Prurient

Like a rather bedraggled and dusty phoenix, goth has rebirthed itself in a way that echoes its 30+ year history as well as explores new ground. – more

Dominick Fernow explores more and more the sinister reaches of techno, while never losing his hypnotic power: “All the elements that existed in his earlier work—aggression, the steady howl of drone, a feeling of some monstrous work being done just beyond your perception—exist here. They’ve just been reformatted, re-imagined.” – more

If techno is something that you view in a rather dim light, perhaps the key isn’t to illuminate, but to darken further. – more

September Cell, Vatican Shadow’s recent 12” techdustrial juggernaut sounds like nothing if not electronic intrigue; the unfinished soundtrack of The Da Vinci Code meets Arab Spring, The Movie, NOT starring Tom Hanks and directed by Oliver Stone. Of course, these are associations based on the often-misguiding compasses of band name, album cover and song title, – more

I’m so sick of hearing and reading the word ‘dark’. I truly wish we’d come up with something new to describe this sort of music without using equally annoying words like grave, witch or (a sure sign of CRAP AHOY!) the dreaded nu. ‘Goth-without-goth’ is too clumsy; ‘advanced goth’ maybe, but that’s a label with – more