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, ...

During the 1980s, Test Dept were one of the few second wave industrial groups to take the rattle, noise and provocation of industrial music into a political sphere, rather than yomping around in dank ...

Assembly of Disturbance is a three-day London-based festival put together by industrialists Test Dept which will bring together a number of acts of various disciplines. The festival aims to give ...

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 ...

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 ...

Back in the day, the term "industrial" applied to the noisy grinding of non-instruments, clamorous beats, and genuinely scary shrieks—and not to the anemic bastardization of metal and dance music that ...

Formed in London in the early 1980s, Test Dept are regarded as one of the pioneering forces of 'industrial music', recognised for their groundbreaking sound and powerful performances that pushed the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Streaming platforms for Test Dept Archive 001 haven’t been announced yet. Check back soon for updates on where you can watch it online.