Idiot Stare

Unknown to Millions Release Date Set – February 5th 2013

istareadmin — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 06:23:03 +0000

Digital copies will be available at all popular online outlets. Physical copies available here or at CD Baby and DSBP.

Unknown to Millions CD Kickstarter Launched

chadman — Mon, 06 Aug 2012 19:47:25 +0000

Idiot Stare’s next album, Unknown to Millions is done and we really want you to hear it at its best, so we’ve set up this Kickstarter project. If we reach our funding goal we’ll press the album to CD, at least 300 of them as real replicated CDs with color ecopack and booklet.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/idiotstare/idiot-stare-unknown-to-millions-cd

Looking for Remix Artists

chadman — Wed, 30 May 2012 17:20:12 +0000

Our new album is almost wrapped up and we’re looking for artists interested in remixing for a future EP. Drop us a line if you’re interested.

Idiot Stare featured on Electronic Saviors 2 Collection

chadman — Tue, 29 May 2012 22:05:23 +0000

Our remix of UCNX’s “The Innocent” is featured on Disc 3 of this amazing comp. You can get it direct from Metropolis here.

Electronic Saviors 2: Recurrence

Life after having cancer can be a difficult ordeal. One is especially lucky to survive it. After enduring chemotherapy, radiation and a multitude of other therapies, there can be a lingering fear in the patient who is now a cancer survivor. Cancer returning is a nightmare come true to any patient. Scene promoter, DJ and Rein[Forced] frontman, Jim Semonik knows this only too well. Having survived stage 2B colorectal cancer in 2008, Semonik created one of the most successful compilations in any scene with the help of 83 musicians with Electronic Saviors: Industrial Music To Cure Cancer. This piece was very well received by press and critics and raised over 20K for Charity.

This time, he assembled a cast of 142 artists from all over the world to take on all forms of cancer. Semonik returns with all guns blazing on Electronic Saviors 2: Recurrence with new, rare and exclusive tracks from God Module, System Syn, Project Pitchfork, Hocico, Blutengel, The Dark Clan, Rein[Forced], 16Volt, Ayria, Left Spine Down, Panic Lift and much much more. From Covenant’s upbeat “Lightbringer Feat Necro Facility (Speedrun II Mix)” to 16Volt’s downtemo “Burn (Father Dub)” to the guitar attack Deathline International’s “Inside” to the soothing synthpop of Tenek’s “World of no Relief”, ES2 offers something for everyone. This will be a massive 6 disc boxset available physically with gorgeous artwork from Jeff Confer and Samantha Johnson. Presented in a lovely 8 panel digipak with 16 page booklet, Jim’s quest to bring this disease to an end through music has grown by leaps and bounds.

Jim dedicates this body of work to all who have suffered with cancer as well as survivors and loved ones touched by the disease.

DISC 1

01. Tenek – A World Of No Relief
02. Deathline Int’l – Inside
03. Cancerface – Tumor Curbjob
04. Panic Lift – Footsteps
05. The Gothsicles – Who Wants to Join Our Super Hero Team? (Right Now, It’s Just Me & Jim)
06. Inertia – Deworld (New Day Mix)
07. Santa Hates You – Pack Your Bags Honey, We’re Going To Hell! (Road Trip Remix)
08. The Azoic – Corruption (Remix by Encoder)
09. Rein[Forced] – Burnt
10. Deathproof – Bitcrush
11. Cyferdyne – Nova
12. Null Device – Through Closing Eyes
13. Sonik Foundry – Relapse
14. Left Spine Down – Stolen Car (B&E Mix)
15. Detroit Diesel – Under Fire
16. In Strict Confidence – Bitter Truth
17. Edge Of Dawn – Lucid Dreams (Standeg Remix)
18. Constance Rudert – The Harbour Song

DISC 2

01. Wreckcreation Featuring Dan Clark Of The Dark Clan – No Regrets
02. Project Pitchfork – Lament (Electronic Saviors Remix)
03. Solitary Experiments – Immortal (Icon Of Coil Mix by Sebastian Komor)
04. Hypefactor – Descriptive
05. Uberbyte Featuring Jimmy Semtex of Rein[Forced] – Phantasm
06. Mindless Faith – Tragedy
07. Soil & Eclipse – The Will (Survival Mix)
08. Suicide Commando – The Perils of Indifference (Stahlnebel vs. Black Selket Remix)
09. Lowe – Mirage (Saviors Mix)
10. CYLiX – I Don’t Exist
11. I:Scintilla – Swimmers Can Drown (Diabolic Art Mix)
12. Inure – This Is The Life (Cryogen Second Mix)
13. Trakktor – Hollow Spirits
14. 23RAINYDAYS – Monster (v2)
15. Accessory – Voran (Der Teufel im Spiegel Mix by Boole)
16. Twilight Laboratory – Intention
17. TERRORFAKT – Marching Into Valhalla

DISC 3

01. System Syn – God Damn (Imperative Reaction Remix)
02. AD INFERNA – A.I. DOMINION
03. Boole – Walpurgisnacht
04. Ego Likeness – Infidel
05. Binary Park – World’s Collide (Saviors Mix)
06. Die Sektor – The Just Will Be Silenced
07. Stiff Valentine – Suicide Execute
08. head-less – Punish Your Head (Mental Discipline Remix)
09. Ludovico Technique – This Life (Lexincrypt Remix)
10. Psy’Aviah – Sweet Hard Revenge (Fallon Nieves Rendition)
11. Aesthetic Perfection – The Devil’s in the Details (Sthilmann Remix)
12. Terminal Choice – Fight the System (Rabia Sorda Mix)
13. Diverje – Suffer This World (Centhron Remix)
14. am.psych – My Enemy
15. The Rain Within – The Other Side
16. UCNX – The Innocent ($150 Remix by Idiot Stare)
17. Jon Zaremba – Snakes, You Get Out Of Here! This Is Not Your Room, This Is My Room. Now, You Just Get

DISC 4

01. The Mighty Chouffe – Always This Heart
02. Angels On Acid – Satellite
03. Terrolokaust – Thirsty (V2.0)
04. Ashbury Heights – Decent Cancer
05. God Module – The Great Commandment
06. Bella Morte – Lost
07. Encoder – Shadows
08. Alter Der Ruine – Ghosts (Swank Version)
09. Militant – Sabotage
10. Ghost & Writer – Hurricane (Splitter Mix)
11. iVardensphere – Chasing the Dragon (Lost Tribe Version)
12. Spetsnaz – Satiric Strokes
13. Decree – Come and See
14. SD6 – These Days (Single Mix)
15. Distorted Memory – Hand Of God (Iszoloscope Remix)
16. Cryogen Second – Thirty Eight (feat. Sarah Chenoweth of Synapse)
17. Trigger10d – Puddlehopping (Alternate Mix by Todd Aeschliman)
18. Life Cried – Another Sacrifice (Rejected)

DISC 5

01. Mesh – You’ll Never Understand (Harder)
02. The Dark Clan – Sick As Love
03. Caustic – 1984 (Was A Very Bad Year)
04. 16Volt – Burn (Father Dub Mix)
05. Empusa Featuring Miss FD – You
06. Everything Goes Cold – King of the Impossible (Signal Drums Mix by The Dark Clan)
07. Unit:187 – Second Class Citizen (JFS Mix by Ken ‘Hiwatt’ Marshall)
08. Blutengel – Where Will You Be?
09. AimOniA – Surrender
10. Patricia Wake Feat. Dan Clark, Lane Ellen, John Verbos, and Jolexx – Your Love, My Medicine
11. Espermachine – Dying Life
12. boxed warning – Paralyzed For Sleep
13. Reaxion Guerrilla – Imperfextion Humana (Radio perVersion)
14. Cesium_137 – From Within (xrayhead mix)
15. Retrogramme – Share the Cancer
16. N.T.T. – If This Body Should Fail Me
17. Necrotek – Beyond Death

DISC 6

01. Covenant Feat. Necro Facility – Lightbringer (Speedrun II)
02. Sensuous Enemy – Re:Mission
03. Neuroactive – Never Felt Better (Recovery Mix)
04. Nachtmahr – Can You Feel The Beat (Nitronoise Remix)
05. Ayria Feat. Jimmerz Semtex of Rein[Forced] & Jimmerz Cookas of I:Scintilla – Blue Alice (Jims of the
06. Syrian – Speed of Light (T3chn0ph0b1a Remix)
07. Decoded Feedback – Resilience
08. Obscenity Trail – Über’s Wasser Gehen ([:SITD:] Remix)
09. XuberX – Terrible Strength
10. Monody – In Between (Irradiated Mix)
11. Hocico – Embraced By The Light
12. ThouShaltNot – New Year (A Heartbeat From The End)
13. FGFC820 – The Heart Of America (Dräcos Mix)
14. Interface – Inner Light (feat. Liebchen)
15. Terror Firma Sky – Music For Medicinal Purposes
16. Agnes Wired For Sound – Silicone Sheets
17. Society Burning – I Am The Man
18. DYM – Tumor

MINDPHASER by IDIOT STARE available NOW!

istareadmin — Mon, 28 May 2012 05:15:46 +0000

To close a circle one must go back to the beginning. Thus MoMT records terminates its 7 Years of existence with Replicate 02 the sequel to its first release Replicate 01. The premise of the compilation is the same to allow a group of underground electronic and industrial artists to deliver cover versions of the work of the venerable Bill Leeb and particular his highly influential project Front Line Assembly. This time around the covers are from a diverse range of artists from the returning K-Nitrate and C8K with their powerful EBM influenced techno to the Coldwave and Electro fusions of UCNX, Idiot Stare and Gross National Produkt. Other acts such as Closer Contact and Noir Magnetik tackle the more dark ambient material that has become the forgotten side of Front Line Assembly’s history Again once again Replicate 02 highlights the influence that FLA have had over a generation of bands from a different genres and nationalities. Are you ready to believe is something different!

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“Welcome to Babylon” review by Grave Concerns

chadman — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:58:18 +0000

“Idiot Stare’s newest release may be the quintessential coldwave album of the year, if not the decade…It’s all here: you’ve got your throbbing drum machines, acidic synth lines, razor-sharp guitars, and sneering punk-inspired vocal work. There’s even an extended burst of ear-shattering noise…Without sounding dated, this album manages to capture everything that used to make the California industrial scene so great.”

read the full review here.

“Welcome to Babylon” review by Media Gauntlet

chadman — Mon, 28 May 2012 02:47:31 +0000

“Idiot Stare’s “Welcome To Babylon” was my pick for the best album of 2006…Idiot Stare took steps to make this their best album ever and it paid off…Kudos on putting together an album that does what most other bands of the past decade haven’t been able to do: make music fun again.”

See the full review here.

Ghost and The Hate Cage reviews by Dead Earnest

istareadmin — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:08:26 +0000

Dead Earnest’s Choice Selection – Industrial/EBM

IDIOT STARE: Ghost CD£12.99
If the Torn Skin CD I reviewed around the same time is as cracking an example of industrial EBM as you’ll find, then it’s just their luck that………….this one’s even better. A set of fourteen songs on which the achievment of getting beats, layers, power, dynamics, leads, melodies, sequencers, vocals, song-writing and arranging, producing and playing to be THIS hot is nothing other than jaw-dropping. Song after song explodes into life but here the electronics and electronic rhythmic components are more prevalent, with drums and bass also of an electronically derived nature, as the vocals are uniformly upfront but with just the right air of menace and distance. The production throughout as song after crunching song erupts and shatters, the heady combinations of beats and rhythms, synths and sequencers, bass and samples all evoking feelings of pure adrenaline-rush heaven. In fact, at no time do you feel like you’re listening to fourteen versions of the same song – oh, didn’t I tell you – this is a remix album. Forget the detail, listen to the result – as awesome an example of head-bending EBM as they come and if this doesn’t make you feel like you’ve just gone ten rounds with Lennox Lewis, nothing will. Awesome.

IDIOT STARE:The Hate Cage CD£12.99
IMMENSE – this is classic electro-industrial metal at its rampaging best with huge rhythms, tons of synths, aggressive vocals that fit perfectly, excellent use of samples, searing guitar riffs, and one immense sound that kills at small distances. But the best part about this is that there are 17 tracks with hook lines that stay with you and it’s one of those brilliant albums that you just play and play and play, doing the air guitar bit, flailing around the room like a dervish on heat. If only the guys who used Underworld’ s ‘Born Slippy’ in the ‘Trainspotting’ film had heard this first, they’d have realised that this wipes the floor with the supposed titanium strength track many regarded it as. From start to finish the production, playing, arrangements and compositions are varied, addictive and more than the likes of Ministry and their ilk have delivered. Ten out of ten and no mistake.

Courtesy Dead Earnest

Ghost review by Stillborn Zine

istareadmin — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:07:14 +0000

Nati nel ’95 e successivamente fusisi agli Insight 23, gli Idiot Stare sono una band che propone un interessante industrial metal molto ballabile e aggressivo..
“Ghost” è un maxi-singolo ove oltre alla versione originale di “Ghost”, vi sono 12 remix, “World Destruction” (del ’99) come bonus track e il video della versione originale di “Ghost” (tra l’altro interpretato dalla bella e denudata Donna Ricci presente in copertina e nel booklet)..

Che dire di questo singolo? innanzitutto molto bella la versione originale degli Idiot Stare, sicuramente molto accattivante e ballabile.. hit che si presta alla grande per essere remixata.. e che dire dei remix? davvero ottimi e molto vari, nonostante sia ripetuto per 12 volte lo stesso brano, i vari remix si fanno quasi tutti valere.. tra suggestioni electro-metal e richiami EBM, i vari remix ripropongono in modo personale e accattivante questo “Ghost”.. mi viene da citare quello di SMP, prophei o di Jugend Staat, o quella di A Different Kind of Cop.. insomma dei bei remix e un singolo davvero accattivante.. se poi mettiamo che per concludere gli Idiot Stare posiziona una “World Destruction” veramente distruttiva.. bhè.. come singolo niente male, aspettiamo l’album magari prodotto da qualche importante label!

(uh…what?!)

Courtesy Stillborn Zine

Ghost review by Gothic Review

istareadmin — Sun, 20 May 2012 06:06:08 +0000

Having never heard of Idiot Stare (or STG for that matter) I was really curious to see and hear what this band is all about. This single is the BEST remix single that I’ve received this year. While none of the remixes surpass the original version that Idiot Stare did, there are some rather more dance friendly examples.

Christ Analogue’s offering is harsher and more akin to Wumpscut then the rest of the tracks. The Inertia version was also a nice stompy excuse to get upon the dance floor. Rewire being on here is kinda cheesy (cause the people in Rewire also happen to be in Idiot Stare as I read on their website).

Idiot Stares’ cover of World Destruction is as pertinent (for the US government) as it was back in the eighties. I can’t think of a better Johnny Rotten song to cover in this time of governmental crisis. The video (on the disc) in Macro vision has great surround sound capabilities and is moody as all get out.

Azrael Racek

Courtesy Gothic Review