Vatican Shadow

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

Vorarephilia is the fetishism of being eaten by another person or being. If you were to magnify that into the act of being swallowed by a black hole, you might have some idea of the pleasure to be found in The Haxan Cloak’s “Excavation”. – 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

Make the world sound the way you want it to with Current 93, Schwarz Don’t Crack, Rosalind Blair, Teen Witch, Soulja Boy, Diamanda Galas and chopped-up N’Sync. – more

For me, 2012 was about going out and constantly discovering new things, and to be honest, I got a bit tired of blogs and the “posting things first” approach of most of them… – more

EB Magazine’s head editor delivers his number ones for 2012, from Cooly G to Cut Hands. – more

From the blissful sorrows of Chelsea Wolfe to the militarized techno grimness of Vatican Shadow, find out what our most esoteric writer has chosen to call ‘audio heaven’ this year. – 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