 - * - Trepaneringsritualen - atmospheric noise
050 - 0 - Xotox - doof-merchants
051 - ** - Umbra Et Imago - painfully over-serious German goth
052 - * - D-Tox - anthem trance
053 - *** - Solitary Experiments - earnest electro, individual bars quite good but songs too repetitive
054 - **** - I-M-R - quite reminiscent of Derniere Volonte
055 - ** - Hexperos - floaty and wet
056 - 0 - Ah Cama-Sotz - confusing noises
057 - ***** - Untoten - bouncy, poppy goth rock
058 - 0 - Yura Yura - noisy and confusing
059 - *** - Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat - mostly, interesting prog, however, variable quality
060 - 0 - Saturmzlide - doof-merchants
061 - ** - Faderhead - trancey industrial
062 - ** - Ascetic: - noodly post-punk, a bit Derniere Volonte, I want to like it but it's too dull & repetitive
063 - ** - Psygnosis - sore-throaty metal with twinkly electronic bits, except when it's being melodic singy songs. I can't quite tell what language they're singing in
064 - **** - Ulterior - dynamic goth rock, a bit reminiscent of She Wants Revenge, I like them a lot but they were way too loud last time they played WGT (hence 4 not 5)
065 - ** - Ext!ze - hectic electro-industrial
066 - * - Absolute Body Control - minimalist and quite miserable synthpop
067 - *** - Job Karma - related to 7jk, less songlike, more ambient, but still interesting (and cool videos)
068 - ** - [:SITD:] - current winner for punctuation density. Bit Apoptygma Berzerky, but much duller
069 - ***** - Kitty In A Casket - slick and exuberant psychobilly
070 - ***** - Remember Twilight - she's a purple pony enthusiastic kammermetal
071 - **** - Rotersand - noisy, dancey, intelligent electro-industrial
072 - ** - Joy Of Life - studiously off-key, kinda Lou Reedy
073 - ** - XIV Dark Centuries - growly viking metal, hit-it-as-fast-as-you-can drumming, bit dull really
074 - ** - Beck Sian & Jonathan Kershaw - acoustic, singy, variable quality
075 - ** - Sonne Hagal - guitarry, chanty, dull
076 - ** - UK Decay - post-punk with none of the corners rubbed off, probably seminal
077 - ** - Cecile Corbel - plinky celticy songs
078 - *** - Lacrimas Profundere - Kerrangy metal, slightly naff singing
079 - * - Albireon - acoustic atmospheric songs
080 - ** - Downstairs Left - deep-voiced eternal verities over plinky guitars
081 - ** - Hocico - whispery, slow-paced electro-industrial band with two members, one to stare piercingly at the camera and the other to look aloof in the background
082 - ** - The Lost Rivers - giant guitarry soundscapes
083 - * - Desiderii Marginis - atmospheric, very little to it
084 - *** - Imaginary War - poppy, a bit Pet Shop Boys (but less interesting)
085 - * - Rapalje - really exceedingly folk
086 - **** - Alcest - laid-back, thoughtful metal, recommended by Duncan
087 - * - Geistform - inoffensive electronic noise
088 - ** - Finsterforst - crunchy metal, fairly interesting music but singer badly needs a lemsip
089 - *** - Oppenheimer MkII - electropop in the Mesh mould
090 - * - Verdiana Raw - wet & warbly voice & piano
091 - **** - Placebo Effect - interesting synthesiser-heavy electro, quite Project Pitchforky
092 - * - XP8 - industrial techno, rather dull
093 - ** - The Devil and the Universe - film music, to go over the montage of people working hard at averting the end of the world
094 - ? - Martello - ?
095 - * - MDS51 - like an art installation in a synthesiser-squashing factory
096 - **** - Katzkab - secretly Katzenjammer Kabarett, bouncy fun post-punk/cabaret stuff
097 - * - The Eternal Afflict - dull EBM
098 - * - Konstruktivists - incoherent and noodly
099 - ** - Violet Tears - generic goth, not very in tune and quite dull
100 - * - Sardh - assorted noises, arguably with a beat
101 - **** - Spetsnaz - competent and interesting old-school EBM, very listenable
102 - ** - Asmodi Bizarr - incoherent 80s trad floaty/shouty thing (with slightly punky interlude in the 90s?)
103 - * - Nano Infect - we add porn movie tracks to our dreary beep-doof because we're sophisticated like that
104 - *** - No Sleep By The Machine - largely, inferior Projekt Pitchfork clone
105 - **** - Varg - listenable, hugely OTT death metal with lots of red+black makeup
106 - **** - Beastmilk - at the good end of modern post-punk rock, quite Ulterior
107 - *** - Hundreds - bit too Dido
108 - **** - Simi Nah - interesting French floaty vocals + bleepy music post-punk thing
109 - 0 - Fabrikc - sigularly pointless electronica
110 - * - Edo Notarloberti & Viviana Scarinci - assorted noodling on pianos and violins and things
111 - ** - White Lies - uninteresting shoegaze, singer at the bottom of a very deep well
112 - 0 - Architect - noodly electronic noises
113 - * - Neon - dull quiet 80s, goes nowhere
114 - 0 - Syntech - noise (avec digeridoo)
115 - *** - Robert Enforsen - happy-80s-synth music, quite fun
116 - * - Al Andaluz Project - Moorish mittelalter folk
117 - ** - Robotiko Rejecto - doof-doofy electro-industrial
118 - * - Svartsinn - atmospheric soundscapes
119 - ** - Almara - mediaeval, inoffensive
120 - * - Land:Fire - atmospheric soundscapes
121 - *** - 45 Grave - passable punk/goth from the early 80s before we knew any better
122 - * - Andrew King - dirge folk
123 - 0 - Antichildleague - unpleasant noise with either poor taste or poor politics
124 - * - Axel Thielmann - classical singer
125 - ** - Azar Swan - unnotable Kate Bush-y stuff
126 - * - Capella Fidicinia - classical ensemble
127 - * - Chor und Kinderchor der Oper Leipzig - classical choir
128 - * - Chor, Extrachor und Ballett der Musikalischen Komodie - musical comedy
129 - 0 - Christian von Aster - spoken word/comedy?
130 - * - Claudia Graf - classical singer
131 - * - Clemens-Peter Wachenschwanz - piano cabaret
132 - *** - Ewigheim - comfortable trad metal
133 - * - Gewandhausorchester - classical orchestra
134 - ? - Gunthard Stephan - mobile cinema
135 - ** - Manegarm - folky Viking metal, variety of suboptimal singers
136 - **** - Mephisto Walz - cromulent trad
137 - ** - Metroland - beepy electronica, listenable but not wildly exciting
138 - * - Michael Schonheit - classical organist
139 - * - Midgards Boten - chanty atmospheric
140 - * - Orchester der Musikalischen Komodie - orchestra
141 - * - Sigillum S - odd ambient
142 - 0 - Six Comm - dull experimental
143 - * - Theaterpack - theatre group
144 - ? - Tilo Augusten - silent film pianist
145 - ? - Tobias Rank - mobile cinema
146 - 0 - Vitalic - over-excitable vworp vworp noises
147 - * - The Soft Moon - more monotonous than 4am Slimelight music
148 - ** - Argine - Italian folky rock, slow and sleepy
149 - ** - Lantlos - metal band discovers Nirvana, covers it in cymbals and noodles
150 - * - Cygnosic - sore-throaty generic dark electro
151 - * - Plastic Autumn - generic doofdoofy EBM, very repetitive
152 - 0 - Els Berros de la Cort - particularly dull mittelalter
153 - ** - Lowcityrain - somewhat dirgey new wave
155 - ** - Sell System - promising-sounding electro but it goes nowhere
154 - * - Felsenreich - slow, dull arguably-metal
155 - 0 - Darkwell - out-of-tune operatic metal
156 - 0 - Dr Mark Benecke - forensic scientist
157 - 0 - Wyrdamur - OMG the bagpipes are coming! Hide!
158 - *** - Dead United - OK horrorpunk
159 - **** - Apocalyptica - metal cellists playing Wagner
160 - ** - Christian Death - seminal
161 - ** - Borghesia - electropop band from back when everything was on VHS and slightly fuzzy cassette tapes
162 - *** - Age of Heaven - workmanlike goth rock
163 - **** - Der Blauer Reiter - really interesting atmospheric, often starting off from a familiar piece of music
164 - ** - Nebelung - inoffensive guitarry background music
165 - ** - Motorama - lightweight upbeat fluff, quite pappy
166 - ** - Blueneck - somewhere between shoegaze and atmospheric, not hugely interesting
167 - ** - MRDTC - passable if uninspired EBM
168 - ** - Loell Duinn - plinky-plonky Enya-esque celticy thing
169 - *** - Blume - danceable poppy slightly-trancey EBM
170 - ** - Oberer Totpunkt - aimless EBM
171 - * - Slowdive - particularly tedious shoegaze
172 - ** - Eis - metal of the "drums go fast, song goes slow" type
173 - *** - The Woken Trees - a bit like the slow bits of She Wants Revenge
174 - *** - The Foreign Resort - bit like Dead Eyes Opened
175 - 0 - Oliver Klein - musical comedy
176 - 0 - Thomas Manegold - author
177 - 0 - Lydia Benecke - forensic psychologist
178 - ? - Heiko Schnickmann - ?
179 - * - Donner & Doria - mittelalter mit bagpipes
180 - *** - Wirrwahr - lively, pogoing folk
181 - *** - Satyricon - were death metal but then the singer cut his hair off and started sounding more like Muse
182 - * - Equilibrium - hyperactive folky sore-throaty metal
183 - ** - Rotting Christ - hyperactive death metal with occasional surprising bagpipes
184 - ** - Theodor Bastard - easy listening ambient plinky-plonky warbly stuff
185 - 0 - Freider Monzer - possibly a tootler or possibly a travel agent, we're not clear
186 - 0 - Norman Liebold - author/actor/artist
187 - 0 - Maria Norda - author
188 - 0 - Markus Heitz - author
189 - ? - Honey - ungooglable
190 - * - Nachtwindheim - mittelalter tootlers
191 - ** - Rummelsnuff - very German, very silly EBM, fronted by a strongman
192 - ** - Pokemon Reaktor - danceable if somewhat repetitive EBM
193 - ** - NordarR - danceable electro-industrial
194 - 0 - Tomas Tulpe - terrible terrible jokey pop songs
195 - **** - Brigitte Handley - acoustic rock
196 - *** - The Stompcrash - expansive modern trad
197 - ** - Schwefelgelb - minimalist techno
198 - **** - Liljana - polished, lively goth rock/metal, strong female vocals
199 - ** - Winterspring - goth boy-band, only borderline in tune
200 - 0 - Dudelzwerge - pipe-heavy mittelalter
201 - * - Kentin Jivek - plinky plonky guitarry songs
202 - ** - Ex Oriente - belly-dancing
203 - * - Heimstatt Yipotash - doof doof doof doof doof doof doof ...
204 - * - Killerfuchs - saxophone jazz
205 - ** - Koldbrann - death metal, perhaps worth watching to see if the drummer overheats
206 - ** - Metusa - slightly rocky medieval
207 - 0 - The Empath - pointless noises
208 - 0 - The Schoole of Night - lutes
209 - 0 - Totus Gaudeo - tootlers
210 - ** - Vatican Shadow - ambient rhythmis stuff
comments at Dreamwidth
...while I'm on the subject, I'm trying to persuade some people that they want to come to WGT next year. Might you be one of them? I will post nearer the time (need to decide October-ish) but in the meantime, have a think about it...
0 OMG no - really avoid
* no - avoid
** tolerable - wouldn't mind going if others want to
*** OK but not worth a special trip
**** would like to see if possible
***** must see
****** I will cry if I don't get to see this band
http://www.wave-gotik-treffen.de/forumwgt3/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=19543
001 - *** - Frontline Assembly - slightly dancey/trancey doof-doof, poor at getting to the point, otherwise passable (maybe I'm just in a good mood)
002 - **** - Der Fluch - rock'n'rolly horrorpunk, rough round the edges
003 - ** - Siva Six - dull but inoffensive breathy electro-industrial
004 - *** - !Distain - heartfelt Depeche Mode style vocals, slightly out-of-keeping jolly bleep-bloopy synths, bit generic
005 - *** - Sieben - very modern slightly-folk/pagan acoustic, some better than others, makes D bellydance which is disturbing
006 - **** - Aeon Sable - heavily guitarry goth rock, borderline metal in places, not incredibly original but pretty good
007 - * - Lebanon Hanover - minimalist 80s synth demonstration mode music, irritating vocals
008 - ** - Mantus - OTT operatic metal music, varying quality depending largely on which vocalist is singing
009 - ** - Tarjus - excessively warbly female-fronted metal, would like to be Evanescence, or possibly Ravel (apparently Nightwish's singer)
010 - 0 - This Morn' Omina - noises, sometimes with a drum line
011 - ** - The Klinik - unnotable electro-industrial, not very interesting
012 - **** - Ost+Front - very Rammstein-esque metal
013 - **** - Collection D'Arnell Andrea - interesting, very interesting. Strings and voice and 80s-ish backing track
014 - *** - Zwielicht - young and implausibly good-looking bouncy mittelalter band with a bassoon
015 - *** - Rainy Days Factory - shoegaze goth, pleasant background music but all very samey
016 - ***** - Apoptygma Berzerk - quite excited! Though I gather they're less beepy these days
017 - ** - The Bellwether Syndicate - William Faith's generic late-80s goth dullness
018 - ** - Heimataerde - electronica with a Knights Templar theme. No seriously! (sadly it sounds a bit dull, but it might be worth a trip just for the boggling)
019 - *** - Orphaned Land - Israeli metal band, some interesting middle eastern influences but mostly completely OTT operatic metal with heavily religious themes
020 - * - Schneewittchen - goth music of extremely dubious musical standing, seems mostly to exist as an excuse for the lead singer to take her top off
021 - *** - The Cruxshadows - passable if slightly obvious beepy EBM. A bit Beborn Betonish, a bit Last Dance in places
022 - ** - Ikon - extremely old-school darkwave. Not hugely interesting
023 - * - Folk Noir - particularly wet folk
024 - *** - Vomito Negro - electro-industrial, percussion includes oil drums. Somewhat like an electronic Gravity Kills
025 - * - Hamferð - particularly sore-throated Faroese metal band
026 - **** - Oomph! - tanz metal, fun and bouncy
027 - **** - Primordial - atmospheric epic prog metal, like a pagan Litmus, ambivalent relationship with the key but actually pretty good
028 - * - Ingrimm - mittelalter metal. Hurdy-gurdy in evidence
029 - **** - Inkubus Sukkubus - bouncy pagan goth
030 - *** - Persephone - voice + strings. Hm, it's interesting but I can't decide if I like it. I think on balance yes
031 - * - Klangstabil - computery noodling, goes plink a lot
032 - ** - Poupee Fabrikk - generic electro-industrial EBM
033 - 0 - The Revolutionary Army Of The Infant Jesus - wet tootling
034 - ** - Chrom - generic Depeche Modey electro, OK but nothing wildly exciting
035 - ** - God Module - unnotable generic synthy EBM
036 - ** - The Fair Sex - repetitive EBM
037 - **** - Bloodsucking Zombies From Outer Space - jolly psychobilly/horrorpunk
038 - 0 - Imminent - thud-merchants
039 - *** - The Hiram Key - very Cure-y
040 - ***** - Fetisch:Mensch - Henke's current band (saw Goethes Erben live a couple of WGTs ago and they were magical)
041 - ** - Anne Clark - 80s-influenced synthy dancey electronics, terribly earnest vocals
042 - *** - Nachtblut - gloriously OTT metal, though too growly to be a must-see
043 - *** - The Marionettes - UK 2-hit wonders, staples of the bit at Slimelight when you'll dance to anything because it's that or fall over
044 - **** - Little Nemo - coldwave, pretty good
045 - *** - Wolfenmond - electronic mittelalter. It's... a lot better than it might be
046 - *** - Illuminate - some of this is fun operatic metal, but much of it sounds wetter
047 - **** - 7jk - interestingly mysterious sampled electronica (with a violin) - a combination of Sieben and Job Karma
048 - *** - Ignis Fatuu - metallic mittelalter with a high tootling quotient
049 - * - Trepaneringsritualen - atmospheric noise
050 - 0 - Xotox - doof-merchants
051 - ** - Umbra Et Imago - painfully over-serious German goth
052 - * - D-Tox - anthem trance
053 - *** - Solitary Experiments - earnest electro, individual bars quite good but songs too repetitive
054 - **** - I-M-R - quite reminiscent of Derniere Volonte
055 - ** - Hexperos - floaty and wet
056 - 0 - Ah Cama-Sotz - confusing noises
057 - ***** - Untoten - bouncy, poppy goth rock
058 - 0 - Yura Yura - noisy and confusing
059 - *** - Kiss The Anus Of A Black Cat - mostly, interesting prog, however, variable quality
060 - 0 - Saturmzlide - doof-merchants
061 - ** - Faderhead - trancey industrial
062 - ** - Ascetic: - noodly post-punk, a bit Derniere Volonte, I want to like it but it's too dull & repetitive
063 - ** - Psygnosis - sore-throaty metal with twinkly electronic bits, except when it's being melodic singy songs. I can't quite tell what language they're singing in
064 - **** - Ulterior - dynamic goth rock, a bit reminiscent of She Wants Revenge, I like them a lot but they were way too loud last time they played WGT (hence 4 not 5)
065 - ** - Ext!ze - hectic electro-industrial
066 - * - Absolute Body Control - minimalist and quite miserable synthpop
067 - *** - Job Karma - related to 7jk, less songlike, more ambient, but still interesting (and cool videos)
068 - ** - [:SITD:] - current winner for punctuation density. Bit Apoptygma Berzerky, but much duller
069 - ***** - Kitty In A Casket - slick and exuberant psychobilly
070 - ***** - Remember Twilight - she's a purple pony enthusiastic kammermetal
071 - **** - Rotersand - noisy, dancey, intelligent electro-industrial
072 - ** - Joy Of Life - studiously off-key, kinda Lou Reedy
073 - ** - XIV Dark Centuries - growly viking metal, hit-it-as-fast-as-you-can drumming, bit dull really
074 - ** - Beck Sian & Jonathan Kershaw - acoustic, singy, variable quality
075 - ** - Sonne Hagal - guitarry, chanty, dull
076 - ** - UK Decay - post-punk with none of the corners rubbed off, probably seminal
077 - ** - Cecile Corbel - plinky celticy songs
078 - *** - Lacrimas Profundere - Kerrangy metal, slightly naff singing
079 - * - Albireon - acoustic atmospheric songs
080 - ** - Downstairs Left - deep-voiced eternal verities over plinky guitars
081 - ** - Hocico - whispery, slow-paced electro-industrial band with two members, one to stare piercingly at the camera and the other to look aloof in the background
082 - ** - The Lost Rivers - giant guitarry soundscapes
083 - * - Desiderii Marginis - atmospheric, very little to it
084 - *** - Imaginary War - poppy, a bit Pet Shop Boys (but less interesting)
085 - * - Rapalje - really exceedingly folk
086 - **** - Alcest - laid-back, thoughtful metal, recommended by Duncan
087 - * - Geistform - inoffensive electronic noise
088 - ** - Finsterforst - crunchy metal, fairly interesting music but singer badly needs a lemsip
089 - *** - Oppenheimer MkII - electropop in the Mesh mould
090 - * - Verdiana Raw - wet & warbly voice & piano
091 - **** - Placebo Effect - interesting synthesiser-heavy electro, quite Project Pitchforky
092 - * - XP8 - industrial techno, rather dull
093 - ** - The Devil and the Universe - film music, to go over the montage of people working hard at averting the end of the world
094 - ? - Martello - ?
095 - * - MDS51 - like an art installation in a synthesiser-squashing factory
096 - **** - Katzkab - secretly Katzenjammer Kabarett, bouncy fun post-punk/cabaret stuff
097 - * - The Eternal Afflict - dull EBM
098 - * - Konstruktivists - incoherent and noodly
099 - ** - Violet Tears - generic goth, not very in tune and quite dull
100 - * - Sardh - assorted noises, arguably with a beat
101 - **** - Spetsnaz - competent and interesting old-school EBM, very listenable
102 - ** - Asmodi Bizarr - incoherent 80s trad floaty/shouty thing (with slightly punky interlude in the 90s?)
103 - * - Nano Infect - we add porn movie tracks to our dreary beep-doof because we're sophisticated like that
104 - *** - No Sleep By The Machine - largely, inferior Projekt Pitchfork clone
105 - **** - Varg - listenable, hugely OTT death metal with lots of red+black makeup
106 - **** - Beastmilk - at the good end of modern post-punk rock, quite Ulterior
107 - *** - Hundreds - bit too Dido
108 - **** - Simi Nah - interesting French floaty vocals + bleepy music post-punk thing
109 - 0 - Fabrikc - sigularly pointless electronica
110 - * - Edo Notarloberti & Viviana Scarinci - assorted noodling on pianos and violins and things
111 - ** - White Lies - uninteresting shoegaze, singer at the bottom of a very deep well
112 - 0 - Architect - noodly electronic noises
113 - * - Neon - dull quiet 80s, goes nowhere
114 - 0 - Syntech - noise (avec digeridoo)
115 - *** - Robert Enforsen - happy-80s-synth music, quite fun
116 - * - Al Andaluz Project - Moorish mittelalter folk
117 - ** - Robotiko Rejecto - doof-doofy electro-industrial
118 - * - Svartsinn - atmospheric soundscapes
119 - ** - Almara - mediaeval, inoffensive
120 - * - Land:Fire - atmospheric soundscapes
121 - *** - 45 Grave - passable punk/goth from the early 80s before we knew any better
122 - * - Andrew King - dirge folk
123 - 0 - Antichildleague - unpleasant noise with either poor taste or poor politics
124 - * - Axel Thielmann - classical singer
125 - ** - Azar Swan - unnotable Kate Bush-y stuff
126 - * - Capella Fidicinia - classical ensemble
127 - * - Chor und Kinderchor der Oper Leipzig - classical choir
128 - * - Chor, Extrachor und Ballett der Musikalischen Komodie - musical comedy
129 - 0 - Christian von Aster - spoken word/comedy?
130 - * - Claudia Graf - classical singer
131 - * - Clemens-Peter Wachenschwanz - piano cabaret
132 - *** - Ewigheim - comfortable trad metal
133 - * - Gewandhausorchester - classical orchestra
134 - ? - Gunthard Stephan - mobile cinema
135 - ** - Manegarm - folky Viking metal, variety of suboptimal singers
136 - **** - Mephisto Walz - cromulent trad
137 - ** - Metroland - beepy electronica, listenable but not wildly exciting
138 - * - Michael Schonheit - classical organist
139 - * - Midgards Boten - chanty atmospheric
140 - * - Orchester der Musikalischen Komodie - orchestra
141 - * - Sigillum S - odd ambient
142 - 0 - Six Comm - dull experimental
143 - * - Theaterpack - theatre group
144 - ? - Tilo Augusten - silent film pianist
145 - ? - Tobias Rank - mobile cinema
146 - 0 - Vitalic - over-excitable vworp vworp noises
147 - * - The Soft Moon - more monotonous than 4am Slimelight music
148 - ** - Argine - Italian folky rock, slow and sleepy
149 - ** - Lantlos - metal band discovers Nirvana, covers it in cymbals and noodles
150 - * - Cygnosic - sore-throaty generic dark electro
151 - * - Plastic Autumn - generic doofdoofy EBM, very repetitive
152 - 0 - Els Berros de la Cort - particularly dull mittelalter
153 - ** - Lowcityrain - somewhat dirgey new wave
155 - ** - Sell System - promising-sounding electro but it goes nowhere
154 - * - Felsenreich - slow, dull arguably-metal
155 - 0 - Darkwell - out-of-tune operatic metal
156 - 0 - Dr Mark Benecke - forensic scientist
157 - 0 - Wyrdamur - OMG the bagpipes are coming! Hide!
158 - *** - Dead United - OK horrorpunk
159 - **** - Apocalyptica - metal cellists playing Wagner
160 - ** - Christian Death - seminal
161 - ** - Borghesia - electropop band from back when everything was on VHS and slightly fuzzy cassette tapes
162 - *** - Age of Heaven - workmanlike goth rock
163 - **** - Der Blauer Reiter - really interesting atmospheric, often starting off from a familiar piece of music
164 - ** - Nebelung - inoffensive guitarry background music
165 - ** - Motorama - lightweight upbeat fluff, quite pappy
166 - ** - Blueneck - somewhere between shoegaze and atmospheric, not hugely interesting
167 - ** - MRDTC - passable if uninspired EBM
168 - ** - Loell Duinn - plinky-plonky Enya-esque celticy thing
169 - *** - Blume - danceable poppy slightly-trancey EBM
170 - ** - Oberer Totpunkt - aimless EBM
171 - * - Slowdive - particularly tedious shoegaze
172 - ** - Eis - metal of the "drums go fast, song goes slow" type
173 - *** - The Woken Trees - a bit like the slow bits of She Wants Revenge
174 - *** - The Foreign Resort - bit like Dead Eyes Opened
175 - 0 - Oliver Klein - musical comedy
176 - 0 - Thomas Manegold - author
177 - 0 - Lydia Benecke - forensic psychologist
178 - ? - Heiko Schnickmann - ?
179 - * - Donner & Doria - mittelalter mit bagpipes
180 - *** - Wirrwahr - lively, pogoing folk
181 - *** - Satyricon - were death metal but then the singer cut his hair off and started sounding more like Muse
182 - * - Equilibrium - hyperactive folky sore-throaty metal
183 - ** - Rotting Christ - hyperactive death metal with occasional surprising bagpipes
184 - ** - Theodor Bastard - easy listening ambient plinky-plonky warbly stuff
185 - 0 - Freider Monzer - possibly a tootler or possibly a travel agent, we're not clear
186 - 0 - Norman Liebold - author/actor/artist
187 - 0 - Maria Norda - author
188 - 0 - Markus Heitz - author
189 - ? - Honey - ungooglable
190 - * - Nachtwindheim - mittelalter tootlers
191 - ** - Rummelsnuff - very German, very silly EBM, fronted by a strongman
192 - ** - Pokemon Reaktor - danceable if somewhat repetitive EBM
193 - ** - NordarR - danceable electro-industrial
194 - 0 - Tomas Tulpe - terrible terrible jokey pop songs
195 - **** - Brigitte Handley - acoustic rock
196 - *** - The Stompcrash - expansive modern trad
197 - ** - Schwefelgelb - minimalist techno
198 - **** - Liljana - polished, lively goth rock/metal, strong female vocals
199 - ** - Winterspring - goth boy-band, only borderline in tune
200 - 0 - Dudelzwerge - pipe-heavy mittelalter
201 - * - Kentin Jivek - plinky plonky guitarry songs
202 - ** - Ex Oriente - belly-dancing
203 - * - Heimstatt Yipotash - doof doof doof doof doof doof doof ...
204 - * - Killerfuchs - saxophone jazz
205 - ** - Koldbrann - death metal, perhaps worth watching to see if the drummer overheats
206 - ** - Metusa - slightly rocky medieval
207 - 0 - The Empath - pointless noises
208 - 0 - The Schoole of Night - lutes
209 - 0 - Totus Gaudeo - tootlers
210 - ** - Vatican Shadow - ambient rhythmis stuff
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