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...

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 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,...

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...

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...

As I’ve said quite a few times in quite a few occasions, organizing a concert is really hard. Sometimes, with certain groups, it’s more than impossible. Apart from the difficulties of organizing an event, which are par for the course, matching schedules, the variety of logistics, rooms,...

Saturday 11th, Madrid, meeting night again. With those that you apparently only see in the right occasions. With Date at Midnight, who I last saw live 15 years ago. It was quite more time with Corpus Delicti, 28 years to be precise. And actually, in the same place, in Moby Dick Hall (where I...

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...

Corpus delicti was one of the most important gothic groups in the 90’s. Even though they were classics in all ways, they took apart that trend were people would sham the guitars and those deep voices that icons as The Sisters of Mercy had. They came back with a sound that was closer to other...

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...