goth rock
Gallery and Set-lists: Paradise Lost / Urne – The Academy, Dublin 16.09.2023
At a sold out Academy in Dublin, Paradise Lost, the English gothic metal act – considered to be the pioneers of the death-doom genre and who are cited to have largely influenced many others in the goth metel scene, played a storming show from their enviable cannon of songs. Opening on the night were London hardcore/doom boys …
Gallery and Set-lists: Sacrosanct Dublin – a night of Post-punk & Goth Rock, This Eternal Decay / Siberia / Long Night / The Nosferatu – The Soundhouse, Dublin 09.09.2023
Sacrosanct Dublin kicked of their first night of Post-punk and Goth Rock nights in The Soundhouse Dublin. The frist night of hopefully many more of these shows nights and judging by the turn out i cant see why another night wont be on the cards.On the line-up for this first night were, This Enternal Decay …
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 the volatile summer of 2020 as George Floyd’s murder sparked nationwide protests in the name of racial justice, and formed a mutual aid network. He’s …
Premiere: Night Crickets, featuring Bauhaus’ David J, release new video for The Unreliable Narrator. Watch it here, first
New outfit Night Crickets may have gone undermyour radar, but they boast a couple of famous faces in former Bauhaus and Love and Rockets man David J, alongside Victor DeLorenzo (Violent Femmes) and multi-instrumentalist Darwin Meiners. Their debut album A Free Society came out earlier in the year via Omnivore Recordings, and now they’ve released a new …
Premiere: Safari Lee releases Web, a taster from her forthcoming EP III
Out on June 1st is the new EP from goth-rocker Safari Lee, III. From it, we’re delighted to be able to premiere the forth of five songs from the EP, ‘Web’ right here on Backseat Mafia today. Inspired by the goth-rock of 1979, Safari’s band os made up of three electric basses and a drum …
Premiere: Light By The Sea reveal new video for the gothic hue of new single Eleanor
Light By The Sea, aka Eszter Anna Baumann and Davy Knobel, got together over lockdown and recorded three singles with producer Eddy Bopp through the Winter, and are gearing up to return to the studio to finish the debut album they plan to release this coming October. Ahead of it, they’ve released a new video …
Track: Andy LaPlegua Reveals New Solo Project: LAPLEGUA And Shares Debut Single ‘I Will Heal’
Norwegian artist Andy LaPlegua of Combichrist has unveiled his new solo project – LAPLEGUA and shares the debut single – ‘I Will heal’ Andy LaPlegua comments on the project and debut single: “LAPLEGUA is my most personal musical project to date. It gives me the freedom to write exactly what I want, and express exactly how I feel. ‘I …
News: The Sisters of Mercy reveal new London shows in September
Goth legends The Sisters of Mercy celebrate their 40th year this year, and have announced they will play 3 special shows at London’s Roundhouse on 3 consecutive nights in September. promising to be a mixture of the new and old – new songs make up half of any sisters set these days by all accounts, …
Live Review: ChameleonsVox / March Violets – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 23.11.2013
Nathan Clark at the Brundenell Social Club always seems to know what and who the people of Leeds want to see and hear and Saturday 23 November was no exception. Firstly, a disclaimer as, apart from hearing a Marc Riley session about a year again, I don’t really know that much about the ChameleonsVox, other …