CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
CATASTROPHE BALLET
As evening falls, knowing the dark for light
Music
Music at Catastrophe Ballet gathers news, reviews and tour dates from the post-punk, coldwave, darkwave, EBM and goth undergrounds — extending into the crank wave and post-Brexit new wave lineage of Fall, Wire and Gang of Four. Coverage draws on a curated network of scene zines and labels
Psyche reissues ‘Unveiling the Secret’ for 40th anniversary
Collector: American Grave – Gothic Punk/Deathrock USA:1978-1988 (vinyl)
Dead Lights – Lash (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Multimedia Artist and Synth Chanteuse Carmen Burguess Returns with Alluring Single “El Mar
WL//WH Review: THE MEDICINES “Desert Of Loneliness” EP
WL//WH Video of the Day: ECHOBERYL “Your Poison” (Official Video)
Edley ODowd announces ‘Kowai-Yet’ solo album, due November 26 on Arsenic Solaris
KIFOTH – Artificial Territory (Digital/CD Album – Aliens Production)
Zeu releases ‘Blind Among the Rust’ and ‘Beyond Life and Death’
Side-Line opens submissions for EBM compilation ‘Electronic Bodies 2’
Death Becomes Her — An Interview With Trve Darkwave Artist Die Tödin on Her Self-Titled Compilation via Heartworm Press
David J releases ‘Requiem for the Rose Garden’, first single from new album ‘Postcards from the Afterlife’
Bauhaus’s ‘Drink the New Wine’ arrives as a limited vinyl single on 30 October
Crowdfunding to help the family of Bruno Kramm!
Ozymandias – Mutability: Intimate Piano Cinematography
I Think I Broke Something release electropunk single ‘Decadence
Blackbook – Different (Digital/CD/Vinyl Album – darkTunes Music Group)
Ms Xxan releases ‘shaper of decrepitude.’
“A Message From the Stars” — Milan Art-Rock Quartet October Put Love on Ice in Their Video for “Universe”
Purwien & Kowa release synthpop single ‘Italo-disco in San Francisco’
Potochkine and Light Asylum Live Report: Darkwave Evening in a Toulouse Venue
Chiron – A Dark Beauty (Digital/CD Album – Dark Vinyl Records)
Italian Darkwavers Soft Scent Arrive Late to the Funeral Party in Video for No Flowers in June
Chalice Sect releases ‘Finis Initii’ EP
Kontravoid releases new album Sound Of The Void
Kontravoid announces European fall tour with Boy Harsher, Choir Boy and Spike Hellis
Runes Order & Regen Graves – Escape (Digital/CD Album – Dark Vinyl Records)
Bimfest (4 & 5 December): That’s the Limit, Auf Animaux!
Magic Wands release ‘Guardians’, second single from the 2027 album ‘Sun Kiss
Aux Animaux “Body Horror” – Red Black Edition Vinyl 12
Alien Tears “Landmines”
Dublin’s Bleech 9:3 Share New Single ‘Tourniquet’
Bad Decisions Bite Back in New England Darkwave Trio Ghost Painted Sky’s Video for Kissing Lions
Berlin EBM Artist XTR HUMAN Confronts the Digital Masquerade on New Single Fake
Berlin Post-Punk Outfit Golden Apes Climb From the Depths Toward the Light on The Sun Came Up Tremendously
Balvenera: Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje
Red Mecca – I Will Be That Dying Star In Your Sky (Digital/Vinyl Album – Massproduktion)
Vioflesh releases new coldwave album Dark Bellow
Test Dept and Brith Gof expand ‘Gododdin’ into 2026 remaster box set
Miss Construction pairs new album This Is Crap with a Kunstprodukt reissue
Sevit releases long-shelved album ‘Requiem
Black Vault – Death Obsessed (Digital/CD Album – Dunkelheit Produktionen)
Implant releases ‘I’m Only Happy When You Bleed’ EP, second single from ‘The Kinematics Of Doubt
Obychno Odyn Faces the Empty Morning in Video for Desolate Coldwave Single Уходят люди и часы
East Bay Deathpunks Normal Weirds Stare Down Mortality on New Album Frown Time
It All Turns Black — Lana Del Rabies Explores Desire and Self-Erasure in Ghostly Video for Annihilate
And It Was Night Bets Against the Devil in Video for Dark Noir Pop Single The Fever
Somewhere in Between — Venus Volcanism Blurs the Boundaries of Love and Consciousness in Video for Dreams
