In Strict Confidence is a German

Germany

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 electro-industrial

Electro-industrial

Electro-industrial is a music genre drawing on EBM and post-industrial that developed in the mid-1980s. While EBM has a minimal structure and clean production, electro-industrial has a deep, complex and layered sound. The style was pioneered by Skinny Puppy, Front Line Assembly, and other groups,...

 band. Formed in 1989/1990, they were known as Seal of Secrecy until 1992. In Strict Confidence has been signed to several record labels, including Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records

Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres....

 and WTII Records

WTII Records

WTII Records is an independent record label set up in 2001 by former WaxTrax! General Manager, Bart Pfanenstiel, to relive the spirit of WaxTrax!'s early music. WTII’s releases span a wide variety of musical styles, but the primary focus is electronic based pop, synthpop, electro, industrial, indie...

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History

In Strict Confidence started out as a quartet, but stripped down to a duo (Dennis Ostermann and Jörg Schelte) in 1992, releasing two demos tapes on the way to their debut release 'Cryogenix' on Zoth Ommog in 1996 (the initial pressing of this album sold out in one week), shortly followed by an EP 'Collapse'. The band left the label after releasing follow-up effort 'Face The Fear' in 1998, releasing their third album 'Love Kills!' on Bloodline two years later.

Founding member Stefan Vesper then re-joined the group in time for 'Mistrust the Angels' in 2002 with subsequent albums 'Holy' and 'Exile Paradise' appearing at two-year intervals. These albums saw the project's sound diversify further, notably with increasing use of female vocals from Antje Schulz, vocalist of the band Chandeen

Chandeen

Chandeen is a musical project from Frankfurt am Main, founded in 1990 and popular in the darkwave scene in the first half of the 1990s. The band refers to its own style as "Electronic poetry"...

, and the addition of female vocalist Nina de Lianin

Dennis Ostermann has a side project called Controlled Fusion

Controlled Fusion

Controlled Fusion is an electro-industrial act from Germany.-History:Controlled Fusion was formed in 1993 by programmer Steffan Schuhrke, with In Strict Confidence frontman Dennis Ostermann joining in 1995 in time for the project's debut album 'Unnatural Causes', which was released in 1996...

. Stefan Vesper has produced material under his own name and also as Steve Dragon.

Members

• Dennis Ostermann (vocals, songwriting)
• Jörg Schelte (songwriting, programming)
• Stefan Vesper (drums, songwriting) (left in 1992, returned in 2001)
• Antje Schulz (vocals, lyrics)
• Nina de Lianin (vocals)

Albums

• Cryogenix
  Cryogenix (album)
  -Track listing:# "Falling Down"# "Dementia"# "Inside"# "Sudorific"# "Become An Angel"# "In 2 Deep "# "Burning Angel"# "Lost In Paradise"# "Crux"# "Sinner"# "Change My Vein"# "Cryonic Suspension "-U.S...
  
  , 1996
• Face the Fear
  Face the Fear (album)
  -Track listing:# "Empire"# "Alles In Mir"# "Prediction"# "Industrial Love"# "Hidden Thoughts"# "Room 101"# "Engel Mit Feuer Und Schwert"# "I Don't Care"# "Way of Redemption"# "Ein Mensch, Eln Kämpfer Und Eln Schlächter"- External links :*...
  
  , 1997
• Angels Anger Overkill
  Angels Anger Overkill (album)
  -Track listing:# "Hero"# "Prediction "# "Hidden Thoughts"# "Become An Angel"# "Industrial Love"# "Dementia"# "Inside"# "Alles In Mir"# "Burning Angel"# "Sudorific"# "Collapse"# "Falling Down"# "Sinner"# "Beautiful Pain"...
  
  , 1998 (Compilation)
• Love Kills!
  Love Kills! (album)
  -Track listing:# "Zauberschloss"# "Heaven is the Place to Be"# "Stern"# "The Truth Inside of Me"# "Spread Your Wings I"# "Kiss Your Shadow"# "Silent Memorial"# "Wenn Ich Die Augen Schließe"# "Weltuntergang"# "The Setting Off the Sun"# "Spread Your Wings II"...
  
  , 2000
• Mistrust The Angels
  Mistrust the Angels (album)
  -Track listing:# "Les Miroirs"# "Send a Sign"# "Herzattacke"# "Au Milieu Des Anges"# "Engelsstaub"# "When the Heart Starts To Bleed"# "Schlecht Geträumt"# "Horizont"# "Lost in the Night"# "It Seems Lost…"# "Der Vampir Und Dessen Verwandlung"...
  
  , 2002
• Holy, 2004
• Exile Paradise
  Exile Paradise (album)
  Exile Paradise is In Strict Confidence's 9th full length album.The album is sold as both two CDs and a DVD; and as a single CD .The opening and closing tracks on disc one, "The harder they come…" and "…the harder they fall" are short instrumental tracks of a similar style.-Disc one:# "The harder...
  
  , 2006
• La Parade Monstrueuse, 2010

EPs

• "Collapse", 1997
• "Industrial Love/Prediction", 1998 (limit 1111 copies)
• "Zauberschloss", 2001
• "Herzattacke", 2002
• "Zauberschloss/Kiss Your Shadow", 2002
• "Engelsstaub", 2002
• "Seven Lives", 2004
• "Holy (The Hecq Destruxxion)", 2004 (Remix CD in metal case, limited to 1111 copies)
• "Where Sun & Moon Unite", 2006
• "The Serpent's Kiss", 2006
• "Exile Paradise (The Hecq Destruxxion)", 2007 (Remix CD in metal case, limited to 1111 copies)
• "My Despair", 2009
• "Silver Bullets", 2010

Maxis

• "Kiss Your Shadow", 2000
• "The Truth Inside of Me", 2001 (limit 1500 copies)
• "Mistrust the Bonus Edition", 2002
• "Babylon", 2003
• "The Sun Always Shines on TV", 2005 (limited boxset w. picture viewer, 2000 copies)

Vinyl

• "Dementia", 1997 (limited 500 copies)
• "Aghast View vs. ISC (Industrial Love)", 1998 (limit 333 copies)