While they are still in studio busy recording their much awaited new album “Lovers, Liars & Sinners”, our Spanish synth pop stars today reveal their new single titled, “Free”. A new club song perfectly capturing MONDTRÄUME’s unique melancholic tones and highly emotional dark vocals. While label mates AESTHETISCHE exploited the dancefloor appeal of “Free” by turning it into a modern dance club anthem, VENAL FLESH chose to reinforce the somber side of the song in the remix they made together with Chase Dobson. We then get “Still Beating”, one of the band’s most touching song dedicated to cancer patients struggling against the crab. This beautiful noir pop song was remixed here by RUINED CONFLICT as well as COLD KILL.

On MONDTRÄUME’s fanbase pressing demand, Pikotto Vond Mond and Damasius Venys decided to make this EP also available as a (very limited!) physical release (available here: alfa-matrix-store.com/mondtraume-free-ep-cd ) with, as a bonus, the previously released digital EP “Still Beating” which also featured collaborations with ROTERSAND, AVARICE IN AUDIO, AESTHETISCHE and NÒRDIKA.

Strongly recommended to fans of WOLFSHEIM, DEPECHE MODE, MELOTRON or yet BEBORN BETON.

We reviewed on Peek A Boo the two EP's from Virgin in Veil. Now there's a debut album that will be released through Danse Macabre Records. Soon there will be a review on Peek A Boo.

The release of the debut Endless Party on both Wool-E Tapes and Minimal Maximal (two pressings) was sold out in record time, now the young Belgians strike back with a brand new 7”.

Whispering Sons opted for the release of two new live favorites Performance and Strange Identies in which we notice Fenne and the boys also have a heart for shoegaze.

The single will be released on the Brussels based Weyrd Son Records, and just like the previous releases it is a very limited edition.

There is a oxblood in black vinyl (100 copies) and just black vinyl (200 copies).

Here you can order your copy.

You asked for it… You begged for it… Well… The Apocalypse is here! The Apocalypse is now!

Cult duo SIVA SIX return in full force with their 4th full length studio album, definitely their most diverse album ever, a free dive into the depth of your soul with sound and words as your only companion! An electronic and analog ritual full of dirty, bombastic, apocalyptic and emotional dark electro/industrial from Athens’ infamous band renown for favoring quality to quantity! And it’s no surprise that it took them 3 years to complete this new chef d’oeuvre since their successful “Superstition” EP…

Besides SIVA SIX’s characteristic harsh dark elektro style, “Dawn Of Days” also takes another sonic dimension by integrating traditional eastern instruments such as oud, yayli tambur or yet theremin played by talented theater musician G. Diamantopoulos (check splendid songs like “Twenty Eight”, “Until Death Reunite Us”, “The Messenger”…) as well as the awesome guitar parts of Boog (JUNKSISTA) on a unique cover version of the “28 Days Later” movie-soundtrack’s main theme.

The eternal confrontation between light and darkness is being fulfilled on “Dawn of Days”, exactly when the dilemma between going up or down becomes your own call… This new album pushes all somber elektro boundaries and carries us into a world of chaos dominated by Death victoriously marching on the Earth under a bloody red sky oppressed by echoing war roars.

Upbeat club tracks like the instant hit “Αποκάλυψις”, the devilish “Daylord” and the unmistakable “Superstition” all carry you straight to hell on Earth, while “Twenty Eight” lets you suffocate in the center of the pandemonium before “High On Low” confronts you with yourself in front of the mirror of eternity. The album also has its shimmering slower moments on a dramatic lingering (love?) song like “Until Death Reunites Us” or the closing chapter “The Messenger”… From the ass-kicking opening assault of “To The Light” to the album’s enchanting last battle, SIVA SIX escort you on a dark trip through the ultimate battle between good and evil from which only your spiritual power can save you…

SIVA SIX once again emerges from the flood of dark elektro mass productions and proves to us that this music genre still can be more than relevant anno 2016 once you put love, hate, blood and brain in the creative cauldron. Shall you break the spell that bounds your soul and say the words that open the gate? ΑΠΟΚΑΛΥΨΙΣ

Strongly recommended to fans of PROJECT PITCHFORK !

After the initial blast of punk rock bands made their impression on the youth of the late 1970s, subgenres quickly emerged. Some preferred the faster, louder aggression of hardcore, others the angular danceability of post-punk, some the raw and more personal home-made sound of DIY, and so on. Looking back among and between these genres we now recognize various blends of punk, post-punk, goth rock, industrial, and DIY as “ deathrock." In 2014, Sacred Bones Records launched the series Killed By Deathrock to document an entire scene of bands that haven't yet received proper recognition.

The thread that holds these groups together as deathrock bands comes down to their willingness and sometimes compulsion to reveal and explore the darker side of their psyches. Night-soaked dirges of fatality, despair, and horror were rampant, rooted in that sublimity that is found on the edge of the horror genre, as famously developed by Edgar Allan Poe — an edge that relished in misery and openly recognized the inevitable end of any human life. Killed by Deathrock Vol. 2 opens with Gatecrashers' maniacal, keyboard-driven anthem "Spectator," the first track from the Denmark group's 1980 7" EP Desillusioned.

Middle Class began by releasing what many consider to be the first-ever hardcore punk record: their 1978 debut EP Out of Vogue. Bassist Mike Patton would produce seminal California punk bands like Adolescents and Minutemen, among others. By 1984, Middle Class had evolved from their fast-blast origins to a darker, more plodding style, represented here by their track "A Skeleton At The Feast," from the 1982 LP Homeland. ADS, a group from the same Denmark scene as Gatecrashers, offers up the searing "Waiting for the War," from their scarce 1982 split 7" with City-X, which takes the socially conscious yet satirical bite of punk rock one nihilistic step further.

A swirling nightmare of reverb-drenched guitars begins UK darkwave act Veda's snarling "Whiplash," featuring Sex Gang Children member Cam Campbell. The 1987 single it comes from was Veda's one and only release. Fellow British band Skeletal Family began a prolific career in 1983. Their track "Promised Land" is a perfect showcase for guitarist Stan Greenwood's jagged style, as well as Ann Marie Hurst's powerful vocal ability. UK goth rock band Flowers for Agatha's somber "The Freedom Curse" was more than worthy of radio airplay, which sadly went unachieved. The song appeared on the band's 1985 EP of the same name.

"Dark Spirits" is a standout cut from Los Angeles deathrockers Red Temple Spirits, released by the legendary Midwestern label Fundamental. Independent Project Records later released a comprehensive anthology of the group's material in 2013. The driving post-punk obscurity that is "What's Wrong Yvette," by the nearly unknown Denver band Crank Call Love Affair, comes from their only record, a self-released 7" single of the same name.

Belgium's Red Zebra– now known as EX-RZ – contributes their raw, infectious brand of new wave in the form of the title track from their 1980 debut 7" EP "I Can't Live In A Living Room." Fellow Belgians Vita Noctis round out the compilation with their dreamy, recorded-to-cassette ballad "Hade," from their 1984 self-released tape In The Face Of...Deaths