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News: LA Post-Punk Trio DECEITS Announce First Australian Shows

Los Angeles darkwave outfit DECEITS will make their long-awaited Australian debut this December, bringing their emotionally charged brand of post-punk to Sydney and Melbourne for two exclusive headline performances. Emerging…

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

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

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

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.

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

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’

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’

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

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’

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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