Part of their latest album release from Black Veil Brides, Coffin is a blastin’ track that’s filled with some intense guitar riffs and heavy, heavy makeup. Although the song gears towards the band’s loud, metal goth rock leanings, they manage to inject singsong choruses that create some fun pockets of interaction with the listener. (I […]
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Armed with eclectic thumping sounds and whispery, menacing vocals, Ludovico Technique specializes in creating an atmosphere of darkness. The band inherited their name from the book and movie, A Clockwork Orange. It referred to the therapy where patients were forced to watch violent images while drugged in hopes of creating an aversion to violence. Some […]
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Blood on the Dancefloor is back with their latest effort, “Don’t Want to Be Like You.” The track is a heartfelt acoustic number that shows off a raw, personal sound from the techno/dance/alternative duo. They released the video for the track recently and it shows the boys singing in a barren desert landscape most of […]
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If you want to listen to theramin music and look uber-stylish, while you do it, do we have the Kickstarter for you. There are 13 hours left to pledge to musician Theremina’s The Parlour Trick: A Blessed Unrest Kickstarter. Possible rewards you can select include a limited edition leather three-belt by rockstar fashion designer Mildred […]
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Legendary, or at least notorious, SoCal Deathrock Gothic pioneers Kommunity FK just announced the release of their first remix companion album, titled “La Santisima Muerte: Proper FKed: Vol.l”. This new release in now available on CD Baby, along with samples of the various remixed tracks. So far, I really like the sound of the Halloween […]
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I really like the look Lisa Marie Presley did for her brand new album Storm and Grace. Here is an image of her from the album cover shoot. Storm and Grace is being released this weekend and you can actually meet Lisa Marie Presley when you pick up the album if you can make it […]
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The Houston Press music section has a regular sub-column ‘Gothtopia‘ covering all things Gothic, as they relate to the Houston Gothic scene. In the latest installment, published Apr. 26th, a cadre of spooky-identified crankypants share their terribly relevant opinions on the relative merits or demerits of Marilyn Manson’s Goth cred and influence on the scene. […]
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The Guardian just published an entertaining, if meandering, story on the enduring strength of current Gothic culture. The pop culture piece is done in the partial guise of and interview with Carl McCoy of Fields of the Nephilim on how they manage to keep selling out gigs, but branches out into a more cohesive cultural […]
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Marilyn Manson just released a disturbingly entertaining video for the song No Reflection, along with some great new photos, all in support of his latest Born Villain album. I really like the creepy supernatural horror house feel of the video, as well as the stylish progression Manson shows with his latest photos associated with this […]
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V Magazine #75, The Music Issue, is now available to read online for free. Although the issue’s style icons are mixed in with people like Ke$ha (who looks like she tripped over a carton of glitter . . . badly), there are also a few good pages on Nina Hagen and Marilyn Manson. Oddly enough, […]
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