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 Video of the Day: GLORIA BEFANA “La Bambola” (Official Music Video)
WL//WH Track Of The Day: ANCIENT CHANNELS “Hex Beat”
Diana Ringo releases darkwave and post-punk album ‘Clowns in America’
Kilmarth – Avant De Cèder… (Digital EP – Kilmarth)
WL//WH Video of the Day: SOMETHING OSCURA “Delirio” (Official Music Video)
“Haunt Me, Take Everything” — Seattle Darkwave Duo Dark Chisme Shares Video for “Beautiful Obsession Killer”
First Aid 4 Souls release 25-track album ‘Totems In A Field Of Pain’
Endzustand release ‘Maschinenangst’ single and video on Echozone
Futant premiere ‘The Third Way’ video ahead of ‘Occultist’ album
The House of Love announce 2026 London concert at Scala
WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips
Shadowlands festival announces initial 2027 line-up for Canterbury debut
DJ Moderno reworks post-punk classics on mashup album ‘Dark Sessions Vol. I’
Montréal synth project No release album ‘Escaping Heaven’
Kllsignl release debut EP ‘Wendigo’ on Out Of Line Music
Ukrainian Post-Punk Trio Small Depo Explores Love, Loss, and Fear With “Pryhody” (Adventures)
Buenos Aires Dark Synth Duo Balvanera Tear it Up in Video for “Degaste” — New Album “Hasta tocar el fondo vacío del lenguaje” Announced!
WL//WH Track Of The Day: LOW MONROE “Desire Limbs”
AD:keY live at the Front 242 ‘Black Out’ release party in Berlin
Flint Glass & Ah Cama-Sotz – The Shadow Of The Torturer (Digital/CD Album – Ant-Zen)
Legendary Synth Artist Nao Katafuchi Channels Impermanence and Uncertainty in “Keita Ashita”
Die In Eclipse, the new project of Darkrad’s Jana Komaritsa, releases debut EP ‘Sexwave’
Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik share 12-inch EP on Mannequin Records
“Darkness, Take Me” — Une Vraie Gothique Dance Under a Blood Moon in Video for “Nuée Ardente”
Hybryds – Desert Of White Salt (Digital Album – 3RIOART)
Ataraxia interview: ‘We don’t set ourselves against something; we act creatively to create something’
Vampire Valentine ready self-titled album for August on Morella Records, led by ‘In The Dark’
Elektrikill release new album ‘Küntzpiracy’ on Evol Music Group
Boy Harsher Returns with ‘Jeans’
Une Vraie Gothique – R.D.V. Au Cimetière (Digital/CD Album – Manic Depression Records)
Sun Atoms release ‘Narco Polo Remixes’ featuring Isaac Brock ahead of Modest Mouse tour
Swiss Wave Project Euro Kiosk Opens for Business With Debut “Temptations”
WL//WH Video of the Day: THE WAY TO NOWHERE “Decay” (Official Video)
Athens Synthpunks Dramachine Fall Under the Spell of the Red Shoes in Video for “Choros tou Thanatou” (Dance of Death)
“Is it Lust That’s Holding the Line?” — Dutch New Wavers Pol Return With “Sex Machines”
Between Hope and Despair — DRIFT. Announce “Violence For Your Furs” With Video for Sordid Synthpunk Track “Rough Rider”
The Wolfgang Press announce new album ‘Asylum Variations’ on Downwards
New Order to Tour Without Stephen Morris and Gillian Gilbert “For the Foreseeable Future” Due to “Personal Health Reasons”
DC Dark Synthpop Duo 2DCAT Take a Sledgehammer to Grief in Video for Lynchian Blue Rose Edit of “Frames”
Joy Division’s “Eternal (Live)” Announced — A 14CD/2DVD Box Set Featuring 16 Performances and Previously Unseen Footage
WL//WH Video of the Day: DORIAN’S STEAMING SHADOW “Toxic Harmony”
Empires in Defeat reissue electro-industrial single ‘March of Death’
Dream in castles release dark electronic single ‘synesthesia’
The Violent Youth – Tsvety (Digital/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Artoffact Records)
Twin Tribes’ debut album ‘Shadows’ returns in limited vinyl editions
dreDDup release AI-made video for ‘President Evil’, third single from ‘Pan/Dora’
WL//WH Premiere: PAPILLON DE NUIT “Musetta” debut LP
WL//WH Track Of The Day: MODEL LIVING “Head of Talent (Single Version)”
