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 →
Caress has released her debut album Night Call. Caress is the solo darkwave electronic project from Tara Jane, inspired by dreamy vintage 4AD Goth as well as more contemporary dark pop artists such as TR/ST, Kontravoid and Boy Harsher. Jane fronts LA shoegazers Blood Candy and with Caress, she explores new sonic soundscapes with her muse being eighties dark wave, industrial and modern synth pop. Caress says: “For the album ‘Night Call’ I wanted to… Read more →
Peter Hook, bassist of New Order describes how “Blue Monday” the best-selling 12-inch single in music history managed to lose $100,000. The single was released 40 years ago, on March 7, 1983 and to this day it holds the record as the top-selling 12-inch single in recording history. Peter Hook explains that it all came down to indie label Factory… Read more →
