Dark/Gothic

Artist: CAMERATA MEDIOLANENSE Label: Prophecy

Artist: GOTHMINISTER Label: Afm Records

Record Label: Parachute Style: Industrial Rock

The seminal classic first Whitehouse album released in 1980, one of the most important and influential records from the embryonic field of electronic and industrial music. CD features 8 page booklet with lyrics, technical info and review Record Label: Susan Lawly Style: EBM/Electro

Ltd. Panorama-Digipak. Eden is no place. Eden is a machine – so it says in the beginning of the liner notes to the 13th album by Diary of Dreams. If you thought you could grasp the lyrical contents of “Hell in Eden” with a quick glance, these words prove differently and offer a first taste of the actual scope. Musically, “Hell in Eden” is as energetic and monumental as no other Diary album has ever been before, but at the same time, it is also warm, dark and fragile. It touches you from the very first note and builds up a fantasy world in your head, tempting you to lose yourself completely in its magic. Adrian Hates has come up with another masterpiece: 13 incredibly intense and emotional hymns in a wide variety of moods and colors come together to make up a very special conceptual work with clear milestone potential. Adrian himself already lists “Hell in Eden” amongst his favorite albums. Let’s join him and discover the new chapter in his Diary Of Dreams Record Label: Accession Style: Pop

The limited digibook includes an exclusive blu-ray feat. a 150 min. live show! A passionate and intense album in every respect. Record Label: Nuclear Blast Style: Metal

Artist: Die Krupps Label: Artoffact Records

Artist: Various Artists Label: Dependent

Artist: Alex Cameron Label: Secretly Canadian

Artist: Chemicide Label: Prc Music/Mvd

Artist: Controlled Bleeding Label: Artoffact/Mvd

Artist: Drab Majesty Label: DAIS

Artist: Controlled Bleeding Label: Artoffact/Mvd

Artist: Of Montreal Label: Warners

A new original sin. A new paradise. A new beginning, created by yet another ending. We all die every day, we all breathe every day. This endless duality becomes especially apparent in the works of electronic chameleon Die Form. Founded almost 40 years ago as a revolutionary live act for the both lustful and visionary BDSM scene, the infamous French artistic couple Philippe Fichot and Éliane P. to this day retained two of its essential features: their unique artistry – and their knack for throbbing club hits right on the black pulse of the present. They balance on a knife’s edge, embrace both death and life, night and day, pain and love, evil and good. It’s never just black or white for them. Instead, it’s the myriad shades of grey that rule their art. It’s the myriad shades of grey, after all, that rule our lives. “Baroque Equinox” is a carnal and courageous thrust into a new age. A manifesto both showing the future and looking back at was once was. A new equinox. Night and day are alike, a metaphor that could not describe Die Form any better. Day and night, Eros and Thanatos united, even perennialy tied to each other. The one is impossible without the other, and for one sweet and endless moment it remains unclear in which direction the pendulum will swing. Only one thing is certain: It will push the masses to the dancefloor with a gripping beat and visionary electronics. Brilliantly crafted by these pioneers of electronic music, “Baroque Equinox” embraces powerful Electro and the Avantgarde, baroque’s mesmerising opulence and a sterile beat, rhapsody and brute force. Sinful night and innocent day set the stage for a work of hypnotising potency, for a panopticon of Electro, Industrial, Techno, classical music, sex or eroticism?, poetry and the Butoh theatre of the far east. Never before have peccable club culture and artistic ambition been getting along so well. The times in which the French couple freely gave in to fetish and sex are equally over as their era of pure Bach worshipping which catapulted them out of the dark scene and into the consciousness of serious music lovers worldwide. Today, as a mark to celebrate this special event of a baroque equinox, they give birth to a new beast about to bestow new facets upon the world of Dark Electro. A beast with a Janus face and two hearts. A suffering human being in a post-apocalyptic dystopia, a creature carrying the untouched purity of nature in his heart and the marching beat of the industrial revolution in his mind. “Baroque Equinox” is a moment floating freely, a state that can any minute turn towards light or darkness, towards silence or chaos. Just like in one of Gustave Courbet’s ("L'origine du monde") pictures in which a hint of a looming abyss is ever present despite all aesthetic beauty, this album is a true testimony for the times we live in and yet sounds like having fallen out of time. How they still manage to pull off something like this after a staggering 40 year career? This, to be sure, will once again remain their secre Record Label: Trisol Music Group Style: Goth Rock

Moontower is a solo studio album by the Swedish musician Dan Swanö. Dan Swanö described the album as sounding like “If Rush played death metal in the 1970s”. The album cover is a close up of Swanö's own eye. Record Label: Black Mark Style: Metal

Artist: Third Realm Label: Distortion Productions

Artist: Stiff Little Fingers Label: Edel Germany Gmbh / Hamburg

Artist: Chris Spedding Label: Cleopatra

In designing the PALAIS IDEAL, John Edwards (guitars, vocals, synths, programming) and Richard van Kruysdijk (bass, baritone guitar, backing vocals, synths, programming) have joined ranks with bands such as Editors, She Past Away, Lebanon Hanover, Trentemøller and Ikon, who have also drawn inspiration from works by The Cure, New Order, The Sound and the Sisters of Mercy. As musicians and producers, both members have worked on projects for independent and major labels and collaborated with members of Bauhaus, Tuxedomoon, Christian Death, The Legendary Pink Dots, Clan of Xymox, Swans Constructed from fragments of post-punk, new wave and goth. Foundations are provided by vintage synthesizers and drum machines. Sweeping guitars and vocals create overarching structures. Romanticism and stark modernism are fused into an energetic new style. Record Label: Dark Vinyl Style: Dark Wave