Gothic Rock
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In Memoriam Atsushi Sakurai 1966-2023
Earlier today, news came out that Atsushi Sakurai, singer of Buck-Tick and a pioneer of Japanese…
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Album of the Week 14-2022: Héroes Del Silencio – Senderos De Traición
Zaragoza-based Héroes Del Silencio is one of Spain’s most famous rock bands and according to multiple…
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Album of the Week 13-2022: D’Erlanger – Lazzaro
On the surface, D’Erlanger is a fairly typical early visual kei band. The goth-inspired presentation, the…
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Album of the Week 04-2022: The Cure – Pornography
‘Pornography’ is my favorite album The Cure ever made by a considerable margin. It is considered…
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Album of the Week 20-2020: Triptykon with the Metropole Orkest – Requiem
No announcements, hardly any crowd noise, two thirds of the material never played before or since……
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Album of the Week 15-2020: Dool – Summerland
Three years ago, debut album ‘Here Now, There Then’ by the Rotterdam-based band Dool took me…
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Album of the Week 03-2020: Grave Pleasures – Motherblood
While I welcome the increasing influence of early eighties post-punk in rock music, many bands attempting…
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Album of the Week 52-2019: Killing Joke – Hosannas From The Basements Of Hell
Killing Joke albums come in many forms. Militant like their first two albums, polished like ‘Pandemonium’,…
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Album of the Week 51-2019: The Vision Bleak – The Unknown
Gothic rock’s mournful melodies and doom metal’s crushing heaviness appear to be made for each other,…
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