Gothic Rock – Backseat Mafia

Gallery & Set-list: Clan Of Xymox / Scattered Ashes – Whelan’s, Dublin 01.04.2023

Its only taken 40 odd years for it to happen, but dark-wave pioneers Clan Of Xymox finial made it to Irish shores, I reckon they got lost on the Irish…

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Gallery & Set List: Fields of the Nephilim / The Membranes – Shepherd’s Bush Empire, London 17.12.2022

Fields Of The Nephilim done a run of three nights in the UK finishing up at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire and one could say that the weather has been biblical…

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PREMIERE: Sweden’s De Arma pivot to darkwave on intense new EP ‘Nightcall’

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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Track: Cradle Of Haze – Wie Der Wind

German gothic rockers ‘Cradle of Haze’ are set to release their 14th studio album, ‘Zehntausend Seelen’ on 21st May via DarkSign Music. The band have shared the track ‘Wie Der…

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News: Cleopatra Records Release Rozz Williams / Christian Death Anniversary Tribute With Kill Shelter

To mark the anniversary on the 1st April of the death of singer Rozz Williams from cult US band Christian Death, Cleopatra Records have just released a two track remix single of ‘Spectre (Love is Dead)’ by…

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Track: Inception Of Eternity – The Cradle Of Darkness

‘The Cradle of Darkness’ is the first track to be released by Inception Of Eternity from their second studio album, Last Exit To The Past . We hear falling rain and…

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Album review – Seasurfer’s Zombies is an electrifying dream pop blast in a gothic cloak

Hamburg duo Seasurfer have released an extraordinary double album called ‘Zombies’, packed full of stupendous anthemic dream pop songs that are differentiated from the pack by an electronic spine and…

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Track: Astari Nite anticipate new album with single ‘All Else Is A Curse’

The deeply satisfying gothic rock tones of Astari Nite provide a thoroughly cathartic and celestial sonic power, with singer Mychael’s deeply mellifluous deep and sombre tones providing a fitting icing…

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Track: Tyburn Blossom – Counterpoint

Amid all the chaos and confusion of our current public health meltdown and the equally frightening economic fallout being caused by it, it feels apt to recall the pre-Glasnost, pre-Gorbachev…

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Say Psych: Live Review: Peter Murphy & David J Celebrate 40 years of Bauhaus with Desert Mountain Tribe @ O2 Ritz, Manchester

When Peter Murphy announced that he was planning a tour to celebrate 40 years of Bauhaus with David J, as well as a vinyl release of The Bela Session, post…

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