In Cataclysm, Zanias delivers a striking manifesto for personal and political transformation — a decade’s-end reflection that doubles as a call to arms. Written and produced between 2020 and 2024, the ten-track album unfolds like a sonic pilgrimage through the ruins of modernity, each song a distinct world unto itself. Drawing threads from coldwave, italo disco, witchhouse, trance, hyperpop, breakbeats,… Read more →
Los Angeles-based trio Nuovo Testamento—made up of vocalist Chelsey Crowley, drummer Giacomo Zatti, and synth wizard Andrea Mantione—has spent recent years igniting dance floors around the globe with their infectious fusion of moody Italo-disco and shimmering synth-pop. Imagine your favorite retro synth anthems reimagined through a sleek, contemporary lens—hook-heavy, emotionally resonant, and impossible to forget. Today marks the release of… 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 →
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 →
Ministry have announced THE SQUIRRELY YEARS TOUR with Nitzer Ebb, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, and Die Krupps. Ministry will play an all 80s set with songs from With Sympathy and Twitch. Dates April 2025 29 Phoenix, AZ @ Van Buren* 30 Albuquerque, NM @ Revel* May 2025 2 Austin, TX @ Emo’s* 3 Houston, TX @ House… Read more →
Canadian label Artoffact Records has release their 2024 year-end sampler. Filled with 30-tracks of EBM, Industrial, New Beat, Synthpop, Darkwave, Post-Punk, and Goth from bands such as Blush Response, Front Line Assembly, Kælan Mikla, The Foreign Resort, Ultra Sunn, and Bootblacks. You can get it for free from Bandcamp and name your price. Artoffact Records 2024 Sampler by Artoffact Records Read more →
Clan Of Xymox will release a new EP entitled Blood of Christ on 6th December via Metropolis Records. The title song is also included on Exodus, the current album by the dark wave wizards released in June 2024, with the EP also including the brand new You’re The One plus six remixes of each track for a total running time… 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 →
Three years after Mother Solitude and Other Dark Tales, Echoberyl return with Through the Chaos – a full-length album that is a tribute to “parallel worlds”, to mystery literature (and a certain type of B-series movies and TV shows). A twilight zone populated with bewitching and evil, mysterious and troubled female characters. Through the Chaos is a journey into the… Read more →
In the follow-up to 2023’s Chrysalis, Zanias returns with a new album Ecdysis, which travels even further into alternate dimensions, casting off all language and song structures in favor of something far more alien and sensual. Named after the final stage of emergence from a former self, Ecdysis lays claim to an entirely new electronic soundscape influenced by the ethereal… Read more →
