Another Friday, another round-up. As always this is a look at upcoming releases, relevant music news and upcoming events and gigs worth spending some of your time at. It is by no means an exhaustive list, and I’m always on the lookout for more to include.

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New and Upcoming Releases this week

Another busy week for new music.

Out last Tuesday (an odd day to release nowadays), was the new EP from RELIC, Social Drift (which is excellent).

Onto today: W.A.S.T.E. release their first new album in a while new album The Sodomy of Morality, while Natura Est (Tony Young of Autoclav1.1 and Andreas Davids of xotox) release their first self-titled album. In addition, the Manics release their latest album Resistance Is Futile, and A Place To Bury Strangers release Pinned.

And lastly for today, but by no means least – the ever-marvellous LOCKS released their new single Bodies today. More on that on amodelofcontrol.com soon.

Re-issued this week, as part of a wider series, is Music for Gilded Chambers by Controlled Bleeding.

A couple of new videos surfaced this week – Failure’s video for single Dark Speed, and Ladytron’s video for Animals (new live dates for the latter went onsale today, too).

Now this I’d missed – out next week is a new album masterminded by Martin Bisi. Of particular note is the track by EXCOP (ex-members of Cop Shoot Cop and Swans (!)), which was recently featured by Brooklyn Vegan, and is exactly as brutal as you might expect.

Also coming soon is the return of Empirion, who release Resume at the end of August on Dependent.

Upcoming Club Nights

21-Apr: Slimelight (feat. Cervello Elettronico Live) at Electrowerkz, N1
21-Apr: Delete Yourself at Aatma, Manchester
27-Apr: Bunker 13 – The Last One By The Seaside at RAW, Whitby
27-Apr: Exit The Grey VI at The Hideaway, N19
28-Apr: Korova Milk Bar at Surya, N1
28-Apr: Tyranny at The Trap, Bristol
29-Apr: The 80s Night at The Whitby Way, Whitby
05-May: Anointed: Invocation at Aatma, Manchester
11-May: Xmal Dalston [Ed: ho-ho!] at Moustache Bar, N16
12-May: Mondlicht IV at The Albany, W1
19-May: Some Weird Sin #59 at The Victoria, E8
19-May: NO ALTERNATIVE at Zed Alley, Bristol
25-May: Ich Will (Rammstein clubnight) at Club Kolis, N19
26-May: The Light Pours Out of Me II at Orleans, N4
26-May: Noircastle at The Globe, Newcastle
26-May: Dark Cide Returns at 53 Degrees, Preston
08-Jun: Achtung! Achtung! at Aces and Eights, NW5
08-Jun: Sentinel Vol. 6 at Zombie Shack, Manchester
30-Jun: Bunker13 at Eiger Studios, Leeds
13-Jul: Dead and Buried (feat. Winter Severity Index and Dear Deer Live) at Club Kolis, N19

Upcoming Gigs

13-Apr: Celebration Of Alternative Music Night (feat. The London SS, Grooving In Green, Chubby La Touche and his band of Whores and Trixi Tassels) Live at Fiddler’s Elbow, NW5
14-Apr: Six By Seven Live at The Borderline, WC2
20-Apr: Desperate Journalist Live at OSLO, E8
20-Apr: Punk Rock // Greebo // Indie Disco w/Foxcunt & Keith TOTP Live at Stag’s Head, N1
30-Apr: Uniform + Petbrick Live at The Black Heart, NW1
16-May: Russian Circles / Brutus / Bossk Live at Oval Space, E2
27-May: ho99o9 Live at The Lexington, N1 (just £5!)
28-May: Author & Punisher + Trepaneringsritualen Live at Electrowerkz, N1
09-Jun: Inertia + Android Lust Live at Electrowerkz, N1
09-Jun: PIG – The “Risen” Album Launch Live at The Black Heart, NW1 (SOLD OUT)
02-Aug: Beat:Cancer Summer Tour (feat. Freakangel, Neonsol, Room 1985 + “Secret Band”) Live at Zigfrid von Underbelly, N1
03-Aug: Beat:Cancer Summer Tour (feat. Freakangel, Neonsol, Nature of Wires, Petrol Hoers) Live at The Facebar, Reading
04-Aug: Beat:Cancer Summer Tour (feat. Freakangel, Neonsol, Advance) Live at The Bread Shed, Manchester
19-Aug: Die Krupps / Front Line Assembly Live at O2 Academy Islington, N1
23/24/25/26-Aug: Infest Festival 20th Anniversary at University of Bradford, Bradford
22-Sep: [:SITD:] / Biomechanimal / Matt Hart / My Hysteria Live at Electrowerkz, N1
20-Oct: Solar Fake Live at Electrowerkz, N1

Other Things

No more announcements from Infest at the time of writing, but I believe there is one more band left to announce.

One other festival to announce it’s line-up this year is Goth City, which perhaps has the strongest line-up yet, including the return of Sheffield goths The Way of All Flesh.

While, how dedicated a Killing Joke fan are you? If you think you are, this monster of a vinyl box set might test you…

amodelofcontrol.com content in the past week

Transmission: 007: f (part one)
The A-Z of industrial gets to f
Tuesday Ten: 328: The Distance
We go to the outer reaches of space, via Scotland, for songs covering distances