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Distorted Synths and Brutalist Beats — Death Palmz Revives the Raw Nerve of Old-School Industrial and Synthpunk

Get up Paralysis from indecision Opportunity is fiction Death Palmz detonates like a fever dream—raw, restless, and relentless. Born from the circuitry of Austin, Texas, Jon French (Exotic Fruitica) sculpts…

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Quebec Minimal Synth Duo Frissons Release “Full Moon Nights” Maxi Single — Watch Video for “Bathe Me (In Scented Oils)”

Annick Giroux, once the voice of Cauchemar, channels her unorthodox range into French words that flicker like candlelight on old stone walls. Meanwhile, Nathaniel Hébert, known for his Cronenberg project,…

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Budapest’s Redeye Black Tears Releases Tenebrous Gothic Rock Album “Cuddling Monsters”

(your) revenge is my purpose (my) revenge is my faith gunshot wounds are my stigma I’m a man-made god of hate Redeye Black Tears (REBT) rises from the depths of…

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Philadelphia’s Clock Issue Brings Back the Avant-Synth and Sax to Post-Punk with “Cell Damage” LP

The world is spelled catastrophe The cawing bird the twisted tree Light years spread without sympathy And death is all around Clock Issue, the brainchild of Philadelphia’s Paul Walker, twists…

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Melbourne’s Lothario Cuts Through the Kitsch Conventions of Romance With Hedonistic “Hogtied” LP

Clear blue eyes, they see through me A vacant stare, avoidance cuts clear On one knee with your heresy, time kills all the ones like me Australia’s Lothario storms forth…

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Santo Gato Debuts Pulsing Darkwave EP “Draco Radio” Featuring Spectral Single “Gothic at Night” and More!

In the garden of forgotten souls, where black roses bloom and die, she mourns the lovers, lost in time, underneath the starlit sky Daniel Lucero, known as Santo Gato, emerges…

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Vitruvian Woman — Argentinian Darkwave Artist Lux Mala Celebrates Feminine Resilience with “Metamorphosis” LP

In a time awash with disenchantment—where innocence and compassion falter in the noise—Nathalie Astrada’s voice as Lux Mala rings out clearly. She offers no easy optimism; instead, her raw honesty…

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Beauty and Despair — Swiss Coldwavers Future Faces Drift Among the Ashes of Lost Tomorrows in “Memoria”

Our entire life Was like a spell of beauty and despair This old delusion Hectic with our own selfish thirst Hailing from Geneva, Switzerland, Future Faces arose from the local…

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Chasing Ghosts by the Black Sea — Georgia-based Darkwavers Chronotape Release Poignant “Strangers” EP

Yesterday is history And today is just misery So we say “Long live the King” Oh, he ruined everything Hailing from Russia and now rooted in Georgia, Chronotape emerged in…

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Melbourne Artist Claire Birchall Blends Tremulous Art Pop Melodies With Gothic Undertones in “The Haunting”

I don’t mean to rain on your parade But sometimes when I bend, I break Australian artist Claire Birchall, Melbourne’s alchemist of sound, has conjured a collection steeped in foreboding…

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