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Nahtaivel – Midnight Sessions CD Review

admin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 21:02:17 +0000

January 2012 – Gothic horror EBM from Brazil titled Midnight Sessions. This 12 track CD combines heavy industrial beats with post-nuclear electro sounds.

(complete review coming soon)

Sapphire Rebellion – Pocketful of X-Rays CD

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:08:09 +0000

January 2012 – New CD by a founding member of Cruxshadows, released on Platinum Dragon Productions, Tallahassee Florida.

An 8 track CD with song titles like: No Memories of Angel, and This Day Will Pass.

Early reviews of this release compare the sound to Joy Division, Peter Murphy, and The Cure.

Our full review coming soon.

Find more info on the band:

www.SapphireRebellion.com

NAG – Noise Alkemic Generator

admin — Wed, 28 Dec 2011 16:46:09 +0000

Padua, Italy – Electronica / Industrial

This is impressive! With the word ‘Noise’ in the name you might think this is harsh EBM, but this is in the area of a mild God Module – an eerie EBM sound with whips and black leather seduction.

The 2011 promo only has 4 tracks, but is so good you will want to play it twice.

Leo C. – Keyboards // Sanja Aveic – Vocals // Kinky – Guitars
Noise Alkemic Generator

http://www.reverbnation.com/noisealkemic

GrandChaos – Refuge CD

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:30:17 +0000

December 2011 – New CD by GrandChaos (Tcheleskov Ivanovitch) features 15 tracks of amazing EBM.

Track 4, A Lot of Pain, remixed by Bak XII is one of the best tracks on this CD, along with track 3, Ressurection, remixed by Interfront, and Track 9, Ultra Dark Day, Version 2011.

Well done remixes of GrandChaos tracks that is quite impressive. 90′s EBM combined with post-apocolypse darkness in 15 tracks.

www.GrandChaos.be

Bradley Tatum – Its a Beautiful World CD

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:34:03 +0000

November 2011 – Just got this one – quite interesting, and so far, impressive.

Track two, The Others, has a great ebm horror metal sound which sounds like the early Lords of Acid with underground metal.
Other tracks continue in the same vein, with a little acoustic insights. Good creepy fun.

Bradley founded Blood and Guts records, a label famous for releasing horror punk music.

Under the Storm Clouds
The Others
The Human Experiment
It’s a Beautiful World
Goodbye to Boundaries
Low Again
Let’s Think this Through
Midgaard Celebration
They’re Drawn to You
Raiders
Stuck on Punk
Left Behind
Bye Bye Baby

You can listen to the 1st track here:

http://www.bradleytatummusic.com

Anniversary Circle – Forgotten Inventions EP

admin — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:28:41 +0000

November 2011 – Band from South Yorkshire (UK) released their 3 track EP titled Forgotten Inventions. This contains the tracks: Forgotten Inventions/Don’t Close Those Glass Eyes/Anniversary Circle.

We like this one, and will have a review in a week or so. You can get the tracks on iTunes

Reach the band at: www.AnniversaryCircle.com

Bella Lune – Ophelia EP

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:37:35 +0000

First impression from listening to the opening track, Ophelia, is that this is amazingly delicious, dreamy, and, at the same time, dark. So, what makes this 9 track CDEP so good?? The music has that perfect feel of the sound on the The Cure’s Faith CD (1981) without being too low-key and gray. The band’s sound, with the soothing voice of Fuchsia, adds in elements of Love Spirals Downward, Mephisto Walz, and My Bloody Valentine without being so overpowering in a full wall of noise.

Bella Lune is so good they really deserve their own genre name: Comforting Darkwave.

The Ophelia EP contains several mixes of the title track, each with its own mood. The Ask For Joy mix of Ophelia makes this whole Ep worth getting, but really, if you haven’t heard this band, all of the tracks, remixes from previous releases, get impressively better after each listen. Track 3, Blissful Escape, and track 9, Underwater, and track 6, Silent and Still, are all remixes from the 2008 CD titled Abstracted Visions. This and The Other, Ophelia, and The Dolly Pop Song, which brings to mind the erotic styling of the Lords of Acid, are from Synesthesia, Bella Lune’s 2010 CD. Also included on this EP is Dead Souls – a Joy Division cover.

To say we love Ophelia is an understatement.
Your halo sinking with your heart again. I hear you calling and I feel it even more.

Bella Lune are:

Fuchsia – Vocals, Guitar
Kal3id – Guitar, Synth
Hurley – Synth
R. Duke -Drums
Beeka – Violin
Jeremy – Guitar

http://www.bellalune.net

The Returners – Lost Souls CD Review

admin — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:51:32 +0000

The first full length release by The Returners, titled Lost Souls, is a hardcore gothic punk intensity for fans of the Misfits, GBH, and Agnostic Front. Horror punk at its finest. The CD starts out with a nice creepy dialogue from an old horror movie, giving the CD the classic horror feel. The real fun doesn’t kick in until the amazing 3rd track titled Staring into the Abyss.

So, who are The Returners? They are a punk/gothic band from California who have played shows with Wednesday 13, 69 Eyes, Agent Orange, and even The Misfits. On Lost Souls The Returners cover a Danzig song titled Soul on Fire. This is a well-done play it loud kind of CD.

The Returners’ Lost Souls is a fierce gothic whip on your punk ass.

Released on Nothing But a Nightmare Records, 2011
Catalog #5
Previous releases: The Amanda EP, Love Like Suicide, We Die Alone. The We Die Alone 7” was released on red vinyl.

One of the best tracks on the Lost Souls CD is Staring into the Abyss. Lyrics to this song are below:

Into my darkest depths
I gaze long and deep

Darkness closes in
fear begins to spread
inside of every limb
Haunting every step
shadows of the past
tear my life to shreds

You can’t feel it as it cuts
life from every angle
and vitiates my heart
I don’t feel it, is it love?
I wouldn’t know it’s texture
or taste on my tongue

This black abyss
reflects my darkest depths
the beast I see
stares back at me!

So cold and bitter to the touch
the mirror casts a stranger
with hatred in it’s eyes
who am I and what have I done?
Tears fall down like angels
into the void

(and now) This black abyss
reflects my darkest depths
the beast I see
stares back at me

Darkness closes in
fear begins to spread
inside of every limb
Haunting every step
shadows of the past
tear my life to shreds

Noisuf-X – Dead End District – CD

admin — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 04:45:32 +0000

October 2011 – Heavy on the industrial and massive on the volume the new Noisuf-X CD. Borders on harsh dancefloor goth club music especially on Clubhit and Fulfill its Promise. Other tracks feature well-suited cryptic quotes amongst the hard hitting beats. Noisuf-X sound like a machine on a mission. Wir Fuhlen Den Krach may be the best track on this CD, with Stay Still, Clubhit (PLAY THIS ONE LOUD!), Es Wird Brennen, and Done in 15 Minutes, What, and Murderhouse being the Must Play Often tracks. Future Ska, featuring Population, is the industrial ska interlude in the insanity.

Like it, LOVE IT, WANT MORE OF IT!
YES

Tracklist:
01. Stay Still (4:21)
02. Clubhit (4:11)
03. Es Wird Brennen.. (4:17)
04. Done In 15 Minutes (4:13)
05. Strange Signal (4:34)
06. First Time Optimistic (3:33)
07. Shout Loud (3:48)
08. Fulfill Its Promise (4:23)
09. Wir Fühlen Den Krach (3:51)
10. Future Ska [feat. Population] (4:20)
11. What (4:37)
12. HiFi (4:03)
13. MurderHouse (4:14)

Band Website:
www.Noisuf-X.com

Encephalon – The Transhuman Condition

admin — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 23:30:08 +0000

October 2011 – (From Artoffact Records) Formed in 2005, the Canadian trio Encephalon have kept the electro-industrial underground waiting with bated breath for five long years. But 2011 brings the band’s first album, The Transhuman Condition, an album that incorporates all the band’s wide influences, from Ministry to The Cure to NIN and more. Focusing on themes of isolation, futurism and human evolution, The Transhuman Condition is sure to bring Encephalon’s fantastically dark sound to a wider audience beyond electro insiders, independent filmmakers and scene DJs.

Artoffact Records

REVIEW: (coming soon)

1. Rise (v.2)
2. Transhuman Condition
3. Daylight
4. Garden
5. The Killing Horizon
6. Mariana’s Trench
7. Drop Dead
8. Scar On Scar On Scar
9. A Lifetime Of Puppetry
10. Human Shield
11. Face First
12. Past The Grave