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Warning: "Belgium" is not for the faint-hearted.

Let's get it straight: Festivals ruined dubstep (ugh) and Paris Hilton just laid house to rest in an uncomfortable-looking bustier coffin.

Techno, on the other hand, has been resurrected, and its savior's name is Gesaffelstein.

When Mike Levy (a.k.a. Gesaffelstein) began bumping The Hacker vinyls in Paris' underground nightclubs at the height of the fistpump electro craze (see: Bloody Beetroots anything), the seeds were sown for an all-around subversion of the standing sine-wave-and-wobble standard. Since then, hard electro's gone the way of shutter-shades (RIP, bro), but dark techno is in the midst of a triumphant, cacophonous revival. Gesaffelstein's new "Belgium," off his forthcoming Rise of Depravity EP, is everything you've been missing: insidious, spine-tingling, fucking heavy techno, and you better believe you're hearing it here first.

Stream "Belgium," off Rise of Depravity here, courtesy of Bromance Records and ROOD Media, and stay tuned for our interview with Gesaffelstein and Bromance-brain Brodinski when the EP drops this Monday, July 9.

Just don't say we didn't warn you.