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Rhys Fulber Depicts a Dystopian Future in “Misery Whip”

Industrial legend Rhys Fulber debuts his new video “Misery Whip” from his LP Ostalgia on Sonic Groove Records. The video depicts a brutal, desolate future in which the human race has been driven to its end as Fulber wanders a crumbling, cyberpunk landscape.

Fulber, of Front Line Assembly and Delerium, continues his migration into the depths of industrial techno with 2019’s OstalgiaThe term “ostalgia” represents the nostalgia one can have for communist East Germany and “Misery Whip” offers up a vision of what life then might have felt like in the midst of the GDR: traces of humanity in its crumbling ruins.

Watch the video for “Misery Whip” below:

Andi Harriman

Andi Harriman is the author of "Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s." She resides in Brooklyn, New York where she writes, DJs and lectures on all things dark and gloomy.

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