I can already feel elitists on social media seething over the title of the article ready to bicker and comment about how Curse Mackey’s latest album doesn’t come close to what Wax Trax did and what’s wrong with the modern scene and how there’s no good industrial anymore except for that one act that no one’s heard about and is so underground that no one knows what they’re doing. Rant aside, Curse Mackey has teamed up with Negative Gain Productions for his latest album Imaginary Enemies and it is, in fact, inspired by that forlorn era of industrial.

The album explores topics that we’ve all heard about before; self-destruction, martyrdom, revalation, paranoia, grief, ghosts, so on and so forth. Obviously addressed in the poetic nonsense of lovely underground electronica and not necessarily talking about physical manifestation but mental monsters that come out of nowhere. This is a therapy session for the Mackey that just manages to tick all the right boxes and sounds quite good. Makes sense when I see Chase Dobson listed as producer and mixer. Love you, pal. Now release another album under Cellar Graves. Thanks.

Imaginary Enemies is out now and is available in digital and lovely, lovely deep purple vinyl. Oh, and there’s a CD, too. AND a music video. Can’t forget that. Stream it below and order the album HERE.