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Looking for Trouble — Detroit Post-Punk Trio Ritual Howls Take a Nocturnal Drive in Video for “Bad Idea”

I played my lucky number You do as you please If you keep looking for trouble It’s gonna find you in your sleep Ritual Howls tend to dwell in the…

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Flowers and Desolation — Ritual Howls Offer Hope Amidst the Wreckage in Their Video for “The Morning”

Claws of pleasure graze the muted air Unrepeated silence everywhere Beneath the withering body wrapped in lace A sandstone a painting of grace There is a hush in The Morning…a…

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An Annual Gathering of Goths in NYC — A Murder of Crows Festival 2025 Review

The Bowery in September carries its own kind of twilight; a season of half-spent warmth and lengthening shadows, when the city’s heartbeat seems to move underground. In that subterranean rhythm,…

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Ritual Howls Rides Again in Video for “Follow the Sun” — New Album “Ruin” Announced!

Dead on sight The march has begun Follow the sun Detroit’s Ritual Howls return with their sixth full-length, Ruin, plunging deeper into their evocative alchemy of industrial rhythms, goth-infused atmospheres,…

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NYC Post-Punk and Goth Festival A Murder of Crows Returns With Pink Turns Blue, 45 Grave, Ritual Howls, Vision Video, Soft Vein, and More!

New York’s internationally renowned gothic and post-punk festival, A Murder of Crows (AMOC), returns Labor Day weekend, August 29-30, 2025, heralded by a spirited opening bash at TV Eye on August…

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Post-Punk.com — The Best Of 2023

Another year is over. We made it! Somehow, we’ve tumbled through the vortex of time and landed at the end of 2023. Give yourself a pat on the back; you’ve…

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Mission to the Sun Vibrates with Cosmic Post-Industrial Resonance in Enigmatic Video for “Sophia Oscillations”

Sophia Oscillations, the second studio offering from Detroit’s Mission to the Sun, drenches the listener in the murkier recesses of post-industrial soundscapes. Keeping with the aural journey they commenced in…

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Detroit Post-Punk Trio Ritual Howls Fall into a “Dark Ceiling In Tennessee” in Their Hallucinatory New Video

From the shadowed realm of Detroit, a trio known as Ritual Howls weaves a cinematic tapestry of twangy industrial rock, igniting the dancefloor into glowing post-apocalyptic embers. This harmonic convergence…

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Artists to See at Grauzone Festival’s 10th Anniversary

The international post-punk festival Grauzone, held in The Netherlands, is about to celebrate its tenth year and features one of its best lineups yet. From Friday to Sunday, starting on…

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Mission to the Sun Explore the Post-Industrial Wasteland in “No Language”

In April 2021, Detroit’s Mission to the Sun released their stunning debut record Cleansed By Fire. The album features nine tracks of moody, experimental electronics that blend early, stark industrial soundscapes and cold,…

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