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Track: Hendriek Bleik Turns ‘Smoorverlief’ Into an Anti-Valentine’s Anthem

  • February 12, 2026
  • Bodene Mckibbin
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On his reimagining of Riku Lätti’s 2004 track, Hendriek Bleik transforms Smoorverlief into something darker and more immersive, a love song stripped of sweetness and rebuilt inside a haze of gritty guitars, haunting synths and emotional weight.
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News + EP Review: Hobart’s The Black Sea Carnys announce new 6 track EP, ‘Cultland’ on back of news of Australian east coast tour dates

  • July 26, 2025
  • Andrew Fuller
Following on from the release of their debut EP, Nistar (read about it here), The Black Sea Carnys, Tasmania’s kings of all things dark and industrial have announced the impending…
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Premiere: CDSM crash in with debut album Convertible Hearse, out tomorrow

  • May 22, 2025
  • Gareth O Malley
If you’ve been keeping an eye Atlanta scene over the past few years, there’s a high chance you’ll have heard of sextet CDSM – or, to give them their full…
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Album Review: T. Gowdy – ‘Trill Scan’: Inspired Early music and darkwave alchemy.

  • March 19, 2025
  • John Parry
It was a question of time before Canadian producer/audio-visual artist T.Gowdy’s background filtered through to his engrossing electronic music and that time is now. Gowdy’s new album ‘Trill Scan’, his…
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Live Review: Darkwave alt-pop sensation – Artemas at the O2 Forum Kentish Town 11.11.24

  • November 15, 2024
  • Cormac OConnell
I principally believe we are living in a post “one-hit-wonder” era where pop music is concerned, mostly owing to the space the online world has given artists. You can have…
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Premiere: MIDNIGHTCHOIR heralds new album release with emotive closing track ‘Rising Tide’

  • July 13, 2023
  • Gareth O Malley
Back in May, New York’s MIDNIGHTCHOIR (the solo project of Brooklyn’s Patrick Bobilin, sometimes assisted by Sarah Simon) announced his first new record in 7 years, and those were indeed…
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Premiere: MIDNIGHTCHOIR are fired up on explosive new single ‘Molotov’

  • May 10, 2023
  • Gareth O Malley
Patrick Bobilin has been through some shit since we last heard from his project MIDNIGHTCHOIR. He ran for office in New York, was arrested not once but several times in…
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Gallery & Set-lists: Faun / Bog Bodies – Opium, Dublin 08.04.2023

  • April 9, 2023
  • Ian Mc Donnell
German pagan folk / darkwave band Faun brought their Pagan tour to Dublin’s Opium, with Irish druid-rock / bog-rock outfit Bog Bodies opening the night. Bog Bodies photos and set-list:…
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PREMIERE: London duo Grieving Sea prep for ‘Donewiz’ album release with the haunting ‘The Sea Devours’

  • June 29, 2022
  • Gareth O Malley
Genoa-based label Brucia Records prides itself on being a home for ‘uncanny, unsettling or unusual’ music, and the forthcoming debut album by Grieving Sea certainly fits that description. The 7-track…
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PREMIERE: Sweden’s De Arma pivot to darkwave on intense new EP ‘Nightcall’

  • May 6, 2022
  • Gareth O Malley
It says a lot about how long Swedish gothic rock band De Arma had been sitting on second album Strayed in Shadows (finally released last June after years in limbo)…
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