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Apoptygma Berzerk

Apoptygma Berzerk are the Norwegian band at the centre of “futurepop”: synth-pop with an industrial skeleton and club-sized choruses. They have had top 10 placings in Germany and Scandinavia and toured the world with VNV Nation.

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Sound & mood

Style: Futurepop
Synth-pop
Industrial rock
Mood: Pulsing
Melancholic
Danceable

Blackness

46/100

Dusk

Craziness

34/100

Quirky

Editorial ratings, not measured data. Blackness is how dark, heavy and bleak the music feels; Craziness is how unhinged, chaotic and experimental it gets. Both are our critics’ call on a 0–100 scale. How we score them

In our articles

Editor's Whim · Mortiis · November 6, 2026 The Goblin Who Built His Own Dungeon Writing in Ink 19 in early 2002, a self-declared long-time fan mourned that "the magic is gone," and compared the new sound to The Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode and Apoptygma Berzerk "dressed up like trolls." Read → 3 mentions

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