UK industrial vets Test Dept began making noise in 1981, coming up a couple years into industrial’s first wave. Initially signed to Some Bizarre (the label that was also home to The The, Soft Cell, ...

30 years on from the end of the last miners’ strike Test Dept are screening a new film, DS30, set in the coalfields of County Durham. The film was originally produced for the 2014 AV Festival, which ...

Faces of Freedom (HeadFuck) NOzone Mix – Test Dept from Test Dept on Vimeo. Following the inauguration of US supreme overlord Donald Trump, longstanding influencers of industrial musicm Test Dept.

Archiving Test Depts history from the 1983 performance in Canon Street Station through to the Second Coming in Glasgow which was the most monumental and total show Test Dept produced This show also ...

A new film on the history of industrial music and its surrounding subculture will be released later this year. Currently in post-production, it's called Industrial Soundtrack for the Urban Decay and ...

Certainly, their music was political: songs such as “Gdansk” displayed an uncompromising socialist agenda, but others such as “Drum and Body” revealed an artistic one. It was no accident that on stage ...

Tom Service meets the legendary Dutch soprano Elly Ameling, visits the Sacconi Quartet's Heartfelt project - a concert with a difference - talks to the French conductor Alain Altinoglu and hears from ...