Colossloth - Outstretch Your Hand For The Impress Of Truth

2015-12-26 (News)

From the wild hedgerows and deep dark rivers of the Midlands, Leicestershire’s Colossloth makes psychogeographic maladies and invocations to warm the heart of the discerning and intrepid psychonaut. Phonic seeds planted in Blackened soil fertilised by visceral imagination. A fugitive ambience for those seeking solace in the unexpected.
From supporting the likes of Tim Hecker and Wrangler, Colossloth’s music alternates between the brooding and abrasive to the transcendental and enchanted. With nods to a multitude of genres – from industrial and ethnic tribalism to caustic electronica, it’s spirit can be found crucified in between the anode and cathode of occult circuitry, transmitting across modern England whispered messages from the lips of the old gods of Albion.

Z’EV - Eleven Mirrors To The Light

2015-12-25 (News)

Z’EV completes an alchemical exploration of "Concord and Dissonance" that began with the cosmological equations of "Sum Things" and then clasped the elemental quintet of air, water, fire, earth and spirit in "A Handful of Elements". Now, with "Eleven Mirrors to the Light", Z’EV plays with the intersection of light and dark, catching waves of luminescence between prisms and mirrors that fragments particles into shimmering washes of sound. Z’EV’s trademark percussion transforms into glistening soundscapes and drones, one part subterranean and another subatomic.

Troum - Acouasme

2015-12-24 (News)

After the much praised collaboration with Raison D’Etre released summer 2015 ("De Aeris In Sublunaria Influxu") and the final volume of the ‘Power Romantic’ trilogy with "Mare Morphosis" in late 2013, "Acouasme" is the first full length album from Troum in over 2 years. With this album, Troum wanted to go in a completely different direction, creating a ‘harsher’ and more ‘Industrial’ sounding album as a contrast to previous releases. But through the trademark troumatic machining, the final result doesn’t sound at all like standard harsh noise – it’s rather industrial noise as if filtered through a feverish dream, through a deranged perception. The six long tracks of pestering transrational drones on "Acouasme" sound like an aural psychiatric symptom, a humming hallucination leaving the stable reality.

Various Artists - Road to Sacrosanct

2015-12-23 (News)

It offers an extremely well selected collection of tracks by all bands performing at the famous Reading Gothic Festival in Great Britain, that took place ffrom 23-25 September 2015. The CD includes unlimited streaming of Road to Sacrosanct 2015 via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more. The tracklist reads like a ‘Who is Who' of the current generation in the Gothic scene and a few tracks are exclusive to this CD.

The House of Usher - Inauguration

2015-12-22 (News)

On their 9th album "Inauguration", the leading German Gothic Rock act The House Of Usher start with the epic wide-screen song "Seagulls/Only Memories Remain" that reminds of U2's "The Joshua Tree" as well as Editors "An End Has A Start". But when in the following tracks it is reduced you will closer to the music of the band than ever before. The sound of the whole album is like a professionally cut diamond and it has got even brighter reflections like "Hours Away" and "What If Christ Never Came", while songs like "Shadowside" appear relaxed and mature. There is a line in this song that says "I'm on my track like a train but I'm running out of coal" which doesn't apply to the band obviously as they prove in the powerful end of the album with "Tantalus Awake!" and "Famous Last Words", songs that call the Simple Minds in their zenith back to your mind. After their nearly sold out album "Pandora's Box" The House Of Usher were successful with their intention to create an album that doesn't mean deadlock on one side yet doesn't annoy their faithful fans as well.

Yabanci - Chaoss

2015-12-21 (News)

7 Tracks mini-album of these Swiss/Italian rising stars in Gothic Rock, that receive overwhelming praise and reviews from the entire Gothic press/Media! The CD is following a first studio album released in 2014 and an EP from 2013 and presents this project in an incredibly fresh and highly infectional Death Rock/Dark Rock that recalls the biggest names of the scene in mind. The renewed line-up gets powered by drum machine, synthetic bass and live synths and on "Chaoss" Yabanci explore sounds from the second wave of goth rock, mixed with new elements such as piano "Star in Man" and ambient samples "Chaoss part 1". A non-monolithic album arranged to surf new directions.