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Stephan Groth

Stephan Groth is the man behind Apoptygma Berzerk and, with VNV Nation and Covenant, a pioneer of futurepop in the late 1990s. He was born in Odense and moved to Norway as a teenager. On rock.news he is the planned collaborator behind Mortiis's latest.

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Sound & mood

Style: Futurepop
Synth-pop
EBM
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 The album began as a planned collaboration with Stephan Groth of Apoptygma Berzerk, the very band that Ink 19 used in 2002 as shorthand for everything wrong with The Smell of Rain. Read → 1 mention

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