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
WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips
Laibach sets October 30 vinyl and CD release for ‘Die Kanone’
Ayria announces new album ’13 Stitches’ on Artoffact Records
Schrödinger share second album ‘International Decay’ on Swiss Dark Nights
The Room re-record ‘Things Have Learnt to Walk that Ought to Crawl’
Can shares ‘Arles 75 Sechs’ from ‘Live in Arles 1975’
Play Dead Complete Works: Comprehensive Reissue Spanning Five Decades of Dark Afterpunk
Gavin Friday Announces Decadance: Electronic Reimagining of Ecce Homo
The Cure’s next album rumored for release in November 2026
Gothminister shares ‘My Revenge’ single from ‘We Are All Demons’
Purest Form signs to Dais Records, releases video for ‘Animal’
Suicide Commando’s ‘Critical Stage’ turns 32 on 1 August
BRAGOLIN and CARRELLEE announce NORTH AMERICAN HOPE TOUR FALL 2026
Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ‘Kaleidoscope’ turns 46 on 1 August
Suuns: We Try to Create a Kind of Feverish Dream Vibe
Linea Aspera: Healing, Catharsis and the Evolution of Minimal Wave
Gavin Friday announces ‘Decadance’, shares ‘Lady Esquire’ rework
WL//WH Track Of The Day: MONOTON TID “Mellan en och fyra väggar (Between one and four walls)
Industrial-Glam Maverick Raymond Watts, aka PIG, Puts “An American Ideal of Beauty” Under Surveillance in Brutal New Video
“It All Gets Further Away” — Los Angeles Post-Punk Quartet The Martyr Shares Video for “Under the Bell Jar”
“A Clean Version of Hell” — Analog Dance Descends Into Desire and Decay on Latest Album “Mind The Fall”
“Is Your Mind Split in Two?” — London Trio Black Doldrums Share Video for Dirgeful Single “Repetition”
WL//WH Track Of The Day: Пожар / POZHAR “Серебро (Silver)”
WL//WH Video Of The Day: MYLLA ISSUES “R!ot Witch” (Official Music Video)
My Black Heart Machine releases new album ‘Luminance’, featuring ‘We Should’
Immersion announce new album ‘What Is Lost Will Return’, out 4 September on swim~
Fling II share new single ‘Ilia’ ahead of album ‘3’
Chicago Post-Punk Trio French Police Signs to Interscope and Releases Double Single “Reptile / Japan”
Palo Alto: Les Furtifs, Emeute Musicale Remixes – Experimental Soundscape Adaptation
“Sympathy Is Never Free” — Pennsylvania Post-Punk Artist ZEU Unveils “Existor”
“Ghosts to Dream Of” — An Intimate Conversation Between IAMX and Aux Animaux Ahead of the Recollections Tour
Velatine releases ‘Dead Radio EP’
Black Doldrums announce ‘Repetition Compulsion’ album, share ‘Repetition’
The Ineffectuals launch ‘INFX: EP01’, first EP in new series
The Faded Trees release debut EP ‘Strange Summer’
Leeds Band Vehicle Share New Single ‘Escalators’
Ministry announces final album Hate to Go and farewell European tour in 2027
Mouth Ulcers – Silent Pictures EP: Post-punk darkness from emerging London quartet
Echo and the Bunnymen Return With Apples for Isaac After 12-Year Gap
Kiss Me Black EP: Gothic Darkness Meets Desert Rock Innovation
Interpol announces This Mirror Weighs A Ton album with new single Iron City
Shadowlands Festival Announced: Industrial and Experimental Music Event Debuts July 2027 in Canterbury
The Grab Society releases ‘Reincarnation (Remixed)’ on Echozone
WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips
Hunter As a Horse release debut album ‘Paradise Lost’
Haunt Me reissue ‘Watch You Bleed’ on vinyl, announce fall tour
And It Was Night releases video for ‘What’s Beyond the Light?’
Yakima Jera’s ‘Kalte Schauer’ arrives on vinyl 28 August
