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

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.

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.

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

The Sunday Reeds [Aus]

The Sunday Reeds are a female-fronted noise pop/rock band named after 1930/40s Melbourne patron of the arts Sunday Reed. The love-child of some kind of rock 'n' roll orgy between The Jesus and Mary Chain, Joy Division, The Ramones and The Velvet Underground. Driving bass lines, plenty of guitar feedback, primitive rock beats and low, velvety female vocals. If Nico had joined The Ramones, strapped on a bass, and a whole lot more noise was added, this is how it might've sounded.

Debut album Drowning In History from Australia's finest purveyors of black clad, feedback and fuzz drenched pop/rock. Like the love child of some kind of rock n' roll orgy between The Jesus And Mary Chain, Joy Division and The Velvet Underground. If Nico had joined The Ramones, strapped on a bass guitar and a whole lot more noise was added, this is how it might have sounded.

http://www.myspace.com/thesundayreeds

Film Noir [Grc]

Film Noir is a Greece post-punk / new wave formed in 1985.

They released 2 albums :"Never Ending Dream" in 1986 and "Portrait Of A Child" in 1990.

http://www.myspace.com/filmnoirgr (fansite)

no more info.

The Social [UK]

The Social - A Call to Arms EP 2009

The Social are Laurence Hussey, Alfie Milner, Liam Westbrook & Stuee Bevan. Hailing from north London, they possess a raw and direct quintessential Englishness that is unnerving in its passion. Building upon their influences (Joy Division & The Smiths) The Social establish their own unique image. Driving, almost frenetic, drums bound tightly together by Laurences deep, operatic vocals and compelling bass lines, create a distinctive and gripping sound.

http://www.myspace.com/thesocialuk

Review:

http://www.roughtrade.com/site/shop_detail.lasso?search_type=sku&sku=310162

The Shadow Cabinet [US]

The Shadow Cabinet was created in mid 1999 by longtime Bay Area friends Todd Rhynes (drums)and Mark Sharp(bass). Out of an appreciation for goth pioneers such as the Sisters of Mercy and the jangly, unsettling sounds of Lords of the New Church, they have picked up where the icons of their past have left off. Todd and Mark already knew the sound they wanted with this project. The tribal yet melodic rhythm section was already in place and ready for the missing pieces. Soon, they enlisted the help of San Francisco native Michael Sessa, to bring a darkened textured approach. Lando Cerecedes was added for his unique guitar work which rounds out the sound and makes The Shadow Cabinet one of none.

The Shadow Cabinet's debut release "Solitude", is a dark rock master peice with songs touching on styles of heavy rock, gothic and pop. It displays great song writing skills, art and musicianship. Solitude was praised by critics around the globe.

www.myspace.com/theshadowcabinet1998

Exogen [Ger]

Exogen is formed in the searing and sweltering heat of June 2008 in scenic and stylish Düsseldorf. After a number of highly productive songwriting sessions the band finish their debut album 'Library of Light'. It's a kaleidoscope of eighties music featuring a range of styles inspired by the compelling guitar-based hymns of the Chamaeleons, Siouxsie and Peter Murphy, by the extravagant avantgarde epics of Bauhaus. Violin and viola were introduced into the songs after a new member Suzana Bradaric joined the band Oct 2008.

www.myspace.com/exogenmusic

http://www.lastfm.de/music/Exogen

Object [Fra]

This is more about coldwave flirting with post-punk. A great sense of melody. Swirling somewhere between The Chameleons and Mono with a touch of Joy Division and draped in the shadow of French coldwave

OBJECT is a Paris-based trio comprised of Stephane Pigneul (bass/voice), Benoit Perraudeau (guitar) and Jean-Christian Levé (drums).

After years of concerts and happenings, OBJECT released a debut five track EP in 2007. The press greeted the record with enthusiasm, citing influences such as Ulan Bator, Joy Division, I Love You But I’ve Chosen Darkness and Sonic Youth. A serie of concerts followed the release with OBJECT supporting acts such as Papier Tigre, Githead and Heligoland.

Start of 2009, Object release first album "A Place To Hide" on Str8line Records recorded and produced by Amaury Cambuzat (Ulan Bator, Faust) No concession : a powerful and dark music, "in your face" lyrics, a violent Post-punk spiral which doesn't let you indifferent.

http://www.myspace.com/objectlegroupe

http://www.object.fr/

http://www.str8linerecords.com/objectuk.html

Mary Goes Round [Fra]

The first appearance of Jérôme Avril and Cécile Balladino together on stage in 86 at the Rex Club in Paris playing guest for Sonic Youth can be considered as the very début of Mary Goes Round, although the name was not here yet. Maurice (bass guitar) and Gilbert Correy (drums) who played a key role in the creation of the band having introduced Jérôme to Cécile were on stage with Jérôme (guitar/singer) and Cécile (keyboard), doing their first steps named Red Light.

This gig was the only event for the band at this time. They had no real projects when they were given the opportunity to have a song released on the compilation Unreleased volume I in 87. For this occasion, the Shelter was recorded and the name Mary Goes Round was chosen. This version of the Shelter is the only studio recording MGR ever did with a drummer.

Nothing really important happened then until MGR participation in the compilation Unreleased volume II one year later. MRG recorded the Nightmare, with a drum machine to replace Gilbert who was still in the band but absent.

After this second compilation, MGR decided to produce their own album without Gilbert who definitely left the band. MGR recorded a five songs demo that led the band to a distribution deal with New Rose , the famous independant French label record. Eventually, the mini-lp Sunset, was released in 89.

http://www.myspace.com/marytourneenrond

The Sun And The Moon [UK]

The Sun and the Moon were Mark Burgess, John Lever, Andy Clegg and Andy Whitaker, with both Andy's on guitars. The group was formed when Andy Clegg and John Lever, recruited Mark (a friendship had developed between Mark and Andy Clegg who had played keyboards with the Chameleons) and Andy Whitaker. The two Andy's had been working together on another project (Music for Aborigines).

The band recorded an album, "The Sun and the Moon" and an EP, "Alive; not Dead", which included a cover of Alice Cooper's 'Elected,' a song which the Chameleons sometimes covered during their live shows.

The setup of the band, two ex-Chameleons playing with two guitarists, begged comparison to the Chameleons, though the band tried to develop its own sound. The Sun & The Moon broke up in April 1989.

http://www.myspace.com/thesunandthemoonmusic

The whole story of The Sun And The Moon:

http://www.thechameleons.com/press/index.php?article=22