The Exploding Boy - Dark City (pt.II)

Video directed by Johan Edlund & Ioanna Lampropoulou
Track taken from the album "Four" (2013)
Drakkar Entertainment GmbH / Ad Inexplorata 2013

Johan - Vocals/Acoustic Guitar
Stefan - Vocals/Electric Guitar
Les - Lead Guitar
Nick - Keyboards

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Astari Nite - Pyramids (video)

Biography
Astari Nite is a band with a collage of New Wave, Darkwave, and Indie sounds from Miami FL.

Formed in 2008, the group consists of Mychael Ghost (lead vocals), Illia Tulloch (Drums), Michael Setton (Guitar), and M. Sallons (Bass).

Astari Nite has headlined numerous shows, as well as opened up for many national acts such as ColdCave, Stars, Assemblage 23, Modern English, Andy Rourke of The Smiths, Apoptygma Berzerk and Surfer Blood among many others.

Since forming they have put out three releases; their self titled Astari Nite (2010), Requiem Mass (2011) and their latest release Stereo Waltz featuring the singles Pyramids and I.O. 1987. Both of which can be downloaded at officialastarinite.bandcamp.com.

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Biography - The Asgarda

At first glance Madness Of The Night may appear as just another Gothrock/Metal Duo. Here Guitarist Daniel Dante as the creative head, there singer Abir Blackshadow -- so far, so normal! But on closer inspection one can see two culturally different people who nonetheless - or just because of that -- complement each other perfectly.

Daniel from Sweden, deeply rooted in 80s Metal met Abir from Beirut, Lebanon, through the Internet. Their shared love for Gothic and Darkwave Bands such as Sisters Of Mercy, Dead Can Dance or The Cult eventually led to forming Madness Of The Night in 2011."The Asgarda", their debut album, goes way beyond being the satisfying musical offspring of their collaboration. It is also the intimate soundtrack of singer Abir holding on in times of hostilities and oppression. The attempt of leading the self-confident life of a woman within the confined space of an arabian metropolis. A city that on the outside seems modern und open-minded but underneath its surface still shows a constrictive and repressive face, especially towards women."The Asgarada" represents and reveals all these pent-up emotions and suppressed aggressions in a very intense way. This musical expression of pain, helplessness and the rage evoked by intolerance and acts of violence grabs the listener instantly - simply because of it's authentic nature. Nowadays Abir and Daniel are married with two children and live in Sweden, far away from big city madness.

Andy Horn (Mortal Love, Darkseed, Edenbridge) created the album's tight and oomphy sound. It's easy to tell with each note and every beat how much he enjoyed the entire mixing process, harking back to the diverse stylistic devices of the hey-days of Gothrock - the 80s.

Antonius Rex – Hystero Demonopathy

I heard Antonius Rex´s album Hystero Demonopathy by a chance when I was surfing over youtube. However, it felt like I have heard this before. And when I checked them out I found out that behind Antonius Rex is Antonio Bartoccetti, he has another project under the name Jacula. And Jacula released their first album 1969.

I got stuck into this album, I have listen on it with repeat in the past week. It felt like I found the holy grail, a lost treasure. This is fantastic!

Hystero Demonopathy was official released 2012-12-12. This is gothic progressive rock, very dark and evil with a blend of humor. It is mainly instrumental, sometimes there is speaking whispering vocals and sometimes samples, I guess from old movies.

I can find so much things inside this record, I do not know if it is influences or who influence who here. Antonio Bartoccetti have somehow kept his style since the old time Jacula. But I felt much reminding of Devil Doll, even Laibach, Sopor Aeternus and Madre Del Vizio sometimes. There is of course progressive rock, sometimes with a blend of 70´s jazz touch, but also neofolk, metal, classic music ect. Antonius Rex have succeeded here to build up an atmosphere where you can picture a story from the beginning of this record til the end. The story feels very much medieval, and I guess there is a witch hunt by knights. Some moments they really succeeded to build up a hunting atmosphere. I really jumped on my chair when I heard samplings with my Swedish native language. “Du är så snäll mot mig”, that means “You are so kind to me”. I need to figure it out from where Antonius Rex have took this sentences from.

You should give this album a chance, and listen to it in a relaxing moment because this is music that brings a vision of a story, and there is not a happy ending in this one.

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The Nine Tears - Black Heart (Gothtune TV)

Black Heart is a Koure Nero cover of Gerardo Konte
The Nine Tears are:
Michele Perrella - Vocals and keyboards
Gerardo Konte - Cyber manipulator, backing vocals
Carlo Baldini - Bass
Gene Crazed - Guitars

Mix and mastering by Carlo Baldini
The Holy Hour Records 2012

Background:
The musical project The Nine Tears was born in June 2011 from the mind of Michele Perrella, who decided to give shape and substance to his solo compositions. Great friend and manager of Gene Crazed, the first one-man band Italian rockabilly, he offers to him to play the guitars in their songs, confident in his musical experience, result of years spent on Italian and international stages and of a remarkable musical culture. The agreement turns out to be good when their first song, Killing Time, realized as The Nine Tears, immediately gets many positive responses from fans of the genre, experts in the field and another one-man band, Carlo Baldini, creator of the darkwave project My Terminal And The Trip. Impressed by the creativity and flexibility demonstrated by his compositional and instrumental solo project, Michael invites him to play bass in the Nine Tears. Carlo accepts and the arrangement proves successful with him, his bass lines matches perfectly with the sound path taken by the duo, which from that point officially became a trio. The band starts immediately to work to make his first EP to be released within the month of October for The Holy Hour Records. The band, in early 2012, it instantly goes to work to record his first full length and "engages" the musician and remixer Gerardo Konte. With his support participate at the Gothic Room 2012 and start to realize the single ERMOY anticipating the release of Candid shade of pleasure.

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Gothtune Podcast #22 (mixcloud)

Gothtune podcast-22 - 201401 by Gothtune on Mixcloud

01 - Gothtune - Jingle
02 - Night Sins - Air Dance
03 - Liquid Grey - Darkest Hour
04 - Johnathan-Christian - I Walk This Earth
05 - Madness of the Night - We are the Gothrocker´s and we Don´t Care (Chamber Mix)
06 - The Silence Industry - brother sing, sister shout (we are all migrants)
07 - Corpus Principium - Lacrima Della Notte
08 - The Eden House - First We Take Manhattan
09 - Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows - The Conqueror Worm
10 - Haflingerallergie - Slow
11 - Final Rites - Whisper Louder (demo)
12 - Our Ceasing Voice - What Used To Be A Battle Song
13 - Useless Words of Sasha Grey - Посты умерших
14 - Scent Of Misery - Scent of Misery

Lithos Sarcophagos - Myself

Lithos Sarcophagos is a one man project by Daniel Dante. He is a member of the swedish Gothic Rock band Madness of the Night and an ex member of Soulgrinder.

Lithos Sarcophagos started 2013 with the idea to make something more dark, traditional Gothic Rock with a blend of Black/Doom Metal. 26 of Januari 2014 there was the first release, the ep Myself - MMXIV.

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