This Grey City – This Grey City

This Grey City is a french band, on their biography it said they play New Wave / Post-Punk. 2014 they released their debut album, self- titled with thirteen tracks, a wide range of variety.
I enjoy this album very much and I find inspiration from bands like Joy Division, The Cure and old Clan of Xymox. Something that reflected me, I did not like the first track Bats, so much, maybe thats my taste. However, it was great for me that I did not stop listen, their second track Bela is Alive made me back. Both of this songs felt it was made with a “glint in the eye”, but Bela is Alive had something I was searching for.
Another track I found great is their self- title song, This Grey City. Love the drums and the atmosphere. Over all, for me This Grey City is a great album, I have my favorites, Bela is Alive and This Grey City. Abducted is really cool too, especially the chorus and Machines, much Sisterhood feeling, Strange Part of Me great too.
Another great thing with this album is the variation. They cover a wide range of different sounds and that make it interesting, not boring. I am looking forward to hear more from This Grey City.

Published at Alternativmedia.net

Gothtune podcast-29

Gothtune podcast-29 - 2015 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

Gothtune podcast #29 uploaded to mixcloud.com for streaming.

1. Jingle - Gothtune
2. Scars - The Last Dance
3. The Brother - KALT
4. Elise - El Clan
5. Samael - ANKST
6. Our Shrouded King - The House of Capricorn 7. Light of Darkness - The Horror Vacui
8. Hang Them High - Dr. Arthur Krause
9. Dirt - Spider Heart
10. Submit - Black Wolves
11. To The Sky - Cryogenica
12. Trigger - The Court of Sybaris
13. Distant Land - Scofferlane
14. The Akasha Thief - A Ring of Thorns

Goths.ru highlight Gothtune - De Creatione Et Omnium Rerum

Gothtune - De Creatione Et Omnium Rerum, is highlighted at Goths.ru, a russian page that cover the dark scene.

Translated:

The collection contains tracks from 20 groups, which can be seen on channel Gothtune.

Gothtune - this podcast, blog and video channel, which supports groups and projects working in the genres of gothic rock, postpunk, deathrock, steampunk, darkwave, coldwave.

Collection 'Gothtune - De Creatione Et Omnium Rerum' was released on February 7, with the support of OnAir Tunes - platform, which, in addition to Gothtune, includes several independent of such projects.

On release Gothtune - De Creatione Et Omnium Rerum can hear new tracks commands such as Madness of the Night, Lithos Sarcophagos, para bellvm and others.

Acquire and maintain the service release can be Bandcamp: www.onairtunes.bandcamp.com/album/gothtune-de-creatione-et-omnium-rerum-fundraiser

Gothtune podcast-28 at Mixcloud

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Foghorn Lonesome - Always The Undertow
03 - Sofia Insomnia - Fuego Sagrado
04 - Canary oh Canary - Catholic
05 - The Shallow Graves - In My Hands
06 - New Model Army - Angry Planet
07 - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows - Beautiful
08 - Descendants Of Cain - Divine Parasite
09 - Carnival Star - Union City Blue (Blondie Cover) Vocals Allegra Lusini
10 - Static Scene - Eye for an Eye
11 - Faces Of Sarah - Behind Dead Eyes
12 - Double Eyelid - Seven Years
13 - Masquerade - All Things Hurt

The Horror Vacui – Return of the Empire

Horror Vacui released their second full album, “Return of the Empire” in october 2014. It is a very good continuing of their debute “In Darkness You Will Feel Alright”, that came out 2012.

This album feels a bit more punk-rock / hardcore attitude, but still got a gothic rock style. The most of the songs goes very fast forward, “till the Last Drop” is kind of slower. They have succeded in to bring up the production and sound quality, but still kept their punkrock attitude.

As I said, this is a great second album and I think everyone who liked their first album should check this out. If you found Horror Vacui by this release, then check out their first album.
This is an album that also getting better and better each time I listen on it.

I like the most of the songs, can´t really tell what is my favorite but I think “Light of Darkness” is kind of outstanding and different from the other tracks on this album. Great album, recommend!



Orginal posted at Dark Reviews

El Clan – Caronte

This album is awesome, I guess this can be one of my favorite albums this year.
El Clan is from Mexico and they are not newbie within the gothic scene. Their first album release were back in 1994 and in 2009 another album were reviewed by the Rolling Stone Magazine Mexico as one of the top 10 best in Latin America.

I have heard them before, actually played a song on our show Gothtune. What I felt speciall with the band is that they have some kind of unpredicted crazy genes inside their music.
The new album Caronte released in november 2014 has a great produced sound and very well preformed. They still got their style, unpredicted. It is kind of a blend between gothic rock and something progressive. You find a bit of everything, from Lacrimossa to Devil Doll and Fields of the Nephilim and Heroes del Silencio. And that describsion, include madness.

Some songs are written in spanish / latin and sometimes they sing in english. I do not pick any favorite songs from this album, I think everything sounds great. Enjoy!

Gothtune playlist at Spotify 2013

This is a playlist of the songs we played at Gothtune podcast 2013. It is not all songs because everything can not be found at Spotify. However, it is 103 song and over 8 hours with music, enjoy!

Gothtune Spotify Playlist 2012

This is music we played in Gothtune Podcasts the year of 2012, enjoy.

Gothtune Podcast #27

Gothtune Podcast #27 can now be found and listen to over itunes. You can also listen to it at onairtunes.com.

Tracklist:
Para Bellvm - Убейте Цезаря (Kill the Caesar)
Cinemascope - Sounds of Revelation
Digital Morning - Wanderers Will Wander
Johnathan Christian - Goodbye Horses
Carnival Star - The Drowning Man (The Cure Cover) Vocals Zach Wiser
Aurelio Voltaire - Raised By Bats
Umbra Et Imago - Radiosong
The Nine Tears - Age Sex Place
Deine Lakaien - Farewell
The Nightchild - Im Not Afraid of This
The Danse Society - Message in the Wind
Soviet X-Ray Record Club - Never Enough
Tyburn Saints - With the Night in Our Eyes
dIRECT ATTACK - Amazing Grace

Gothtune Podcast #26 now at mixcloud

Gothtune podcast-26 - 2014 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

Gothtune Podcast #25

Gothtune Podcast #25 is now up at onairtunes.com

Tracklist:

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - The Stompcrash - Bloodnever
03 - Peter Murphy - Hang Up
04 - Opera Multi Steel - A L'Extrême Veille D'Un Novembre Imminent
05 - Lithos Sarcophagos - End Of Time
06 - Ski Patrol - Extinguish
07 - Death Party UK - Bad Moon Rising
08 - Into The Mist - Her Crown Of Thorns
09 - Ascetic - I Burn
10 - La Metamorfosi - Goodbye
11 - Infidel - Crimson (demo)
12 - Temple - We Walk
13 - The Spiritual Bat - So Proud
14 - The Whip Hand - Eleven
15 - dIRECT ATTACK - Mary Had a Vision of the Virgin Mary
16 - The Exploding Boy - Dark City Pt.II
16 - Secret Discovery - Ask Your God

New cd compilation: Gothic Rock Around The World V

A new cd compilation, Gothic Rock Around The World V is out, released by Sombrati Records in Brazil.

Tracklist:

01 Madness Of The Night - We Are Gothrockers and We Don't Care [Sweden]
02 After Dusk - Revelations Of Rebirth [Greece]
03 Rose Inferni - Luna Sangrienta [Peru]
04 Ritual Reaper - Cold Evil (Megaton Aftermath) [Sweden]
05 The Council of Days - Methedrine (2013 Version) [United States]
06 Deus Vult - Lágrimas [Spain]
07 LisaWars - NYX [Germany]
08 Remain In Light - Salvation [Greece]
09 the Nightchild - The Madness Return [Ukraine]
10 Un-Muerto - Esta Noche [Mexico]
11 Electric Press Kit - Tout Ce Qui Détruit [France]
12 Carpatia Castle - Vampyre Requiem [Czech Republic]
13 Pazz Kluger - Slip Away [United States]
14 Last Dusk – Absence (Promo Version) [Costa Rica]
15 Horse and Hattock - Pale Sign [England]
16 Cold Remembrance - Everlasting [Greece]
17 Luna Reign - Death Euphoria [United Kingdom]
18 Cauda Pavonis - Saturnalia (Radio Edit) [United Kingdom]
19 Mils - Neon Life [France]
20 Cryogenica - Bruised and Broken [United Kingdom]
21 Soror Dolorosa - Motherland [France]
22 The House of the Last Lantern - Poison of Decay [Russia]

This record is free to download at:

Intervju med Horror Vacui

En intervju med Horror Vacui är uppdaterad på onairtunes.com. Horror Vacui är ett italenskt band med rötter i Gothic Rock, Postpunk, Punk ect.

Arcane Winter - "Civil War"

Har lagt till en låt med det brittiska postpunk / gothic rock bandet Arcane Winter. De kommer inom kort att släppa en my ep.



http://www.arcanewinter.net/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Arcane-Winter/233160986794038
https://soundcloud.com/arcane-winter

Gothtune Podcast #17

Gothtune podcast-17 - 201309 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Masquerade - Play Dead
03 - La Calle Morgue - Frecuencia de las Aves
04 - In Strict Confidence - Tiefer
05 - Ad Inferna - Eternity Regained (Acoustic Version)
06 - Corpus Principium - Languish
07 - Horror Vacui - In darkness you will feel alright
08 - The Rose Phantom - Until
09 - Madness of the Night - Taste the Madness
10 - Katabazija - Divlja Horda ( Borghesia cover )
11 - Evestus - Sleep Forever
12 - ASP - Unverwandt
13 - Daemonia Nymphe - The Great Divinity
14 - Soror Dolorosa - Hologram
15 - Lost Owl Virgin Ever - Heaven Is No Place On Earth

Gothtune Podcast #14

Gothtune podcast-14 - 201307 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Principe Valiente - In My Arms
03 - The Dead And Living - Dance With The Dead
04 - Still Patient - agoraphobia - re-mastered
05 - Corpus Principium - Masquerade of Tears
06 - Partly Faithful - Underset
07 - Starcontrol - Heart Becomes A Cages
08 - Lyncelia - Distained Perfection
09 - Dominus Mortalis - In the absence of God
10 - KATABAZIJA - NEKA IH!
11 - Cuervo Viejo - Equivoco
12 - Shining - Pale Colours
13 - Ludola - Nie wróce do domu...
14 - The Mary Onettes - Don't forget (to forget about me)
15 - Virgin Black - And I am Suffering

Gothtune Podcast #11

Gothtune mix-11 - 201304 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Lithos Sarcophagos - The Circle
03 - H o R D - Heart (part one)
04 - Vanity - Sleeping Tears
05 - SunSin - Po Setmeni
06 - Blutengel - You Walk Away
07 - New Zero God - Damaged
08 - Dirty Filthy - Careless
09 - Solor Dolorosa - Silver Square
10 - Black No.1 - Wolf
11 - Dystopian Society - Dystopian Society
12 - Vanth - Let Me Live
13 - Bohemien - Gli Occhi degli Amanti
14 - Candlemass - Under the Oak

Interview with Arcane Winter

Interview with Trevor "The Dark Lord" & Piers Sixx of Arcane Winter by DJ Valhalla.

DJ Valhalla: Tell me about the background of the band? I see there are many from different bands?

Piers: "We all have known each other for many years. I first met Trev back in 1991 when my first band played with Every New Dead Ghost (ENDG), who I followed for years. Fast forward a couple of years and I moved to Nottingham, where Arcane Winter are from, and bumped into him again at a goth night. I started to visit the old Nightbreed shop on Wollaton Road, met Nick and became a fan of Trev's next band Midnight Configuration. I don't think I missed a gig of theirs! Trev asked me to contribute to a couple of albums and I got roped in singing and playing keyboards at live gigs. I think between us the members of Arcane Winter have probably been in 15 or so bands! Arcane Winter formed when Midnight Configuration was winding down, and I can remember Trev asking Nick and I if we were up for starting a new band at rehearsals for the last gig. As a fan of ENDG it's a dream come true!"

DJ Valhalla: Why the name Arcane Winter? How do you desrcibe your band? 

Piers: "The name took quite a while. We didn't want to define ourselves too soon with a name that sounded goth-or-metal-or-whatever. We knew that we were drawing on many influences, and that those should help us find a sound when we were first writing songs. Any band will tell you how hard it is to choose a name which doesn't sound stupid and we didn't want something which didn't look good written down. The name kind of came to us in the pub. You know, where you sometimes have the best ideas! I'd say we're definitely a post-punk goth band. We've been called "Gothic Grand Guignol" and I think that describes us well. We're in your post-punk with doomy guitars and killer drums. If I wasn't in this band I'd be a fan of this band."

DJ Valhalla: If I understand it right, you wanted to start a live-band after working apart with much electronic devices?

Piers: "Definitely. It was Trev's idea to rest Midnight Configuration, a band I think who were ahead of their time. If you look around, there are a lot of guitar-bass-drums-vocals bands now, and we wanted to see what would happen if we adopted a back to basics approach.. That classic set up still works, the paradigm works, so why not take it by the throat? ENDG were brilliant, could we take it further? Playing live in a band which uses a lot of technology can be a frustrating experience, as things break down. I'm sure we've all been to those kind of gigs! With our set up the worst thing that can happen is a broken guitar string."

Trev: "Yeah, that's about right, but I wanted to add that with Midnight Configuration after 18 years and 8 albums I felt that I had for the time being exhausted the midi/sequencer based format and I very much wanted to be just playing guitar once again. I also wanted to expand on what can be done with the guitar and for me part of what Arcane Winter is about is to develop the doomy Gothic/ Post punk sound into as many strange and enigmatic forms as is possible.

DJ Valhalla: You seem to be having lots of fun doing gigs? How many gigs you have done until now? You seem to have played a lot of gigs and even online gigs?

Piers: "Playing live is the reason for starting a band, it's the most fun you can have with your clothes on! The best thing is to play new material and gauge the audience reaction to it. It's very gratifying to hear their response, and drives you on to do more. Playing live is a two way thing, it's as much about the audience as the band. 

"We've played a good few gigs; our debut show to launch the EP was a blast. Only a few, the Inner Circle, knew our material and the audience reaction was great, people loved it! Playing in Leeds was great, we nailed it. There is footage from most gigs on our Youtube channel if you want to have a look. Personally I'd play live every night of the week, but I'm a fan of music.

"Playing on-line gigs is a great way to reach a huge audience, people from around the world, and great fun too. The audience reaction is different to gauge as its all text based, or SMS messages, but we treat it as seriously as any show. On-line gigs are something we're keen to do more of, in fact we're just organising some now."
DJ Valhalla: The EP Cold Europe, can you tell me about the name?

Piers: "The name comes from a line in the song Sagittarius- "Cold Europe is a magical place". I think that sums Arcane Winter up nicely, a mix of north European weather and occultism. It's snowing here right now!"

Trev: "It is indeed!"

DJ Valhalla: How is it going, have you sold much, where can people find it?

Piers: "We made a conscious decision not to produce physical copies of Cold Europe, so its available only as a download from Amazon or iTunes. It was released in September, so we'll need to get some sales figures back, but everyone seems to have heard it!

"Maybe with next EP we'll put something physical out; we're working on that at the moment."

Trev: "Due to the release being a digital one, I think that it will take about another 6 months before we have any clear idea on how its going. However all of this is tied up in how well we promote the band and continue to grow the band's name and standing in the UK and abroad."

 DJ Valhalla: What kind of lyrics and message in Arcane Winter?

Piers: "The lyrics are a mix of the gothic-fantastic, if you're familiar with Todorov, and political rhetoric. My lyrical message is that you need to think for yourself and stand up to tyranny, leave the world a better place. I don't think I could write a pop song! We live in an age where the internet brings people closer, the Arab Spring comes to mind. The song King of Nothing is about that, rising up against the ruling powers. As a species I think we're pretty special, it's the c**ts you need to be aware of."

DJ Valhalla: You are working on a new EP, tell us more about this?

Piers: "We are always working on new material! The new EP has five songs written already, if you've seen us play in the last couple of months you'll have heard what some of them sound like. We have one particular track, Kerosene, which will blow you away. We're going into the studio next week to begin recording, then will come the artwork and the name."

DJ Valhalla: When is your CD going to be released?

Piers: The next EP should be out in time for the Nightbreed Radio all-day event in Nottingham in May. It'll be a mini festival with bands, DJs and a great bar. For details tune into Nightbreed Radio or visit the website.
 
DJ Valhalla: You guys have been for a while within the gothic sceen, do you belive we heading a third wave of gothic-rock?

Piers: "I've been a goth since puberty! As soon as I realised I was attracted to women who looked like Elvira? but to answer your question, yes, I do think the scene is evolving a third wave. All those classic first wave bands like UK Decay, Play Dead, The Sisters, Alien Sex Fiend, love them to bits. Second wave bands too, particularly Suspiria, were great but you can't live in the past. One of the reasons Arcane Winter formed was to do something new, the scene needs to attract new fans. It's an exciting time."

Trev: "I am not totally convinced that we are heading for a 3rd wave of Gothic rock. In the UK there has been a grass roots upswell in the scene seemingly due to people who were in bands years ago (like ourselves) or people who were in bands years who have reformed. One concept that came out of a conversation we had with Dave from Vendemmian was the idea of "Middle youth". Essentially the idea that once a person reaches middle, middle age or late middle age. They are financially secure, their kids have left home and now their time is their own, what else can the do with their time? Might as well get the band back together!

"This is something that has been witnessed over here. When I go to gigs, most of the audience seems to be at the very least post 30 to early 50's and although that's all cool. There is very little young blood coming into the scene. For a scene to grow and expand it needs the youngsters to get involved. I am a college lecturer and I work with young people every day. I can quite clearly say that most of them have no real idea what the Gothic scene is and to them it's something "old" people are into. Most of my students fall into two basic camps. Rock/Metal and Urban/dance. With the perfered music of their generation being either extreme metal on one side, or Dubstep on the other. They are not anti Goth as such, they just don't see that it is of their generation. The only way young people will currently get into the Gothic scene is via the more mainstream Black metal acts who to a great extent seemingly are connected to our scene.

"However with all of that said, I believe that with exposure, Gothic and Gothic evolved music could cross the generation gap. We have already made plans to work with bands outside of the traditional post 2nd generation Gothic bands as well as to work with as many of our peers as possible. If this generation gap can be bridged, I have no doubt that then we could see a 3rd generation start to develop out of the foundations of the old."

DJ Valhalla: You describe Arcane Winter with a positive punk attidude, are you a political band? "Civil war" - "Invest in death" - those titles are pretty political?

Piers: "We defiantly have post-punk attitude. We're like Crass with crimped hair. It's weird how those bands from the 80s are now as relevant as ever, particularly in Britain. Back then we were suffering with high unemployment, the threat of nuclear war and a government made up of complete bastards.

"It's exactly the same in 2013, except with the threat of religious extremism. So yes, we are political in that we write about those issues, but we don't just do politics.
"The next EP has songs about a wide variety of subjects. Civil War is about how people become obsessed with minutiae of life rather than see the bigger picture. Classic divide and conquer, being obsessed with X- Factor rather than what's happening in Gaza.

"Invest in Death is about arms dealing. Those people need dismantling. How many people have died to further profits?"

DJ Valhalla: Sagittarius is your new song, what is the meaning behind the song?

Piers: "Sagittarius is about how much I hate summer! I'm a goth, what are you going to do? Winter is my natural environment." 

DJ Valhalla: How much time you put on training Vocals ect? 

Piers: "I've been a vocalist for a long time, and naturally have quite a low register. With Arcane Winter I'm trying to sing slightly higher, it just depends on what the song needs. I won't be singing falsetto, though. Most of the singers I like are within the range I use.

DJ Valhalla: What happens when you want to create a song? How does it come in form? lyrics? music?

Piers: "Generally Trev comes to rehearsals and says "I've got this riff?" he plays it, we jam it and it warps into something else. The bass and drum parts fall into place as we jam, and I sing phrases over the top. I then take those phrases and improvise lyrics, it's as simple as that. I try to make the lyrics fit the song..

"Christmas Day in the Workhouse was just like that, it's gloomy and dark, so the lyric fits. A dancing corpse? Oh yes. Writing music is the greatest thrill."

DJ Valhalla: Have you ever played outside UK?

Piers: Not yet, but we'd love to. If any promoter wants to get in touch, please do. I love to travel and I love to play live.

DJ Valhalla: Killing Joke is decribed as a major influence possibly because of the political messages?

Piers: "Killing Joke are an influence because they're the best band in the world. KJ are one of the bands everyone in Arcane Winter loves, they are so powerful. What they do with music is make it into a fist and punch you in the stomach.

"They're great musicians and haven't lost their love of music or watered down their sound. Our influences it would be them, Chrome, Hawkwind and The Sisters of Mercy."

DJ Valhalla: What are your future plans for the band?

Piers: "The new EP is our next project, and filming a video for Civil War with our visuals man Stuart Slate. We're lined up for various festivals this year, and we're already booking live dates. We want to play as many gigs as possible, really. Meet new people and make new fans. We'll be doing a live EP this year, and possibly a live DVD."

DJ Valhalla: Where can people find you over the internet? facebook? reverbnation? ect?

Piers: "Our website is www.arcanewinter.net we have a ReverbNation page, Twitter, YouTube, all the usual social networking stuff. On Facebook we have an Arcane Winter page and the Arcane Winter Appreciation Society.

"We like to interact with people, so join up."

DJ Valhalla: I thank you for taking the time to make this interview with me.

Piers: "A pleasure! It's always good to talk."

DJ Valhalla: Any comments or further thing to say?

Piers: "I'd like to thank all the people who've come to see us play live, the promoters who've booked us and the bands we've played with.

"A big thanks to Stuart Slate for being such a top bloke, and the Inner Circle for believing in us."

Trev: "Yes my youth! I would like to second that!"


This interview is also published on Onairtunes.com

Dead Air Radio

Vill ni ha lite bakgrundsmusik när ni är ute och surfar så rekomenderar jag Dead Air - Radio. Snygg hemsida, klart och tydligt där man kan se vad som spelas och tidigare låtar.

Gothtune mix-04 (Fresh and tasty) 201211

En ny Gothtune mix med låtar som har kommit ut i år, 2012.

Gothtune mix-04 (Fresh and tasty) 201211 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

1 - Contorsione - Ancora Qui
2 - Terminal Gods - Lessons In Fire
3 - Rose Rovine e Amanti - Versi Scritti Sul Golfo Di Lerici
4 - Vanity - Under Black Ice
5 - Angels of Liberty - Talk About Nothing
6 - Chronth-D - ????
7 - Madness of the Night - Terrorroom
8 - Dead When I Found Her - Mirrors
9 - Then Comes Silence - To The Bone
10 - Bitter Grace - If the Sea Where To Sway
11 - The Shyness Of Strangers - Hot Bodies
12 - Opus Doria - The Cry of the Knight