The Melancholic Maniac is back! Blutengel leader, Chris Pohl, is once again taking us on a melodic trip into his musical poetry album: 80s romanticism with playful synths and irresistible wave appeal. An atmospheric journey through "Space and Time" by and with She Hates Emotions, the single which announces the new album, Happy Pop Music, that will be released in 2022 via Out Of Line.

Dark pop artist Lia Hide returns with her new single, "Dinner" taken from the upcoming, fourth studio album, The Missing Fourth Guest. The follow up to the first single, "Proposal", "Dinner" continues where Lia left off, giving another exciting insight into the upcoming album.

"It's an invitation to dinner, so we can mend things that went wrong. I go from being alone in my own head, in my mess, to reaching out for some communication with someone, anyone, so we can have dinner, discuss and focus on being alright." - Lia Hide

The new album, The Missing Fourth Guest borrows its theme from Plato's 'Timeaus' themes. It discusses human mortality, the emotional struggles of the recent pandemic and lockdowns and the modern man's place in the Universe.

As "Dinner" progresses introducing a driving live drum beat, the track bursts into a euphoric brass section elevating the soundscape and demonstrating Lia’s versatility and ability to flawlessly blend elements of alternative electronic, pop and jazz. Experimental, packed with musical complexity and beauty.

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Gothic rockers, Black Angel have just unveiled their fourth studio album, The Black Rose. Following up the previous and well received release, Prince Of Darkness, Black Angel further solidify their mark in the goth rock community with this new nine track, soon to be classic album.

Sticking with their hybrid Gothic Rock sound, Black Angel takes flavours from the likes of 80s predecessors, The Cult and The Mission while adding new tones of their own. There is definitely a slightly more sinister, edgy feel to the tracks on The Black Rose.

From the Mission-esque style of "Breathe" to the slick, guitar sounds and soaring vocals of "All Or Nothing" and "Look Me In The Eye" to the musically playful but thematically sinister "Carnival Man", Black Angel's diversity and trademark sound pulse throughout the entire release.

"Battle Cry" brings The Black Rose to an end. Inspired by one of the band‘s greatest influences, The Cult, this song is a romantic story of forever love.

The Black Rose is available on vinyl LP, CD and digital formats via Bandcamp.

Black Angel Is:

Matt Vowles - All Music

Cory Landis - Vocals

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Dark pop / pagan synth duo, Esoterik have unveiled their new full-length LP, 'Alchemy.'

The concept of Alchemy has many different forms and interpretations but the analogy holds true for any artist in that we take elements or ingredients, which on their own have a certain character and then take on a transformation into something that didn’t exist before.

Is it magick or is something more tangible? Who’s to say? But there’s no denying that words have power and music in itself has the ability to illicit a variety of emotions that time stamp our journey throughout life.

About the album, 'Alchemy', the band says the following, "We took a different approach with this album than we have in the past with a clear vision from the start thematically of what we wanted to achieve and then crafted each track around that."

'Alchemy' is available on CD at https://www.esoterikmusic.com and digitally on Apple Music.

"When we begin writing new songs for an album they take shape in a variety of forms, but it’s important to us and we’ve also found it makes things much easier when we start to record, to ensure the foundation and structure is solid and flows well from melody to composition. A lot of these songs are written on an acoustic guitar and sound very different from the arrangements you hear now. We feel that once a song can stand on its own without all the bells and whistles, it can be guided into any genre with subtle tweaks here and there." - Allison Eckfeldt and Brady Bledsoe (Esoterik)

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Today 16 years ago, Nine Inch Nails released ‘Every Day Is Exactly the Same’ as their third single taken from the album With Teeth. It became NIN 21st official release thus baring the Halo 21 catalogue number.

The radio single reached #1 on the Billboard Modern Rock singles chart in the Modern Rock Tracks category and #12 in the Mainstream Rock Tracks category. The song also reached number one on the Canadian Singles Chart, and received a nomination for Best Hard Rock Performance at the 49th annual Grammy Awards. Though a planned music video was scrapped in the post-production stage, "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" still topped Billboard's 2006 year-end Hot Dance Singles Sales chart, it has so far spent 94 weeks on the chart.

Every Day is Exactly the Same (US CD EP tracklist)

1 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" – 4:57

2 "The Hand That Feeds" (DFA Mix) – 9:03

3 "The Hand That Feeds" (Photek Straight Mix) – 7:47

4 "Only" (El-P Mix) – 4:22

5 "Only" (Richard X Mix) – 7:25

6 "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" (Sam Fog vs. Carlos D Mix) – 5:03

Every Day is Exactly the Same (Lyrics)

I believe I can see the future

'Cause I repeat the same routine

I think I used to have a purpose

But then again, that might have been a dream

I think I used to have a voice

Now I never make a sound

I just do what I've been told

I really don't want them to come around, oh no

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

I can feel their eyes are watching

In case I lose myself again

Sometimes I think I'm happy here

(Sometimes)

Sometimes, yet I still pretend

I can't remember how this got started

Oh, but I can tell you exactly how it will end

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

I'll write it on a little piece of paper

I'm hoping, someday, you might find

Well I'll hide it behind something

They won't look behind

I am still inside her

A little bit comes bleeding through

I wish this could've been any other way

But I just don't know, I don't know what else I can do

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

Every day is exactly the same

There is no love here and there is no pain

Every day is exactly the same (every day is the same)

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