Press:

“Roughhausen vocals are friendly like a rottweiler...”
Magnolia la Manga - the interwebs

“This album hits you like a tidal wave, leaving a sweaty pulsating body in its wake.”
Seeth McGavien - Slug Magazine

“Of the song “eMotion Sickness,” Roughhausen’s blistering, creeping SirCut Bent mix is notable for the eerie modulations in the voice and the samples, the arrangements a chaotic jumble of perturbed ambience that is not dissimilar to a Too Dark Park-era Skinny Puppy.”
Ilker Yücel (Ilker81x) - ReGen magazine

“Stoddard and his remixing cohorts have come to demolish your preconceived notions about what modern electro music can be! They deliver an almost controlled ‘insanity.’”
Rick Jamm - Jamsphere

“Love this from start to finish”
MrEdsanass - Rate Your Music

“Edgy, interesting and full of passion it literally taunts with each festering groove and tormenting melody...”
Pagan Hel - Grave Concerns

"powerful, hybrid of Electro-Industrial Punk Rock, a damn fine band just hitting it's stride with a lot more to come."
Doc Spender - Eggo Radi

"... thanks for not being a bunch of douches ..."
God In A Machine - SUB-MACHINE PRODUCTIONS

"HOLYFUCKINGWOWTHATWASAWESOME!!!!! they go from a laid back groove into some crazy hard hitting shit to experimental crazy-ness "
Eric Xton - COCK PUNCH COCK BLOCKED ....SHOW REVIEW

"hybrid of rock, metal, punk, electronic, goth, EBM, and industrial. What is most noticeable about their sound is the sleazy, tongue-in-cheek nature of their delivery"
Joseph Graham - Regen magazine

"Sounds like Rammstein had a threesome with Ministry & NIN and birthed these twisted bastards. Awesome."
Sean Anthony Cooper - The Interwebs

"extraordinary production, an intelligent and creative mix of styles, ROUGHHAUSEN is synonymous with artistic innovation within the international electronic music scene. It is clear that Jeff Stoddard loves to break musical barriers and limits..."
Lux_Atman - Lux Atenea

“Roughhausen and S.O.E joining up to play Cro-Mags 'Hard Times' tonight was fucking amazing”
Steve Leggat - Gig Guide TW

"refined, intense, almost frenzied with apocalyptic tones and devastating beatwork"
Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi - Dark Room [Italy]

"ROUGHHAUSEN offer a low and scabby, sickly fluid remix, a magnificent work of Art."
Mick Mercer - Mick Mercer Live

"a stomping power assault with heavy electronics and great rhythms, they have something..."
Blackvector.se - Editor

“[Sic] Fuck” immediately swings into your ears...tempting because of the gritty and layered sound..."”
Hazzard - Gothtronic

“‘[sic] fuk’ is filthy,seedily entwined around a cheekily bubbling mixture of undulating electronics that swarms over you like an overflowing bath of poisoned champagne...”
Mick Mercer - The Mick

"a very 'nice' gift for the person or the ex, you do not want to 'stay friends with'."
Blackrose - necroweb

"Someone's Got to Pay its a fucking funky electro gang rape of an ep!"
Master Edd Haddon - the inter web...

" Agony LP deliciously deep synthed out...creepy hymns... an excellent multilayer-ed illustration of industrial music."
Brent Donaldson - Fiend Magazine [Aus]

"Roughhausen... Wow I absolutely Love it...like the unholy stepchild of FLA and Skinny Puppy"
Aaron Russell - impurfekt [US]

"The EP Someone's It's nice to hear someone just hitting it from a different angle, Roughhausen is hard fast and heavy"
Ultra Black - Barbue.dk [Germany]

"full throttle...brisk breakbeats...Overall, a solid performance."
MS - Terrorverlog [Germany]

"a powerful industrial-rock style...cool electronic sounds and EBM bass lines..."
Music Editor - Side Line [Belguim]

"lacks real inspiration and originality... a sterile ragbag of harsh sounds and quotations."
Vito Camarretta - Chain D.L.K. [Germany]

" insane vibrant and passionate...uncompromising and vigorous. Hard beat at its finest"
vAlien/DJ Commando - Machinist [Belasarius]

"This EP [sic] fuk, is poisonous rhythmic, catchy and groovy...fascinating and so exquisitely disturbing"
Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi - DarkRoom Magazine [Italy]

"a short bare-knuckle brawl of EBM and industrial... a rowdy album... a musical equivalent to a kick in the teeth."
James Church - Connexion Bizarre [Portugal]

“ROUGHHAUSEN delivered a grinding performance that was both a fast and furious take on industrial rock.”
Jason Caballa - PULP magazine [Philippines]

"a slithering, poisonous sound, impeccably produced, the kind of thing happening the whole world over, but very few I have heard have the surgical diligence and awareness to ensure there’s a real power there
Mick Mercer - Mick Mercer Live [UK]

"big fuckin deal you suck! i make better noises with my asshole after a night of drinking cheap draft beer"
Anonymous - the peanut gallery [White trash trailer parks]

"13 tracks of well produced structured-chaos... playful and furious, an exemplary offering, reminiscent of his previous works and older heavier KMFDM."
MS - terrorverlag [DE]

"sounds of chain saws and crushing iron. The CD is full of enormous compositions and the production skills of Stoddard."
the void - Dark Independant

"your music...is like the intestines of a virgin who hardly cleans down there, or like a dude that has never had sex in the butt and then he tries to clean his butt with kleenex after he pinches a dookie..."
Larry - GorePot [funny farm]

"The Agony OF The Beat “is produced fat,"
C. Fessler - Obliveon

"a good mix of drumbeats, synth layers and an interesting ambient/dub influence, a wall of sound, great skills as a song builder"
Maurizio Pustianaz - Chain D.L.K. [International]

"the CD is not absolutely unforgettable and will not end up in my playlist of year, but it is very interesting and original in a genre that is lacking both."
Christian Dex - Versacrum [Italy]

"he is not handsome enough!"
Mabool - Metal Angel @Wretch [Taiwan]

"The Agony OF The Beat “is a synthetic Satan's roast which tears entrails from the body! We are sure it will conquer the industrial world by storm"
François Duchateau - Sonic Seducer [DE]

"complex, massive, crafty demonic, violent aesthetics people and machines collide."
jeph - Blue Circus [Taiwan]

“Roughhausen’s music is truly something to hear; a fusion of everything electronic from the past and the present with punky riffs and all combined with live drumming, guitars and psychosis" ”
Fernan Soria - The Pinoy Today Newspaper [Philippines]

"Electronic and really fierce!!"
rockingspace - Wretch [China PRC]

"One must be occupied with it, The Agony OF The Beat “develops an unbelievably oppressing and dark atmosphere, a real ingenious work full of energy, rage and Düsternis"
ElCommandante - [U]selinks Soundcheck [Germany}

"a must for the modern EBM aestheticist...pounding and merciless...The agony of the beat is in fact Aggro-electro revisited, reloaded and improved!"
Jack The Ripper - Heathen Harvest [US]

"This isn’t another headless industrial production - this is Absolutely breathtaking music mixed with an energy that can’t be described in words. It’s been years since I’ve herd such a fantastic and powerful industrial album. "
Michael Mück - Cue Mix Magazine [Germany]

"Public acts of stupidity does not equal art. He should be arrested for his crimes against art!"
Art Police [R.O.C.]

"l'album est un gros mélange et surtout le son fait frémir les enceintes"
EBMnator - S&SR [France]

"cleverly constructed, angst-riddled..."
Peanut gallery - Melbourne Goth Forum [Australia]

“Not many times in life I can say that a hammer made me shake my ass, ...Roughhausen me laisse un comm. c'est énorme !”
Boxson - Musique libre [France]

"dark powerful and piercing everything this kind of music should be"
Music editor - Ming Pao Weekly [Hong Kong]

"Dark, angry, and riddled with grooves, futuristic atmospheres, noise, and pounding dance floor rhythms"
Editor - Malignant Records [U.S.]

"Canadian industrial rock and roll, dark, dirty, scary "
iolab - iolab [Taiwan]

"a healthy dose of hard and heavy electrocore"
Editor - Side-Line Magazine [Belgium]

"Which song is best? This is a tough one! I love them all"
Mark James - HellRock Radio [U.S.]

"Integrity, warmth, sharp, blindingly angry yet somehow familiar.."
Alita Rickards - Taipei Times [Taiwan]

"'The Agony Of The Beat' -amazing!!! "
Editor - Last FM [Germany]

"Hard & Heavy, a profound vocal force exposing violence entwined with bass and beats! Excellent!"
Bloodline242 - My Favorite Bloody Music [Japan]

"very outstanding music and ghostly images, watch Roughhausen, powerful!"
WL - Working lab [Taiwan]

"astonished by the industrial-house music perfectly integrated into the circuits of raging powernoize and sound, Amazing record start to finish"
Fabrizio Garau - Audiodrome [Italy]

"What can I say wow amazing production!"
DJ - Infectious Unease Radio [Australia]

“Electronic styles like Aphex Twin, but Meaner and angrier!”
iamreckless - Visually DROWned [Taiwan]

"you are a loser faggot I hope you die!"
White trash - The peanut Gallery [US]

"integrity, outstanding productive abilities, original and fascinating!"
Void - Dark Planet (Poland)

"The Agony of the beat' is the best album I have heard in a long time ! Buy it and you will not be disappointed! It is the real deal."
Studio Cookies - Side-Line News [Belguim]

"professionalism throughout as good as it gets!"
e.g.: - Memoirs

"Hard & Heavy Electro sound! sharpness, heavy bass, guitar… angry and danceable!!"
Jugem - Skinny ENTRY 1 [Japan]

"Excellent album! sharp futuristic Sound and harsh military beats! sincere vocals Really great!"
IGOR - Casandra [Russia]

"Occasionally, little wonders slip through the cracks and escape the notice of record labels. Roughhausen's "Agony of the Beat" is such a specimen - varied, dynamic, danceable and eminently listenable, all rolled into one, this release is truly a reviewer's joy. "
David vander Merwe - Connexion Bizarre [Portugal]

"Forceful, urgent, and loaded with meaning"
Angie Pardue - They fell

"dense and sharp, pierced by cybernetic apocalypse and North American psychosis"
DJ Commando LABELLA - Machinist [BELARUS]

"complex writing, a heavy electronic storm, irresistible electronic sounds, It's dark, bombastic and definitely electronic!"
Stéphane Froidcoeur - Side-Line Reviews [Belguim]

"devastating! uber-groovy! dosed to perfection, skillfully distorted and harsh, intricate rhythms, Roughhausen is a skillful composer that cannot be ignored!"
Roberto Alessandro Filippozzi - DARKROOM [Italy]

“Roughhausen did not manage to deliver a very impressive album, it misses highly accessible songwriting,and solid production."”
TekNoir - GothTronic [Holland]

"Does it impress? Very! it is interesting that this “gray cardinal” discovered himself.
Mechanical Frog - RAZGROM Music [Russia]

"apokalyptic mixes, hard Beats, distorted Vocals and strong guitars...Rughhausen possesses self-sufficiency and variety"
Music Editor - Elektrauma [DE]

"Roughhausen takes us here on an extremely interesting journey by the most diverse electronic baubles! Diverse, passionate and edgy."
Blizzard - NecroWeb Musikmagazin [Germany]