Special: Top 10 2018 - Wave album of the year

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Parent Category: Specials

Published: 16 January 2019

• Whispering Sons
• Anna von Hausswolff
• Special
• Minimal Wave
• Synth Pop
• Darkwave
• New Wave
• Dark Ambient
• Wave
• Dead Can Dance
• Top 10
• Ancient Methods
• Postpunk
• Inhalt
• Pure Ground
• Luminance
• Caustic Grip
• The Dancing Plague
• Villes Nouvelles
• I Tpame I Tvrame
• Synth Wave
• Dark Tech-House
• Electro Wave

It’s been a very prolific year for the so-called “Wave” genre. A lot of high quality releases but, oddly enough, few masterpieces. It is true that many major artists from this scene didn’t release any albums or EPs in 2018. As in previous years, there has been a growing penetration of the mainstream and of the indie-stream by musical or thematic elements coming from the Wave movement.

Special: Artists and their Tattoos - Stephen Voyce

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Parent Category: Specials

Published: 15 January 2019

• Special
• Tattoo
• VOYCE*
• Stephen Voyce

In our project we try to remove borders in music styles and continents. The only thing which is important is tattoo as art. We are very happy that today we have Stephen Voyce (formerly known as VOYCE*) as a guest; he is a Canadian/ Nigerian singer, songwriter, music producer and actor. He is first of all a musician who works in Hip-Hop / Pop and the first person from Canada who takes part in our project. I am appreciating this possibility very much and I am happy about the openness of Stephen by answering the question. You can check it out now by your own…

Special: Top 10 2018 - Guitar Dark Scene album of the year

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Published: 15 January 2019

• Still Patient?
• Battle Scream
• Special
• Gothic Rock
• Darkwave
• Neue Deutsche Härte
• Gothic Metal
• Top 10
• Guitar Dark Scene
• Postpunk
• Deathrock
• Gothabilly
• Cyber Metal
• Electro Metal
• Folk Metal
• Dark Cabaret
• Totenwald
• Sonsombre
• Shadow Image
• Fotocrime
• Creature Feature
• Dark Lake Whispers
• Ataraxia
• Your Ocean

The guitar part of the dark scene continues to blossom. A lot of new young projects have appeared, which surprise not only with the quality of the material, but also with unexpected stylistic combinations, the language of lyrics, own unique features and the talent of composing. As I have often said a lot of times before mastering and mixing could be bought, but talent and ability to compose music cannot.

CD Review: Neuroticfish - Antidoron

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Parent Category: CD/DVD reviews

Published: 14 January 2019

• CD Review
• Neuroticfish
• Synth Pop
• EBM
• Electronic
• Future Pop
• Antidoron

Artist: Neuroticfish
Album: Antidoron
Genre: Synth Pop / Future Pop / Electronic / EBM
Release Date: 14th December 2018
Label: Non Ordinary Record

Live Review: Architects - Düsseldorf 2019

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Parent Category: Concert Reviews

Published: 14 January 2019

• Concert Review
• Setlist
• Live
• Mitsubishi-Electric-Halle Düsseldorf
• Architects
• Beartooth
• Holy Hell
• Polaris

Mitsubishi Electric Hall, Düsseldorf, Germany
10th January 2019
Architects - “Holy Hell” Tour 2019 - Special guests: Beartooth, Polaris

One year after their celebrated Palladium gig with WHILE SHE SLEEPS and COUNTERPARTS, ARCHITECTS were once again delighting fans in Germany by paying them a visit at the Mitsubishi Electric Hall in Düsseldorf. This time, the British Metalcore icons from Brighton were accompanied by BEARTOOTH and POLARIS as support acts, as well as by a ton of new songs from their new album ‘Holy Hell’, which was released on November 9th,2018. All in all, this evening had everything you could wish for in terms of a good start into 2019.

Special: Top 10 2018 - Electronic Gothic album of the year

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Published: 11 January 2019

• L'âme Immortelle
• Kirlian Camera
• Coma Alliance
• Special
• Dream Pop
• Qntal
• Electro Goth
• Anna Lux
• Top 10
• Gothic Electro
• Synth Goth
• Dark-Trip-Wave
• Gothic Industrial
• Electro Folk
• Night Haze
• Sophya
• The Coventry
• Wind Atlas
• Sin + Seraphim

Going back to the middle of the 2000s, when I started creating such tops, I selected Electronic Gothic music into a separate top list, because it was a significant part of the dark scene. Then there were a lot of young projects and the old ones released albums quiet often, so they were worthy of the attention of the whole dark scene audience and not just fans of Synth Goth and Gothic Electro. It was the year 2018. The format genres of Electronic Gothic music became more and more rare.

Interview: Skunk Anansie - January 2019

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Parent Category: Interviews

Published: 09 January 2019

• Interview
• Skunk Anansie
• Mark Richardson
• 25LIVE@5

Interview with

Mark Richardson (Drums) from Skunk Anansie

To celebrate their 25th anniversary, the legendary SKUNK ANANSIE will release their new live album, ‘25LIVE@25’, via Republic Of Music on January 25, 2019. It combines the milestones of their career with the unbelievable live presence of the band. The album contains old and new live recordings, which the band’s long-time companion, Jeremy Wheatly, put together to create a new and unique concert experience. ‘25LIVE@25’ is not only the showcase of an incomparable career, but also shows the importance of SKUNK ANANSIE as a musical and cultural force. Their shows are a hurricane of energy, volume and personality. They call for becoming part of something big and impossible to resist.