Twin Temple reveals the full Doomed Lovers Tour date list and announces Peaches Christ joins the September 30 San Francisco date at The Castro for an all-ages “Satanic Panic: a Drag Ritual” presentation. The Los Angeles date supporting Jack White is already sold out. Tickets at twintemple.com/shows. Continue reading
The Curiosity Cabinet brings The Curious Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde to the Frank Shiner Theatre at the Sheen Center for Thought and Culture in New York City, running June 10th through 13th, 2026. Adapted from Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic novella. Get tickets below. Continue reading
Ghostbells has created an interesting blend of dark-wave adjacent sounds on their album “Catacoture” that is both moody and buoyant pop. It owes more to the dream-pop of the nineties than it does modern TikTok Pop, but that is one of the album’s strengths. The vocals offer a childlike sing-song cadence. They are often chanted with a repetition that is king here, while the lead single “Darkness Saves” is not the most dynamic song of the album, it still works for what they are doing in its droning introspection that works best when played loudly.
Despite being from London, Cold in Berlin once again lives up to their name, as it conjures, stark, wintry urban landscape at night. Wounds (New Heavy Sounds) finds the band going further down the path they wandered down on their previous album, which found them more fully committing to their crossover into doom. The opening track of their new album blurs the lines even further, carrying a darker, more pulsating beat. Vocalist Maya belts things out with the expected intensity of her aching alto. The hypnotic pulse of “12 Crosses” shares some common ground with grunge from the nineties, as more exotic flourishes of atmosphere are also employed. Continue reading
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Keefy sits down with Nick Holmes of Paradise Lost to explore their latest studio effort, Ascension, released September 19, 2025 via Nuclear Blast Records. This is the band’s 17th album, their most refined work in years, blending gothic metal and death/doom with a clear creative focus. Nick explains how the songwriting process has evolved, self-producing, and how they balance heaviness and melody while staying true to the Paradise Lost sound. Continue reading
Suppose the spirit of Dorothy Vallens from David Lynch’s surrealist, noir classic Blue Velvet could be transported into a Trip-hop-inspired, dark, Electro-Rock album in 2025. In that case, it’s hard to think of a more fitting home than To Cross Or To Burn (Ipecac Recordings) – by Paula and Dave Lombardo under their Venamoris moniker. Continue reading
The direction Tribulation heads on Sub Rosa In Æternum (Century Media Records) has been a long time coming. You can’t call a band goth without them eventually turning to the dark side. The Swedes started as a Death Metal band that flirted with the shadowy atmosphere, but never bore the Sisters of Mercy Halloween trappings they were credited with. Until this album. The sung vocals that open the first song solidify this; this may be the final step over this threshold for them. Johannes Andersson has sung on their previous albums in smaller doses, but this album finds him committed to it. Continue reading
With Halloween upon us, and Instagram beginning to fill with girls sporting a Vampira look for their selfies, it begs the question what is Goth? The answer might not be revealed in Dead Posey’s new album Are You In a Cult (Self-Released), but this duo is banging out some fun-filled arena rock that has more in common with The Pretty Reckless than it does Siouxsie and the Banshees. The album is full of catchy choruses and frontwoman Danyell Souza sings about creepy things, but it packs the kind of punch that would be more at home at the Welcome to Rockville fest than, opening for The Cure. Continue reading