Strangeland Records: Goth/Industrial Armageddon 2008

xUBERx guitarist Cheetahdave plays near SLR owner Ryan Hill

After two years of serving the DC metro area's need for electronic, industrial, metal, and punk music, Strangeland Records will be closing its doors for the last time on March 17th (marking their two year anniversary). Preferring to go out with a bang rather than a whisper, the shop organized three all day events during the month of January.

Goth/Industrial Armageddon 2008 took place on Saturday, January 12th,featuring some of the best goth & industrial bands and DJs in the DC metro area. Like all of the shows put on by SLR over the last two years, these free, all ages events were designed to help bolster a deminishing indie music scene by providing both bands and fans a fun, relaxed environment to enjoy some of the best new music around. Strangeland's never-ceasing support of the DC music scene will be sorely missed, and a hard gap to fill.

National act Ego Likeness headline this last industrial event.

Headling this event, Ego Likeness has always been a strong supporter of the shop, having graced the venue with one of it's first (and best attended) industrial shows on Halloween in 2006. Ego Likeness was also one of the many local artists who contributed to the Strangeland Records' "Goth/Industrial 2007" compilation, which has now sold out of it's second run of printing.

The crowd gathers around as The Opposite Sex performs.

One of the premier goth rock bands in the area, The Opposite Sex bring back the old school in a stellar way, helping to prove that the scene is by no means dead and buried.

SLR's intimate setting allows fans to get close and personal with bands like Red This Ever

Synth rock stars Red This Ever are one of Baltimore's hottest hometown acts. Larger than life, this band maintains a hectic show schedule, as well as helping to run The Depot in Baltimore (which hosts 1-2 goth/industrial/80's events weekly) as well as their own brand new music and clothing store - DryTear - located just above their venue.

Ken of Rites of Ash, one of DC's premier industrial rock acts.

Rites of Ash is gaining wide-scale attention, due to numerous shows at some of the area's larger venues (such as Jaxx) as well as national broadcasting through MTV. Industrial Rock to the max, these guys are moving up.

Electro rockers dharmata 101 are well-known at SLR for their crazy antics during shows.

Electro-industrial rock inspired by Buddhist philosophy, dharmata 101 presents the DC scene with some of the most intricate industrial music imaginable. The band's new guitarist, Ilker Yucel, is the editor for nationally-known ReGen Magazine - another huge supporter of Strangeland Records throughout the years.

xUBERx kick off the event in industrial style.

Punk industrial noise act xUBERx is comprised of some of DC's most prominent DJs. Within a year of forming, the band has released one EP and is currently working on their first full length release.