Cold Showers certainly lived up to their name late last year with the release of their debut full-length LP on Dais Records, Love and Regret.  Available in all four still-relevant formats, this direct follow-up to the Highlands and Decay EP’s has undoubtedly extinguished a great many bestial fires within youthful dark pop explorers and veteran […]

Acoustic interpretations are nothing new for fans of Diary of Dreams, but until last year they have appeared as appreciated live numbers only. This changed with the release of The Anatomy of Silence, where German darkwave hero Adrian Hates strips some of his projects most loved songs into nothing but skin and bone. Being classically […]

Another strange release, this one.  Di Aima il Segno consists of music that, perhaps as hinted by the album cover, has been conjured forth by arcane spirits, or at the very least from some ethereal, Occidental shores where spirits gather in the mists, brandishing ancient instruments and resurrecting a compendium of archaic legend through poetry […]

Our age of modernization presents a very complicated environment for the atavistically inclined. Often, we will see primal and heathen-minded folk, recorded all acoustically, and sung in a dead language, but they will update you every day via Facebook and Twitter. It is unavoidable, so why bother trying to? We are thoroughly entrenched in a […]

I have a great deal of humorous and humbling memories regarding Heathen Harvest that stretch back to my early days as a writer in 2006 — days from which I admittedly look back on in humiliation for the atrocious writing that readers and promotion-seekers had to sit through on my part as I developed my […]

Dark, strange musical talents are seemingly in no short supply within the Mediterranean lands of Italy in the modern era.  Born just North of Venice in the Northeastern Italian city of Treviso, this trio of musicians — known simply as Father Murphy — manages to, through their outright odd industrial leanings, share many aesthetic qualities […]

When it comes to Austin, Texas-based Jezzebeam, there isn’t much information to be found, and thus there isn’t much to tell.  This is a one-man project, helmed by one Michael Cockrell and assisted vocally, at least for one track here, by his wife, Desiree.  This appears to be a solitary project for a reason, however, […]

Those of you who have been pining for the likes of Stoa and Dargaard to get on with it and up their output should consider turning further East. Buried in the North, a more or less unknown project from China, is the sole enterprise of Li Qi whose debut was released on the excellent Beijing […]

To say that Ô Paradis, in the twelve or so years since its inception, has become one of the most genuinely interesting and innovative artists in the realm of post-industrial experimentalism is perhaps only beginning to shave the upper layer of a gross understatement.  Led by Barcelona, Spain native Demian Recio, Ô Paradis has long […]

Didn’t really have any idea what to expect from this one, and some of the song titles left room for a bitter, unsavory potential. Was pleasantly surprised to find this to be nearly an hour of rather relaxing ambient atmospheres that would not be out of place on NPR’s “Hearts Of Space” program. The track […]