Music releases

Released

Thursday, March 6, 2025

Producer

Ben Rüsch

Studio Irrenhaus

Sonic Disruption Research

Where To Buy

Bandcamp

Mechanical Empath is the second full length album released by neuroshock, Ben Rüsch's solo electro/industrial dark wave project. 

Mechanical Empath is a sonically harder hitting album than the previous neuroshock album, The Reactance Bias. 

The new album, Mechanical Empath, is a primal scream, exploring familiar themes of alienation, self doubt, angst, need, and war - within and without. 

Production began with a notion of creating a more primitive and linear feel for the songs, galvanized through the introduction of more distortion and use of heavy, raw vocals. 

Vintage synth sounds created by Moog and Oberheim are found all over the album, along with cutting edge sound design using the Spectrasonics Omnisphere 2. 

The result is an album that largely defies genres but never strays far from rüsch's industrial music roots.

credits

released March 6, 2025 

produced and engineered by ben rüsch. 

album design by ben rüsch 
sculpture "Rock Drill" by Jacob Epstein (c.1913-1915) National Gallery, Ottawa, Canada. photographed by ben rüsch 

recorded at studio irrenhaus, winnipeg, canada 

all songs written and performed by ben rüsch. 

(c) 2025 Sonic Disruption Research (SDR) 
(p) 2025 Ben Rusch