Embarking on a musical odyssey inspired by the enigmatic paintings of Remedios Varo, Galician dark ambient project trajedesaliva joins forces with Madrid-born and Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter and pianist Maud the Moth. Their collaborative masterpiece, “Bordando el manto terrestre” (English: Embroidering the Earth’s Mantle), is set to release on May 26, digitally through the artists themselves and physically via Time Released Sound, Woodford Halse, and other outlets. Today, we give you a special first listen of the opus, and an insightful track by track presentation below. Journeying throu ..read more

With “Young Drugs,” the latest track from Damien Done’s highly anticipated album, Total Power, listeners are invited to step into a captivating dance of addiction and obsession, showcasing the album’s bold and powerful essence. We’re pleased to give you an early listen of the new single below! Diverging from the massive, live sound of 2020’s To Night EP, Total Power presents a blend of dark, goth-tinged rockers and minimal, electronic tracks, featuring richly-layered synths and a return to brooding new wave. The result is a sophisticated and dynamic expression of Damien Done’s artistic vision ..read more

Multidisciplinary experimentalist RITES OF FALL is a master of sonic ambience and his new collaborative work with sax player Rafał Wawszkiewicz of MERKABAH shines a brilliant light on a variety of incorporated styles and serves a promising teaser of RITES OF FALL’s new album “Towards The Blackest Skies”. Slated for an August 23rd release via new label Leidforschung Schallplatten, the record can be pre-ordered now via this location. Towards The Blackest Skies by Rites of Fall Listening to “Void Instinct” is to step into a wholly self-contained environment with its own unique feel, where sm ..read more

Damien Done has premiered the video for “Pray For Me,” the lead single from the forthcoming Total Power album. “Pray for Me” is a love song. The track sees its subject reconciling a life of jaded discontent with the newfound fulfillment his partner provides. In typical Damien Done fashion, the concept is delivered via a series of poignant, cynical one-liners, this time against a driving sonic backdrop. The result is dark and surprisingly danceable in its constraint, owing as much to Joy Division as it does Pixies. The otherwise flowery sentiment is somehow drenched in gloom, and in spite of it ..read more

Dubbed as “minimalist holy blues from another galaxy” and “folk noir”, Clara Engel has released albums with boutique labels in Europe and North America, with several songs being played on the BBC, Italian National Radio and PBS in Australia. Clara has collaborated with artists such as Aidan Baker, Thor Harris (Swans), Armen Ra, and Siavash Amini. On their new mystical sounding release, Their Invisible Hands, the Toronto based singer-songwriter makes the album’s barest, most stripped moments into an incredibly powerful, strikingly beautiful offering, registering as a genuinely transporting cycl ..read more

Fresh off the release of their dark new music video for the song “The Truth”, New York City based dark folk metal duo THIS IS OBLIVION join us today to give you their top 10 current artists worth a check in 2022! To accompany the inspiring list below, the NYC based couple (featuring the drummer is Mike Kadnar of The Number Twelve Looks Like You) shared some great shots of themselves in the studio, recording the self-titled debut album, “This is Oblivion”, to be released worldwide by Silent Pendulum Records on May 6th, 2022. Mixed and recorded by Seth Manchester at Machines With Magnets and mas ..read more

A little over two years since we last presented the unique work of RITES OF FALL, we’re honored to give you a special insight into the newest dramatic opus from experimental artist Bartek Kuszewski. Enduring the emotional abyss with bleak, monumental tones, “Floodwaters” is a record that reveals more of its mystical poetry each time it’s listened to and is built upon an interesting concept, explained by Bartek himself: “The creative challenge with the record was invoking a miniature, self-contained world where one witnesses its total destruction. Flood is one of the most deeply encoded myths ..read more

“You End I” continues FELONS‘ foray into electronic music as the self-proclaimed “street folk” artist’s music still permeates with the aura of NYHC, yet with a brooding and emotional dark folk coalescence. Today, we’re stoked to give you his new music video for the single “You End I”, which falls perfectly in his bigger narrative frame. “No genres. No Boxes. Just emotion.” Feel the vibe of FELONS and share your thoughts in the comments below. Taken as a whole, the recent deliveries from FELONS are a remarkable, memorable thing. Maybe a bit disorientating at first, but offering plenty of multi ..read more

SHEDFROMTHEBODY, an independent doomgaze / alternative metal artist from Espoo, Finland, joins us today for a special premiere of their new atmospheric track “Fascia“, “a heavy, yet ethereal piece that moves between lumbering, monolithic sludge metal, and light, airy instrumentation, exploring themes like loss of identity and a sense of otherness.” Suvi Savikko’s music paints a distorted, ethereal landscape, through which she carries her songs with hauntingly beautiful vocals and lone, wailing guitars. With primary roots in doom metal, doom folk, and early 2000s alternative, Shedfromthebody‘s ..read more

With the aesthetic choices in the composition, lyrics, and arrangements heavily inspired by late romanticism, art-deco, and surrealism, Orphnē, the new opus from Maud the Moth, Madrid-born and Edinburgh-based experimental/dark-folk singer, songwriter, and pianist, reflects on the rootlessness and nebulous identity of the émigré, fragmented woman. Both powerful in its execution of an idea, this epic offering is spacious, ornate with dark atmosphere, alive with unique feeling, with backbone that gives it a weight and tone that justify heavy music comparisons. Today, we’re pleasded to give y ..read more