We’ve got roughly a month or so of regular coverage left before we get deep into Year End business, so it’s speak now or forever hold you peace time: if there’s a 2026 record we have yet to write up for the site and you’re interested to hear it, by all means let us know in the comments down below. We’ve got a queue going that might have a spot or two left to fill, and try as we might, we aren’t free of blind spots. On to Tracks!

Marc Heal

MC Lord Of The Flies himself, Marc Heal.

Suicide Commando feat. Assemblage 23, “I Am Your Darkness (Radio edit)”
Okay, this is a bit of a weird one; aggrotech endboss Suicide Commando has released a new cut featuring none other than Tom Shear of Assemblage 23 on vocals. It’s not necessarily the kind of collab you’d expect, but it does give us something we’ve never heard before, with Tom’s familiar melodic delivery set against Johann Van Roy’s pitch shifted goblinisms.

Dancing Plague, “Heart So Close”
Portland darkwaver Dancing Plague has announced Endlessness, his second album for Artoffact Records. Given the project is noted for graven vocals and overcast moods, “Heart So Close” certainly feels like a departure; you’ve got a sweet synthpop ballad, albeit one with all the gravitas you’d expect from Dancing Plague. It’ll be interesting to hear what other changes are in store when the record drops in February 2027.

Michael Idehall, “This Is Bardo”
If a deep autumnal chill still hasn’t set in wherever you may live, this taster of Michael Idehall’s forthcoming Vessel should help to hurry it in. The veteran Swedish experimentalist’s latest takes sections from a number of spiritual texts as its starting points, and judging from this will venture with them into the interzone betwixt atmospheric programming and vocal processing which is Idehall’s home clime.

Control Fields, “Analog Fear”
We don’t know what’s in the water in Tbilisi (or frankly much about Georgia, for that matter), but between records from Cyan ID, Shaman Tud, and Downwell, not to mention the SHISHI label, the region is clearly locked in on quality TBM. The second single from new producer Control Fields keeps their hot hand going, and the mix of immediate bass and brooding pads makes them a perfect fit for release on X-IMG.

Marc Heal, “The Shadowman”
Cubanate vocalist/wrathful voice of God Marc Heal returns with some new solo material under his own name, the first taste of which is “The Shadowman”. If you come to Heal for his vicious delivery and incisive lyricism, welp, you’ve got that here in spades, along with a healthy serving of the Numan-esque synthwork that defined his previous solo efforts, and some raunchy industrial rock guitar. Did we mention the single comes with remixes from Rhys Fulber, Blush Response and Sleep Clinic?

Puppenjunx, “Beton”
Puppenjunx is the new side project of Orange Sector founders Lars Felker and Martin Bodewell, the latter of which released an unexpectedly synthpop-focused record with Armageddon Dildos’ Uwe Kanka last year. No such melodicism exists on debut LP Einz, though: the pair delve deeper than Orange Sector’s already ascetic read on EBM and back to the roots of DAF worship with stripped to the bone rhythmic tracks like this one.