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In its earliest form, the German project Verney 1826 can be dated back to the year 1991. Influenced from the beginning by classical music, the gothic tales of Mrs Shelley and the beauty of long forgotten times, Verney 1826 still follows its vision to create sad musical landscapes. The project uses stylistic elements from gothic ambient, folk noir or haunting dark wave, while the lyrics go reflective ways. First being considered an experiment, the operatic voice of mezzo-soprano Anna Aliena (ShirayasDream) has become a constant factor. Music for the bleak hours of the night: Quiet, dark, fragile. As the years...

Naoki Maeda (前田尚紀 Maeda Naoki), more commonly called simply Naoki, is a Japanese music composer and producer who works for Konami. Naoki's official title is Konami AM Internal Sound Team. Though Naoki worked on many different video game titles like Salamander, his most known contribution is to the Bemani series: he's the main composer for the Dance Dance Revolution games. Most of his songs are signed with a pseudonym. For example, the two "Drop Out" songs are signed as "NW260" .

Hardcore Punk from Boston Proper, MA. Formed in 2003, with 1 member change in 2005. One 12-track Full length (S/T) in 2007, and one 7-track EP (Long Walk, Short Pier) in 2008. Described by others as so many different sub-genres (nu-thrash, metal-punk, street punk, hardcore, "crust-metal-something-core") the band just gave up and just refers to themselves as fast and angry. Influences include Dystopia, Slayer, Statistics, Testament, Toxic Narcotic, A Global Threat, Cro Mags, Pantera, Sepultura, Coroner, Totalitar, etc. .

M26.7 is a jonglo-punk-rock'n'roll group from Cambrai (6 musicians of which a clown disguised juggler). After many dates which saw them going up on scene with Banlieue Rouge, René Binamé, Infraktion, Bomb Factory, Toxic Waste, Les Vieilles Salopes, Trouble Juice,... one 6 titles out in September 2005. .

RADIUM226 - a three-man-project who prefered to be faceless. However... Founded in July 2006 with a view to bring more radiation into the Electro-Genre. Impulsive Arpeggios, powerful Synths, thunderous Beat and varied Vocals (incl. Voicebox) are the four attributes who ascribes exclusivly the dancing-nation. The radiation charge RADIUM226 - it definitely hits every hardboiled Electro- and Industrial-Fan. RADIUM226: the nuclear beats ! .