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Amphi Festival virtual tour!

The new tour! This time from the Amphi Festival.

M'era Luna virtual tour!

In this year, we updated the tour with additional shots from both scenes, we invite you to explore!

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"Distorted Religion" is the newest single from Kevorkian Death Cycle's and the follow up to their critically acclaimed comeback album "God Am I". Distorted Religion continues KDC's rich history in the Industrial scene. Distorted Religion contains two new tracks as ...

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Freaky Mind

SkyQode is happy to announce the signing of the Moscow-based aggrotech / TBM project, Freaky Mind!

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Grai - new album and tour

GRAI sign deal with NOIZGATE Records - New album and European tour of the Russian folk-metal band planned for September

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Merciful Nuns - Phantom Wall video (News)
Angelspit - Nosferatu live (News)
Castle Party 2014 compilation (News)
The Exploding Boy - Scared to Death (News)
AlterRed - The Electro Creepshow (News)

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Castle Party 2014

The castle in Bolków for dozen or so years has hosted the fans of dark sounds. Invariably the crowds of Goths have been coming here during hot summer days to celebrate their festival. Castle Party, that’s what we are talking about, this year took place from 17th to 20th July and gathered enormous audience of dark independent scene serving the sounds raging from symphonic, electronic to folk and harsh guitar ...

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Cat Rapes Dog - Life Was Sweet

With the Cat Rapes Dog band I met by chance, while looking for new sounds. Scrolling through the tracks, I came across something that stopped me and make me wonder - namely the "motordead" piece, which I would classify to a nice blend of ebm and synth punk. It sounds explosively and so it is. Each successive track from them was intriguing and interesting. I admit that at the beginning ...

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Theodor Bastard

Castle Party is ahead of us. Theodor Bastard is one of the bands playing during this year’s edition the festival. Here Fedor Svolotch talks about touring, playing and live concerts... 1. You are on tour now so how is it going? What are your impressions so far? F.S.: Lately, because of the political situation in the world music and concerts are not only a way of creativity for us, but ...

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Xotox - Schwanengesang (Music reviews)
Pyrkon 2014 (Live reports)
Cold In May - Dark Season (Music reviews)
Surgyn - Feed Me Fame (Music reviews)
All fun comes from satisfying curiosities- interview with Jerome Reuter from ROME (Interviews)

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Castle Party 2014 - detailed programme! (Events)
Trust to perform in Cracow and Posen! (Events)
Tangerine Dream - a farewell concert in Poland! (Events)
Festival Anime 3 in Poland (Events)
Two concerts Lahka Muza and Bisclaveret (Events)

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Recent publishing

2014-07-22

The Klinik
Box (1984-1991).
(8CD Boxset)
2014-07-17

Various Artists
Castle Party 2014
2014-06-30

A Spell Inside
Autopilot
(CD)
2014-06-23

Lustmord
Krakow October 22 2010
(CD)
2014-06-17

raison d'etre
Requiem for Abandoned Souls (Expanded)
(2CD)
2014-06-10

Grendel
Soilbleed Redux V2
(EP)
2014-05-13

Front Line Assembly
Echoes
(CD)
2014-05-06

Portion Control
Unrest in the Grime
(Vinyl + CD)
2014-04-29

Plastic Noise Experience
Therapy
(2CD Boxset)
2014-04-22

Inkubus Sukkubus
Love Poltergeist
(CD)
2014-04-22

Wumpscut
Bulwark Bazooka
(CD)
2014-04-01

Leaether Strip
Aescapism
(2CD)
2014-04-01

In Strict Confidence
Lifelines Volume 1 (1991-1998): The Extended Versions
(CD)
2014-03-28

Angelspit
The Product
(CD)

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