Congratulations to genCAB for cracking the Top Ten of 2022 on I Die : You Die! There are a lot of amazing, eclectic bands all over from the gothic industrial / darkwave communities. So this is super cool to see!!
Check the link for the full list
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Thanks to I Die:You Die!
Dear Friends,
One of our favorite writers, Dave Cromwell from New York has a blog, Dave Cromwell Writes where he does some of the more well thought out content on music around. Please check out the link below to read Dave’s piece.
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Recently one of our bands, Derision Cult was interviewed by Tattoo.com. They talked about the new release, Mercenary Notes Pt. 1, upcoming plans and tattoos! Check it out below!
Click here for the interview on Tattoo.com….
For more information:
https://www.facebook.com/300southdungeon
https://derisioncult.bandcamp.com/album/mercenary-notes-pt-1
Darkwave/goth rock band, Raven Said was recently featured on Onyx Music Reviews for their new EP, ‘Chants To Dissolve’. You can read the review below but we’d appreciate you going to their site and checking out their content.
https://bit.ly/3Vf0LVU – direct link to the review
In the City of Ekaterinburg, you will find gothic rockers, Raven Said, and October saw their new EP, Chants To Dissolve released by Moon Coil Media, plus they had the very talented Pete Burns (Kill Shelter) on mastering. Raven Said are Andrey Agapitov (vocals, guitar, bass, acoustic guitar) and Maria Agapitova (piano, synth, percussion).
The first track has a very interesting pulsating marrying of almost techno beats and gothic rock. There are sparkling synths with flourishing jangly guitar in “A Flowering And A Flattering“.”Transparent Sorrow” features the beautifully sensual vocals of Aeleth Kaven from La Scaltra, so very light and angelic in stark contrast to Agapitov’s deeper tones. This track reminded me of the bands coming out in the second goth wave of the early 90s.
Really amazing bass lines wander through “Except My Love For Her (Cold Desire Version)“. I dare you to forget the chorus as it pretty unique and a very sweet way to admit to being very much in love…..in a very goth way. There is such a violent life to “Srendi Vashtar“, from the guitar and the voracious electronics, to the urgently lowkey vocals spurred on by the smashing percussion. The last track is the shimmering “Immersive Waves” with the haunting guitars and vocals. The guitar work is simply delightful, tinkling like broken glass, over and over again.
Music brings us together like virtually nothing else on the planet. It can feed our souls and connect us on such a primal level. Raven Said are creating dark gothic rock that really is like broken glass, fragile and shinny but if you try to take them into your heart, you might slowly die from the way they cut you up…. or not. It is about depths you feel this style of music in your psyche. New and yet familiar to those of us that live our lives in black. Now there are Chants To Dissolve with, so the Raven Said.
Chants to Dissolve | Raven Said (bandcamp.com)
SMORG Magazine was kind enough to feature The Bleak Assembly and a review of their EP, We Become Strangers.
Here’s a screenshot of the article but we’d be grateful if you went to the site. They have a lot of great content – music reviews and such. Check Smorg Magazine HERE:
To grab the EP:
https://thebleakassembly.bandcamp.com/album/we-become-strangers
