Finnish coldwave artist Suzi Sabotage released new single “I Am The Storm” and announced a special donation campaign to help the Ukrainian Red Cross Suzi Sabotage states: “I Am The Storm is a hymn to inner strength, resilience, and survival through difficult times. It’s especially dedicated to the courageous people of Ukraine. For every 2,000 streams on Spotify, $5 will be donated… Read more →
The Red Dots announce their new EP Collapse consisting of four original tracks plus a remixed version of the title-track that comes in at over 8 minutes. The Red Dots, the project of Leandro Gámez and Núria Estúñiga from Madrid, show in this new work after 5 years, their love for synthpop sounds as in “Nothing Stays” or the aspiring… Read more →
Stockholm-based post-punk / gothic rockers Then Comes Silence today release their sixth album Hunger, available everywhere for streaming, download as well as vinyl, Bonus Box and CD Digipak. As of tortured artists release introspective, doom-laden, pandemic-obsessed new material, Swedish gothic post-punk band Then Comes Silence is heroically swimming against the tide, eyes set firmly towards the light at the end… Read more →
Italian label Brucia Records will be releasing Donewiz, the debut album by post-punk/darkwave duo Grieving Sea. The project marks the first musical collaboration between Void (Feed Them Death, Pseudodoxia) and Giorgio Barroccu (Derhead), both co-founders of the record label. “Grieving Sea was created a purposely unpolished and low-fi blending of disparate genres such as post-punk, noise-rock, darkwave and romantic classicism”… Read more →
120 Volts #028 – A new Mixcloud playlist featuring new and classic tracks by Sacred Skin, Forever Grey, Hexheart, Abu Nein, Depresion Radikal, Tears For The Dying, Xmal Deutschland, Yama Uba, Paradox Obscur, Venom Vampires, Discodrama, Autumns, Die Warzau, Phase Fatale, Terence Fixmer, and NNHMN. 120 Volts #028 Far Away – Sacred Skin Broken Home – Forever Grey The Funeral… Read more →
Transnecropolitan is now out by Plague Pits, an electronic / synthwave collective from Bern, Switzerland. The new 5-track album comes from the group that is inspired by the D.I.Y. electronic tape underground of yore. Plague Pits play disco dirges for the Anthropocene – cold wave for a heating planet. This band creates a sound inspired from an early 80s template… Read more →
On World Goth Day (May 22), Psychic Eye Records released Altar of Shadows, a genre-defining deathrock compilation curated by Winter Zora. The compilation presents a continuum of active bands spanning the past four decades, from deathrock’s earliest days through the current era. Featuring California deathrock pioneers Gitane Demone Quartet (anchor member of Christian Death), the UK’s rebellious Rubella Ballet, Japan’s… Read more →
NYC-based post-punk / alternative rock band London Plane have released a new single “Come Out of the Dark” from their upcoming second album Bright Black due June 17. The band’s David Mosely explains, “ ‘Come Out of the Dark’ is a simple rejection of isolation and aloneness. Following months of quarantining, the song is a thinly veiled allusion to the pandemic and… Read more →
Avant! Records is now accepting pre-orders for a limited-edition vinyl version of the new 10-track album Time Traitor by M!R!M. In this 4th LP by soloist Jack Milwaukee, he digs even deeper into a very personal work, drawing the outlines of a fantasy world lost within the foggy memories of a collective childhood. The first single off the album is… Read more →
Twin Tribes are heading out on the road to tour with dates quickly selling out in the US and Europe. Tickets can be purchased online at twin-tribes.myshopify.com. The dark synth / post-punk duo based in Brownsville, Texas formed by Luis Navarro (vocals, guitar, synth, drum machines) and Joel Niño, Jr. (bass, synth, vocals) in 2017 currently have pre-orders for the… Read more →
