Various – HONORIS III (Tribute To Bauhaus)Label: Unknown Pleasures Records – UPRGOLD022Format: CD, Limited EditionCountry: FranceReleased: 14 May 2022Style: Goth Rock After paying tribute to the musical work of Death In June and then to that of The Sisters Of Mercy, the third part of our HONORIS Tribute series is this time dedicated to the legendary British band BAUHAUS!Pioneers of post-punk and the goth-wave despite themselves. Haunted by the tutelary shadow of David Bowie and Brian Eno, truly post-punk with a touch of glam, lovers of German expressionism and European symbolism, the sound of Bauhaus knew how to combine dub basses, and acid guitars, sepulchral voices and hypnotic rhythms. Here…
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Chiron – The Sun Goes Down
Chiron – The Sun Goes DownLabel: Dark Vinyl Records – DV97Format: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: GermanyReleased: 14 Jan 2022Style: Darkwave After 7 years of silence, the Australian Darkwave/ PostPunk act CHIRON returns with a new album. Chiron is the brainchild of ex-IKON vocalist Michael Aliani, supported by Dino Molinaro (IKON) on bass and cello. In addition, Leanne Coe can be heard on saxophone for the first time.Influenced by groups like Joy Division and the early New Order, Michael left IKON in 1997 and started his project «Chiron».“The Sun goes Down” is certainly Chiron’s darkest and best release yet. Themes like isolation, loneliness and loss are the focus.Of course, typical PostPunk…
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Hekate – Sonnentanz
Hekate – SonnentanzLabel: Auerbach Tonträger – AB 027Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition, Reissue, DigipakCountry: GermanyReleased: 04 Nov 2011Style: Modern Classical, Neofolk A cornerstone of German Neofolk Originally released in 2000 by Well of Urd, “Sonnentanz”, the first album release by Hekate without limitation, became something of a cornerstone of German Neofolk. Conceptionally dedicated to the free spirit of the ‘Bündische Jugend’ (German youth movement) and the ‘Edelweißpiraten’ (Edelweiss pirates), Germany’s “lost youth” of the 1930s, Hekate’s music here is marked by a folkloric acoustic style that sets the standards for the years to come. This re-release is presented in a portrait-format Digipak including revised artwork and liner-notes and is limited…
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Replica – Languages Of Decay
Replica – Languages Of DecayLabel: Twilight RecordsFormat: CD, Album, DigipakCountry: ArgentinaReleased: 2007Style: Electro, Synth-pop Are you ready for a new journey to know the deep of this isolated souls? Replica is the new promisse of the southmarican scene. Between electro and dark music, Replica´s music bring to the listeners to a oscure pássage full of emotions, feelings and unforgetables songs. Languages of Dekay show us the two sides of the band: one more intense and depresive and the other more danceable and powerfull. Replica´s music could be called a duality music, for in the compositions we can find ( lyrically and musically speaking ) from dark and oppressive passages of…
