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
“Love Will Return in Another Way” — Polish Darkwavers Undertheskin Channel Kafka’s Doll in Video for “Exit | Wounds”
Kyivite – Broadcast (Digital/CD Album – Staalplaat)
WL//WH Video of the Day: HAZY WATERS “High” (Official Video)
Berlin’s Güner Künier Shares Video for Frantic Synthpunk Single “Downtown” — UK and EU Tour Dates Announced!
“Death is Following Us” — The Pixel Rain Condemns a Ruinous Legacy in Video for “Last”
execunit release club-oriented single ‘Humanicide’
“I See You Fading With The Sun” — DC Goth Rockers Winter Sect Share Sepulchral Single “Say Goodbye”
Kill Instinct release ‘Control (Apoptygma Berzerk Remix)’ on Freak Power
“The Horizon is Visible” — Kyiv’s Blokkontroll Unleashes the Industrial EBM Machinery of Debut LP “Odin Na Odin”
Italian Dark Alt-Rock Trio Noir Addiction Explore an Uneasy Exchange in Video for “Money For The Honey”
WL//WH Track Of The Day: CORTO MALAISE “Je suis Gothique et je t’emmerde”
WL//WH Video of the Day: NEWDRESS “The Sun Will Go Down”
Idoru and Back From The Wave release EBM single ‘Love Is Not Enough’ on Iptamenos Discos
Buzzkill – Wasteland (Digital/CD/Vinyl/Cassette Album – Manic Depression Records)
Foule interview: ‘Electronic and organic, dark but playful, delicate yet violent, raw yet poetic’
Detroit Deathgaze Duo VAZUM to Embark on UK Tour This Summer
WL//WH Weekly Post-Punk // Darkwave // Dark Synth Tips
Synthpunk Veterans Damage Release “How To Talk To Humans” Remix EP
WL//WH Video Of The Day: ODOR EATER “Nightcaller” (Official Video)
Oui Plastique release ‘Linger’, second single from upcoming album
Suicide Commando interview – Johan Van Roy opens the gates of his musical hell
KIFOTH release new album ‘Artificial Territory’ on Aliens Production
Front 242 ‘Black Out’ release party announced in Berlin with first Berlin live gig by AD:keY in 9 years
In The Nursery repress debut-gig recording ‘Psalter Lane 25.06.81’ for 45th anniversary
Mystic Echo – Distant Shores (Digital/Vinyl Album – Mystic Echo)
Johnny Marr Announces “The Age Of Everything” — Watch Video for Album Opener “Spin”
DeVision Redux interview: ‘A Sense Of Renewal Rather Than Nostalgia’
Portion Control announce box set ‘1983-86 – Hit The Pulse to Purge…’
Diskonnekt – La Morte Del Sole (Digital/CD Album – Halotan Records)
BlazerJacket release heavier rework ‘Myelin Void (Rebuilt)’
Countdown to the Telepathic Windows Festival 2026 Vol. 1 // An Interview with THE MOONBUGS
Interpol Confirms Release of Album ‘This Mirror Weights A Ton’
“No Way Out” — Italian Post-Punk Trio This Eternal Decay Share Unsettling Video for “BREATHE IN SILENCE”
Sydney’s Aleesha Dibbs Asks Existential Questions With “Waiting Game,” The First Single From Forthcoming Album “Big Mood”
Chengdu band Stolen to play London’s The George Tavern on July 12 and 13
Palindrones release single ‘The Blood Moon’
Silke Bischoff announce compilation ‘Tears – A Collection of Silke Bischoff Songs’, single ‘Northern Lights’ out now
Kant Kino release 2CD album ‘Echoes of The End’ on Alfa Matrix – Out now
Boy Harsher Announce “The Heartbreak Tour” This Fall — Select Dates Featuring Choir Boy, Evanora Unlimited, True Blue, and Kassie Krut
“Rain Falls From Your Eyes” — Seattle’s Ghost Fetish Shapes a Dreamy Soundtrack for Melancholy on “Sculpture”
WL//WH Video Premiere: S:BAHN Examine Nostalgia For an Uncertain Past in “The Eventualities”
“Late Night, Slip and Pull Me Under” — Melbourne’s Ohms Shares Restless New Wave Single “Neon Violence”
Vancouver Post-Punk Duo Sektion Tyrants Face the Surreal Erosion of Freedom in “Permanent Existence”
NNHMN release ‘Touch Me’, new single from upcoming EP ‘Opera of Lust & the Art of Sorrow II’
PIG announce ‘Hurt People Tour’ of North America for fall 2026
Diesel Christ: the German synthpop project behind the ‘Diesel Mode’ Depeche Mode tributes
Digital Factor Interview: ‘Reaching 1.0 Would Almost Be a Shame’
WL//WH Video Of The Day: OLGHA “Balla!”
