Synth-driven electronic rock duo The Defect released their new haunting single ‘Broken Minds’ with a mesmerizing video via FiXT!
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News Posts
French synthwave sensation Carpenter Brut released his take on the Billy Idol classic ‘Eyes Without A Face’, featuring Krystoffer Rygg of Ulver, and part of the official soundtrack to Sumerian Comics’ ‘American Psycho’ comic book series!
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Kat Von D released her latest new dark synth pop single ‘Dead’, including an 80s style workout music video injected with her unique flavour, high fashion and gothic fervour!
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Otherworldly alt duo Zetra emerged from the shadows once more with the new track ‘Starfall’, featuring Svalbard’s Serena Cherry, and announced their self-titled debut album to be released in September via Nuclear Blast Records!
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Swedish dark synth wizards Priest unveiled their new single ‘Just a Game’, another track from their upcoming album ‘Dark Pulse’ set for release in May!
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New Finnish entity Haunted Plasma brings a powerhouse of futuristic synth in symbiosis with the super violent atmospherics of kosmische black metal on their debut album ‘I’, set for release in May via Svart Records! With a first single ‘Reverse Engineer’ out right now!
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Slasherwave outfit Gost unveils ‘Widow Song’, the latest single from their impending new full-length ‘Prophecy’, set for release in March via Metal Blade Records!
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Finnish synth pop project Dreadsunshine released its new single ‘Sailor’ via Secret Entertainment, featuring the songstress Amilí!
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After unveiling all the headliners for the 2024 edition, Graspop Metal Meeting confirmed 84 more names for next year’s massive event! Tickets available from this Saturday on!
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Last week, Gost unleashed a first peek at the upcoming album ‘Prophecy’, set for release via Metal Blade Records in March 2024, with the title track, inviting us yet again in the absolutely unique soundscape that comes from this project!
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Photo Reports
A couple of months ago, Elektrik Products satisfied our need for some good beats to dance to yet again by bringing the popular Swedes of Priest back to Helsinki for a crazy night at On The Rocks! And with them came the intense industrial duo Ambassador21, a special “old school electro” set of Freakangel and an opening show of Teknohirvi, the electro version of thrash outfit The Hirvi!
With mind-blowing energy and pure anticipation, Esprit D’air blew the roof off Northumbria University with Diamond Black supporting!
The cold came to Munich in the form of a package of Scandinavian bands, but Liv Sin, Priest and Deathstars managed to warm the souls of those present in the small Strom quickly after waiting in the cold and snow.
Pictures of a great Halloween night with Deathstars, Priest and King Satan at Tavastia in Helsinki, Finland!
After several times of rescheduling and years of waiting, Deathstars finally hit the stage of Olympia-Kortteli in Tampere on October 30th, together with Priest and King Satan on this event by TuskaLive and Grey Beard Concerts & Management.
Pictures of the performances of Pentagram, Burst, Priest, Déluge, Fit For An Autopsy and Watain on the indoor stage of Hellsinki Metal Festival!
Pictures of the second day of Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2022 with Ruoska, Antibody, Agonoize, Nestruction, Gothminister, Moris Blak and Centhron!
The mesmerizing nymphs of Kælan Mikla came back to Finland with their new album and support of label mate Kanga!
Pictures of a fantastic 2nd day at Hellsinki Industrial 2021 with Freak Injection, SynthAttack, State of the Union, Ashbury Heights and Covenant!
The pictures of the 1st day of Hellsinki Industrial Festival 2021 with acts like Hocico, Biomechanimal, Alien Vampires, Priest and Matthew Creed!
Album Reviews
Zetra ignites a sensational and haunting journey, taking the listener on a dark musical adventure on its debut self-titled full-length album. Out now via Nuclear Blast.
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Synth rock duo Zombi has crawled out of its grave once again for a ‘Direct Inject’ dose of vintage seventies-tinged soundtrack scores. Out on Relapse Records.
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Host’s debut release ‘IX’ is a very catchy album and has multiple complex textures and dark gothic themes as you will find yourself sprawling on the ground with sedatives. Nick Holmes & Gregor Mackintosh take a dark direction toward the electro gothic synth/rock music that is fully of catchy choruses and lush electronic textures. Released February 24 via Nuclear Blast Records.
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One man project Golden Ashes brings a second sonic blasting with ‘In The Lugubrious Silence Of Eternal Night’.
2020 may have been a turd of a year so far, at least it provided synthrock duo, Zombi, with an apt title for its first album in 5 years.
Extremely catchy and fun synthpop music from Night Club, yet in it’s on very special way rather dark!
Synths, pop, geeking out, sci-fi and a punky “we don’t care what you think” attitude… enter Hatchling! Everything must be destroyed!
After shattering their own status as grandmasters of gothic doom a few years earlier with the groundbreaking, yet unorthodox ‘One Second’, they upped the ante and did away with their metal pedigree altogether on the daring, yet almost unanimously scorned ‘Host’.
