Atlanta’s Psychic Death Find Fertile Ground for Deathrock, Goth, and Dark Post-Punk on “The Garden / The Grave”
Rock and roll has maintained a long and thoroughly unhealthy relationship with the graveyard, from the teenage death fantasies of the 1950s to the black-clad miscreants who turned existential dread…
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Mareux Takes Darkwave Romance to the Grave on “Cadillac Casket”
A classic Cadillac knows how to make an entrance, with extravagant tailfins, acres of chrome, and enough presence to make its driver feel famous before anyone has learned their name.…
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German Post-Punk Project HEILSTATT Opens the Window Between Life and Death on “Hinaus” — Debut Album “Korridor” Out Now!
Humanity has spent thousands of years attempting to comprehend its own extinction. We have constructed elaborate religions, raised monuments to the dead, consulted the stars, and invented increasingly sophisticated technologies,…
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Reversed Chakra Make Heartbreak Look Heavenly in Their Video for “Stars Are Forever”
Pop music has spent the better part of its existence trying to convince us that love can survive practically anything, including geographical separation, emotional catastrophe, and the spectacular stupidity of…
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Portuguese Gothic Rock Project Reptil Ibérico Emissões Summons the Old Gods in Video for “Permafrost”
Humanity has spent several thousand years digging up dead civilizations, deciphering their peculiar symbols, and wondering whether the gods our ancestors worshipped might have been onto something. Of course, given…
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Dead Astronauts Dig Into Romantic Ruin on New Album “Shallow Grave”
Shaking under spotlight Melting in a silent fright Breaking just to do what’s right We all change into glistening things Humanity has developed an astonishing capacity for turning its most…
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Substance Festival Returns to LA and SF This Weekend and Next with Drab Majesty, Cold Cave, Desire, and More!
Substance Festival returns to California this weekend and next with a gathering of post-punk, darkwave, industrial, EBM, and synthpop artists spread across two cities and five nights. Los Angeles gets…
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Louisville Industrial Punk Trio VIRGIN BIRTH Run on Fumes in Their Video for “The Dead End”
Exhaustion has become such an ordinary feature of daily life that we have practically mistaken it for a personality. The calendar stays full, the messages keep coming, and the future…
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“Shall I Stroke Your Fragile Ego?” — Industrial Darkwave Duo IARA NAGA Take Aim at Scene Power Games in Video for “Big Fish”
Shall I stroke your fragile ego? Gotta make myself so small for you A little authority in a small music scene can do remarkable things to a person’s sense of…
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Dark Force Fest 2027 Announces Full Lineup Including IAMX, ACTORS, TRAITRS, Agonal Gasps, and More
Dark Force Fest returns to Parsippany, New Jersey, from Friday, April 30, through Sunday, May 2, 2027, bringing a broad assembly of post-punk, darkwave, gothic rock, synthpop, and industrial acts…
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