Timeless

4 years has flowed from my last post, everyday are becoming the torture experience....

Peeling Grey [US]

Peeling Grey was formed in June of 2008 by Andy Smith and Mike O'Hare. Smith had taken a stab at writing lyrics and experimenting with four track home recordings throughout previous years.

The band made its debut live performance at Fonzfest with The Clash City Rockers (Clash tribute) on April 18th of that year. A string of live shows all over the Los Angeles area slowly started to develop local interest in the band, particularly from the underground Indie, Post Punk, and Goth scenes.

Peeling Grey has their sights set on further developing their sound that is routed in Post Punk. Despite their routes and influences that span many facets of that era, the group looks towards the future of music.....Akin to the original spirit of the past.

http://www.myspace.com/peelinggrey

The Lost Rivers [Ger]

The Lost Rivers is a Noisy Shoegaze/Psychedelic/Experimental band from Baden-Württemberg Germany.

Made up of Phil Walkendorf on Guitars and Vocals, Hell Pilot on Bass and Izzy on drums, this trio is relentless in delivering a constant barrage of psychedelia infused, post punk, shoegazing feedback laden tunes.

My Beatific Vision (2010) is their official EP at Northern Star Records.

http://www.myspace.com/thelostrivers

Charlotte's Shadow [Ire/Ger]

Charlotte's Shadow - Under the Rain 2010

Since their creation in Dublin in 2001 Charlotte s Shadow have dabbled in many genres and has drawn upon many diverse influences.

Later to reemerge in Germany the band ascertained their style that still proves to set them apart today. On many Levels it can be said that the band has been heavily influenced by the emotions that has dominated the early Gothic scene. Concentrating on concepts of romanticism, melancholy, despair and uncovering beauty in despondency Charlotte s Shadow endeavour to remain loyal to what their true definition of Goth music might be. It is through this style and commitment to the fundamental Goth genre, that the band has won over a strong fan base, and continue to receive critical acclaim worldwide.

http://www.myspace.com/charlottesshadowtheband

Telltale [US]

Telltale - Altahmam EP 2010


Brooklyn’s Telltale showcases an intriguing mix of experimental no-wave, reverb-soaked post-punk, and dark shoegaze. Featuring Eric Gilstrap, Laurie Ruroden, Stephan Cherkashin, and Lauren Andino, the quartet's ear-splitting washes of guitar feedback, deadpan chants and ominous droning wastelands doesn't so much blanket you as it does envelop you, overpowering you with Sonic Youth caterwauls and JAMC-esque walls of sound. The music churns in a slow burn, awash in effects, but there’s an aggression lurking just beneath the surface that maintains an uneasy atmosphere. There’s also a healthy dose of reverb to help wash down all the gauzy noise...

http://www.myspace.com/telltalemusic

The Mescaline Babies [Ita]

At the fall of 2009 Glauco (ex-Suicideathome, Broken Time Structure) and Kalle (ex-Enkil's Eye, Sleepy Crowd) decide to start a band that has nothing to do with their former projects. Basing on their common passion for bands like Scarlet's Remains, Christian Death and Mephisto Waltz, they record a bunch of pieces at home: "The Mescaline Babies" are born. After few months they complete the line-up with Daniele (bass) and Luca (drums), and now are recording their first EP at the Overground production's studio. The Mescaline Babies proposes a deathrock assault between the american sound and the european one, wich conjugates shimmering gothic atmospheres with the genuine vehemence of punk.

http://www.myspace.com/themescalinebabies

Blessure Grave [US]

Blessure Grave - Judged By Twelve,Carried By Six - 2010 @Alien8 Recordings

Judged By Twelve, Carried By Six is the debut full-length release by Blessure Grave.

Founded as a duo by T. Graves and Reyna Kay in September 2008, Blessure Grave blurs the lines between the Goth, Post Punk and Neo Folk genres. The pair has since developed the project into a full band while building a cult-like following, scattering various vinyl and tape releases on boutique labels around the globe.

Citing Killing Joke, Death in June, March Violets and The Cure as influences, Blessure Grave injects a pop sensibility into songs otherwise doomed to dreariness, creating an interesting mix of old and new but dark all around. The music initially appears rather simple, but quickly reveals the fact that the songs are fully fleshed-out and genuinely memorable. Perhaps what is misleading at first is that the recordings sound as though they were created in some kult black metal band’s dungeon for maximum fog-at-dusk fidelity.

http://www.myspace.com/blessuregravesd

http://www.alien8recordings.com/releases/judged-by-twelve-carried-by-six

Los Carniceros del Norte [Esp]

Los Carniceros del Norte - Poe is Dead EP - 2009


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…

After showing their monsters all around Spain and part of Europe, the visceral convulsions that take place in each of their meetings, leads them to continue their mission and tear into pieces a handful of new corpses… let’s start the 2nd Act!!

http://www.myspace.com/loscarnicerosdelnorte

The EP can be dowloaded below:

http://www.zorchfactoryrecords.com/releases/item/22-los-carniceros-del-norte-poe-is-dead-ep.html

Les Modules Etranges [Fra]

Les Modules Etranges - Dawn - 2009

Les Modules Etranges is a French coldwave / post-punk band founded in 2007.

http://www.myspace.com/lesmodulesetranges

Some downloads here:

http://www.archive.org/details/LesModulesEtranges-LiveRouen2Mai2009

Blue Jungle [US]

Blue Jungle - Baby Don't Cry 2009


"Psychocandy-style post-punk (plus Cramps, Mazzy, Brat and Wray) from the band that runs L'KEG gallery. Two-minute tunes with two girl singers and infinite reverb. They met in juvie and recorded this at home between hangovers. First press on black vinyl." -- (White Noise)

http://www.myspace.com/bbluejungle

I really love this band introduced by Elisabeth , not typically post-punk, but plays great noise.

Lower Heaven [US]

Lower Heaven - Ashes 2008

With a haunting sound and ominously reverb drenched melodies, Lower Heaven live up to their name which they've taken from an Echo and the Bunnymen lyric. Absorbing and reinterpreting influences like My Bloody Valentine, Hawkwind, and the Jesus and Mary Chain, the band has been able to defy constraints of genre classification by keeping the song writing, arrangement, instrumentation, and production of their work unconventional and innovative. Having finely tuned a sound that is very much their own, Lower Heaven have been turning the heads of their local peers, building a strong fan base, and creating a word of mouth buzz in Los Angeles for the past year.


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http://www.myspace.com/lowerheaven0

Ashes is really a great debut album, let's eye on this band!

Is post punk dead?

I really try to search out some old school post punker from the existing bands, but miserably fail to achieve. So can we say post punk is dead?
Everything should come to an end, maybe that's the answer.
Sigh.

In Camera [UK]

One of the first bands to be on the iconic 4AD label!
Born in London during the summer of 1978, they played a similar brand of post-punk.

In Camera came to Ivo’s attention when they opened a show for Bauhaus: displaying a spiky, P.I.L. , Joy Division and Section 25 influenced sound on their 1980 debut single "Die Laughing" (the first 4AD release engineered by John Fryer) the group had matured considerably by the time of their IV Songs EP at the end of the year.
The Fin EP was their 4AD epitaph: a Peel Sessions (BBC Radio 1) from 9 December 1980 which Ivo licensed from the BBC.

By 1982 the quartet had fallen apart.
Easily the band's strongest release, it featured the 12-minute monolith "Fatal Day".
Gray remained affiliated with the label, co-founding The Wolfgang Press in 1983, while In Camera briefly reformed in 1991 to record some new material for the compilation CD 13 (Lucky For Some).

http://www.myspace.com/incamera4ad

http://www.4ad.com/incamera/profile/

Burning Image [US]

Burning Image are a Deathrock band from Bakersfield, California.

They were an anomaly in the punk pantheon of the 1980s. At the time, hardcore punk was the rage but was becoming formulaic and dumbed down as quickly as the songs were getting faster and shorter. Burning Image had more in common with the English "batcave" bands of the period like Specimen than any hardcore unit. Their goth sound, mixed with a heavy dose of theatrical sensibilities, caught the attention of Jello Biafra, who quickly championed the band as one of his favorites, and he was instrumental in getting Burning Image to open numerous times for the Dead Kennedys. Burning Image also did shows with 45 Grave, Specimen, Butthole Surfers, and Dr. Timothy Leary, just to name a few. The band put out a 7" single with the songs 'Final Conflict' and 'Burning Image, Burning'.

In 2003 Alternative Tentacles released a CD of Burning Image's early unreleased demos titled "1983-1987." The CD contains a whole album’s worth of songs from the sessions for the rare single "The Final Conflict" b/w "Burning Image, Burning" (along with the single itself, of course). Three tracks — "Gargoyles," "Anytime, Anywhere," and "Temptation" — were recorded in July 2003. The current Burning Image website has two new songs—"Haunted" and "Zealot"—written for a new Burning Image CD.

Burning Image have re-formed and release in May their new album titled "Fantasma."

http://www.burningimageband.com/

http://www.myspace.com/burningimage

The Drowning Season [US]

Formed in early 2000, The Drowning Season is a Baltimore, Maryland, gothic rock band consisting of Matt Slowikowski (vocals, programming), Michael “Chewka” Marchewka (guitars) and multi-instrumentalist Sideshow (taking on drum, bass and synth duties). Major influences include The Sisters of Mercy, The Mission (UK) and Fields of the Nephilim.

The debut full length HOLLOW was released in June 2002 on the Morphenic Release imprint. Live ventures followed and included performances alongside scene favorites like The Mission (UK), The Cruxshadows, Voltaire, Gene Loves Jezebel, Stromkern and Assemblage 23. Many of the songs on HOLLOW still receive generous club and gothic radio play, while the title track was included on both the M&A MusicArt compilation “Angel Child VI: The Need for Silence” and the Cop International issued “Dark Awakening: Volume 4.”

CURSE was the long awaited second full length album out this year.

http://www.drowning-season.com/

http://www.last.fm/music/The+Drowning+Season

http://www.myspace.com/thedrowningseason

Project:KOMAKINO [UK]

PROJECT:KOMAKINO - The Struggle for Utopia - 2009

Born out of the dark thoughts of a world that could have been… PROJECT:KOMAKINO began as the solo music project of Kris Kane in March 2007.

PROJECT:KOMAKINO was unveiled at the now legendary Experimental Circle Club in April 2007 and was received with high acclaim. Kris went on to play a number of gigs with the like minded up and coming of the time, such as Ipso Facto, Electricity In Our Homes and Ulterior. After a year of angst and frustrated yet enigmatic performances, the one man band evolved into what is now a four piece, with the addition of Oscar Maya on drums, Jamie McQuade on bass and Andrew Hiles on synthesizers.

The band has been referred to as a group of shadows, clad in uniforms of espionage and driven by the duende. With songs about dystopian futures and darker times, the music is disturbing and makes the skin twitch when watching their live performances. The music is heavily influenced by 70’s British Post Punk, Constructive Design and Dystopian literature. This in turn has created a dark reverberated sound, accompanied by relentless drum beats, haunting vocals and intangible lyrics.

Debut album of PROJECT:KOMAKINO - The Struggle for Utopia is out already!

http://www.myspace.com/projectkomakino

Come to my SLSK acc: ambergw, if you want to dl this album.

93 Million Miles From The Sun [UK]

93 Million Miles From The Sun - St (2009)

93MillionMilesFromTheSun - aka Nick Mainline (Guitar/Noise Vox) and Rob Hogg (Bass/Noise) both live in Doncaster in the north of England.

They both create amazing shoegazing rock and they sound like a shoegazing Mogwai with bits of early Verve, My Bloody Valentine, Ride, Loop, Slowdive, The Cooper Temple Clause ect… 93MillionMilesFromTheSun are becoming quite popular in America and have become one of the very best shoegazing bands of recent times fastly becoming big favourites with people out there especially in the shoegazing scene.

93MillionMilesFromTheSun have already released an exclusive track on the “Secret Garden - The New Wave of Shoegaze (Nugaze)” compilation album along with other artists like Ulrich Schnauss and The Fauns. 93MillionMilesFromTheSun also play lots of live gigs in the U.K and are very good live.

Their self-titled debut album was out now!

Band myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/93millionmilesfromthesun

Fangs On Fur [US]

Fang On Fur - 2009 - Self-titled

Female fronted goth-punk-deathrock band from Los Angeles.

Classic 80's style.

http://www.myspace.com/fangsonfur

Phaidia [Jpn]

Phaidia - In the Dark - 1985

Band has Yoshida (Ruins,YBO2) on drums they make dark post punk/death rock the drumming is great some info: Phaidia was a Japanese deathrock band, formed in the early 80's. Cutting voice, powerful drums and guitars... They've been labeled "the Japanese Christian Death".

Their music was described as hard-edged, energetic goth rock with some leftover punk touches.

http://www.myspace.com/phaidiafanpage (fan site)

Wallenberg [Fra]

Wallenberg is the second start for one of the most important bands in the French cold-wave scene, since Wallenberg revealed himself from 1984 to 1988 with many live records supporting Play Dead, Jad Wio, Neva and many more… and several featuring on compilations, radio shows and TV appearances, which revealed them to the French audience, before a premature split, although an album was planned with EMI.

Wallenbeg is back in 2004 with a new line up around Hervé (singer and co-composer) and the release of their first real album on Manic Depression Records. And their song also appeared on on the Strobelight Records compilation "New Dark Age Vol.3".

http://www.myspace.com/wallenbergmusiccom

http://www.wallenberg-music.com/