We are still remembering the goth darkness we got to enjoy for a moment in the Helldorado stage tent at Alcatraz earlier this summer with Unto Others, and in a couple of weeks we’ll get to enjoy more of this new era of the band with their new album ‘Never, Neverland’ out via Century Media Records! Another single with ‘Momma Likes the Door Closed’ was released about a week ago, and it’s all we’ve ever wanted with heavy riffing and goth vibes!
Unto Others are back with new album ‘Never, Neverland’ set for release in September via Century Media Records and shared the single ‘Angel of the Night’. Catch them on tour in Europe in August with stops at festivals like Wacken, Brutal Assault and Alcatraz Music!
Helsinki vampires The 69 Eyes unleashed a visualizer video for their new song ‘Fade To Grey’, the result of their collaboration with American songwriter Diane Warren, released via Reigning Phoenix Music!
UK heavy metal sensation Lesbian Bed Death signed with Wormholedeath for the release of their new album ‘Midnight Lust’ in March!
Finnish goth band Lamori embraces eerie depths with their new single ‘Ave Valkyria’, a track of their upcoming album ‘NEON BLOOD FIRE’, set for release via Wormholedeath!
L.A. rock band Palaye Royale released a surprise EP ‘SEXTAPE’ via Sumerian Records last Friday and shared the video for the track ‘Dead To Me’!
The shadowy emissaries known as ZETRA have signed to Nuclear Blast Records and shared their latest sonic offering ‘Sacrifice’ to celebrate!
The 69 Eyes are set to haunt Munich’s Backstage venue on New Year’s Eve as the very last show of their “Still Gotta Rock Tour 2023”! And dates for 2024 are already announced…
Drab Majesty released the new single ‘The Skin And The Glove’ from the upcoming EP ‘An Object in Motion’, out next month via Dais Records and announced the dates of a European tour this Fall!
Dutch industrial metal band After Taste released a new captivating and unnerving video for the song ‘Neutered’ from their debut album ‘How To Fake Love’!
Tribulation’s sixth studio album “Sub Rosa in Æternum” is memorably catchy and equally haunting and perfectly fits in the gothic metal canon. Out via Century Media Records since November 1st, and comes recommended to fans of Moonspell and Type O Negative, or even more gothic rock/electro affiliated acts like Sisters of Mercy or Depeche Mode!
The third full length album “Never, Neverland” from Portland, Oregon based gothic metal Unto Others packs sixteen powerful tracks, showing that they’re back at full force and ready to take on the world, out today via Century Media Records!
Paradise Lost’s sonic architecture is still bound by the modern fashion of melodic gothic/doom, thus they seal their 16th chapter leaving you overshadowed in eerie silence.
Their full length was four years in the making and marks a significant progress over their initial EP ‘ Gehenna’, which was a bold foray into a particularly bleak style of progressive rock that took its cues from both Pink Floyd as the classic wave bands from the eighties
The refined heavy guitars riffs are the secret key for Tribulations success ,always casting their magical moments with grim vocals, and rhythmic chord lines
The Helsinki Vampires have risen from the grave with their signature Goth ‘n’ Roll!
A first EP of a young Greek band, sent to us by Daffodil themselves
Electronically enhanced gothic rock from Italy.
After the team sent in their top lists at the end of last year, and calculating the results, we got to an interesting “albums of the year 2023” list featuring releases from Marduk, Kludde, Blink-182, Blackbraid, Orbit Culture, Gloryhammer, Ne Obliviscaris, Hypno5e, Periphery, Dying Fetus, Obituary, Avatar, Svalbard, VV and Sleep Token! Do you agree with any of these? What did you have in your top list?
2023 starts off with quite the bang with new releases from VV, Anti-Flag, Imperium Dekadenz, Turmion Kätilöt, Katatonia, Kiberspassk, …and Oceans, Obituary, Suasion, Dropout Kings and Vėlių Namai!
Another week with amazing releases, check out the 13 singles that caught our attention with Rue Vox, Enter Shikari, …And Oceans, Aphyxion, Dirty Shirt, For I Am King, Hoaxed, Seas On The Moon, Stake, Suicide Silence, VV, Demeted and Tallah!
If Gothic is your thing, you might want to check these releases out if you haven’t yet. If you’re not a fan of the style, still check them cause these are good ones!
Mark took it easy in 2023 and offers a selection of pictures of the handful of shows that he covered with his photography, mostly in the realm of new wave, old school electronic music, experimental and pop music with Self Esteem, Gary Numan, Heaven 17, Martyn Ware and friends, and Utopia Strong!
A selection of 30 photos that Helder likes a lot from one of his most productive year considering covering concerts, including captures of Fear Factory, Atreyu, Jinjer, Rolo Tomassi, Stone, The Kooks, Pixies, Wunderhorse, Yours Truly, You Me at Six, Lake Malice, Bloodywood, Epica, Avatar, The 69 Eyes, Nova Twins, Cam Cole, Sabaton, The Lumineers, Grailknights, All For Metal, The Baboon Show, Combichrist, Megaherz, The BossHoss, Cancer Bats, Kvelertak, Fixation, Ignea, and Butcher Babies.
Pictures of A.A. Williams, Orbit Culture, Finntroll, Marko Hietala and Butcher Babies taking over the tent stage and Inferno stage on the second day of Tuska 2023!
A night of post-punk with the Finnish Grave Pleasures celebrating the release of ‘Plagueboys’ and oppressive industrial metal from Dome Runner at Korjaamo in Helsinki!
The second day brought quite a rockin’ out to the main stage with national heroes The 69 Eyes and Stratovarius and rock legends Mötley Crüe and Def Leppard.
The Others’ horror punk hand in hand with the Helsinki vampires… The 69 Eyes haunted the Backstage Club in Munich with an absolutely great night for anything and anyone who prefer the shadows and a Gothic style!
The Mission brought The Crescent York to a steaming point with their double set, almost reducing our photographer to a puddle of sweat. Luckily before succumbing under the heat he managed to take a few snapshots of the memorable night!
Dark Vision at On The Rocks: a night of gloomy post-punk and Gothic inspired bands on a cold March night! Check out the pictures here!
The pictures of 3 days of metal and rock fun in the middle of Helsinki… Tuska 2018, you were awesome!
