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Fifteen years on from its release, we're looking back at Rot, the high watermark for Germany's [:SITD:], on this month's commentary podcast. It's a record which stood out at the time in terms of structure and sound design compared to a relatively creatively inert club industrial scene, and we're getting into the minutiae of why that is. 

The odd pairing of Gitane Demone and Mark Ickx for the Demonix project, as well as some of David Thrussell’s earliest dark ambient experimentation as Black Lung make up the body of this classically formatted, accidentally 1994-focused two albums episode of We Have A Technical. We’re also discussing Spencer Sunshine’s delivery of receipts concerning Boyd Rice’s participation in neo-nazism. 

Despite our post-fest blues and exhaustion, we're back to bring you a plus-sized version of the podcast breaking down each and every act we caught this past weekend at Verboden Festival here in our own Vancouver backyard. Relive the memories if you were on the trip with us, and flag a couple of live acts to keep an eye out for if you weren't. 

In this week’s episode of We Have A Technical, we’re jumping off from a discussion Bruce had last week with our friends at Cemetery Confessions in order to examine the idea of the goth-industrial club format. A marriage of necessity? One which yielded productive hybridization? Is it of use or salience today? Was it ever? We’re touching upon all of this, as well as the death of legendary engineer Steve Albini and some Sisters touring news.

Classic two albums format of the podcast for you this week folks, with a pair of fairly obscure records from a couple of decades back under the microscope. First up, the fanatic devotion to and imitation of Front 242 shown by Mastertune on their second LP prompts some discussion of the je ne sais quois possessed by the Belgian masters which makes that sort of homage so rare and awkward. Next, the synthpunk/deathrock car wreck of the Bay Area's Subtonix getsd us talking about what we are and aren't interested in in those genres.

A 2001 record which was rather out of step with industrial club styles of the time, Stromkern's Armageddon proved to cast a long thematic shadow as well as stand the test of time musically. We're discussing Ned Kirby's electro-acoustic arrangements, the eerie political polyvalence of its addressing of fanaticism, and how the album left a mark on the midwest industrial scene in this month's Patreon-supported commentary podcast.