Psychosomatik

Psychosomatik is a French electro-industrial band. The band exists since september 2000, but the two members Michael Roussel & Frederic Lecieux started to make music eight years earlier. Initially they mixed influences from new-beat, hardcore and trance with a minimal material, but they were always influenced by bands like Front Line Assembly, Skinny Puppy, Front 242, Signal Aout 42, Mentallo & The Fixer, Nine Inch Nails, Ministry, :wumpscut:, Velvet Acid Christ...

This background inspired Michael & Frederic on their first album ("Psychopath?", 2003) to make electronic tracks with distorted voices, dark atmospheres, guitar samples and metallic percussions. Their lyrics are on the subject of the human decadence and the psychiatric troubles. "Release Me (feat.OBE)" was the first single released for the french compilation "AXC_Labs". And, after a decade long hiatus, the band returned in 2014 with their sophomore album ("State of Oppression").

Since 2022 Psychosomatik is the solo project of Michael Roussel.