Echolust – Veldisa (CD Album – Cleopatra Records)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, dark wave-pop. Background/Info: Echolust is a Californian trio unleashing their official debut album on Cleopatra Records. The band...
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Holygram – Holygram (CD EP – Reptile Music)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, dreamy wave-pop. Background/Info: Holygram is a German formation, which wants to compose a sonic bridge between new-wave, post-punk...
Black Heroin Gallery – The Dreadful Dead Of Hoop Snake Hollow (CD Album – Alice In…/Dark Dimensions)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, new-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Alice In… welcomes the American formation Black Heroin Gallery. They released an EP (cf. “The...
British post-punk legends 1919 announce death guitar player Mark Tighe
Again bad news. 1919 guitar player Mark Tighe is no more. Tighe was the first and only guitar player for...
Tisiphone – Tisiphone 1st L.P (CD Album – Automate Records)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Background/Info: Tisiphone is a French band from Lyon and has already released their official debut album. The...
Dear Deer – Oh My (Vinyl Album – Manic Depression Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, cold-wave, industrial. Background/Info: Dear Deer is a duo consisting of Federico Lovino (Popoï Sdioh) and Sabatel (Cheshire Cat,...
Side-Line introduces Feeding Fingers – listen now to ‘Where All of These Towns & Choices End’ (Face The Beat profile series)
The 32nd track on our free download compilation "Face The Beat: Session 4" (featuring 92 tracks) is by the dark...
Cult act No More returns with vinyl/CD ‘Touchlight Buddhas’ incl. reworked/unreleased tracks
Out now and available right here is a very limited edition of 300 copies, including the free CD version, of...
Who is behind the brand new dark wave project ImJudas? Here’s your answer… and interview!
Whilst checking out the recent free Alfa Matrix download compilation "Matrix Downloaded 006", one new name popped up: ImJudas with...
Cyclic Amp – Shrapnel In The Toyshop (DCD Album – Final Muzik)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave, shoegaze. Background/Info: Cyclic Amp was a UK band active during the 80s and mainly dealt with post-punk...
Nietzsche And The Wagners – No Truth (CD Album – Werkstatt Recordings)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, cold-wave. Background/Info: Hailing from Leipzig, Nietzsche And The Wagners has been active for a couple of years now...
Collection d’Arnell-Andréa’s breakthrough album ‘Villers-aux-Vents’ finally gets a white vinyl treatment – orders accepted now
The French neoclassical darkwave band Collection d'Arnell-Andréa break-through album was without any doubt the majestic 1994 release "Villers-aux-Vents". It's a...
Naagauk – Naagauk (Cassette EP – Barreuh Records)
Genre/Influences: Black-metal, industrial-punk. Background/Info: Naagauk has been set up as a duo and is hailing from The Netherlands. They’ve been...
The Rain And The Sidewalk – Nadir (Digital Album – The Rain And The Sidewalk)
Genre/Influences: New-wave-rock, post-punk, punk-metal, crossover, shoegaze. Background/Info: The Rain And The Sidewalk is mainly a solo-project driven by Trevor M....
Haul – Seperation (CD Album – Progress Productions)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk, shoegaze. Background/Info: Progress Productions is one of those labels that dares to sign real challenging bands. That’s...
Mueran Humanos see second album ‘Miseress’ rereleased on vinyl
Available now for ordering is the vinyl version of Mueran Humanos’ 2nd album "Miseress". "Miseress" was produced and mixed in...
Post-punk project Ascetic to release their send album ‘Everything is becoming’ at the end of March – available on vinyl and CD
Out by the end of March is the newest album by the post-punk project Ascetic aka Saxon Jörgensen, August Skipper...
Legendary ‘Monosynth’ compilation sees sequel on Fabrika
The "Monosynth" compilation offering a selection of analog minimal electro was the very first, now legendary, release on Fabrika in...
Kill Your Boyfriend – The King Is Dead (CD Album – Shyrec)
Genre/Influences: Shoegaze, dark-rock & post-punk. Background/Info: Kill your Boyfriend was set up by Matteo Scarpa and Antonio Angeli. After having...
The John-Pauls – The John-Pauls (CD EP – Aagoo Records)
Genre/Influences: Post-punk, new-wave. Background/Info: This is the self-titled debut EP by a Texan (USA) trio based in Austin. They were...
Pankow reveals TOP 10 album from 1981-1984 + offers FREE exclusive download of ‘Das Wodkalied’ (remastered) via Side-Line
Pankow's Maurizio Fasolo has sent us his TOP 10 albums from the period 1981-1984. The TOP 10 comes hand in...
Phantom Vision – Ghosts (CD Album – COP International)
Genre/Influences: Gothic, post-punk. Content: Phantom Vision has resurrected after a 10 year hibernation. The Portuguese gothic formation got some recognition...
Venus Fly Trap – Metamorphosis 1987-2007 (Vinyl Album – Retinal Records)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk, electro-rock. Content: The “Metamorphosis”-album was originally released in 2007 as a CD by the Polish label Big...
Dystopian Society – Overturned Reality (CD Album – Danse Macabre)
Genre/Influences: Cold-wave, post-punk. Content: Dystopian Society is based in one of the most historical places of the renaissance (Firenze). The...
Horror Vacui – Return Of The Empire (CD Album – Horror Pain Gore Death/Avant!)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, gothic. Content: Horror Vacui gained some international recognition with their debut album “In Darkness You Will Feel Alright”....
X-Beliebig – 1980-1982 Complete Works (DCD Album – Infrastition)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk. Content: Infrastition releases sometimes feel like searching for hidden treasures on the granary of your grandparents. Did...
Salome’s Dance – Salome’s Dance (CD Album – Infrastition)
Genre/Influences: New-wave, post-punk. Content: Salome’s Dance is a Russian band from the great city of St. Petersburg. I’d swear that...
Pronoise – The Border Crossing (CD Album – Surgical Knife Records)
Genre/Influences: Dark-wave. Content: Pronoise was set up in the late 90s by 2 Spanish artists from Valencia. The main idea...