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Schallfaktor is a German 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,...

 musical project by Drazen Sucic that started in 2006.

History

Schallfaktor began as a conceptual project between 2002-2003 by Sucic with the first album Schmerzgrenze released by both artists in 2006.

In 2007 the project signed to Infacted Recordings, with the End of Love EP release sending the single to position 3 in the Deutsche Alternative Charts

Deutsche Alternative Charts

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 (DAC). The album contained a total of seven remixes of the title track by various artists including Suicide Commando

Suicide Commando

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 and Grendel

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. It was reviewed favourably by the German Sonic Seducer magazine calling it a "Hellectro Newcomer" with a great potential.

The next full album Sittenverfall was released in 2008 reaching position 6 in the DAC. The Sonic Seducer compared it to the music of Agonoize

Agonoize

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, Straftanz

Straftanz

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 and Feindflug

Feindflug

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. The Side-Line

Side-Line

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magazine quoted similar bands in a review and called the album "a notable step forward for Schallfaktor" although a lack of originality was mentioned.

Schallfaktor have played on various European festivals including Wave Gotik Treffen

Wave Gotik Treffen

Wave-Gotik-Treffen is an annual world festival for "dark" music and arts in Leipzig, Germany. 150+ bands and artists from various backgrounds play at several venues throughout the city over 4 days...

, NCN, Summer Darkness and the Infacted Festival. A new album is in progress for release in 2011.

Discography

• Schmerzgrenze LP (Self-release, 2006)
• End of Love EP (Infacted, 2007)
• Sittenverfall LP (Infacted, 2008)

External links

• Schallfaktor discography at Discogs
  Discogs
  Discogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...