Unlike others, we love winter and its darkness, and we look forward to the releases of the season. The soundtrack of the first long month of the year had everything from post-folk, to metal and heavy psych. We enjoyed impressive debut releases and promising self-released music and once again we were amazed by the paths that sonic experimentation is able to open in our consciousness.
Posts Tagged ‘darkwave music’
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums November 2023
Posted: 27th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: albums you must hear 2023, ant-zen album releases 2023, Ash International album releases 2023, Atrium Carceri Forgotten Gods, Atrium Carceri new album 2023, best albums 2023, best coldwave albums 2023, best dark ambient albums 2023, best darkwave albums 2023, best electronic albums 2023, best experimental albums 2023, best IDM albums 2023, best industrial music albums 2023, best minimal electronic albums 2023, best new wave albums 2023, best post-punk albums 2023, best psych rock albums 2023, Blackjack Illvminist Records album releases 2023, BREAK ON BEACONS An uninterrupted flow of images, BREAK ON BEACONS new album 2023, ceremonial music, coldwave music, Croix Noire 10 Minut du Switu, Croix Noire new album 2023, Cryo Chamber album releases 2023, dark ambient music, darkwave music, DUCTAPE new album 2023, DUCTAPE Veil of Lies, Edward Ka-Spel new album 2023, Edward Ka-Spel Tease, electronic music, experimental music 2023, Fabrika Records releases 2023, FOOLISH Records album releases 2023, frank riggio Lo, frank riggio new album 2023, FUZZ Club album releases 2023, Girls In Synthesis Die Leere, Girls In Synthesis new EP 2023, Hedloff Records album releases 2023, Hospital Productions album releases 2023, Hound Gawd!Records releases 2023, Hymen Records album releases 2023, IDM music, industrial music 2023, Itako Muted Patterns, Itako new album 2023, Japan Review new album 2023, Japan Review The Slow Down, Lebanon Hanover Better Than Going Away, Lebanon Hanover new EP 2023, Love In Cage new album 2023, Love In Cage Trans-Reality 2023, Meidosem Records album releases 2023, minimal electronic music, new album 2023, new industrial music, new synthwave albums 2023, new wave music, Nick Carlisle Bloody Saturnalia, Nick Carlisle solo album 2023, Nikita von Tiraspol Iki Pasimatymo! 2023, Nikita von Tiraspol new album 2023, noise music, noorden new releases 2023, Ortrotasce Image Farewell, Ortrotasce new single 2023, post-punk music, psych rock music, Riotmiloo blackout, Riotmiloo new album 2023, Sad Garden 2023, Sad new album 2023, Seize...Apply, self-released music 2023, shapes and colors, Sonic Groove new albums 2023, spoken-word, strom|morts new album 2023, strom|morts The Most Dangerous Machine in the World 2023, SWISSDARKNIGHTS album releases 2023, synthwave music, The Black Delta Movement new EP 2023, The Black Delts Movement In Acetate, The Colour inverted records album releases 2023, The Cult of One new album 2023, THE CULT OF ONE THE SICK FUCK UNTO DEATH 2023, The Man & His Failures Lethe, The Man& His Failures new EP 2023, thorofon angor 2023, thorofon new album 2023, Wounded Son new album 2023, Wounded Son Pain Is All I Have For You
One month before the end of the year, our favourite albums covered all the colours of the industrial/noise music spectrum offering a lot of room for self-reflection. There were some very memorable come backs during this month and the first was the new album by Riotmiloo, probably the conceptually darkest release of the band so far. Taking inspiration from bands like Haus Arafna and Monolith, and developing their sound in such a way so that it reached the depths of their existence, the band has created an almost autobiographical album that has a very strong grip around one’s heart.
Another surprising come back, was that of Lebanon Hanover, who released the EP ‘Better Than Going Away’ and seem to have altered their sound in such a way that the neofolk/militaristic references have become very prominent.
The synthwave music spectrum was covered fully with the trippy and very memorable release by Nick Carlisle ‘Bloody Saturnalia’ while the album ‘The Most Dangerous Machine In The World’ by strom|morts can clearly be characterised as the weirdest, experimental release of this month. Next to this, sits the mesmerising storytelling album of Edward Ka-Spel, ‘Tease, Seize…Apply’. We can never get enough of sonic wizard Edward Ka-Spel’s otherworldly stories who always manages to make everything feel lighter and manageable!
Lastly we would like to draw your attention to the forceful ceremonial atmosphere created within the latest dark ambient gem released by Atrium Carceri. This is an album that will immediately transfer you into the dimly lit, mystic corridors of some far away castle and it should not go unnoticed.
We hope you enjoy this playlist as much as we did while preparing it.
Live Review: Byronic Sex & Exile ‘Stage Fright’ tour live in London
Posted: 10th December 2023 by blaue-rosen in Live reviews,InterviewsTags: Aces & Eights live gigs 2023, Byronic Sex & Exile live in London 2023, Byronic Sex & Exile Stage Fright tour 2023, darkwave music, electro music, gothic rock music, live music, London gigs 2023
An evening of haunting tales from a count, a witch and a siren
We’ve gone down the steps to the basement of Aces& Eights countless times but the vibe that was generated that night, a few days ago cast a dark veil over the space and made it feel much darker than usual. From the first second, the feeling was that of stepping into a post-ceremonial macabre celebration. The intimate arrangement of tables and chairs set the tone for something austere and measured, requiring a composed ‘aristocratic’ behaviour. At that moment, we had the feeling that we were not just attening a gig but that rather, we had been summoned there.
A waltz macabre loupe came from the speakers, playing games with our concentration, creating a sonic labyrinth whose exit was only visible once Down From Above appeared on stage.
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums October 2023
Posted: 20th November 2023 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: AmeK Collective album releases 2023, ant-zen album releases 2023, Artoffact Records album releases 2023, Bat-Cave Productions album releases 2023, best albums 2023, best darkwave albums 2023, best gothic rock music, best IDM music 2023, best noise music 2023, best post-punk music 2023, best psych rock music 2023, best punk albums 2023, best self-released albums 2023, BLACK TO COMM At Zeenath Parallel Heavens, BLACK TO COMM new album 2023, Blackjack Illuminist Records album releases 2023, Byronic Sex&Exile everything but the ghoul, Byronic Sex&Exile new album 2023, Cold Transmission Music album releases 2023, Collection d'Arnell Andrea A Forest Inside, Collection d'Arnell Andrea new album 2023, darkwave music, debut albums, Denovali album releases 2023, DUCTAPE new single 2023, DUCTAPE redscar, ethereal music, Evitceles Bruised, Evitceles new album 2023, experimental music, FALSE FED debut album 2023, FALSE FED LET THEM EAT FAKE, Feu Follet Lost Locust, Feu Follet new album 2023, frett new album 2023, frett nottwo, FUZZ Club releases 2023, Glaring new album 2023, Glaring VOID, Goth city records album releases 2023, gothic rock albums 2023, IDM albums, In Strict Confidence Mechanical Symphony, In Strict Confidence new album 2023, independent music, Minuswelt album releases 2023, Mueran Humanos Dentaduras, Mueran Humanos new single 2023, Negative Gain album releases 2023, Neurot Recordings album releases 2023, new music 2023, noise albums, Nox Arcana DARKFALL Vol.2, Nox Arcana new album 2023, Numb.er new album 2023, Numb.er Regressions 2023, ohne nomen new EP 2023, ohne nomen sadness/no fear, Oliver Marson new album 2023, Oliver Marson Why Did I Choose This?, post punk albums, post-punk music, Profound Lore album releases 2023, psyc rock albums 2023, punk albums 2023, Rocket Recordings album releases 2023, self released albums, Sentient Ruin Laboratories album releases 2023, SOFT VEIN debut album 2023, SOFT VEIN PRESSED IN GLASS, Sub Pop Records album releases 2023, Succubus, Succubus new album 2023, SWISSDARKNIGHTS releases 2023, synthwave albums, synthwave music, Teeth of The Sea Hive, Teeth Of The Sea new album 2023, TELEHEALTH MINDTRAP/BITTER MELODY, TELEHEALTH new EP 2023, The Cult of One new album 2023, The Cult of One Sonic Bastard, The Lovecraft Sextet Horror Cosmic 2023, the Lovecraft Sextet new album 2023, The Vacant Lots Interiors, The Vacant Lots new album 2023, Third Coming Records album releases 2023, Thrill Jockey album releases 2023, TOTAL CHROMA LAPLAND, TOTAL CHROMA new album 2023, Trisol album releases 2023, underground music, URANIUM new album 2023, URANIUM Pure Nuclear death, VESTRON VULTURE new EP 2023, Vestron Vulture you don't like real girls, WAYFARER American Gothic, WAYFARER new album 2023, YOBS debut EP 2023, YOBS Fortune Teller 2023, Young&Cold Records album releases 2023
We listened to 70 independent/underground releases during October 2023, and we were stunned by the debut singles/EP/albums during this month. 26 of these 70 releases form this monthly playlist and let us admit that there have been a few disappointing releases that did not make it despite our biased convictions that they would.
There are some big highlights here and I am not just referring to the customary October release by Nox Arcana who once again gave us a haunting gothic sonata to get us through Spooktober! Oliver Marson, whose intriguing stage presence we enjoyed recently at the 100 Club, released a very memorable, new wave, synthwave album entitled ‘Why Did I Choose This?‘. The overall sound of this album brings to mind equally the Psychedelic Furs and Japan and the melodies are addictive beyond belief. The lyrics also share some Bukowski qualities and are quite poetic and pop at the same time.
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums August 2023
Posted: 4th October 2023 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: ABU NEIN II, ABU NEIN new album 2023, aufnahme + wiedergabe album releases 2023, best coldwave releases 2023, best darkwave albums 2023, best experimental albums 2023, best new albums 2023, best post-punk albums 2023, best punk albums 2023, Bestial Mouths new album 2023, Bestial Mouths R.O.T.T.(inmyskin), Blackjack Illuminist Records album releases 2023, Blu Anxxiety MORBID NOW MORBID LATER, Blu Anxxiety new album 2023, Castles in Space album releases 2023, ceremonial music, Cold Transmission Music releases 2023, coldwave music, Dais Records releases 2023, dark music, darkwave music, debut releases, Drab Majesty An Object In Motion 2023, Drab Majesty new EP 2023, Epitafio y el Anima debut EP, Epitafio y el Anima First EP, experimental music 2023, felte album releases 2023, Film School Field, Film School new album 2023, Fuzz Club Records album releases 2023, InClub Records album releases 2023, independent music, Military Position new album 2023, Military Position Nothing Lasts Forever, Negative Gain Productions album releases 2023, new music 2023, Noromakina Dopamine, Noromakina new single 2023, Odd Nosdam End Is Important, Odd Nosdam new album 2023, PiL End of World 2023, PiL new album 2023, progress Productions album releases 2023, punk music, self released music, the Cold Field new single 2023, the Cold Field Quiet on the border, The Underground Youth new album 2023, The Underground Youth Nostalgia's Glass, Toxic Waste records album releases 2023, Twilight Sequence debut album 2023, Twilight Sequence Outline of Nature, underground music, Urfaust new album 2023, Urfaust Untergang, Van Records album releases 2023, VEiiLA Can't Forgive Myself, VEiiLA new EP 2023, Vlimmer new album 2023, Vlimmer Zerschoepfung, Where To Now? Records album releases 2023
August is traditionally a calmer month when it comes to music releases but this one had some significant highlights which are hard to bypass. The return of PiL 8 years after the release of their previous studio album ‘What The World Needs Now’ with a punk gem that brings in some subtle Belgian coldwave elements too. ‘End Of World‘ is the bone-cracking title of the band’s latest offering ahead of the celebration of their 45th anniversary with a gig at O2 Forum Kentish Town.
Interview-Misfortunes
Posted: 26th November 2022 by blaue-rosen in Live reviews,InterviewsTags: band interview, best post punk albums 2022, darkwave band, darkwave music, interviews, Misfortunes interview, new band, post punk band, post-punk music
“Misfortunes can act as driving forces to pursue something better or to drag you down with them. I like that contradiction.”
It is quite hard to describe the feeling of coming across a band that reminds you of the qualities you value so much in music and which are somehow, lately, been set a little bit aside but most bands. This was the feeling since we came across the latest release by Misfortunes entitled ‘Brilliant Endings‘. This is a band that shines bright in the gloomy synthwave sonic universe. In fact, we were so touched by the melancholic melodies and the poetic lyrics that it became imperative that we talked with the musician behind this brilliant project, Ioakim Vasiliadis.We talked about the band’s beginning, the songs, the collaborators and the future.
Monthly playlist-Favourite albums October 2022
Posted: 22nd November 2022 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Artoffact Records album releases 2022, BAD WAITRESS new single 2022, BAD WAITRESS Racket Simulator, best coldwave releases 2022, best darkwave albums 2022, best downtempo albums 2022, best electronic albums 2022, best IDM albums 2022, best neoclassical albums 2022, best post-punk music 2022, best psych rock albums 2022, best punk albums 2022, Black Hill Records album releases 2022, Black Lips Apocalypse Love, Black Lips new album 2022, BLVCK CEILING LITE, Cold Spring album releases 2022, COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC album releases 2022, coldwave music, Cousin Silas & The Glove of Bones new album 2022, Cousin Silas&The Glove of Bones New Runes 2022, Crisis Man Asleep in America, Crisis Man debut album 2022, Crystalline Stricture new album 2022, Crystalline Stricture The Mountain, darkwave music, debut albums 2022, downtempo music, electronic music 2022, Erased Tapes album releases 2022, experimental music 2022, Fire Records album releases 2022, Fleurejak Dissonant Affair 2022, Fleurejak new single 2022, FOOLISH RECORDS album releases 2022, Girls in Synthesis new album 2022, Girls In Synthesis The Rest Is Distraction, Heavenly album releases 2022, IAMTHESHADOW new album 2022, IAMTHESHADOW The Wide Starlight, IDM music, IDM music 2022, INNOCENT BUT GUILTY AND FRIENDS 413, INNOCENT BUT GUILTY AND FRIENDS compilation 2022, Midnight Mannequin Records album releases 2022, Monolith Graphics album releases 2022, MZ412 Malfleitor, MZ412 new album 2022, neoclassical music, new albums 2022, new music 2022, Nox Arcana DARKFALL, Nox Arcana new album 2022, Other Voices new album 2022, Other Voices Under Control 2022, Own It Music album releases 2022, Panic Priest new album 2022, Panic Priest PSYCHOGORIA, post punk albums 2022, psych rock music, punk music 2022, Ritual Dictates new album 2022, Ritual Dictates No Great Loss, Rival Consoles new album 2022, Rival Consoles Now Is, Rocket Recordings album releases 2022, self-released albums 2022, Shit and SHine new album 2022, Shit and Shine New Confusion, Submarine Broadcasting Company album releases 2022, SUIR new album 2022, SUIR Not All Of Your Pain Is Self Chosen, SwissDarkNights album releases 2022, the beka new single 2022, the beka sonic pluck, The Cult new album 2022, The Cult Under The Midnight Sun, The Orielles new album 2022, The Orielles Tableau, This Charming Man Records album releases 2022, TONN Recordings album releases 2022
It is always the melancholic, the eerie and the mysterious elements in music that tell the most interesting stories. We embrace Autumn and the coming Winter with a soundtrack for a dance bizarre of ghosts – real or imaginary – and creatures of the night. This month, our favourite independent music releases covered the punk, IDM, ethereal, neoclassical, downtempo and rock dimensions of the sonic spectrum. We particularly salute the beautiful come back of The Cult with a release of their new album entitled ‘Under The Midnight Sun’ as well as the new offering by Nox Arcana – ‘Darkfall’, like clockwork in time for the celebration of Samhain.
Monthly playlist- Favourite albums August 2022
Posted: 22nd September 2022 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: Avalanche Recordings album releases 2022, BABY COOL debut single 2022, BABY COOL Magic, BAMBOLABUIO BORDELLOBUIO, BAMBOLABUIO new EP 2022, Bat-Cave Productions album releases 2022, best industrial music albums 2022, best post punk albums 2022, best psych rock albums 2022, Black Verb Records album releases 2022, BOLTORN Dodsverk, BOLTORN new album 2022, COLD TRANSMISSION MUSIC album releases 2022, darkwave albums 2022, darkwave music, deathbed tapes album releases 2022, debut albums 2022, Dependent album releases 2022, Detriti Records album releases 2022, dream pop albums 2022, dream pop music, Edley ODowd F[OUR]WARD, Edley ODowd new album 2022, Exit Electronics LEARN THE HARD WAY, Exit Electronics new album 2022, Expose Your Eyes, FUZZ Club Records album releases 2022, Grotto Terraza new album 2022, Grotto Terrazza Kalte Ko, Hammock Music album releases 2022, Heilung Drift, Heilung new album 2022, Hream Recordings album releases 2022, INCIRRINA Lip Led Scream, INCIRRINA new album 2022, independent music, Lumenette All Around My Head, Lumenette new album 2022, maple death records album releases 2022stlichkeiten, Merry Bloom debut album 2022, Merry Bloom Fleurs Etranges, new albums 2022, new music 2022, noise music 2022, Otolythe album releases 2022, psych rock music, Russian Circles GNOSIS, Russian Circles new album 2022, Sargent House album releases 2022, Season of Mist album releases 2022, SPECTRA*Paris Modernism, SPECTRA*Paris new album 2022, T.G.T.B new album 2022, T.G.T.B stockholm soul, TESCO Germany album releases 2022, the FLATFIELD new album 2022, the FLATFIELD the shadow self, The New Emphatic and Astrid Bjӧrklund new album 2022, The New Emphatic and Astrid Bjӧrklund Soundtrack to an Untold Story, underground music, Wet Satin 2022, Wet Satin debut album 2022
The acceptance of a condition described by the word ‘bizarre’ must come when enveloped by a sinister soundscape. The dreamy state that ensues after such an acceptance should have elements of hypnotic psychedelia. You must listen to this playlist for two reasons: it contains an ancient curse set to music and one of the strangest, more obscure and obscene releases of the year so far. We are of course referring to the new album ‘Drift‘ by Heilung and the crazy release entitled ‘BORDELLOBUIO‘ by BAMBOLABUIO.
Monthly playlist- Favourite albums January 2022
Posted: 20th February 2022 by blaue-rosen in Music News,press releasesTags: best coldwave music 2022, best music 2022, BIOPHON Records album releases 2022, Biosphere new album 2022, Biosphere Shortwave Memories, blac kolor 24U Vol.09, blac kolor new ep 2022, Black Holes Are Cannibals new album 2022, Black Holes Are Cannibals Surfacer, Blackjack Illuminist Records releases 2022, Cardinal Fuzz album releases 2022, Chicago Research album releases 2022, Dalibor Cruz 21 De Agosto Macaruya, Dalibor Cruz new album 2022, dark folk music 2022, darkwave albums 2022, darkwave music, Datura Arcano Chemical, DATURA new album 2022, Empusae new album 2022, Empusae Praeter, experimental music 2022, French Police Club De Vampiros, French Police new single 2022, History of Leather new album 2022, History of Leather Work, Hollow Columns new album 2022, Hollow Columns Walls, IDM music 2022, independent albums 2022, Maya Shenfeld In Free Fall, Maya Shenfeld new album 2022, Megan Henderson new album 2022, Megan Henderson Pilgrim Souls, Morosinthe ETERNALREALM 2022, MOROSINTHE new album 2022, new music 2022, No Devotion Records album releases 2022, No Domestic Pulse 2022, No new album 2022, Nonesuch Records album releases 2022, post punk albums 2022, Punch Brothers Hell on Church Street, Punch Brothers new album 2022, self-released albums 2022, Sell the heart records album releases 2022, Thirteenth Records album releases 2022, Thrill Jockey album releases 2022, TONN Recordings album releases 2022, Vlimmer Erdgeruch / Space Dementia, Vlimmer new EP 2022
Are black holes cannibals or is the universe a cannibal? This monthly playlist aims at taking you on an experimental, dark sonic meditational journey that leaves the mind with a numbing sensation and the soul with a difficult-to-satisfy ‘hunger’. Starting off inside melodic and dark IDM sonic spaces, we are offering a trip into dark ambient, heavy psych rock, post-punk, coldwave soundscapes which ends on the top of a hill filled with Scottish folk melodies.
We were particularly excited for having Empusae‘s latest offering on this playlist, ‘Praeter‘, coming three years after his previous release. ‘Walls‘ the new release by Hollow Columns alongside Maya Shenfeld‘s ‘In Free Fall‘, added the dark ambient, poetic and cryptic tone that this conceptually obscure playlist needed in order to properly place itself in the realm of dark music. Further along, Vlimmer‘s new EP made us want to remind ourselves of the music of Diary of Dreams, while Biosphere‘s fascination with 70s post-punk electronics and the way this was translated into an improvisational psychedelia was a particularly fascinating moment during the creation of this playlist.
We hope you enjoy this playlist as much as we enjoyed making it.