The Forced Oscillations [Rus]

The Forced Oscillations - On The Road EP 2008

The band from Moscow, Russia. Formed in 2005 as duo. Early material was influenced by some Neue Deutsche Welle and oldschool EBM bands. Subsequently the sound changed to bass-driven atmospheric post-punk and purely electronic tracks were labeled as Tbilisi-89 side-project. There were some line-up changes since October 2007, and in March 2008 finally completed band started recording the current material.

http://www.myspace.com/theforcedoscillations

P.S. Russian sounds too alien to me.

Funeral Crashers [US]

In early 2005, founding vocalist PH Lovecraft and co-conspirators Edward Raison and Oliver Lyons finished plotting in obscurity and cut Funeral Crashers’ demo EP Children of an Indifferent God. With the addition of Frankie Teardrop on bass that summer, the band launched an attack on New York City with their musical Grand Guignol, supporting the likes of the Bellmer Dolls, Bunnydrums, and A Place to Bury Strangers.

Formed out of millennial madness, early incarnations of the band careened through rotating personnel and lengthy break-ups in the early-2000s downtown scene, a corpse that wouldn’t stay dead. The group’s name nods to cult film Harold and Maude, and they proudly draw inspiration from vintage punk, post-punk, and early gothic rock, as well as the Velvet Underground, 70s glam, and the Jesus and Mary Chain’s more aggressive shoe-gazing. But rather than a nostalgia trip, the Funeral Crashers are focused on updating their influences for the present.

In October 2007, the band unveiled their first full-length CD, La Fin Absolue Du Monde.

http://www.myspace.com/thefuneralcrashers

http://cdbaby.com/cd/funeralcrashers

Cruelty Pageant [US]

Cruelty Pageant is a Portland Oregon area Goth/Postpunk band with a name inspired by Antonin Artaud's Theatre Of Cruelty concept for the stage.

http://www.myspace.com/crupag

Sleepmask [US]

Ming Vauze, the visionary songsmith whose uniquely textured melodic sense and guitar sound has been tapped by such bands as Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Faculty X, Les Enfants Terribles, Mount Sims, So Does The Fire, and Esza Kaye- reanimates a concept born 10 years ago.

Charlie Woodburn, a humble soul of vast experience , who has played with the Furry Things and Pretty Vicious becomes a part of the band after a long and exhaustive search for the right drummer capable of bringing the thunder necessary for this storm of sound to take place.

Adam D'Zurilla, Prior inhabitant of the murky swamps of the Florida everglades region this former SALEM vocalist responds to our call for the final element necessary to bring a much needed fire and drive on bass.

http://www.myspace.com/sleepmask

Suruaika [Fin]

Suruaika - Noiduttu sydän EP 2007

Suruaika was a postpunk/deathrock band from Tampere, Finland. They started making music and causing trouble back in late 1997 under a different name and released their debut split with The Candles Burning Blue in august 2000. Since then their line-up has changed and they have recorded three albums. Their latest full length CD, Pelkäämme Vain Toisiamme, was released in march 2006 by Cyberware Productions. The band played their last gig in Tampere on october 26th 2007.

http://www.myspace.com/suruaika

http://www.suruaika.net/

Asmodi Bizarr [Ger]

Asmodi Bizarr is supposed to be one of the first german Gothic Bands and was founded in Duesseldorf by Lead Singer Monique Maasen and was first known as "aspirin", the Band members came from the Punk Scene of the (then) infamous Punk Club "Ratinger Hof" , they were wearing Bone-Chains, had their Band name spayed on their Leather Jackets or tatooed and were surrounded by clouds of Fog during their Gigs.

They released an EP "Sun Sierra" (500 Issues) which too includeed a 3-Song Single, a Demo Tape (83) and a Song called "Sator" on a Sampler Called "pesthauch des Dschungels" (which also contained Bands like EA80, die Mimmys, Shadocks, Die Æ’rzte (Under cover as"die Ulkigen Pulkigen") in 1991 they released with a new Guitarplayer the Album "gotta Move on" which was more Rock than Goth. Singer Monique was sometimes involved in the Band "Die Roten Rosen" a Side Project of the German Pop Punk Band "Die Toten Hosen".

http://www.myspace.com/asmodibizarr

http://www.dead-babies.de/framedat.html (German)

The Cemetary GirlZ [Fra]

The band was founded by The Crazy Singer Dj Alien S Pagan in September 2006, Romeo and Manu/Zorch ( Camp Z / Zorch Factor ) (both former members of Sleeping Children) Join The Band a few months later in Paris .

They decided to play together and to work on a DIY concept for the band, fiercely determined to pursue the lineage of French Coldwave, Deathrock, Batcave .They recorded a 5-tracks demo to spread their evil sounds and are preparing a full debut album that should be finished next year .

They Play Live With : Camp Z, The Eternal Fall, Sieben, Witching Hour, Soror Dolorosa.

http://www.myspace.com/thecemetarygirlz

The Cemetary GirZ first MCD can be download from Zorch Factory Records net label:

http://zorch.free.fr/label/cemetary_girlz/cemetary_girlz_demo_mcd.rar

Acid Bats [Mex]

Pretty straightforward Mexican death rock.

http://www.myspace.com/acidbatsmx

Crimson Muddle [Fra]

Crimson Muddle was born from Miss Hellebore's nightmares in late 2003. It went thru several incarnations, while Hellebore was trying to create the perfect creature. But since her various chimeres were never viable, she joined the delirious Deadchovsky.

Then, in 2008, Hellebore decided to give it another go... She sewed her head on a body made of Little Spigaou's legs, Abe Sada's arms and Annie-Dog's torso. And here's what came out of this new monster.

http://www.myspace.com/crimsonmuddle

Clouds by Night [Grc]

Clouds by Night were formed in 2004 by Manolis (Vocals, Keyboards, Programming) and George (Guitars, Bass).

4 track Demo CD "Waves of Emptiness" was released in Summer 2005.

All 4 songs of the demo are availiable in mp3 format in the band’s official website. http://www.cloudsbynight.com/

After the demo release, Panagiotis (Bass), Vasilis (Guitar), Sofia (Vocals) and George X. (Drums) joined the band.

Clouds by Night are currently composing and recording new songs, to be included in their first full length album.

Their music -being at its essence gothic rock- combines hard rocking drums and heavy guitars with dark vocals and majestic keyboards.

Although unavoidably influenced by classic gothic rock bands such as Love Like Blood, The Sisters of Mercy, Nosferatu and Lacrimosa, Clouds by Night filter those elements through their own artistic anxieties thus resulting in a unique, personal sound.

http://www.myspace.com/cloudsbynight

Mekrokiev [Mex]

MekRokieV - SaiNt StRa 2007 Zorch Factory net label release

MekRokieV borns at the end of 2004 in Mexico City like an acoustic solo project by PaVeL, starting with covers to The Sisters of Mercy and Sanguis et Cinis. The name MekRokieV it’s just an excuse to make music.

In September 2006 is finished the record of their first homonymous demo and it’s released with 4 own themes, a cover to Dionysos of the austrian Sanguis et Cinis and another cover to Bela Lugosi’s Dead of Bauhaus.

In April 2008 is published their first album titled SaiNt StRa, made in its totality by themselves which has 10 songs, 9 unpublished and the re-recording of one song from their demo. Their lyrics comes from vivid deliriums and altered neurons leaving in the open madness, desire, narcissism and surrealism meanwhile the music reflects energy to cause surprise emotions with unexpected and constants changes devouring different styles like Death Rock, Gothic, Garage and Punk.In this same year Charls and Chuck join the band too, with a most serious participation.

http://www.myspace.com/mekrokiev

http://www.zorchfactoryrecords.com/ (SaiNt StRa free download)

Date At Midnight [Ita]

The Dates at Midnight form in February 2007 by Daniel (voice, former Interior Deus), Paschal (bass, former Echoes of Silence), Francisco (guitar) and Danilo (drums, former Dirty Fake) for the passion to Gothic. New EP and gigs are to be presented in the coming future 2008.

http://www.myspace.com/dateatmidnight

http://www.discogs.com/release/1308871

Los Carniceros del Norte [Esp]

At the end of 2006, Txarly Usher, Nando Fausto and H. Zombie celebrates a secret meeting inside a cold-storage room. The mission was to make a conceptual record paying tribute to their favorite movies, recapturing the essence of the nerve and the direct thing as way of liberation.

This way there are born Los Carniceros del Norte and their album “13 Cuchilladas”, in wich they made their particular musicalization of classic horror films like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Nosferatu, The Shining, The Night of the Living Dead… with obvious musical influences like Parálisis Permanente, The Damned, Dead Kennedys, Lords of the New Church, Sex Pistols…

Los Carniceros del Norte are recording our next release now, more songs about classic horror films.

http://www.myspace.com/loscarnicerosdelnorte

800beloved [US]

Very jangly sparkling Chameleons-like guitars and airy vocals. They have several cassette only releases and mp3 releases on the internet and an album following.

http://www.myspace.com/800beloved

Redwood Trees [Ita]

Something between old school gothic and psychedelic nightmare landscape.

http://www.gothmp3.de/product_info.php?products_id=470&osCsid=f26945c2a96b6d9264bfb30303b6fc3a, sample music.

Avant-Garde [Ita]

In 2008, Avant-Garde released a new album called "Iron in Flesh" four yeas later after theire last album "Cyanure" in 2004.

http://www.avant-garde.org.uk/home.asp?p=disco

http://www.myspace.com/avantgarde1994

Silence [Ger]

SILENCEs hour of birth was already back in 1995. Similarly to most bands in initial stage, SILENCE made first musical efforts (which are not really worth mentioning). In 1999, the Bands work became more concrete and so, at the turn of the millennium, they recorded their first album "Enola".

Having matured through innumerable live shows and having lots of good new songs, SILENCE went once more to the studio to record the second album "the p/o/u/r letters" in summer 2003. The band has made a lot of progress concerning the sound and the writing of songs; as a result of this and of the great ambiance among the band members, the new CD is about 300% better than Enola.

In 2007 SILENCE recorded a 5-song E.P., called "Badtime Stories". In result of that, the Band signed a record contract with German Label Biohazzard Records (a division of Danse Macabre).

http://www.myspace.com/worldinsilence

http://www.worldinsilence.de/

Lissy Trullie

What impress you first? Her appearance or her music? She wore things like loose white t-shirts with vests or mens jackets with a fedora. Definitely she's another androgynous icon in fashion and music!

http://www.elle.com/photoshoot/13758/elle-april-2008-dj-lissy-trullie.html

http://www.myspace.com/lizzytrullie

By the way, they have yet to release the Self Taught Learner E.P.

Para Bellvm [Rus]

The St.Petersburg's band para bellvm is possibly the most successful, artistic and professional example of combination of traditional gothic..dark-rock sound with Russian lyrics, often with a mark of early Christian symbolism. The band was created by a vocalist Leonid Novikov in 1995. For time of existence it proved to be one of the most active and interesting project of St.Petersburg. para bellvm performed on plenty of festivals, starting from organised by Leonid Novikov himself the traditional gothic-festival «Radio Inferno» till the international festival SKIF. Based on public research para bellvm is considered one of the most interesting bands from St.Petersburg.


http://www.myspace.com/parabellvm