Out on January 15th 2021 is the brand new Front Line Assembly album “Mechanical Soul”. The Canadian industrial outfit offers 10 new tracks and a remix of the track “Hatevol “.

For this release Bill Leeb again joins up wi…

Luxemburg artist Jérôme Reuter, this year celebrates the fifteenth anniversary of his ROME project. The band rapidly gained a name in the neo-folk scene by the early works released on the defunct Cold Meat Industry. Rome next moved to Trisol while the music progressively evolved, touching ground with different music genres. The new album “The Lone Furrow” features numerous guest artists like Alan Averill (Primordial), Adam Nergal Darski (Behemoth/Me And That Man), Laure Le Prunenec (Rïcïnn), Joseph D. Rowland (Pallbearer) and J.J. (Harakiri For TheSky). The work is a critical perception of the world we’re living in and sounds as a sonic osmosis between Dark-Chanson and Neo-Folk with bombastic arrangements on top and multiple guest singers. “The Lone furrow” is one more masterpiece in the impressive discography of the artist. (Courtesy by Inferno Sound Diaries) Q: More than any other album, “The Lone Furrow” appears to be Jérôme Reuter with guests/friends. What incited you to write this ‘collaborative’ album and did you handle specific criteria to work with those guests? Jérôme: I did not really write it as a collaborative album. That idea came later. I wrote the songs and then I tried to find people to enhance and diversify it […]

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The Norwegian dark folk / ambient band band Wardruna has released the title track of its upcoming studio album “Kvitravn” (translated: white raven) due out on January 22, 2021. The accompanying video was shot at various locations in Norway and Russia by Ragnarok Film, the same team responsible for the previous video of the non-album track “Lyfjaberg”, which was shot during a lockdown. You can expect dramatic landscapes from a bird’s-eye view as we follow Wardruna founder Einar Selvik and singer Lindy Fay-Hella through the wilderness. Wardruna founder Einar Selvik: “I am very excited to finally be able to share this song. ‘Kvitravn’ is a song that explores the traditions of animal guides and the symbolism and legends of sacred white animals, found in Scandinavian and other world.These highly regarded ghostly creatures – be it a raven, snake, bear, moose, reindeer, elephant, or lion – are seen in animistic traditions as prophetic, divine messengers and protectors representing renewal, purity and a bridge between worlds. Being fully aware of how rare it is to encounter a white raven, we knew from the start that this would be an ambitious and challenging task to perform. However, fate seemed propitiated, and the “impossible” […]

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Tangerine Dream, one of the true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, are to release the classic recordings they made for Virgin between 1980 and 1983 in “Pilots of Purple Twilight – The Virgin recordings 1980 – 1983”, a 10 x CD box set. The UMC box set features newly re-mastered versions of the albums “Tangram”, “Thief”, “Exit”, “White Eagle”, “Logos Live”, “Hyperborea” along with the previously unreleased soundtrack for “The Keep” from the 1983 movie directed by Michael Mann. All audio has been drawn from the original master tapes and has been enhanced by new stereo mixes by Ben Wiseman. “Pilots of Purple Twilight” also features previously unreleased material across 4 discs, including the full concert at The Dominion Theatre, London (November 1982). In addition, it includes 4 tracks from “White Eagle” and “Daydream – Moorland” that are released for the first time on CD and digitally. “Thief” includes “Dr. Destructo” (extended version), previously only used for promotional use only. The Tangerine Dream tracks featured on the Virgin soundtrack LP for the movie “Risky Business” are also included in the box set, including “Love on a Real Train” and from the Virgin archive, the unreleased songs from the soundtrack […]

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TALK TO HER is an Italian formation set up in 2015. Their debut-EP “Home” (2018) directly revealed the potential of the band. Mixing Post-Punk elements with Indie-Rock/Pop they moved on unleashing the debut album “Love Will Come Again”. This album was released earlier this year at Valentine’s day on Shyrec and Icy Cold Records. The songs simply confirmed the writing skills of the band, which gives me the feeling TALK TO HER can become ‘something big’… I asked a few questions to the band members. (Courtesy by Inferno Sound Diaries) Q: How did you guys met and what can say about personal background, sources of inspiration and what kind of music you wanted to compose when setting up TALK TO HER? TTH: We met because of our love for Post-Punk revival, Indie-Rock and Electro. When the band was formed, in our area only few people listened to these sounds and almost no one played them: we simply started playing together because we could make the music we liked the most. Q: How do you look back at the writing/production process of the debut full length “Love Will come Again”? Did you encounter difficulties and eventually challenges? TTH: The real challenge […]

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  Among the many concert and festival events happening via livestream during the pandemic is 2 Dark Helloween on Halloween. Organized by Mark Paradise of Communion After Dark and DJ Scott Durand of Dark Indulgence, with assistance from SPANKTHENUN…

Belgian photographer GNY (aka Gwenny Cooman, also known for her work in the band Mildreda) recently organized an exhibition of her work under the conceptual title “Steden Schuilen Niet Wanneer Het Regent” (Cities don’t seek shelter when it rains) in Wetteren (B). For this project she also collaborated with artist and musician Yves Schelpe of Psy’Aviah who wrote a dark ambient soundtrack inspired by her work that played during the exhibition, reinforcing the atmosphere of the photographs, adding a unique sonic dimension to the exhibition, giving tones of hope and peace, but also of darkness and melancholy highlighting the contrasting sides of city and nature. That soundtrack, “The Earth Keeps Spinning, Without Being Noticed”, is out now on Alfa Matrix as a download album (via Bandcamp) or as streaming via Spotify. Good to know, the Belgian national radio broadcast Klara already took one track, namely “The Escalator”, from the album to be used in a show for which you can see a video below. We had a talk with both artists regarding this special collaboration. SL: You never released an instrumental let alone an ambient album before, how did this one come about? Yves/Psy’Aviah: After my previous, more or less traditional, album […]

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(Photo by Gasleben) Out on November 6th will be “Varelser inuti”, the third solo album by Swedish synthwave artist Anna Öberg. The material was produced by Charles Storm as usual. The sound on this album is again constructed around mod…

Out now is “Es una bestia”, a brand new video from slovenian electro artist Wladyslaw Trejo for the title track of his recent EP. You can watch the video below. The video was made by Primo, a Spanish graphic designer and illustrator w…

The American-based act Keyozah, which combines electronic, guitar, synthwave and industrial have a new video out: “Get Out”. The track and video are an homage to the “Terminator” movie as you can notice.

The band has bee…