Encephalon Echoes Artoffact With their first release in over five years, Encephalon makes their return with their fourth studio album, Echoes. Lead vocalist Matt Gifford very much sounds like the unsettling and haunting growls of heavy metal [...]
OTTAWA INDUSTRIALISTS ENCEPHALON ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ECHOES | FIRST SINGLE “SOMEONE ELSE’S DREAM” STREAMING NOW ARTOFFACT The fourth album is always the most difficult. Cult Ottawa industrialists Encephalon will release Echoes, [...]
GHOST TWIN – “BLUE SUNSHINE” ARTOFFACT Winnipeg-based dark synthpop duo Ghost Twin returns with sophomore album Love Songs for End Times, an album that promises to bring some much needed cathartic release through a prism of pop [...]
HIS STORY RIGHT NOW A CONVERSATION WITH cEvin Key Kevin Crompton, or cEvin Key as he is known as in the music industry, released his latest solo work entitled Xwayxway (anglicized as whoi whoi) in February of 2021. Once the drummer of [...]
cEvin Key And The Subconscious Electronic Orchestra Resonance Artoffact cEvin Key’s fifth solo album, Resonance (formerly X̱wáýx̱way), is released on Toronto’s Artoffact Records. The album consists of 12 electronic tracks, some instrumental and [...]
AND YOU’RE DYING INSIDE A CONVERSATION WITH KRISTOF BATHORY OF DAWN OF ASHES Kristof Bathory, founder and principal songwriter of Dawn of Ashes, is a seeming prophet of the anarchy the world has descended into. A checkout of the video [...]
THE FOREIGN RESORT – “OBSESSING” ARTOFFACT The third leaked single from The Foreign Resort’s upcoming album, Outnumbered! will be released on Artoffact Records on April 5th. About The Foreign Resort The Foreign Resort – a [...]
Crash Vegas Brave New Waves Session Artoffact The clubs of Toronto’s Queen Street West were a hotbed of folk, rock, and country music fusion in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Springing from that scene, Crash Vegas – founded by Michelle [...]
ARTOFFACT SIGNS DANISH POST-PUNK ACT THE FOREIGN RESORT NEW ALBUM WILL BE PRODUCED BY JASON CORBETT (ACTORS) OUT EARLY 2019 Formed in 2009 in Copenhagen, Denmark, the Foreign Resort has spent 10 years creating and honing an explosive yet [...]
3TEETH, TOOL KICK OFF U.S. ARENA TOUR TONIGHT IN SAN FRANCISCO WEST COAST INDUSTRIAL ACT 3TEETH TO OPEN FOR TOOL + PRIMUS THROUGHOUT JANUARY West Coast industrial rock foursome 3TEETH, hand selected by Tool to open its January U.S. arena tour, [...]
Depeche Mode’s Dave Gahan Features On Mirror’s First Single And Video Soon Available On Vinyl Artoffact Records will reissue Thomas Anselmi’s Mirror album on vinyl and CD in February. Mirror’s Thomas Anselmi has a long [...]
LA-Based Industrial-Metal Group 3TEETH Will Support Tool On A US Tour In January Primus To Also Share The Bill The LA-based industrial-metal foursome 3TEETH have been announced as support for the upcoming Tool tour, set to take-off from San [...]
GREEK SYNTHPOP DUO MARSHEAUX REISSUING “INHALE” ON RARE ‘SHAPE SPLATTER’ VINYL Toronto-based Artoffact Records will re-issue Marsheaux’s Inhale record with an ultra-rare vinyl effect. Toronto-based Artoffact Records [...]