The Industrial Twilight: September 2025

Wednesday, September 17, 2025

Pheromone - "Unsaid" [2017]

Artist: Pheromone

Title: Unsaid

Genre: Industrial Rock/Metal, Dark Electro

Country: Russia (Mordovia)

Release date: 2017

Track List:

Opening Side A
Bleed the Demons
Back in the Day
Promises
Even Closer
Limbo
Schizm (I Wanna Be Where You Are)
Opening Side B
Erase Your Hopes
Synthetic Angel
A Matter of Indifference
True Colors
No Regrets

The only industrial band from Mordovia that I know of, Pheromone were formed in 2009 in Saransk (later they've moved to St. Petersburg, AFAIK) and released 4 full-length albums during 2011-2017. Their early stuff sounded mostly like typical dark electro that was popular at the time, but "Unsaid", their latest album up to date, is more varied and features "heavier" sound that's closer to industrial metal. Haven't heard anything from Pheromone since 2019, but their discography is pretty impressive for a band from a region where underground music in general was never big (and they were performing live pretty actively too), even if most of their stuff isn't particularly innovative or outstanding.

<a href="https://pheromone.bandcamp.com/album/unsaid">Unsaid by Pheromone</a>

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I created this blog mostly because I wanted to practise my English skills, and to showcase the industrial, gothic, punk, metal, neofolk and progressive rock scene of Russia/ex-USSR and Eastern Europe (especially Hungary) in the meanwhile.

As you can see, this blog doesn't take itself seriously enough, but I hope I'm doing good enough with my reviews even if my proficiency in English is limited. Along with the aforementioned stuff from Eastern Europe, I occasionally post some classic and rare albums that aren't to be missed, and generally whatever I want. Other categories of note:

* finno-ugric rarities - various music (including pop) in minor Finno-Ugric languages which I'm interested in because of my heritage. The music from Hungary, Finland and Estonia can be found under the respective categories;

* lo-fi - various poorly recorded demos from before 2000 that are of historical importance. Most of these demos come from the USSR era, so you might want to check out the USSR category as well.

As of now, I try to post only music that has already been made free by the artists themselves, or the rare old releases that are out of print. But if you're an artist and would like me to remove the download links of your work, just contact me using the form below.

Sorry, I don't do reviews by request, I don't have the time. Moreover, I think the bands that feel the need to advertise themselves by sending their demos to as many blogs as possible are usually just plain boring. If you want to contact me for any other reason, use the contact form below.

It should be obvious enough that reviewing anything on here doesn't equals endorsement of artists' personal views. This especially concerns neofolk and martial industrial. It'd be fair enough to say that I have the same approach to the political and religious topics in these genres as Laibach do.

Many of the female musicians featured on my blog are amateur models, and in many cases their modelling work is no less interesting than their music. Right now I'm working on giving it a separate section of the blog (just in case if anyone wants my review to be only about their music and not their looks). The work is in progress, check back later if you're interested.

The title of my blog comes from a song by The Kovenant (album "SETI", 2003).