Maybe life today is a bit too complicated, with everything that has happened these past few years where do you find balance? This may be exactly what Vandal Moon, the California-based post-punk duo comprised by Blake Voss and Jeremy Einsiedler were trying to figure out as they worked on their latest album — Queen of the Night a 12-track journey… Read more →
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 →
Cleopatra Records presents CORPUS DELICTI: THE COMPLETE RECORDINGS 1992-1996, a box set that includes the entire discography of this underrated pioneering Darkwave band from the South of France that were deeply influenced by Bauhaus, Siouxsie and the Banshees and Rozz Williams. This set includes all 3 of the band’s original studio albums plus rarities, unreleased mixes, live tracks and more!… 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 →
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 →
Released last week Fictional Portrayals is the new offering from Medellín, Colombia artist and DJ Filmmaker and it is an absolute gem – providing an incredible journey filled with dark soundscapes and exacting electronic beats that can’t be ignored. The vinyl version on Veyl Records will soon be sold-out so hurry and get in on this as soon as you… Read more →
Spanish dark-synthpop / electronic duo from Madrid The Red Dots have a new 2-track EP and music video for the elegant dance track “Collapse” that is now available via Bandcamp. The empire is coming down There’s no one left in town The lies have not worked If you stay here you’ll drown The new order will reign It wasn’t all… Read more →
