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We are happy to announce that The Horrorist single 13 Dobermans from the album Attack Decay has debuted on the German Club Chart at #2! The single which is available on 12″ and digital download has remixes by The Advent, Die Krupps, Felix Krocher and Gabriel Palomo.

A psychotic story about bullies, transvestites and bloody revenge. Who else could make this song other than The Horrorist?

Buy the single on 12″: Out of Line Shop
Buy the digital download: iTunes

UK techno man Mark Hawkins is known for his music on the Djax-Up-Beats, Neue Heimat and Feinwerk labels. His live show is a full on hardware assault (no laptop). While he was living in Berlin he worked in the studio with The Horrorist a few times. Last week he released his latest full length album “The Doomsday Clock” free on the internet. The title track contains vocals from Oliver Chesler. Be sure to keep an eye on this blog for future devolopments concerning Mark and Oliver because they did record a few songs together. There is also an original version of “The Doomsday Clock” which will also be released commerically.

Download the new Mark Hawkins album: click here
Read a review of the album in Germany’s De:Bug magazine: click here

We are happy to announce that 13 Dobermans, the first single from The Horrorist album Attack Decay will enter the German Club Chart next week! The 12″ on Out of Line Music and distributed by Discomania contains the original song plus remixes by Die Krupps, The Advent, Felix Krocher and Gabriel Palomo.

To purchase 13 Dobermans: click here
More info about the German charts: click here

Photos now online from The Horrorist Live show at Art of Dance’s mega event “Mindcontroller”.

To view the slideshow on this site: click here
To view all the photos at flickr: click here

In an 1999 article for the Village Voice music journalist Simon Reynolds said “My favorite contemporary American singer-songwriter is Oliver Chesler, a/k/a The Horrorist”.

He has written the definitive book on the entire rave scene and techno culture. In over 575 pages he details, chronicles and explains all the genres, sub-genres, labels, and who’s who of the techno world. The book includes info on Oliver Chesler and Things to Come Records. Be sure to check it out when it is released next month. Be sure to get the 2008 edition.

Energy Flash: A Journey Through Rave Music and Dance Culture is rereleased next month in expanded and updated form.

With six extra chapters and 40 thousand new words, the remixed Energy Flash–a.k.a. Generation Ecstasy–takes in developments in dance music in the decade since its original 1998 publication: the trance resurgence, 2step garage, the nu-Eighties electro sound, microhouse, grime, breakcore, dubstep…

Buy your copy now at Amazon: click here

Look for the January 2008 issue of Germany’s uber techno everything magazine Raveline. Inside you will find a short article on The Horrorist’s live performance at the Tunnel, Hamburg’s 14 year birthday party.

To read the article: click here
Raveline magazine: click here
Photo and article by: www.martin-jahn.de

We have posted a set of photos from The Horrorist Live show in London, England. This time Oliver Chesler performed at Slimelight which is London’s most notorious Goth club. Also performing that night was Gerechtigkeits Liga an interesting noise band from the 80s. Thanks to Pete Crane, Tori and Nikke Entwistle for some of these photos.

To view the photo slide show on this site: click here
To see the photos on flickr: click here

Without a trace. Without a whisper. 2007 left the room. In comes a new master. Stronger and even more serious than last year’s man. He packs a punch. He means business. Are you ready for 2008? Are you ready for the Things to Come?

photo credit: T.SC