To mark the 30th anniversary of not only Orkus! magazine, but also DEAD, there is now another volume of the esteemed cult figure.  As DEAD said: “Start the day with a smile – then you’ve got it behind you”.

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Whether Asp is going through a “hellish journey” or rather going on a “hellish journey” or has a “hellish journey” behind him – our interview in the July/August issue is definitely hellishly good. We talk to the master about which ASP song he would have played at his funeral, get reflective when it comes to […]

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Die Thrash Metal-Band VOID hat mit „Forbidden Morals“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist nach „Horrors of Reality“ (2022) das zweite Album der US-Amerikaner aus Louisiana und wird am 29. August 2025 via Shadow Kingdom erscheinen.

VOID Line-Up:
Aaron Landry – Drums
Gabe LeJeune – Guitars
Jackson Davenport – Vocals
Blake Adams – Bass
Chris Braune – Guitars

VOID „Forbidden Morals“ Tracklist
1. A Curse
2. Forbidden Morals
3. Gateways of Stone
4. Judas Cradle
5. Nine Blood Moons
6. Valeria
7. Apparition
8. By Silver Light
9. Return of the Phantom (Video bei YouTube)
10. Beneath… Lives the Impaler

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Die Sludge Metal-Band PIECE hat mit „Bastard Sword“ einen zweiten Track ihres kommenden Albums „Rambler’s Axe“ veröffentlicht. Es ist nach „Ancient Greed“ (2023) das zweite Album des des Trios aus Berlin und wird am 5. September 2025 via This Charming Man Records erscheinen.

„Rambler’s Axe“ wurde von Christoph Jakobs in den Mahnmal Studios aufgenommen und gemixt und von Will Killingsworth in den Dead Air Studios gemastert. Vorab gibt es auch einen Video-Clip zu „Demigod„.

PIECE „Rambler’s Axe“ Tracklist
01 Heria
02 Demigod (Video bei YouTube)
03 Bastard Sword (Audio bei Bandcamp)
04 Spheres
05 Hathol
06 Ramblers Axe
07 Owl Eyes
08 Serpentfolk Tyel

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Die finnische Alternative Metal-Band RELICON hat mit „Ephemeral Triumphs“ eine neue EP angekündigt. Release-Termin ist der 29. August 2025 via Wormholedeath. Vorab gibt es den Track „Demise 2“ zu hören.

RELICON Line-Up:
Antti-Pekka Meronen (guitars, keyboards, programming & vocals)
Mikko Kuhno (drums)
Tuukka Mauranen (bass)

RELICON „Ephemeral Triumphs“ Tracklist
01. Herstory
02. Join The Fray
03. Demise 2 (Audio bei YouTube)
04. Emergence

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MALTHUSIAN haben einen Plattenvertrag bei Relapse Records unterschrieben. Erstes Ergebnis der Zusammenarbeit ist das neue Album „The Summoning Bell“. Es erscheint am 8. August 2025. Mit „Eroded Into Superstition“ gibt es nun einen zweiten Vorab-Track.

Zuvor stellte die Death Metal-Band bereits den Titeltrack  mit einem Video vor:

MALTHUSIAN „The Summoning Bell“ Tracklist & Cover

1. Isolation
2. Red, Waiting
3. Between Dens and Ruins
4. The Summoning Bell (Video bei YouTube)
5. The Onset of the Death of Man
6. Eroded Into Superstition (Audio bei YouTube)
7. Amongst the Swarms of Vermin
8. In Chaos, Exult

MALTHUSIAN Line-up:

MB – Guitar & vocals
TMK – Guitar
FB – Bass
JK – Drums

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Die Doom-Death Metal-Band GOD’S FUNERAL hat mit „El Despertar Dels Morts“ ein neues Album angekündigt. Es ist das erste Album der Spanier, die davor eine Reihe von Splits und eine EP veröffentlicht haben.

„El Despertar Dels Morts“, das eine konzeptionelle Geschichte über den Ersten Weltkrieg enthält, in der sich Kriegsgeschichten mit eher persönlichen Geschichten vermischen, wurde von Drummer Sergi Laboria produziert und mit einem Cover-Foto von Carles Rius ausgestattet. Release-Termin ist der 15. August 2025 via Meuse Music Records. Vorab gibt es den Titeltrack zu hören.

GOD’S FUNERAL Line-Up:
Abel Lara – Bass and vocals
Sergi Laboria – Drums
Iban Morales – Guitars

GOD’S FUNERAL „El Despertar Dels Morts“ Tracklist
1. Ara Que Torna El Silenci
2. Itaca
3. La Processó De Les Ombres
4. El Despertar Dels Morts (Audio bei Bandcamp)
5. Fossa Comuna

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Die Heavy Rock / Modern Metal-Band ALPHA DESTROYER hat den Titeltrack ihres kommenden Albums „Fast Lane“ als Video-Clip veröffentlicht.

Es ist der erste Release der US-Amerikaner rund um Sänger Martin Sweet (CRASHDÏET, SWEET CREATURE) und wird im Herbst via Necromantic Press Records erscheinen. Produziert wurde das Album von Gitarrist Kevin Hahn (SLEEPLESS),

ALPHA DESTROYER Line-Up:
Eric Sexton-Dorsett
Martin Sweet
Kelly Lemieux
Ryan McPhaill
Kevin Hahn

ALPHA DESTROYER „Fast Lane“ Tracklist
1 – Straight Into the Grind
2 – Masterplan
3 – Dirt in the Ground
4 – Lobotomized
5 – Transmission
6 – Fast Lane (Video bei YouTube)
7 – Sweet Dreams From Oblivion
8 – Manic Messiah
9 – Conspiracy
10 – The Prophet

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Mit „Whispers of War“ wird am 25. Juli 2025 das neue Album der Melodic Death / Power Metal-Band CRIMSON SHADOWS erscheinen. Es ist nach „Glory on the Battlefield“ (2012) und „Kings Among Men“ (2014) das dritte Album der Kanadier aus Toronto.

„Whispers of War“ wurde von Christian Donaldson (CRYPTOPSY) produziert und mit einem Cover-Artwork von Péter Sallai (BORNHOLM) ausgestattet.

CRIMSON SHADOWS Line-Up:
Jimi Maltais – Lead Harsh Vocals
Greg Rounding – Clean Vocals and Guitar
Ryan Hofing – Guitar
Cory Hofing – Drums
Alex Snape – Bass

CRIMSON SHADOWS „Whispers of War“ Tracklist
1. Dawn of an Age (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
2. Guardians (Video bei YouTube)
3. Defenders of the Crown (Video bei YouTube)
4. Whispers of War (Video bei YouTube)
5. The Legacy of Steel
6. Battle Hard 2; Battle Harder
7. Secrets of our Time
8. Embrace the Fire
9. Rise of the Fallen

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Die Folk Metal-Band BALT HÜTTAR hat den Titeltrack ihres kommenden Albums „Tanzerloch“ als Video-Clip veröffentlicht. Inspiriert von einer lokalen Legende aus dem Roana-Gebiet, erzählt der Song die Geschichte eines Mannes, der während eines Hexensabbats in einem mysteriösen Sinkkasten verschwindet und dort auf eine Welt von Geistern, Schatten und uralten Kräften trifft. Gesungen in Italienisch und Cimbro – einer seltenen mittelalterlichen germanischen Sprache, die noch in einigen Berggemeinden Norditaliens gesprochen wird.

„Tanzerloch“ ist nach „Trinkh met miar“ (2018) das zweite Album der Italiener aus dem Gebiet der Altopiano dei Sette Comuni in Venetien und wurde von Christian Zecchin (u.a. für KANSEIL tätig) produziert. Release-Termin ist der 12. September 2025 via Rockshots Records.

BALT HÜTTAR Line-Up:
Ilaria Vellar: diatonic accordion, piano accordion, keyboards, vocals
Jonathan Pablo Berretta: vocals, flutes
Mattia Pivotto: guitar, Irish bouzouki, flutes, bagpipes, bodhrán, tagelharpa, vocals
Nicola Pavan: bass
Federico Rebeschini Sambugaro: drums

BALT HÜTTAR „Tanzerloch“ Tracklist
01. An Naüjez Lant
02. Ghebar Khriegan
03. Vaia – ´Z Gadénkhe
04. Dar Aatom me Pèrge
05. Gakhrieget Lant
06. Il Minatore
07. Grésatar Stòan
08. 1310
09. Prüdare Liebe
10. Tin Tan Nona
11. Tanzerloch (Video bei YouTube)

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Mit „Death Etiquette“ wird am 25. Juli 2025 via Redefining Darkness Records das neue Album der Thrash / Death Metal-Band ATOMIC WITCH erscheinen. Es ist nach „Crypt of Sleepless Malice“ (2022) das zweite Album der US-Amerikaner aus Cleveland.

„Death Etiquette“ wurde von Noah Buchanan in den Mercinary Studios in Cleveland produziert und mit einem Cover-Artwork von Chad Keith ausgestattet. Vorab gibt es den Track „Of Flesh & Chrome“ zu hören.

ATOMIC WITCH Line-Up
Greg Martinis – Vocals
Jesse Shattuck – Guitar / Vocals
Jonah Meister – Guitar
David McJunkins – Bass
Nick Amato – Drums

ATOMIC WITCH „Death Etiquette“ Tracklist
1. Morgue Rat
2. Of Flesh & Chrome (Audio bei Bandcamp)
3. Worms & Dirt
4. Dream Rot
5. Sabbath Breaker
6. Death Edging
7. Skelecidal
8. Vicious Mistress

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Die Doom-Death Metal-Band SORROWFUL LAND hat mit dem Lyric-Video zu „Unreachable“ eine erste Single ihres kommenden Albums „Hiraeth“ veröffentlicht. Es ist das vierte Album des ukrainischen Solo-Künstlers Maksym Molodtsov, der sich beim Gesang Unterstützung von Stefan Nordström (SOLILOQUIUM, DESOLATOR) holte. Release-Termin ist der 12. September 2025 via Meuse Music Records.

SORROWFUL LAND „Hiraeth“ Tracklist
1. The Day Is Past And Gone
2. Unreachable (Lyric-Video bei YouTube)
3. Dark Trinity (feat. Henrik Ekholm)
4. Astray
5. In Times Of Endless Nights
6. The Silent Slumber
7. Hiraeth

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Ever present while unavailable 
My glass half empty 
Yours half full 
You got me acting irrational 
The Charlatans‘ new album, We Are Love, is set to arrive just in time for Halloween…a fitting date for a record tinged with memory, renewal, and spectral significance. Following a busy live schedule that included a 2023 North American co-headline tour with Ride and a 2024 series of anniversary shows celebrating their second album, Between 10th and 11th, the band is back with renewed energy. Eight years have passed since the release of their last album, *Different Days*, in 2017. Their lead single and title track from the forthcoming 14th album, “We Are Love,” showcases this vibrant revival..

From the opening moments, We Are Love is an invigorating collision of post-punk drumbeats and jangly indie rock guitar lines: a love letter to existence itself, spirited and direct.  Lyrically, We Are Love reflects a contemplative yet hopeful spirit, navigating themes of uncertainty, the weight of decisions, and contrasting perspectives on life. There’s an enduring optimism in facing darkness, a communal striving for truth and reconciliation amidst chaos. It revels in the complexity of human relationships, celebrating language as a healing force, a bridge across divides, and a gesture toward the profound power of mutual acceptance and love.

Frontman Tim Burgess describes the track, one of the first to materialize for the album, as akin to “an open top car ride in the credits of your favourite movie, driving along the coast to somewhere amazing,” a vivid image that perfectly captures its buoyant optimism. “I think it’s wildly exciting as a track,” Burgess told NME. “I could imagine it being a euphoric, transcendent moment. I think great tracks have that transcendence to them, so that’s what I was looking for.”

“Early on we thought it felt right,” adds guitarist Mark Collins. “And it turned out that way: first single, title track, second song on the album. There was a certain energy to it that drove us forwards.”

Returning to record at Rockfield Studios in Wales for the first time in nearly three decades, The Charlatans confronted echoes of their past, particularly the tragic loss of keyboardist Rob Collins in 1996 during the making of Tellin’ Stories.

“The whole idea of hauntology and psychogeography is represented by us going back to Rockfield,” Burgess remarks. “That was important as a way of honoring every member who’s played in the band. So we’re honouring ourselves, our past, feeling that energy and reincarnating it, doing something fresh, brand new.”

The song comes with a psychedelic lyric visualizer of the band in various photographs.

The production team, including the incisive vision of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Fred MacPherson (Spector), and iconic producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur), enriches We Are Love with layered nuance and impeccable clarity. The Charlatans sound rejuvenated, gracefully balancing introspection and exuberance without slipping into sentimentality.

Ultimately, We Are Love is The Charlatans reclaiming their vitality, a confident stride forward anchored by respect for their storied past. It’s music that celebrates the immediacy of now, an effervescent affirmation that, even after decades in the game, The Charlatans still have something urgent and meaningful to say.

Listen to We Are Love below and pre-order the album here.

The Charlatans have unfurled plans for a December UK tour, headlining shows in Leeds, Stoke, Bath, London, Manchester and Glasgow.

Tickets go on general sale at 10 am BST on Friday, the 18th of July.

UK Tour Dates:

6 December – Leeds, O2 Academy
7 December – Stoke, Victoria Hall
8 December – Bath, Forum
10 December – London, Roundhouse
11 December – Manchester, Academy
12 December – Glasgow, Barrowland

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Ever present while unavailable 
My glass half empty 
Yours half full 
You got me acting irrational 
The Charlatans‘ new album, We Are Love, is set to arrive just in time for Halloween…a fitting date for a record tinged with memory, renewal, and spectral significance. Following a busy live schedule that included a 2023 North American co-headline tour with Ride and a 2024 series of anniversary shows celebrating their second album, Between 10th and 11th, the band is back with renewed energy. Eight years have passed since the release of their last album, *Different Days*, in 2017. Their lead single and title track from the forthcoming 14th album, “We Are Love,” showcases this vibrant revival..

From the opening moments, We Are Love is an invigorating collision of post-punk drumbeats and jangly indie rock guitar lines: a love letter to existence itself, spirited and direct.  Lyrically, We Are Love reflects a contemplative yet hopeful spirit, navigating themes of uncertainty, the weight of decisions, and contrasting perspectives on life. There’s an enduring optimism in facing darkness, a communal striving for truth and reconciliation amidst chaos. It revels in the complexity of human relationships, celebrating language as a healing force, a bridge across divides, and a gesture toward the profound power of mutual acceptance and love.

Frontman Tim Burgess describes the track, one of the first to materialize for the album, as akin to “an open top car ride in the credits of your favourite movie, driving along the coast to somewhere amazing,” a vivid image that perfectly captures its buoyant optimism. “I think it’s wildly exciting as a track,” Burgess told NME. “I could imagine it being a euphoric, transcendent moment. I think great tracks have that transcendence to them, so that’s what I was looking for.”

“Early on we thought it felt right,” adds guitarist Mark Collins. “And it turned out that way: first single, title track, second song on the album. There was a certain energy to it that drove us forwards.”

Returning to record at Rockfield Studios in Wales for the first time in nearly three decades, The Charlatans confronted echoes of their past, particularly the tragic loss of keyboardist Rob Collins in 1996 during the making of Tellin’ Stories.

“The whole idea of hauntology and psychogeography is represented by us going back to Rockfield,” Burgess remarks. “That was important as a way of honoring every member who’s played in the band. So we’re honouring ourselves, our past, feeling that energy and reincarnating it, doing something fresh, brand new.”

The song comes with a psychedelic lyric visualizer of the band in various photographs.

The production team, including the incisive vision of Dev Hynes (Blood Orange), Fred MacPherson (Spector), and iconic producer Stephen Street (The Smiths, Blur), enriches We Are Love with layered nuance and impeccable clarity. The Charlatans sound rejuvenated, gracefully balancing introspection and exuberance without slipping into sentimentality.

Ultimately, We Are Love is The Charlatans reclaiming their vitality, a confident stride forward anchored by respect for their storied past. It’s music that celebrates the immediacy of now, an effervescent affirmation that, even after decades in the game, The Charlatans still have something urgent and meaningful to say.

Listen to We Are Love below and pre-order the album here.

The Charlatans have unfurled plans for a December UK tour, headlining shows in Leeds, Stoke, Bath, London, Manchester and Glasgow.

Tickets go on general sale at 10 am BST on Friday, the 18th of July.

UK Tour Dates:

6 December – Leeds, O2 Academy
7 December – Stoke, Victoria Hall
8 December – Bath, Forum
10 December – London, Roundhouse
11 December – Manchester, Academy
12 December – Glasgow, Barrowland

Follow The Charlatans:

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Instagram 

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(Interview by Seba Dolimont) Star Industry is a New-Wave Gothic Rock band founded in 1996...

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(Interview by Seba Dolimont) It all began 3025 years ago on a distant planet… His...

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(Interview by Seba Dolimont) Brazilian scene protagonist Alex Twin (Wave Records) started working as a...

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  Friday, July 11 saw the release of “Eve Had the Metallica Shine of Summer,” the latest single from Baltimore-based dark electro artist Marie Ann Hedonia. Created in collaboration with Black Kite, the song presents a potent narrative on the debilitating effects of codependent relationships [..]

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  Russian artist Danek Lipko has signed with Somewherecold Records for the release of his debut album. Dedicating the album to his wife, Eclipsoid prsents nine tracks of ambient electronic excursions with a post-classical tone [..]

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  The “One Woman Army” of Ania Tarnowska – better known as I Ya Toyah – has been rigorously touring in celebration of her highly acclaimed DRAMA album. Now, she has unveiled a music video for the album’s concluding track, “Crashing Comet,” presenting an introspective and heartfelt tribute to the artist’s father [..]

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  More than four years since the Chicago duo’s last full-length album, HIDE has now announced the long-awaited Spit or Swallow Every Soul Will Taste Death. Helmed by the duo of Heather Hannoura and Seth Sher had first begun teasing the album late in 2024 [..]

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  From the gothic/noise rock outfit’s upcoming new album, Crippling Alcoholism has unveiled the lyric video for the “Pliers” single, which features a guest apperance by fellow experimental goth/rocker Juliet Gordon of Luxury Skin. Like the preceding “Mr. Sentimental” single, “Pliers” is wrought with the New England sextet’s punishing blend of darkly alluring melodies with oppressive and noisy ambience [..]

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  “What we’ve got here is… failure to communicate.” An iconic line from the 1967 cinema classic Cool Hand Luke that found a new life as it was sampled by Guns N’ Roses in the hard rock band’s hit single “Civil War.” Now, 3TEETH has unveiled a new rendition of the song, giving the anti-war protest song a freshly industrial/metal polish. [..]

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Veteran post-punk outfit Death Cult – the earlier, darker incarnation of The Cult — have announced a string of North American tour dates this fall. The October trek finds vocalist Ian Astbury and guitarist Billy Duffy revisiting their gothic roots on stage, with each night billed as “a communal gathering of the tribes featuring sets from Death Cult and The Cult”. Los Angeles art-rock outfit Patriarchy will serve as special guests on all dates.

For Astbury and Duffy, this tour is another celebratory nod to their band’s early 1980s origins. Death Cult was originally a “dark and primal” post-punk force formed in 1983 after the breakup of Southern Death Cult – essentially The Cult’s earlier iteration before the name change in 1984. The group’s early releases, including the Death Cult EP and the single “Gods Zoo,” became underground favorites that laid the foundation for The Cult’s signature sound, as showcased on 1984’s Dreamtime and beyond. After retiring the Death Cult moniker for decades, Astbury and Duffy resurrected it in late 2023 with a special one-off show in Los Angeles (coinciding with the 40th anniversary of “Gods Zoo”), followed by a brief U.K. tour – reintroducing the raw mystique and tribal rhythms of their formative years to a new era.

Death Cult at the Ace Theatre, October 23, 2023
This upcoming tour follows a series of high-profile appearances that have whetted fans’ appetites. In May, Death Cult played an intimate warm-up show at Los Angeles’s El Rey Theatre ahead of their much-anticipated set at Pasadena’s Cruel World Festival 2025. The band then crossed the Atlantic in June for the U.K.’s inaugural Forever Now festival, where they delivered a nostalgia-fueled performance of early classics (even capping the night with The Cult’s own hit “She Sells Sanctuary”) These well-received outings proved that Astbury and Duffy’s early material still resonates deeply – and set the stage for a broader North American gathering of the faithful.

Fans attending the Paradise Now dates can expect a journey through The Cult’s genesis. Recent Death Cult shows have featured setlists drawn not only from the 1983 Death Cult catalog, but also Southern Death Cult staples such as “Moya” and select tracks from The Cult’s first two albums (Dreamtime and 1985’s Love).

Tickets for all dates go on sale Friday, July 18, at 10:00 a.m. local time via the band’s official site.

Paradise Now North American Tour Dates:

Oct. 9, 2025 – Niagara Falls, ON @ OLG Stage at Fallsview Casino

Oct. 11, 2025 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre

Oct. 14, 2025 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre

Oct. 15, 2025 – Washington, DC @ Warner Theatre

Oct. 17, 2025 – Charlotte, NC @ Ovens Auditorium

Oct. 18, 2025 – Atlanta, GA @ Cobb Energy Center

Oct. 20, 2025 – Fort Worth, TX @ Will Rogers Auditorium

Oct. 21, 2025 – San Antonio, TX @ Majestic Theatre

Oct. 24, 2025 – Las Vegas, NV @ The Pearl (Palms Casino)

Oct. 25, 2025 – San Diego, CA @ The Sound (Del Mar)

Oct. 27, 2025 – San Francisco, CA @ The Warfield

Oct. 30, 2025 – Los Angeles, CA @ Shrine Auditorium

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WHISPERS IN THE SHADOW
„Rapture“
(Post Punk / Dark Rock)

Wertung: Gut+

VÖ: 13.06.2025

Label: Icy Cold Records

Webseite: Homepage / Facebook / Bandcamp

Der Österreichischen Formation gelingt es auf ihrem zwölften Studioalbum seltsam vertraut, dennoch erfrischend anders zu klingen. Bereits der straighte Opener „Resume the Pose“ lässt mit seiner schrägen Punk Attitüde aufhorchen. Ein wenig Ramones samt Count-up. Gleich ein überraschender Knalleffekt zu Beginn.

„Zealots“ holt uns mitten aus dem Pogo in eine sphärische, fast ambientartige Klanglandschaft, während die Gitarren schroff und rau die Szenerie durchdringenden. Klingt wie die experimentelle Seite der Cocteau Twins. Ashley erzählt fast schamanisch über religiösen Fanatismus, falsche Propheten und wenn der Glaube aus den Fugen gerät. Die musikalischen Strukturen sind verspielt mit einem latent krachigen Unterton. Dieser schlängelt sich geschickt durch verschiedenste Ecken und Kanten. „Illussion of Grandeur“ beherbergt zuweilen fast Britpoppige Elemente. Auch wenn die Gitarren mal etwas heftiger schreien und durchaus ein wenig Shoegaze verteilen, bleibt das Stück mit seinen romantischen Verzerrungen schön elegant. Ein Lied über einen verrückten König am Ende seiner Herrschaft – verloren in seinem zerfallenden Schloss, paranoid, wahnhaft und trunken von der Macht.

„Endure“ ist ein lärmender Moloch. Am Beginn erhebt sich ein vierminütiges, lautes Gitarrensolo. Beim Einsetzen des Gesangs ist der Hörer bereits tief versunken in das mediativ-exzessive Saiten-Getöse. Mit „From the Mouth of the Babes“ folgt ein verschnörkelt dunkler Song mit schleppend dahin gleitender Melancholie, dessen Fazien zum Finale hin auch mal aggressive Töne anspielen. Wunderschön, mit fast Gänsehaut-artiger Soundstruktur, welche im Mittelteil die Traurigkeit tröpfeln lässt und zudem mit einem fast sakralen Intermezzo überzeugt, erklingt das romantisch inspirierte „Mono Cryptical“

Ein wahrhaft monumentales Schlussepos ist das fast 12 minütige „Origin Story“. Ein durchdringendes Nachdenk-Stück voller intimer Emotionen, welche ein wenig den zerrissenen Gefühlsvorhang des Sängers mit feingesetzten Nadelstichen reparieren. Eine Meditation über Isolation, Versuchung und den ewigen Kampf zwischen Überzeugung und Korruption vor dem Hintergrund biblischer Bilder.

Fazit: Whispers in the Shadow veröffentlichen mit „Rapture“ ein, das dunkle Herz leicht zu verführendes Album. Dennoch gibt es diese sperrigen Attacken, die den Zugang und den Wohlfühlfaktor etwas erschweren. Im Gesamtkontext ist es aber ein atmosphärisch dicht konzipiertes Werk, welche die reichhaltigen Fans der letzten Jahre nicht nur textlich in ihren Bann ziehen wird. Die Saiten agieren straight und sezieren die Soundtrack-artigen Extravaganzen in ihre Einzelteile, welche von dem durchdringenden und mit jeder Faser mitleidenden/mitlebenden Gesang fast hypnotisch wieder zusammengefügt werden. Gerade Songs wie „Endure“ oder „Origin Story“ überzeugen trotz oder gerade wegen ihrer langen Spielzeit. Für in der heutigen Zeit sozialisierte Ohren und die damit verbundene kurze Auffassungsgabe macht es den Zugang nicht leicht, wenn aber darüber hinaus die Songs derart genial aufgebaut sind, dass sie derart viele Facetten offenbaren, hat man insgesamt ein durchgehend spannendes Musikerlebnis. Zu guter Letzt hält das Spielen mit Laut/Leise und dezent eingebaute Tempiwechsel den Spannungsbogen immer hoch.
„Rapture“ ist als Digital- und Digi-CD mit 12-seitigem Booklet und in limitierter Auflage auf Vinyl erhältlich. (andreas)

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Gianna  Gianna is the kind of shapeshifter who makes genre definitions feel quaint. In the last half‑decade alone, the Los Angeles performance artist has rattled club subs with industrial‑rap ruptures (“Unlocked”), purred over woozy trip‑hop (“Need Me”), and issued a morbidly sensual Valentine’s Day communiqué (“Man”). Her singles arrive like tarot cards pulled at random—each one a portent, never a prediction—and together they sketch an artist whose only constant is forward momentum. Some might call her polymath pop, while others will recognise in her work that familiar mix of hedonism, high‑art aspiration, and outright provocation. Either way, she’s a necessary antagonist in pop’s increasingly polite conversation.

Born in L.A. and raised for a time in suburban Orange County, Gianna Gianna (née Gianna Martinez) grew up toggling between choir rehearsals and parking‑lot cyphers. By her own reckoning, she is “a trained opera singer, dancer, rapper, filmmaker, writer—an all‑around artist”—an artist who also teaches pre‑school by day, because the candour of toddlers reminds her what unfiltered creativity looks like. The classical warm‑ups, the street‑dance drills, the punk shows she snuck into after curfew: each discipline left a fingerprint on the unruly pop collage she makes today.

At seventeen, she founded BLOK with brothers Damian Blaise and Jesse Saint John, a sibling unit that treated rap verses like arson and synths like blunt instruments. Within two years, BLOK had hoovered up five consecutive Orange County Music Awards and found themselves swapping backstage stories with Gwen Stefani and Snoop Dogg. When Peaches scouted Gianna out of a BLOK video and hauled her on tour, the band’s ascent stalled—but the detour unlocked a darker, stranger solo voice that BLOK’s electro‑rap shell couldn’t contain.

That voice is best encountered on stage, where Gianna treats her body as much as her mic like a percussive element. She refuses pre‑show rituals (no click‑tracks, no mirror pep‑talks), preferring to “be as organic and in the moment as possible.” Videos circulate of her leaping five feet into an accidental split, eyes rolled white, only to pop back up with the grin of someone who’s surprised even herself. It’s performance as self‑exorcism, the inverse of pop’s choreographed certainty; one observer marvelled that she seems “possessed by art.”

The pandemic year didn’t dampen that feral energy—it distilled it. February 2020’s “Unlocked” arrived on Manimal Vinyl as what American Pancake dubbed “electro anti‑pop pop destruction,” praising how its askew production “pushed idols off pedestals.” Gianna’s own explanation is fiercer: the track imagines femme deities worshipped, discarded, then reborn as agents of revenge. Follow‑ups “Beg,” “Enrapture,” and the insomnia‑anthem “Suffer” stretched the template outward—one eye toward the club, the other gouging at patriarchy’s soft underbelly. Apple Music now lists the 2020 run alongside the earlier outlier “Crown,” forming a body of work loud enough to drown the year’s creeping dread.

If “Unlocked” was a gauntlet slam, 2022’s “Man” was a confession whispered through cracked lipstick. Released on Valentine’s Day, the single, Gianna told Weirdo Music Forever, is about “my unwavering mortality consciousness…a morbid sexy V‑Day release.” Over glacial synth‑stabs, she sings not of romance but of entropy, seeking intimacy in the knowledge that every heartbeat is a slow clock toward oblivion. It’s pop as memento mori—Billie Holiday by way of Coil—and it confirms that Gianna’s flirtations are never merely carnal; they’re philosophical.

2023 completed an unofficial triptych: “Desolation,” “Collapse,” and “Need Me.” Each single arrives bone‑clean yet blood‑warm, foregrounding her operatic alto against beats that slither between trap tempo and no‑wave abrasion. On “Need Me” she sings like a dominatrix nursing a melancholy streak; on “Collapse” she loops a multi‑tracked choir that evokes Diamanda Galás if she’d grown up bingeing MTV’s Amp. These singles aren’t collected on an album—Gianna prefers the piecemeal model, a drip‑feed that denies the critic’s urge to box her into an “era.”



The guest list around Gianna reads like a Venn diagram of cult heroes. Peaches drafted her as a dancer before inviting her to open solo sets; the late Genesis P-Orridge offered spiritual kinship; Deerhoof shared bills where time signatures bent like Salvador Dalí clocks; Charli XCX tapped brother Jesse Saint John for hooks that trickled back into Gianna’s universe. Debbie Harry cameoed Gianna in a video, Margaret Cho staged a make-out scene, and David LaChapelle suspended her in a surreal Coca-Cola ad. Gianna’s network proves the old avant-garde adage: stay weird long enough and the mainstream will come knocking.

What unites the disparate threads—opera warm-ups, rap cadences, no-wave feedback, pre-school pedagogy—is a refusal to obey genre, gender, or even gravity. Paper dubbed her “already your favourite artist’s favourite artist,” while American Pancake calls her a “living, breathing work of avant‑garde art.” On stage, she reclaims outbursts as a feminist tool; on record, she sculpts pop hooks from the debris. She’s proof that when the industry builds a box, there’s always at least one artist limber enough to somersault out of it, land in the splits, and keep singing.



Beyond performing, Gianna curates Gianna Gianna Presents…, a monthly radio rendezvous on KCHUNG Radio 1630AM. Beaming from LA’s Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the show dives into insightful chats and carefully curated musical selections, streaming globally via KCHUNGRADIO.org on the MOCA channel, archived for future indulgence. Upcoming episodes are slated for July 30th (3-5 pm), August 29th (3-5 pm), and thereafter every fourth Saturday from 2-4 pm.

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Gianna Gianna will also be performing live on July 31 at 8 pm at The Three Clubs in Hollywood.

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The Detect Festival is a unique music festival held annually in Fahrenwalde, Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Germany,...

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Alter Schlachthof, Dresden , Germany 13th July 2025The Hooters - “45 ALIVE - 45th Anniversary Tour 2025” Even after 45 years, THE HOOTERS are still a fantastic live band that can captivate their audiences from the very first song. It was a wonderful evening with the band. As always, the fans clapped enthusiastically to many of the songs, and of course, they sang along to many of them too.

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Nach der Trennung von Der Schulz haben Unzucht nun einen neuen Plattenvertrag unterschrieben und ein neues Album für 2026 angekündigt. Alle Infos hier!

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Das Stockholer Duo FRUSEN SORG präsentiert seine EP „Jag Springer Med Avbrutna“ mit der Single „En Kall Famn“ – das Stück folgt auf den ersten Höreindruck „Bort„.

Erscheinen wird die Platte am 25. Juli 2025 via Fiadh Productions / Void Sound  auf Kassette. Die Digital-Fassung ist via Widsith Records erhältlich.

FRUSEN SORG „Jag Springer Med Avbrutna“ Tracklist

Att Slippa Bli Älskad
Bort (Audio bei bandcamp)
En Kall Framn (Audio bei YouTube)
Jag Är En Dålig Idé
Min Vän Paniken

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AWAKE THE DREAMER melden sich mit neuer Single zurück: Zu „Save You“ hat die Band auch ein Video gedreht.

Die vorherige Veröffentlichung „Years Begin To Fade“ gibt es ebenfalls als Clip bei YouTube zu sehen. Es ist der erste Track mit runderneuertem Line-up, wie Sänger Max Andrén erklärt, der aber sonst mit genaueren Einzelheiten zurückhält.

Derzeit arbeiten die Schweden an ihrem dritten Studioalbum, das via Arising Empire erscheinen soll.

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Neue Musik aus dem Hause HALESTORM: Die Hard Rock-Band um Sängerin Lzzy Hale veröffentlicht ihre neue Platte „Everest“ am 8. August 2025 via Atlantic Records. Die dritte Single-Auskopplung „Rain Your Blood On Me“ ist nun auf allen gängigen Streaming-Portalen zu hören.

Ende Mai haben HALESTORM ein Video zum Titeltrack geteilt.

Den ersten Track „Darkness Always Wins“ gibt es als Audiostream bereits seit Ende April auf allen gängigen Plattformen vor. Einen Visualizer gibt’s darüber hinaus bei YouTube.

Frontfrau Lizzy Hale kommentiert:

„’Darkness Always Wins‘ ist weder ein Song der Hoffnung noch ein Song der Verzweiflung. Es ist die Realität. Die Geschichte wiederholt sich. Das Böse siegt und die Guten gehen zuerst. Aber wir sind nicht verloren, solange wir nicht aufgeben und weiterkämpfen. Der Krieg wird vielleicht nicht in diesem Leben gewonnen. Aber unsere Mission ist es, die Fackel weiterzureichen, damit diejenigen, die nach uns kommen, etwas haben, wofür sie kämpfen können.“

Im Frühjahr 2025 sind HALESTORM im Vorprogramm von IRON MAIDEN zu sehen, spielen aber am 3. Juni 2025 auch eine Headline-Show in Leipzig (Felsenkeller).

HALESTORM „Everest“ Artwork

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Ein Muss für Fans: Saltatio Mortis "Weltenwanderer"-Bundle mit Deluxe 7″-Vinyl-Single mit Lyric-Inlay im Kasten-Sleeve. Streng limitiert auf 499 Exemplare in 3 Farben und nur bei uns erhältlich! Kommt mit Sonic Seducer 09/2025 inklusive Saltatio Mortis “Weltenwanderer”-Titelstory + Exklusiv-CD-Track.

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Die Atmospheric / Post Black Metal-Band JORD stellt ihr neues Album „Emellan Träden“ nach dem Video „King Of The Night“ mit einer zweiten Single vor: „Dimma“ bei YouTube.

„Emellan Träden“ ist das vierte Album der Formation und erscheint am 5. September 2025 via Hammerheart Records.

JORD „Emellan Träden“ Tracklist
1. Stay
2. Hon Kallar
3. King of the Night (Video bei YouTube)
4. Dimma (Audio bei YouTube)
5. Vid Muren
6. Prinsessan och Hästen
7. Den Brandgula Salen
8. The Grave and Chain
9. Bortom Tundran (CD Bonustrack)

JORD Line-up 2025
Jörgen “Jurg” Ström: Vocals, Bass, Clean Guitar, Keyboards
Sebastian “Hravn” Svedlund: Rythm guitars, Solo Guitar
Stefan “Jansson” Jansson: Drums

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Ihr zweites Studioalbum haben PEACE OF MIND angekündigt. Die Hardcore-Band stellt ihr neuestes Werk mit einem Lyric-Video zu „Death is Upon Us“ vor.

Auch ein Video zum Titeltrack „Blood Is The Price“ ist online verfügbar.

Produziert wurde die Platte von Taylor Young; erscheinen wird „Blood Is The Price“ am 5. September 2025 via Blood Blast. Anschließend geht die Band im Oktober 2025 auf Tournee. Im Vorprogramm mit dabei sind RISK IT!, FIRESTARTER sowie SLOW BURN.

PEACE OF MIND „Blood Is The Price“ Tracklist
1. Burned Alive
2. Blood Is The Price feat. Jem Siow (Speed) (Video bei YouTube)
3. Born To Lose
4. Death Is Upon Us (Video bei YouTube)
5. Fear Shapes All
6. Seek The Light
7. Bite The Bullet
8. Hypocrite feat. Emely Finke (Blossom Decay)
9. Cut The Rope (2025) feat. Gregor Leskey (Risk It)
10. Peace Of Mind (2025)

PEACE OF MIND, RISK IT!, FIRESTARTER, SLOW BURN Tourdaten 2025

OCT 02 SIEGEN (GERMANY) VORTEX
OCT 03 BIRMINGHAM (UNITED KINGDOM) MUTHERS STUDIO
OCT 04 LEEDS (UNITED KINGDOM) DON FEST
OCT 05 LONDON (UNITED KINGDOM) NEW CROSS IN
OCT 06 KORTRIJK (BELGIUM) DVG CLUB
OCT 07 PARIS (FRANCE) TBA
OCT 08 SOLOTHURN (SWITZERLAND) KOFMEHL
OCT 09 BELVAL (LUXEMBOURG) MK BAR
OCT 10 MÖNCHENGLADBACH (GERMANY) PROJEKT 42
OCT 11 ERFURT (GERMANY) MIDEAST BLOOD HC FEST
OCT 12 NÜRNBERG (GERMANY) KUNSTVEREIN
OCT 17 HAMBURG (GERMANY) SIN CITY MOSH FEST
OCT 18 HERLEEN (NETHERLANDS) RISE OR DIE FEST

PEACE OF MIND Line-up 2025
Louis Wittmann – vocalist
David Stolzmann – guitarist
Patrick Stolzmann – bassist
Patrick Eichhorn – drummer

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Neue Musik kündigen HAMMER KING an: Die Heavy / Power Metal-Band bringt ihr Album „Make Metal Royal Again“ am 15. August 2025 via Reaper Entertainment auf den Markt. Ein Clio zu „King For A Day“ verkürzt die Wartezeit bis zum Release.

Den Titeltrack stellt die Band nun mit einem Video vor: „Make Metal Royal Again“ bei YouTube.

Die Platte folgt auf „König und Kaiser“ (2024) und ist zugleich das Studiodebüt des neuen Schlagzeugers Count Shandorian.

Produziert wurde „Make Metal Royal Again“ von Charles Greywold sowie Titan Fox V, für Mix und Mastering zeichnet Jacob Hansen verantwortlich. Das Artwork wiederum gestaltete Péter Sallai.

HAMMER KING „Make Metal Royal Again“ Tracklist
01. King For A Day (Video bei YouTube)
02. Make Metal Royal Again (Video bei YouTube)
03. Schlaf Kaiser schlaf
04. Hammerschlacht
05. For Crown And Kingdom
06. Kneel Before The Throne
07. Major Domus
08. Hoheitsgebiet
09. Hell Awaits The King
10. The Last Kingdom
CD-Digi-Bonus:
11. Danger Zone

HAMMER KING „Make Metal Royal Again“ Artwork

HAMMER KING Line-up 2025
Titan Fox V – Gesang & Gitarre
Gino Wilde – Gitarre
Günt von Schratenau – Bass
Count Shandorian – Schlagzeug

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Metalcore aus Australien: TERMINAL SLEEP stehen ab sofort bei Nuclear Blast unter Vertrag und feiern die Zusammenarbeit mit der neuen Standalone-Single „They Circle Below„.

Sängerin Bec Thorwesten kommentiert die Nummer:

„Der Song behandelt den inneren Kampf mit Selbstzweifeln und dem erdrückenden Druck selbst gesetzter Erwartungen – den Weg durch mentale Turbulenzen, bei dem der einzige Ausweg mitten hindurch führt.“

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PSYCLON NINE – DEVIL’S WORK TOUR MMXXV

Psyclon Nine are the California-based Blackened Industrial scene figurehead act led by Nero Bellum. They have just begun a headlining European tour to promote a new studio album entitled ‘And Then Oblivion’ (Metropolis Records), with the itinerary also including festival appearances in Poland and Germany (see above).

1st July  EDINBURGH (GB) Bannermans
4th July  LONDON (GB) Camden Club
5th July  LEIRIA (PT) Stereogun
6th July  MADRID (ES) Sala Ya’Sta
9th July  HELSINKI (FI) On The Rocks
12th July  BOLKOW (PL) Castle Party Festival
13th July  LEIPZIG (DE) Hellraiser Club
16th July  MUNICH (DE) Backstage Club
17th July  BERLIN (DE) Badehaus
18th July  HAMBURG (DE) Logo
20th July  KÖLN (DE) Amphi Festival

NERO BELLUM  2025 live photo

The group will return to Europe in September as special guests of Genitorturers, playing nine UK shows before heading to Belgium, Austria and Germany. Confirmed dates are as follows:

4th September  NEWCASTLE Anarchy Brew
5th September  GLASGOW Cathouse
6th September  BLACKPOOL Bootleg Social
7th September  MANCHESTER Rebellion
9th September  BIRMINGHAM Castle And Falcon
10th September  BRISTOL Fleece
11th September  BRIGHTON Chalk
12th September  LONDON Islington O2 Academy
13th September  SOUTHAMPTON 1865
14th September  DIEST (BE) Club Hell
17th September  VIENNA (AT) Viper Room
21st September  FRANKFURT (DE) Nachtlebenl

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Melding elements of Industrial Rock, Metal, Deathcore, Ambient and Trap, Bellum states that the writing and recording of ‘And Then Oblivion’ saw him “specifically set out to break as many genre limitations as possible, while staying true to the concepts and imagery that Psyclon Nine evokes.”

The album includes the singles ‘I Choose Violence’ and ‘Devil’s Work’, with a video for the track ‘CRWLNG FRM CNT T CSKT’ made available upon release.

PSYCLON NINE   And Then Oblivion album cover artwork
AND THEN OBLIVION
new album
LP CD digital
out now
(Metropolis Records)

stream    Bandcamp

PSYCLON NINE : I Choose Violence   Devil’s Work single cover artworks (click for audio)

album also includes
CRWLNG FRM CNT T CSKT

PSYCLON NINE   CRWLNG FRM CNT T CSKT video

“Showcases the dark and brutal side of the ‘Blackened-Industrial’ founders. Pulling from the realms of Dark Ambient and Deathcore, ‘CRWLNG FRM CNT T CSKT’ finds Psyclon Nine at an apex as part of their new album”
OUTBURN (US)

Since forming in 2000, Psyclon Nine have built a substantial dedicated fanbase worldwide via regular international touring that has included European festivals such as Dark Malta, Castle Party (Poland) and several appearances at Wave Gotik Treffen (Germany).

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BEBORN BETON
release new digital EP
“Stars [Remixed]”

German synth pop trio BEBORN BETON drop their new digital only EP “Stars [Remixed]”

BEBORN BETON return with the EP “Stars [Remixed]” that offers imaginative reinterpretations of select tracks taken from the acclaimed releases “To the Stars” and “A Worthy Compensation”. The German synth pop trio has collaborated with a host of international remix artists, which are each bringing their unique sonic perspective to BEBORN BETON‘s rich musical tapestry.

BEBORN BETON are building upon the narrative that they established with ‘To the Stars’. In their concept, humanity seeks new horizons after ruining Earth. “Stars [Remixed]” explores the idea of alternative dimensions and timelines. Through this lens, familiar tracks are reborn to reflect the diverse realities encountered in the band’s expansive universe.

For this project, BEBORN BETON enlisted AGENT SIDE GRINDER from Sweden to infuse ‘American Girls’ with their signature synth-driven energy. The German contribution from ROTOSKOP delivers three distinct remixes, which are each named after US American states and present fresh takes on ‘Progeny’ and ‘Daisy Cutter’. A STATE OF FLUXfrom the UK provide their dynamic reinterpretation of ‘American Girls’, and last but never least Israeli musician OREN AMRAM transforms ‘Anorexic World’ into a pulsating club anthem.

The original EP “To the Stars”, BEBORN BETON followed directly in the wake of their ninth album “Darkness Falls Again”. Three new tracks and four remixes were widening the musical range of the album, while still staying true to its spirit both in lyrical content and music.

 

Tracklist
1. American Girls (Agent Side Grinder Remix)
2. Progeny (Rotoskop Nevada Remix)
3. American Girls (A State of Flux Remix)
4. Daisy Cutter (Rotoskop Georgia Remix)
5. Progeny (Rotoskop Michigan Remix)
6. Anorexic World (Oren Amram Club Mix)

 

BEBORN BETON were founded by vocalist Stefan Netschio, keyboard player and drummer Stefan Tillmann, and keyboard player Michael Wagner in 1989. The trio set out with the declared aim to keep synth pop relevant and give it meaning. Their first signs of life were three self-released works, ‘Pyre’ (1989), ‘Scythe’ (1991, and ‘Die Stahlbetontour’ (1992) that came out on tape.

Following their first two regular albums “Tybalt” (1993) and “Concrete Ground” (1994), BEBORN BETON found a label-home where they joined renowned acts such as WOLFSHEIM and DE/VISION. Having conquered home, the three electro-musicians rapidly expanded abroad and the 1996 full-length “Nightfall”, followed by “Truth” in 1997, and “Fake” (1999) gained the Germans strong acclaim by critics and fans around the globe.

By the time, “Rückkehr zum Eisplaneten” (‘Return to the Ice-Planet’) was released in 2000, BEBORN BETON had firmly positioned themselves as a headlining act within their scene and toured in all the strongholds of electronic music such as Canada and the US, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, Switzerland, Poland, and even Russia among other places. In the North of America, the Germans had scored a veritable club hit with the track ‘Another World’ in 1997. Across the Atlantic, the track’s ever-growing popularity finally led to the exclusive US release of a best-of double-album entitled “Tales from Another World” in 2002, which was followed by extensive touring in North America with APOPTYGMA BERZERK in the same year.

Yet the heavy touring and the creatively highly demanding output of so many excellent albums in quick succession started to take its toll. After the release of “Tales from Another World” (2002) and the associated touring, BEBORN BETON went on an extended hiatus.

It took 13 long years, until BEBORN BETON returned to the delight and surprise of their still huge following with a new album on Dependent Recordings. “A Worthy Compensation” (2015) was showered with accolades from the relevant magazines such as an “album tip of the month” in German Sonic Seducer and Orkus Magazine called the record an “undisputed masterpiece”.

Having learned from previous experiences and not to fall back into a relentless production cycle, BEBORN BETON took their time to write another masterpiece. “Darkness Falls Again” has all the ingredients that make synth pop great. Catchy songs that make the legs twitch, a dash of melancholy, a pinch of irony, and a knife-tip of anger.

BEBORN BETON have again delivered music with a meaning with their latest album and this continues full steam ahead on the “To the Stars” EP. Welcome back again, BEBORN BETON!

Artist: Beborn Beton
EP title: Stars [Remixed]
Style: Synth Pop
Label: Dependent Records
Review Impact Date: May 21, 2025
Release date: June 27, 2025

Line-up
Stefan Netschio – vocals, lyrics
Stefan Tillmann – keys, drums
Michael B. Wagner – keys

Links
www.facebook.com/bebornbeton
www.instagram.com/bebornbeton
www.bebornbeton.com
 
Originally produced,recorded, mixed, and mastered 
by Olaf Wollschläger at Railroad Tracks Studios, Kerpen, Germanx

Additional mixing and guest contributions
Johan Lange for Agent Side Grinder
Klaus Gratzel for Rotoskop
Pete Burns for A State of Flux
Oren Amram for Oren Amram

Additional mastering
Pete Burns at The Shelter, Edinburgh (UK)

Artwork by Volker Maass (www.liebermaassnehmen.de)

Shop
http://lnk.spkr.media/bebornbeton-tothestars
 

 

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XIX. AMPHI FESTIVAL 2025

19 & 20 July 2025

Tanzbrunnen Koln, De. 

ElectroWelt OnLine Music Magazine Preview.

A date we all dark people are longing for each year! Near the end of July, Cologne and Tanzbrunnen venues by Rhein river will once again be painted black and host a fabulous goth and alternative music celebration and gathering.

Due to the incredible demand, Amphi is making their cashier quota available for online reservation!

If you don’t have a ticket yet, you can reserve weekend and day tickets at the box office price here:

https://amphi-festival.de/kartenreservierungen-2025/

 

The RUNNING ORDER can be found here:
https://amphi-festival.de/programm/line-up/

You can find the times for the AUTOGRAM HOURS here:
https://amphi-festival.de/programm/autogrammstunden/

 
LATEST NEWS UPDATE: 

 

Dear Amphi Family,

the band ZANIAS has canceled their participation at the Amphi Festival 2025.
Instead, we are pleased to welcome SIXTH JUNE Sixth June in this year’s line-up – a fascinating act that has shaped the scene for years with its atmospheric-somber sound.

We have ever donated half of the amount originally intended for ZANIAS to two organizations that are currently providing essential humanitarian aid in crisis areas:

– Doctors Without Borders
– Save the Children

We are looking forward to seeing you!

Best regards
Your Amphitheater Team

#amphi2025 #amphifestival #festival #gothic #darkwave #postpunk #synthpop #amphiliebe #sixthjune
 

 

An awesome and killer line-up this year too! Organizers never seize to amaze us with the bands announced each year and the surprises they prepare for us.

The planning for our Amphi Festival 2025 is already in full swing and we are delighted to give you a further insight into our line-up. You can look forward to a great program with the following acts already confirmed:

 

VNV NATION
LORD OF THE LOST
CAMOUFLAGE
ANNE CLARK
OOMPH!
DIE KRUPPS
SKYND
SUICIDE COMMANDO
SHE PAST AWAY
[:SITD:]
LETZTE INSTANZ
XANDRIA
PSYCLON NINE
STAHLMANN
NACHTBLUT
ZANIAS
EISFABRIK
ERDLING
KLANGSTABIL
ROME
[X]-RX
SPIRITUAL FRONT
ASHBURY HEIGHTS
TRAITRS
QUAL
MAERZFELD
HELL BOULEVARD
THE NOSFERATU
WISBORG
DUCTAPE
ABU NEIN
AUGER
THE SECOND SIGHT
REIN
BLOODY DEAD AND SEXY
ALIEN VAMPIRES
VLAD IN TEARS
DUNKELSUCHT
UNIFY SEPARATE
GULVØSS

More bands are being planned and will be announced soon.

Make sure you get your tickets in time and be there when we experience another great festival together in 2025.

◊ Original Festival Line-Up HERE

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XLALALA PROUDLY PRESENTS ROCKWAVE FESTIVAL 30 YEARS ANNIVERSARY EDITION

KING DIAMOND
SPECIAL GUESTS: PARADISE LOST
NULL O’ ZERO
TYPHUS 
CORRUPTED SYMMETRY

10 July 2025 @ Terra Vibe Park, Athens

~HEAVY METAL, ΣΚΟΤΑΔΙ ΚΑΙ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ ΜΑΓΕΙΑ~
Καλώς ήλθατε! Το Θέατρο του Τρόμου με πρωταγωνιστή τον King Diamond επιστρέφει στην Ελλάδα για μία μοναδική παράσταση!

Η σκηνή μετατρέπεται σε σκοτεινή αίθουσα τελετών, ο ήχος της καμπάνας ηχεί, ο καπνός τυλίγει τη σκηνή, και οι πρώτες νότες σε παρασέρνουν στο σκοτάδι. Στο κέντρο της θεατρικής metal παράστασης, ο ίδιος ο King, με το χαρακτηριστικό προσωπείο του, υψώνει το κοκάλινο σκήπτρο. Η απόκοσμη φωνή του ξεπηδά σαν λάβα από τα έγκατα της γης ανατριχιαστική και μοναδική, ενώ οι κιθάρες πλέκουν κάποια από τα πιο περίτεχνα riffs που ακούστηκαν ποτέ.

Μαζί με τον Βασιλιά του Heavy Metal, οι Paradise Lost, οι πρωτοπόροι του gothic μέταλ και πρωταγωνιστές του βρετανικού σκληρού ήχου, επιστρέφουν δυναμικά στην Αθήνα με την εμφάνισή τους στο Rockwave Festival 2025! 

Με πάνω από τρεις δεκαετίες πορείας, η μπάντα από το Halifax έρχεται να μας παρασύρει σε έναν κόσμο γεμάτο μελαγχολία, ένταση και σκοτεινές μελωδίες. 

Προμηθευτείτε εισιτήριο με θέση στάθμευσης εντός του Terra Vibe, στον περιφραγμένο και φωτισμένο χώρο, δίπλα στη δράση.
Έξυπνη συμβουλή: οργανωθείτε ως παρέα. Αγοράστε μόνο ένα εισιτήριο στάθμευσης ανά 2,3 έως και 9 (!) άτομα και ελάτε με ένα αυτοκίνητο, μια μηχανή ή ένα βαν. Εξοικονομείτε χρήματα, μειώνετε το περιβαλλοντικό σας αποτύπωμα και φτάνετε ακόμα πιο εύκολα στην καρδιά του Rockwave!

More Information – Tickets Pre-sale HERE

 

 

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The Names – Swimming With Brian Jones EP

The legendary Belgian post-punk and new wave pioneers THE NAMES return with a new single (and video clip) taken from their new album “Encore!”.
 
There are songs that shimmer on the surface, and then there are those that dive – deep, slow, inevitable.
 
“Swimming With Brian Jones” is one of those songs. Not just a track, but a vision. A metaphor soaked in saltwater and memory. A descent through time where guitars ripple like waves and words carry the weight of everything we’ll never say.
 
Descending a valley, the idea surfaced – sudden, luminous: to swim with Brian Jones. Not the icon, not the myth, but the man – blond, silent, floating just beneath the waterline since July 3, 1969. A final companion in the pool of endings. A quiet metaphor for that one truth we all share, dressed in shimmering echoes from THE NAMES’ early years, when another song called “Swimming” told of youth, hope, and open water.
 

 
With “Swimming With Brian Jones”, THE NAMES invite us for one last plunge. A slow-motion ballet in the undertow, where arpeggios clash like light on water, rhythms surge like tides, and – somewhere unexpected – a lone bagpipe appears, drifting from nowhere, calling from the edge of consciousness. What melody did Brian hear as he slipped beneath? Perhaps this one.
 
The EP unfolds like a submerged dream: the original album version, precise and poignant, full of undercurrents and unfinished thoughts; an exclusive remix by Gilles Robert, awash in dreamy synths and gentle distortion, recasting the song as a fragile trip-pop hallucination; a live version, recorded in Brussels on November 9, 2024 – a moment suspended in time, raw and immediate… and to top it all, a black & white video, filmed under the April sun on a Belgian beach, where sea and sky blur and memories are swallowed by the tide.
 
As the water rises, the clocks dissolve. The present drifts. We all move slowly toward that last swim.

Will Brian be waiting? Will there be music playing? And when it’s time… will you remember this song?
 
Another captivating eclectic release from cult act THE NAMES who have etched their place in music history, once emerging from the iconic Factory Records alongside JOY DIVISION and NEW ORDER… 
 

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LA-based alt-rock collective BEAUTY IN CHAOS presents their latest audio-visual gem with ‘Made Of Rain (Almost Acoustic)’ featuring ASHTON NYTE of THE AWAKENING and LA songstress WHITNEY TAI, supporting their latest album ‘Signs In The Heavens Reality Upside Down’. Beauty In Chaos was formed in 2018 by guitarist Michael Ciravolo (also of Human Drama and Gene Loves Jezebel and current President of Schecter Guitars) with Grammy-nominated producer Michael Rozon (Ministry, Jarboe, Wayne Hussey), who also mixed and co-produced Ministry’s new ‘Squirrelly Years Revisited’ album.

Ashton Nyte says, ‘Made Of Rain’ is a song of hope. It is about getting up and trying again despite the scars life can leave… something transcendental. Similarly, the video shoot was an almost spiritual experience. A celebration of friends and art” Whereas Whitney Tai calls this “a warm amber glow in a velveteen speakeasy where tales of folk and longing send a message from the beyond.

Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/track/7gsxVQTHXCsZGaJdUGPU6V
‘Signs In The Heavens Reality Upside Down’ deluxe double CD  www.beautyinchaosmusic.com/music-store/signs-in-the-heavens-cd 
Bandcamp https://beautyinchaos.bandcamp.com/album/signs-in-the-heavens-reality-upside-down
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/album/28qRoyMzRNvFm5btSiQKmH

Dancing With Angels’ album (CD, vinyl, digital)  www.beautyinchaosmusic.com/music-store
Bandcamp  https://beautyinchaos.bandcamp.com/album/dancing-with-angels
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/album/2N5m8zehXZLG8cDIDLwBN7

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Aesthetic Perfection – Closer to Human

Today, on June 20, 2025, Aesthetic Perfection mastermind Daniel Graves unleashes his painstakingly reconstructed new version of the debut album “Close to Human” that was originally released two decades ago in 2005. 

Depended Records is also releasing premium physical versions of the album!

Please find details and biographical information as well as all currently confirmed live dates including the support tour with TILL LINDEMANN.

Tracklist
1. Human
2. Belong
3. Beautiful
4. Surface
5. Fix
6. Overcast
7. Master
8. Architect
9. Sacrifice
10. Coward

AESTHETIC PERFECTION were founded by the American musician Daniel Graves in Hollywood, Los Angeles in the millennium year 2000. When their debut album “Close to Human” hit the electronic scene, it became an immediate success and laid the foundation for an exceptional career. 

Sadly, the pitfalls of modern technology meant that the original files of “Close to Human” got lost in an apocalyptic hardware failure in 2006. Obviously, this loss remained a thorn in the side of the mastermind of AESTHETIC PERFECTION. In 2024, Daniel Graves decided it was time to recreate the album and gathered all the original hardware and samples to painstakingly rebuild the debut track by track.

Although the result closely resembles the debut, it was never a possibility and probably not even a good idea to just create a clone. Years of musical experience also factored in and therefore Graves dubbed the result “Closer to Human” to mark both the continuity as well as the difference in the title.

Following the debut, “AESTHETIC PERFECTION” went on to release eight acclaimed studio albums and also started to perform live, sharing stages with other scene favourites such as COVENANT, COMBICHRIST, and MESH to name but a few. Soon headliner shows followed that turned into sold out events in 2016.

The music of AESTHETIC PERFECTION has been described as aggrotech and future pop among other stylistic designations, while Daniel Graves started using the term industrial pop to describe his music in 2017.

In 2020, AESTHETIC PERFECTION supported the band of RAMMSTEIN frontman Til Lindemann, which was a massive success and will therefore be repeated by LINDEMANN in the autumn of 2025.

Before that happens, it is time to revisit the earliest days of AESTHETIC PERFECTION both live on stage in Europe and the USA and with the reconstructed debut album “Closer to Human” in the summer of 2025.

Band: Aesthetic Perfection
Album title: Closer to Human
Style: Industrial Pop
Release date: June 20, 2025
Label: Close to Human Music / Dependent Records

Line-up
Daniel Graves – all music, vocals & lyrics

Recorded by Daniel Graves at home studio “Das Atelier”, Wien (AT)
Mixed by Krischan Wesenberg at Studio 600, Gelsenkirchen (DE)
Mastered by Krischan Wesenberg at Studio 600, Gelsenkirchen (DE)

Artwork photography by Max Wichmann
Layout by Sam Pfannkuche

Links
www.aesthetic-perfection.net
www.facebook.com/aestheticperfection
www.instagram.com/thisisaestheticperfection

 

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16Volt – White Noise

(Metropolis Records)

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included on MORE OF LESS new album LP CD digital out 25th July 2025

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With roots dating back to the early days of the industrial rock scene, the US band 16Volt also crossed over into related genres as soon as group founder Eric Powell signed his first record deal in 1991 while still in his teens.

Brand new single ‘White Noise’ is taken from a long-awaited album by the band entitled ‘More Of Less’. Scheduled for release on 25th July, it is their first full-length record since 2017, when Powell put 16Volt on a hiatus that lasted seven years.

“‘White Noise’ is a song about feeling unheard, when your voice gets drowned out and it seems like you can’t get a word in or no-one is listening to you,” he explains. “To others, you become just white noise, that static sound of nothingness.”

The single follows just two weeks after a first ever (and already sold out) vinyl pressing of ‘Wisdom’, the group’s 1993 debut album. Powell’s reactivation of 16Volt in 2024 had been marked with the release of ‘Negative On Arrivals’, which combined songs from the group’s previous two records in 2016 and 2017.

MORE OF LESS
TRACKLISTING
1  More Of Less
2  White Noise
3  On Memory Lane
4  The Worst Of Us
5  If You Like It
6  Empty As Hell
7  Unfolding Time
8  Add It All Up
9  Then The World
10  Down Here

BIOGRAPHY

A relentless early ’90s schedule for 16Volt saw Powell work alongside co-producers David Ogilvie (Nine Inch Nails, Skinny Puppy), Keith ‘Fluffy’ Auerbach (Ministry) and Jeff ‘Critter’ Newell (Ministry, Angels & Airwaves, blink-182) for the recording of ‘Wisdom’ (1993), ‘Skin’ (1994) and ‘LetDownCrush’ (1996). With these albums all earning critical praise and pole positions on the US Alternative Chart, the band built a live following as they toured extensively around North America, subsequently signing to Mercury Records.

Producer Bill Kennedy (Nine Inch Nails, Megadeth, Sepultura, Mötley Crüe) was hired to help make ‘SuperCoolNothing’ (1998), which featured film composer Joseph Bishara (Insidious, The Conjuring, Marylin Manson, Danzig), Chris Vrenna (Nine Inch Nails), Mike Peoples (Skrew) and Kraig Tyler (Crazytown), but Powell found himself in the middle of a legal battle prior to album release when Seagram took over the label and cut all its funding. In a genius move, Powell bought back the rights and made a deal with Sony to feature the album in the Playstation game ‘Primal’.

The mid-’00s saw 16Volt sign to Metropolis Records and release the albums ‘FullBlackHabit’ (2007), ‘American Porn Songs’ (2009) and ‘Beating Dead Horses’ (2012) featuring guests Paul Raven (Ministry, Killing Joke, Prong), Steve White (KMFDM) and mix engineer Shaun Thingvold (Strapping Young Lad, Lamb of God).

Meanwhile, the group’s headline tours were supplemented by stints with the likes of Korn, Filter, Fear Factory, Prong, Orgy, Stabbing Westward, Revolting Cocks, Front Line Assembly, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult and Front 242.

2016 saw the release of ‘The Negative Space’, produced by Marc Jordan (Velvet Revolver, The Cult, Hyro Da Hero, Die Antwoord), with the EP ‘Dead On Arrivals’ following a year later.

16VOLT  2025 photos of Eric Powell taken by Molly Powell

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