Marco De Baptistis

Former Editor

debaptistismrc@gmail.com

I was born in 1978 in Pescara, the city that gave birth to Gabriele D'Annunzio. Having always been passionate about Art, at fifteen I bought my first album: a Bauhaus compilation (1979-1983 Volume One). I'd been drawn in by the reference to the architecture, art and design school of the same name in the Weimar Republic, but found something else entirely. From there a whole world opened up: Punk, New Wave, Industrial, Electronic Body Music and later Kraut, Techno, IDM, Post Industrial, Black Metal, Neofolk, and so on, became my passion. I now curate the "Dark" section of Onda Rock. Since 2021 I've created Archeo Futurismi, a virtual space dedicated to the dark Arts and to unconventional, rebellious sounds (Post Dystopian Music for Post Dystopian People), with the aim of fighting every form of censorship by mainstream thinking and giving space to non-conformist, heathen and identity-driven sounds (Heathen Music, Nordic Ritual Folk, Black Metal, Neofolk, Dungeon Synth, Martial Industrial, Dark Ambient, Death Industrial, Electronic Body Music, Dystopian Synth, etc). I currently live in Sweden, in Stockholm.

Monographs and interviews

Ain Soph	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Alvar		Int Interview
Anna von Hausswolff	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Darkthrone	Mono Monograph
European Ghost		Int Interview
Fire + Ice	Mono Monograph
Ianva	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Lisfrank		Int Interview
Mayhem	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Nitzer Ebb	Mono Monograph
ROME	Mono Monograph	Int Interview
Sol Invictus	Mono Monograph
Trepaneringsritualen	Mono Monograph
Wardruna	Mono Monograph

Miscellaneous

In-Depth

Geometric Vision - Geometric Vision and the Naples dark scene

Together with Geometric Vision, we explore Naples' new post-punk/darkwave scene

In-Depth

Techno - 10 industrial-techno LPs

Evolution and transformation of the relationship between industrial and techno in ten essential albums

Reviews on OndaRock

AA.VV. (BËLATEN) 19 Beläten – En Sommar Av Plåga dark-ambient, industrial, techno	7.5
AA.VV. IDEAL The Black Book ambient, drone, industrial, noise, techno	7.5
AA.VV. POSH ISOLATION I Could Go Anywhere But Again I Go With You ambient, drone, electronic, post-IDM	8
AGE COIN Performance dub, illbient, industrial, techno	7.5
AGENT SIDE GRINDER A/X industrial, post-punk, synth-pop	7.5
AIN SOPH Finis Gloriae Mundi electro, neofolk, post-industrial	7
AIN SOPH Live At Piper 1986 post-industrial, ritual	7
ALBIREON La bellezza di un naufragio 1998-2018 neofolk	7
ALESSANDRO CORTINI AND MERZBOW Alessandro Cortini And Merzbow industrial, noise	7
ALVAR I Sew A Blanket Of All The Broken Clouds EBM, electro-industrial, techno, warm wave	8
ANCIENT METHODS The Jericho Records industrial, noise, techno	8.5
ANDREAS TILLIANDER Compuriddim IDM, minimal techno, techno-dub	7.5
ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF All Thoughts Fly dark ambient, neoclassical	7
ANNA VON HAUSSWOLFF Dead Magic dark, doom, drone, neoclassical	8
ARSTIDIR LIFSINS Saga Á Tveim Tungum II: Eigi Fjǫll Né Firðir black metal, folk metal, viking metal	7.5
ATARAXIA ΘUASAR darkwave, ethereal, folk-gothic, neoclassical	7.5
AWEN The Hollow In The Stone neofolk, post-industrial	7.5
BECKAHESTEN Tydor dark-ambient, Nordic ritual folk	8
BELIEF DEFECT Decadent Yet Depraved downtempo, noise, post-industrial, techno	7.5
BLITZKRIEG BABY Genocidal Sextasy industrial	7.5
BLITZKRIEG BABY Homo Sapiens Parasitus industrial	7.5
BLITZKRIEG BABY War Gods angst-pop, avant-black, post-industrial	7.5
BLOOD AND SUN Love & Ashes neofolk	8
BODY OF LIIGHT Time To Kill coldwave, darkwave, synth-pop	7
BOY HARSHER Careful darkwave, Ebm, synthwave	8
BRACONIDAE Gaslighting dark-ambient, drone music, post-industrial	6.5
BRIGHTER DEATH NOW No Decency dark-ambient, death-industrial	7.5
BURZUM Thulêan Mysteries dark-ambient, dungeon synth, pagan ritual folk	7.5
BUZZ KULL New Kind Of Cross darkwave, Ebm, synthwave	7
CABARET VOLTAIRE Shadow Of Fear electro, industrial, techno	8
CELLDÖD Fragmenterade Minnen acid, Ebm, electro-funk, techno-industrial	8
CHANGES Psychonautika neofolk	7.5
CHANGES The Ballad Of Robert de Bruce neofolk	7
CHELSEA WOLFE Hiss Spun dark, doom metal, gothic rock	7.5
COIL Time Machines (ristampa) ambient, drone, post-industrial	8
COMANDO PRAETORIO Ignee Sacertà Ctonie black metal	8
COSEI FANNI TUTTI Tutti dark-ambient, drone music, post-industrial	7
CROATIAN AMOR & VARG2TM Body Of Carbon idm, techno	5.5
CRYO The Fall of Man Ebm, future pop	7
CULT OF FIRE Moksha / Nirvana Vedic black metal	7.5
DAMIEN DUBROVNIK Great Many Arrows avant-noise, dark-ambient	7.5
DANHEIM Domadagr Nordic ritual folk	7.5
DANHEIM Skapanir Nordic ritual folk	8
DARKTHRONE Vårjevndøgn heavy metal, heavy doom, thrash	5.5
DEAD PIANO Dead Piano ambient, drone, electroacoustic	6.5
DEATH IN JUNE Essence! neofolk	7
DEISON / K K NULL Yugen abstract, ambient, drone, glitch	7
DEISON / MAURIZIO BIANCHI White Landscape ambient, isolationism	7.5
DEISON & MINGLE Innersurface dark-ambient, drone music, post-industrial	7
DEISON & MINGLE Tiliaventum dark-ambient, post-industrial	7
DER BLUTHARSCH A Collaboration dark drone, psycho-noise	7
DER BLUTHARSCH The Cosmic Trigger: Retriggered krautrock, psychedelic rock, synthwave	7
DET KÄTTERSKA FÖRBUND Lidaverken Del I: Att I Vådeld Förgås black metal, death-industrial, drone, ritual	9
DEUTSCH NEPAL Staring At My Wall krautrock, post-industrial, psychedelia	7.5
DIE SELEKTION Deine Stimme Ist Der Ursprung Jeglicher Gewalt darkwave, EBM, synth-wave	7.5
DISTEL Wapens darkwave, electro-industrial, hi-tech, witch house	7
DIVE Underneath industrial, rhythmic noise, synth-wave	7.5
DOMJORD Sporer dark-ambient, dungeon synth	7
DONATO DOZZY Filo Loves the Acid acid techno	7.5
DREW MCDOWALL The Third Helix dark-ambient, drone-music	7.5
DREW MCDOWALL Unnatural Channel avant, dark-ambient, drone music, post-industrial	8
DUNE MESSIAH Moments Of Bliss folk-noir, neofolk	7.5
ENSLAVED Utgard Viking prog black metal	7.5
EUROPEAN GHOST Collection Of Shadows darkwave, post-punk	7
FEVER RAY Plunge electro-pop	6
FORNDOM Faþir Nordic ritual folk	8
FRET Over Depth dark-ambient, dub industrial, techno	7
FRONT 242 Front By Front Ebm
FUNERALE CLASSICO ITALIANO /e·si·zià·le/ death-industrial, noise, power-electronics	7
GAAHLS WYRD GastiR – Ghosts Invited black metal	8
GARMARNA Förbundet folk-rock, Nordic folk	8
GENESIS P- ORRIDGE Loyalty Does Not End With Death dark-ambient, field recording, spoken word	8
GIANLUCA BECUZZI, MASSIMO OLLA TheenD dark-ambient, drone-music	5
GIANT SWAN Giant Swan experimental EDM, industrial, techno	7.5
GRAVELAND Hour Of Ragnarok pagan black metal	7.5
GRIFT Budet black metal, dark-folk, folk	7.5
HEILUNG Futha experimental, pagan-folk, Viking folk	8
HEKATE Totentanz neoclassical, neofolk, post-industrial	7.5
HELENA HAUFF Qualm acid, IDM, techno	7.5
HIGH-FUNCTIONING FLESH Culture Cut EBM, electro-punk	7.5
HIRO KONE A Fossil Begins To Bray drone, IDM, noise, techno	7.5
HØRD Parallels darkwave, synth-wave	7
IANVA 1919 neofolk	7.5
ICEAGE Beyondless post-punk, rock	8
IMMINENT; SYNAPSCAPE The Humanoid Problem IDM, industrial, rhythmic noise, techno	7.5
IMPALED NAZARENE Eight Headed Serpent black metal	7
IMPAVIDA Antipode atmospheric depressive black metal	7
IN THE NURSERY 1961 dark, neoclassical	7
IRON SIGHT To You Who Broke My Heart death-industrial, harsh, noise, power-electronics	7.5
J.C. & KASTIL No Spiritual Surrender dark-ambient, drone, industrial, techno	7
JH1.FS3 Loyalty abstract noise, dark-ambient, field recording	7.5
JH1.FS3 Trials And Tribulations dark-ambient, drone, post-industrial	7.5
KAELAN MIKLA Nótt eftir nótt darkwave, pagan ethereal, post-punk	7
KING DUDE Full Virgo Moon dark-folk	7
KING DUDE I Was Evil neofolk	7
KING DUDE Music To Make War To dark-folk, gothic-rock	7.5
KING DUDE Sex folk, gothic-rock, post-punk	7
L AMARA Cronache dal Sottosuolo neofolk	7.5
L AMARA L’Amara neofolk	7.5
LAIBACH Also Sprach Zarathustra industrial	7
LE SYNDICAT ÉLECTRONIQUE Le Syndicat Électronique electro, synthwave, techno	7.5
LEBANON HANOVER Let Them Be Alien coldwave, darkwave, post-punk	7.5
LEBANON HANOVER Sci-Fi Sky coldwave, darkwave, post-punk	7.5
LEIDUNGR Gryning Flammar martial industrial, Nordic ritual folk, ritual	8
LINDY-FAY HELLA Seafarer ethereal, neoclassical, pagan-folk	7.5
LISFRANK The Human coldwave, new wave, synth-wave	7
LOKE RAHBEK City of Women ambient, avant, drone, noise	7.5
LORENZO SENNI Persona electronic, idm, trance	7.5
LUSTRE The Ashes Of Light atmospheric black metal, dungeon synth	7.5
MACELLERIA MOBILE DI MEZZANOTTE Hiver Noir dark-ambient, doom, drone, jazz-noir	7.5
MACELLERIA MOBILE DI MEZZANOTTE Noir Jazz Femdom doom ambient, drone, noir-jazz	7.5
MARCO SHUTTLE Systhema ambient, techno	7
MARDUK Viktoria black metal	7
MAYHEM Daemon black metal	8
MERZBOW Cuts Open free improvisation, noise	7
MGLA Age Of Excuse black metal	8
MHOLE Quando la morte ti sussurra sul permafrost dark enlightenment, dark-ambient, idm	7
MORTIIS Spirit of Rebellion dungeon synth	8
MYRKUR Folkesange dark-folk, ethereal	8
MYRKUR Mareridt dark-gothic, folk, post-black metal	7.5
MZ.412 In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi (ristampa) black industrial, dark-ambient, death-industrial	8
MZ.412 Svartmyrkr black industrial, dark-ambient	7.5
NAGA Void Cult Rising doom metal, sludge metal	7
NASHEIM Jord Och Aska atmospheric, depressive black metal	7.5
NECROPHOBIC Dawn Of The Damned black metal, blackened death metal	7
NERATERRAE Scenes From The Sublime dark-ambient, post-industrial	7.5
NERATERRAE The Substance of Perception dark-ambient	7.5
NERVA Nerva dark-ambient, illbient	7
NEW RISEN THRONE The Outside dark-ambient, post-industrial	7
NIEMANDSROSE Stalingrad neofolk	7
NITZER EBB Let It Begin Ebm, techno-industrial	7
NODFYR Eigenheid black metal, doom, folk, heavy	7.5
NORDVARGR Daath black industrial, death-industrial, ritual	8
NORDVARGR Metempsychosis black-death-industrial, ritual	7.5
NYTT LAND Cvlt Nordic ritual folk	7.5
NYTT LAND Ritual Nordic ritual folk	7
OF THE WAND & THE MOON Sonnenheim (ristampa) neofolk	8.5
OF THE WAND & THE MOON Your Love Can’t Hold This Wreath Of Sorrow neofolk	8
OFFERMOSE Stilhedens Tårn Berlin school, dark-ambient, dungeon synth	7.5
ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO Let’s Play (Two Girls & A Goat) apocalyptic folk, neofolk	7
ORPLID Deus Vult neofolk	7
OSTARA Eclipse Of The West neofolk	7.5
PAN DAIJING Lack avant, dark-ambient, noise, post-industrial	7.5
PAYSAGE D HIVER Im Wald atmospheric black metal, black metal	7.5
PESSIMIST Pessimist dark-ambient, drum'n'bass, techno	7
PESSIMIST Pessimist & Karim Maas drone-ambient, drum n bass, idm, illbient, post-industrial	7.5
PESTE NOIRE Le retour des pastoureaux black metal, folk, neofolk	8
PHARMAKON Contact noise, power-electronics	7.5
PHARMAKON Devour death-industrial, harsh-noise, industrial	7
POUPPEE FABRIKK Armén Ebm	8
PUCE MARY The Drought avant-noise, harsh, power-electronics	7.5
QUAL Cyber Care Ebm, electro, techno	7
QUAL The Ultimate Climax darkwave, Ebm, techno	7.5
RAISON D'ÊTRE Alchymeia dark-ambient	7
RESTIVE PLAGGONA Ego Driven ambient, post-industrial, techno	7
REUTOFF FEAT. DEUTSCH NEPAL Eating The Dust experimental, post-industrial	7.5
REVENGE Strike.Smother.Dehumanize black metal, blackened death metal, war-metal	8
RICHARD H KIRK Dasein EBM, electro, industrial, techno	8
ROME Hall Of Thatch neofolk	7
ROME Hansa Studios Session II neofolk	7.5
ROME Le Ceneri di Heliodoro neofolk	7.5
ROME Parlez-Vous Hate? neofolk	7.5
ROME The Dublin Session neofolk	7
ROME The Hyperion Machine neofolk	7
ROME The Lone Furrow neofolk	8
RUNE BAGGE Pink Dreams drum n bass, IDM, techno-ambient	7.5
SALLY DIGE Holding On coldwave, darkwave, synth	7
SAMUEL KERRIDGE & TAYLOR BURCH The Other IDM, spoken word, techno-industrial	7
SCHONWALD Abstraction coldwave, darkwave, shoegaze	7.5
SHAD SHADOWS Nocturnal darkwave, synthwave	7
SHAD SHADOWS Toxic Behaviours coldwave, EBM, industrial	7
SHORE OF NULL Beyond The Shores (On Death And Dying) blackened death metal, doom, gothic metal	7.5
SISSEL WINCENT Assorted Lights IDM, techno-industrial	7
SKEE MASK Compro ambient, breakbeat, drum n bass, IDM	7.5
SKULL DEFEKTS The Skull Defekts avant-rock, industrial	7.5
SOFT MOON Criminal dark, EBM, industrial, post-punk	7.5
SOL INVICTUS Necropolis darkfolk, neofolk	7.5
SOLITVDO Hegemonikon black metal	7.5
STURM CAFÉ Fernes Land Ebm	7.5
SUNS SPECTRUM Don’t Chase The Light darkwave, future pop, synth-wave	7
TAAKE HELHEIM Henholdsvis black metal, viking metal	7
TEITANBLOOD The Baneful Choir black metal, death metal	7.5
TEMPLEZONE Neosphera ambient-synth	7
TEST DEPT Disturbance industrial	7
THE EMPIRE LINE Rave experimental, industrial, noise, techno-ambient	8
THE HORRRORIST Separate Dimension EBM, electro-punk, techno-industrial	7.5
THIS GIFT IS A CURSE Throne Of Ash black metal, hardcore, sludge	7.5
TOURDEFORCE Vargtimmar darkwave, electro-wave, synth	7.5
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN Algir eller Algir i Merkstave dark-ambient, ritual industrial	8
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN Deathward, To The Womb (ristampa) ritual industrial	7.5
TREPANERINGSRITUALEN Kainskult dark-ambient, death-industrial, ritual	8
TWELVE THOUSAND DAYS Field’s End darkfolk, neofolk, psych-folk	7
TWELVE THOUSAND DAYS Insect Silence dark-folk, psychedelia	7
ULWHEDNAR Razor Mesh Fencing drone-ambient, techno-industrial	8
UNIFORM The Long Walk metal hardcore, noise, post-industrial	7
UNIFORM Wake In Fright industrial, metal, noise, punk hardcore	8
UNLEASHED No Sign Of Life death-metal	7.5
VARG Evanescence (A Love Letter) techno-ambient	6
VARG Nordic Flora Series Pt. 3: Gore-Tex City ambient, techno	8
VARG Nordic Flora Series Pt. 5: Crush ambient, idm, techno	7.5
VEIL OF LIGHT Front Teeth darkwave, EBM, post-punk	7
VEIL OF LIGHT Inflict darkwave, EBM, post-punk	7
VOLITION IMMANENT Volition Immanent EBM, electro-punk, techno	7.5
WARDRUNA Kvitravn Nordic ritual folk	8.5
WARDRUNA Runaljod – Ragnarok folk-ambient	7.5
WARDRUNA Skald pagan-folk, viking folk	8.5
WATAIN Trident Wolf Eclipse black metal	7
WINTERBLOOD Finsternis dark drone, dungeon synth, polar ambient	7.5
WOLVES IN THE THRONE ROOM Thrice Woven cascadian black metal	7.5
XENO & OAKLANDER Hypnos synth-pop, synth-wave	7.5
ZOS KIA / COIL Transparent industrial	8

Live reports

Berlin Atonal	16-20/8/2017
Berlin Atonal	22-26-8-2018
Frantic Fest	16-18/8/2018
Retro Future Fest	30/03/2019
Siren Festival	27-30/07/2017
Siren Festival	26-29/07/2018

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