WHISPERS IN THE SHAD...

The fantastic Whispers in the Shadow’ eleventh album. Once again, of course, with Solar Lodge, one of the most active labels lately, specially, in regards to gothic rock. Even with Ghosts transcending widely the canonic goth, going deep into the stormy waters they were going around in other...

AEON SABLE: AENIGMA ...

The new album of the german Aeon Sable with Solar Lodge is being released after 5 really long years of awaiting. Seasoned with the compilation released three years ago: Aeonthology, they’re picking it up where they left off with Aether. Seven pretty long and ongoing tracks, where over a cloth...

ALPHAVOX: Alphavox (...

Alphavox is a super band. They stand in the line of what This Mortal Coil were in the 80’s and the beginning of the 90’s, but under Solar Lodge’s  umbrella instead of the one 4AD holds. The combination of musicians as good (and diverse) as Artaud Seth (Merciful Nuns, Near Earth Orbit,...

NEAR EARTH ORBIT: Ec...

NEO (aka Near Earth Orbit) are publishing their eighth album on April 21st: the third written solo by Artaud Seth, once Ashley Dayour decided to leave the band to focus on the other (also prolific) music projects. This Echoes of the Future (of course published by Solar Lodge) represents one...

LA SCALTRA: Mater (S...

After three albums and an ep (all of them with Solar Lodge except for Cabaret – self produced in 2016 but reedited by said German label in 2020) the also German La Scaltra present Mater, possibly their best work to date. The cd is designed to maintain that foggy and esoteric esthetics we saw...

THE MEN: New York Ci...

All you can think of when you see The Men in their nineth album, New York City, is long lives rock and roll. It was published in February by Fuzz Club Records. It is a beautiful collection of frantic, vivid, almost desperate gems, R’N’R songs with no concessions to good rhythms or...

OCTOBER BURNS BLACK:...

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...

A SLICE OF LIFE: Tab...

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...

A SLICE OF LIFE: Res...

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,...

RED SUN REVIVAL: Ide...

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...