Gothic rock is dead. It died in the 90’s, on the last few years of the decade, when it branched into those who thought that if you added eye make up to the beat, you could trick the ones with the bats and the jabot shirts, and that if you sharpened guitar riffs and sped up the drums, you’d...

Four years ago, Restless came out, and now, the Belgian A Slice of Life are publishing their second album: Tabula Rasa. In these four years a few things have happened (even a global pandemic). Some of them were not predictable at all, just as some others were. What hasn’t changed in this...

Your Life on Hold published their third album some months ago: Echoes from the Bardo. Nine songs, nine amazing masterpieces, that show how YLoH are today one of the world gothic rock figureheads. Jan Dewulf kindly answered our questions, here is the interview.     Everybody in Spain (at least...

Ashley Dayour is today one of the most prolific artists in dark music (whatever it means). Near Earth Orbit, The Devil & the Universe and, of course, Whispers in the Shadow publish a bunch of records periodically. Yesterday is Forever is the last record of WitS and here it is an...

Next friday, on the 7th of February at El Perro de la Parte de Atrás del Coche, Brigitte Handley and Fee Reega will celebrate with us the Indypendientes 5th Anniversary. We talk with our favourite aussie and here is this chat. You can listen it in spanish:...

Lately from the little known Belgian scene, we get more than interesting proposals. In a world scene that constantly is presenting new bands which often suffer from repetition or even a lack of talent, the Belgian scene seems to be standing out with a lot of interesting new bands. In 2018,...

(Listen -in spanish- http://www.laletracapital.com/podcast-capitulo-111-de-damas-y-gargantas/)   1.- Everybody in Spain (at least everyone who read laletracapital) know you, but maybe there is someone who doesn’t know your current project, Gitane Demone Quartet, introduce yourselves, please....

I met this British at last year’s Semana Gótica de Madrid. I had hear a few songs but I admit they haven’t grabbed my attention. Classic British Gothic music, male and dramatic voice, occasional violins… A lot of the same old. But the Madrid Gothic Week came as their show. With a lack...

Once the 90s has started, a certain transfer of the neuralgic center of Gothic ortodoxy started to be produced. This center not only was in the United Kingdom; centers or “scepters” could be found in Germany. There was an “ideas gap” and a lack of nerve no freshness in UK, and the mixture...

What happens if you put together Ashley Dayour (Whispers In The Shadows, The Devil & The Universe) and Artaud Seth (Garden Of Delight, Lutherion, Chaos GOD, etc in the past; and right now Merciful Nuns)? Just what had to happen, a new example of what creativity, talent, composing and...