Released as a 12″ single in 1988 on Carlyle Records, “Isolation” from Dessau remains an industrial dance classic track to this day. Dessau was the musical creation of John Elliott of Nashville, Tennessee. Elliot started his career as a punk rock drummer for Nashville band Clovebottom and later worked with Actuals, later known as Factual. After several years of being… Read more →
New Order has released the music video for “Restless,” the first single from New Order’s new album Music Complete. The New Order line-up of Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on September 25th, 2015. This is to be the first New Order album without original… Read more →
Jaguardini from Harrisonburg, Virginia combine the sounds of old videogames and synthesizers with various styles of electric music to create its new album Sleep Walker. As a score to Robert Weime’s 1920 German Expressionist horror film, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this album was written to unfold with the narrative and convey the inner psyches of the characters on-screen. With… Read more →
Double Echo released La Danza a few months ago with Finnish label Gothic Music Records and will soon release a remastered version of their 2013 album Phantomime that will include two bonus tracks. The band made up of Chris Luna and Ash Lerczak was founded in Liverpool in 2012 and is a creating music that is fascinating back-to the basics and… Read more →
“Restless” is the first release from New Order’s new album Music Complete. The New Order line-up of Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on September 25th, 2015. This is to be the first New Order album without original bassist Peter Hook. The long awaited album… Read more →
All Is Fair In Love And War is the title of the debut album by Bleib Modern from Bamberg, Germany. The band, once a one a solo project of Philipp Läufer, was founded around 2014 and now has five members working on their coldwave-postpunk style of music. The album has been released on Brazilian label Wave Records from São Paulo… Read more →
On August 21st Superior Viaduct will be reissuing all three Liquid Liquid albums on vinyl. The bundle includes Liquid Liquid‘s three classic records (self-titled, Successive Reflexes, and Optimo) in their original 12-inch format as well as an archival LP of rare recordings by the pre-LL bands, Liquid Idiot and Idiot Orchestra. Superior Viaduct writes, “Liquid Liquid emerged from New York City’s… Read more →
The New Order line-up of Bernard Sumner, Gillian Gilbert, Stephen Morris, Tom Chapman and Phil Cunningham have announced the release of their new album, Music Complete, out on September 25th, 2015. This is to be the first New Order album without original bassist Peter Hook. The long awaited album will be New Order’s first full studio release since 2005’s Waiting For The… Read more →
The third album from Then Comes Silence is titled Nyctophilian and it brings darkness and romantic death via music and sounds performed on guitars at deafening volume. The four piece band on Novoton formed in 2012 in Stockholm, Sweden bring a stylish sound that recalls the gothic rock sounds of Christian Death and Bauhaus as well as the angst of… Read more →
The second album from German gothic rock band Xmal Deutschland (active from 1980-1990) released in 1984 provides a glimpse into the early years of the emerging genre. At a time when the Cure and Siouxsie and the Banshees lead club playlists, Xmal Deutschland were also busy creating dark tracks. Already having debuted in 1983 with the LP Fetisch, the band… Read more →
