RELEASE: Madness of the Night - The Asgarda

Tomorrow (friday) it is the international release of Madness of the Night´s debut album The Asgarda via Massacre Records. This album took three years of hard work by Daniel Dante (music) and Abir Blackshadow (voice) to create. Oppression is the opening track for the album you can hear in the begining of this post.

The Asgarda will be release international and you will be able to find it next to every cd- store or you can order it by asking your local store or over internet. There is also many online download stores like Amazon.com cdon.com ect.

Pre- listening parts of every song on the record:


Read more or written in other media:
Onairtunes.com
impotep.no
Dark-news.de (German) Translated to English
Ravenheart Music
Stormbringer.at (German)
Metalglory.de (German)

REVIEW: Johnathan Christian - Beautiful Hideous

Johnathan Mooney (music / US) and Christian Granquist (voice / Sweden) started a band / project and came across this little different idea to name this "Johnathan Christian". Johnathan has a background playing keyboard in the band "The New Creatures" and Christian "Day Behavior" and "The Atom". Now they found each others and worked together over the ocean to finish the album "Beautiful Hideous", released 8 of november 2013.

The album is good and interesting, the music groves och and think there are some pieces of art I would like to highlight as "I Walk This Earth Alone" and "The Sweetest Betrayal". I like the symphonic parts most in "Beautiful Hideous" which make me feel Johnathan Christian a bit different. They found their own style and stick out from the mainstream. I hear that they are inspirations from the Dark Wave scene, sometimes the music reminds of Tilo Wolff´s Lacrimosa. In the backgrounds you hear strings and choirs that gets you back to older Italian film music. With knowledge of Johnathan´s background I can understand that many of the songs are written out from piano melodies.

The last parts of the record got two remixes of already played songs, and a cover of Duran Duran´s classical song The Chauffeur. Sounds like they made it their own version maybe with inspiration of the Slovenian band Laibach, even the speak singing.

"Beautiful Hideous" is a good debut album and an interesting project I like to follow up more in the future. I hope they keep their style, especially with those symphonic part.



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REVIEW: Horror Vacui - In Darkness You Will Feel Alright

The Italian band Horror Vacui´s debut album "In Darkness You Will Feel Alright" was released in the end of last year (2012). The record introduced by Krzysztof Komeda´s "Main Title", a soundtrack from Roman Polanski´s movie Rosemary´s Baby. The singing woman ends abruptly with the track "Black Rivers" and thereafter Horror Vacui plays intensive with a higher tempo til the end.

The members of Horror Vacui have a past in the punk rock scene, and you can hear that. In an interview with the band, they told that they normally listen to Gothic Rock so it was time to play what they listen to. That´s how Horror Vacui was founded.

"In Darkness You Will Feel Alright" is a record where the music is based on very traditional Gothic Rock. A sound from the 80´s or early 90´s. The songs have a very high standard through all record, their sound is kind of noisy, punk sound, I love it!

I can highly recommend this album. It is a prof that there still are bands that turns back to the roots of darkwave / Gothic Rock.



Buy this album for 5.5 Euro over Bandcamp

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Intervju med Carnival Star

Har lagt upp min intervju med Carnival Star över onairtunes.com. Gå in och lyssna på deras två låtar och läs en djupare diskussion med grundaren till bandet.

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REVIEW: Vanity - Occult You

First time I heard the band Vanity was for about one year ago and I played them on Gothtune! (podcast #4 (Sleeping Tears) and #11 (Under Black Ice). But it took nearly a year before I listen through all their cd Occult You.

The record was recorded under total isolation between december 2011 to februari 2012 och the release day was not until begining of 2013. The members lives near Tuscany in Italy, but comes from different countries and cultures. The lyrics is based on a never released book by the singer with the name "Occult You".

When I got the chance to listen to all the record and build me a full picture, I understood how damn good they are. It is hard to point a finger and tell where I should categorizing there music. There are a bit of everything and everything sounds fantastic. I hear rots of darkwave, but other kinds of rock. If I should make a choice, I can tell you that I hear some metaphors and sounds that reminds me of Anathema´s record Alternative 4, which I had on repeat for a long time in the end of the 90´s. However, it is wrong by me to compare them with Anathema 100% because you find other influence as well.

What can I say, I think this can be one of my favorite records of 2013.



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Gothtune Podcast 19 uppe via Mixcloud

Gothtune podcast-19 - 201311 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Horror Vacui - Intro + Black Rivers
03 - The Mission - Swan Song
04 - Arcane Winter - A Star In The West
05 - New Model Army - Summer Moors
06 - Savages - Husbands
07 - Lithos Sarcophagos - Myself
08 - Aeon Sable - Tenfifteen
09 - Corpus Principium - Masquerade of Tears (Kitty Lectro Remix)
10 - Stupid Bitch Reject - Side By Side
11 - Ikon - Subversion
12 - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows - The City in the Sea

Stupid Bitch Reject - Inside My Asylum

Ny video av Stupid Bitch Reject är uppladdad till GothtuneTv kanal över youtube. Låten heter Inside My Asylum.

Carnival Star släpper två låtar.

Carnival Star från Skottland släpper sina två första låtar, My Coreen och Black Rain Down. ProducerMark (låtskrivare och sång) är personen bakom Carnival Star.

En tanke med Carnival Star är att bjuda in gästmusiker för var låt. Bakgrundsång och gästgitarist i dessa två låtar finner vi Liquid Grey, som är aktuell med en ny skiva.





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La Calle Morgue - Frecuencia de las Aves

La Calle Morgue är ett band från Ecuador.

Dirección: Francisco Galárraga
Producción: Tisha Cevallos
Edición: Francisco Galárraga y Juan Auz
Concepto: La Calle Morgue
Música: La Calle Morgue
Country: Ecuador

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