Four years after their debut album My Ego Is Bigger than Yours (2021), the Romagna-based band Edna Frau is back with their new release, Slow Be Gentle, I’m Virgin, out on June 20, 2025, via 22 Dicembre Records. For this album, Andrea Fioravanti (Postvorta) and Vincenzo “Vins” Baruzzi (The Doormen), the duo behind the project, dive deeper into the darker… Read more →
The 32nd Wave-Gotik-Treffen 2025 is soon upon us and will be from 06th June 2025 until 09th June 2025 in Leipzig/Germany. Hopefully you have planned to be there – and if you are like me, you are busy figuring out what bands you want to see. With 199 bands confirmed it can be daunting. The new official app WGT Kompaß… Read more →
Qual has announce a combined US and Canada Tour for 2025. For tickets visit https://linktr.ee/Qual September 24 – Montreal – Bar Le Ritz PDB September 25 – Toronto – The Garrison September 26 – Philadelphia – Johnny Brenda’s September 27 – Atlanta – The Drunken Unicorn September 29 – Dallas – Three Links October 1 – Austin – Elysium October… Read more →
UK darkwave duo, PALINDRONES have announced the release of their latest full-length album, Chapter Two: The Slender Blade. The album is preceded by the single “Animus” which was released in February. Chapter Two: The Slender Blade is the next part of the story which began in 2023 with the album, Chapter One: With Fearful Velocity, a mythical science fiction tale centered around humankind’s first contact… Read more →
Propter Hoc just announced Seduction and Betrayal. The main thread that weaves through this album is the idea of the physical, of being present and being embodied, of culture as experienced through physical objects like photographs, books, clothing, and through physical activity like dancing. We are all bodies in motion, expressive, attracted, compelled, seduced, and sometimes, betrayed. Meanwhile the digital… Read more →
The eighth and latest slate of refined retro-futuristic synth-pop by Liz Wendelbo and Sean McBride aka Xeno & Oaklander is named after and inspired by “the study of what not to do, a negative image of a positive, the other side, the other:” Via Negativa (in the doorway light). Recorded in the fall of 2023 at their modernist Connecticut home… Read more →
Swedish ABU NEIN has quickly risen to one of the most interesting acts in the dark wave/postpunk scene. With the release of their debut Secular Psalms and the follow-up II they injected the scene with new vitality. Now they return with Dark Faith, their strongest work up-to-date. The new album also became the last album that was produced by Andreas… Read more →
Swedish dark synth outfit KITE present the 2xLP / CD collection: VII – Seven 7″ singles, remastered, with original full-length mixes appearing on vinyl from Dais Records for the first time. Since surfacing into the Scandinavian synth-pop scene 16 years ago, Nicklas Stenemo and Christian Hutchinson Berg aka Kite have steadily grown from local icons to a global phenomenon, yet until now… Read more →
Haujobb has released the darkly foreboding track “In the Headlights,” the first single from this legendary industrial band’s forthcoming new album The Machine in the Ghost. Haujobb was birthed in Germany in 1992. Since that time, the band has evolved by combining a wide range of influences such as electro, noise, IDM and techno into their beloved electro-industrial sound. The… Read more →
Demons is the new fourth full-length album by Zagreb based Neon Lies, which is on 12” vinyl by Wave Tension Records & Cosmic Brood Records and CD version by Diffuse Reality sub-label Periphylla. Neon Lies started as a synth wave bedroom solo adventure in late 2015 by Goran Lautar while he was still singing and playing guitar in Modern Delusion… Read more →
