Nitzer Ebb End 15-year Recording Hiatus With New Album, Announce North American Tour Dates

Industrial-electro pioneers Nitzer Ebb are returning from a 15-year hiatus with a new album that renews their unique blend of hard-style industrial-electro-pop. Nitzer Ebb has a way of meshing a variety of different genres into a musical melting pot of powerful rhythms, minimal sequencer bass and hooklines and fierce, chanted vocals. After originally reforming in 2006, the band's increasingly active profile included 2010 European tour activities with Depeche Mode and at major festival shows, as well as embracing the challenge of returning to the studio. The result is a piece of work that sounds fresh and modern but without denying their past: the new album, "Industrial Complex," is slated for release in North America on November 9th, 2010, thru Artists' Addiction Records.

"Industrial Complex" is a musically and vocally diverse work that illustrates the band's skill at getting to the essence of each track, making it as perfect on the dance floor as it is at home on headphones. Industrial Complex features several songs that have become staples of the band's live set since its reformation, including the irresistibly energetic "Once You Say" (which features Depeche Mode songwriter Martin Gore on backing vocals) and marching rhythms of "Payroll." There is also a dark, brooding track entitled "Never Known," which has been featured on the soundtrack to Saw IV. The album's lead track "Promises" is also featured on the current soundtrack for Saw 3-D, and the band has also recently placed tracks on network TV programs including Fringe, Castle, and N.C.I.S.

Initially formed in Chelmsford, Essex by school friends Douglas McCarthy [lead vocals, guitar], Vaughn 'Bon' Harris [vocals, percussion, guitar] and David Gooday [percussion] Nitzer Ebb signed to Mute Records (the UK's biggest electronic record label) in late 1986, where they released "Murderous" (1986) and "Let Your Body Learn" (1987) as the opening salvoes in what would prove to be a long-term relationship with the company. The latter single was a smash hit in the clubs of New York, while their next release "Join In The Chant" (1987) was an early hit on the nascent UK acid house scene.

Their subsequent debut album "That Total Age" (1987) neatly encapsulated the essence of the band, combining irresistible rhythms with controlled anger and energy to create a classic slice of hard-edged proto-Balearic techno. It became for many fans the definitive example of the Nitzer Ebb sound. The electronic pioneers carried this momentum into the '90s releasing four more highly acclaimed albums, all of which showed a steady maturing of the bands sound and a gradual movement towards the use of ‘real' instruments and more orchestrated songwriting. The turn of the millennium saw the likes of respected DJ/musicians such as Richie Hawtin, Derrick May and LFO's Mark Bell pay tribute to Nitzer Ebb by remixing some of their classic tracks for a series of 12" releases on NovaMute.

"Industrial Complex" will be released in North America November 9, 2010. An extensive period of touring to promote the new album is already underway in Europe and will be making its way to the US for a handful of shows starting November 3rd in San Diego. The tour will reunite McCarthy and Harris with Jason Payne on drums and is sure to be a long overdue comeback for these Industrial-Electro pioneers.

Audio: Nitzer Ebb - "Promises"

Industrial Complex Tracklisting

North American Tour Dates:

• November 3rd San Diego Brick by Brick
• November 6th Santa Ana Galaxy
• November 9th Los Angeles Echoplex
• November 11th San Francisco Mezzanine
• November 13th Miami Grand Central
• November 16th New York Gramercy Theater
• November 18th Detroit Magic Stick
• November 20th Chicago Double Door
• November 23rd Dallas Granada Theater
• November 24th San Antonio White Rabbit
• November 26th Houston Numbers

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