Rotersand have released Private Firmament (I Fell For You), the first single from their forthcoming album Don’t Become the Thing You Hated, due out on 8 August 2025 via Metropolis Records in North America and Trisol elsewhere. The track is available now on streaming platforms .

Title: Don't Become the Thing You Hated
Artist: Rotersand
Release Date: 2025-08-08
Genres: EBM, Electronica, Industrial Music, Synth Pop
Label: Metropolis Records
Description: Rotersand release new single Private Firmament I Fell For You ahead of August album Don't Become the Thing You Hated via Metropolis Records and Trisol.

The release is the first full-length studio output from the Hamburg-based duo since How Do You Feel Today?, which landed in March 2020. That album, released days before global lockdowns, remained their only major release of the decade until now.

The new album returns to recurrent themes in Rotersand’s discography—disillusionment, systemic critique, internal collapse—while reportedly shifting emphasis toward the feedback loop between external pressures and internal transformation.

Rotersand formed in the early 2000s and consist of vocalist Rascal Nikov and producer Krischan Jan-Eric Wesenberg, a studio engineer and live electronics technician with a background in audio design. The project was initially associated with the futurepop and electro-industrial scenes. Early releases such as Truth is Fanatic (2003) and Welcome to Goodbye (2005) circulated widely in European darkwave and EBM circuits. The duo have performed at events including M’era Luna, Wave-Gotik-Treffen, and Infest. Wesenberg is also active in mastering and production roles for other artists within the broader electronic and industrial music sphere. Their catalogue is characterised by a polished production aesthetic, vocal-forward arrangements, and engagement with sociopolitical subjects, sometimes drawing on Cold War-era motifs or anti-authoritarian imagery.

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