July was a month dominated by singles whose aim was to prepare us for the full-length releases of the bands later in the year. It was also a month of increased experimentation with the boundaries of existing or perceived music genres. We salute the added ceremonial elements and the moments of psychedelia in the new album by Emptiness as well as the Jazz moments within the sound of English Heretic who describe the music as “Eight dark nightclubs of the soul and their music imagined and reimagined.”
We were utterly excited by the announcement of a new album by The Sick Man of Europe, appropriately teasing us with the release of a single with the evocative title ‘Negative Stimuli’. We were impressed by the debut EP of Horns of Abomination with its exciting combination of relentless muffled vocals and throbbing noisy guitar walls that destroy any boundaries between metal, industrial and noise. Finally a special mention is due to Feverdreamt who seem to have stepped out of their comfort zone to offer an album that celebrates darkwave melancholy and lyricism in the best way possible.
We hope you enjoy our playlist as much as we did preparing it!
Blaue Rosen 
What can be more exciting news than the release of a new album by SWANS? Well…the release of a new solo album by Peter Murphy, and the resurfacing of These New Puritans, Somatic Responses and DARKWOOD is the answer. If, like us, you enjoy music that could be considered mutually exclusive, and despite this, you can still identify the common thread that ties all of these albums together, then I think we need to sit down and have a beer with you 🙂
