Has Unlit awakened from a long deep sleep? Is all that we see or seem but a dream within a dream? The murmuring voices are explaining that the current time…Continue readingBEST DARK ALBUMS 2021
Grey Gallows is a dark wave duo from Patra, Greece, that’s influenced by a broad spectrum of dark 80’s music. Konstantin, who sings and plays keyboards, and Dionisis, who plays…Continue readingGREY GALLOWS: GARDEN OF LIES REVIEW
Umeå, Sweden, located in the northeast on the Gulf of Bothnia, is the home of Aindulmedir, who is really becoming one of my favorite dungeon synth artists. His second album…Continue readingAINDULMEDIR: THE WINTER SCRIPTURES REVIEW
Sweden’s Lake of Tears is really the brainchild of a multi-instrumentalist mastermind named Daniel Brennare. He’s been at the helm of the band, even if sometimes he’s been doing it…Continue readingLAKE OF TEARS: OMINOUS REVIEW
Today we’re heading to Denmark, home of Helge Vammen and his post-punk coldwave solo project Reconverb. Vammen has released his second full-length entitled Airport Oxygen Bar, and it was written…Continue readingRECONVERB: AIRPORT OXYGEN BAR REVIEW
On Hilyard’s latest entitled Division Cycle, we’re told via the label that the “gears of hatred and wrath grind down the bones of humanity into sustenance, digested deep within the…Continue readingHILYARD: DIVISION CYCLE REVIEW
Seven Trees was formed back in 1993 by vocalist Johann Kronberg and a cast of musicians who lasted less than two years, but programmer Henrik Karlsson had been recruited and…Continue readingSEVEN TREES: DEAD END REVIEW
I was anxiously awaiting the release of the third album by Push/Button/Press given that Spectacle 1 (2018) was an Unlit essential album that year, we just weren’t even close to…Continue readingPUSH BUTTON PRESS: BLACK SWAN REVIEW
Sabled Sun has been releasing a dark ambient atmospheric series of releases about a man who was placed in hibernation who then wakes up years later to find a world…Continue readingSABLED SUN: 2149 REVIEW
Overcome by Broken Nails, a most promising darkwave synthpop debut, dropped right at the start of the year on the independent label SwissDarkNights. The album is a project by Kim Bell…Continue readingBROKEN NAILS: OVERCOME REVIEW
