I've been rediscovering music from my youth recently, and I have a lot of love for this band. They started as a darkwave/Neue Deutsche Todeskunst band, but added elements of metal to their style.

dark ambient / dungeon synth, 2023

track link: https://cloistershadows.bandcamp.com/album/whispers-from-the-crypt

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31383275

Something I missed a couple years back and only just now managed to stumble upon. Though I'm definitely liking it so far.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31384960

post-punk, 2025/2020

https://www.instagram.com/theshelsons/

heard on https://www.twitch.tv/djdeadparrot

track link: https://theshelsons.bandcamp.com/track/sadness-song-remastered-2025

Such sad news 😢

This was released today, and I can't stop listening to it.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/31256349

I've only listened to the first few tracks off of it. But so far it has a nice mellow witch house sort of feel to it.

dark ambient / noise, 2025

Brandkommando is a one-man-band from Warsaw, Poland. Its style is clearly harsh noise with a strong industrial influence and spoken words, speeches or modulated/distorted human voices. Lyrical themes are about social issues, politics, anti-racism, third world, anti-war, etc. ...

https://www.discogs.com/artist/379430-Brandkommando

heard on https://www.twitch.tv/djalayt

track link: https://zoharum.bandcamp.com/track/logic-of-existence

electro-industrial, 1992 (1994)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clock_DVA

track link: https://heavenlyvoicesrecords.bandcamp.com/track/bitstream-teledildonic-version

For those unfamiliar. SP statistically are near something like Lebanon Hannover or closer to Selofan. Dark throbbing synths. With vocals ranging from monotone whispers to outright moans.

A new release from Arizona's own Calabrese. Definitely one of my favorite horror Punk bands. If you like The Misfits these guys will likely be right up there with you.

Wave-Gotik-Treffen is “one of the largest events of the gothic, cybergoth, steampunk, and rivethead subcultures worldwide”. It ran through this weekend in Germany and just finished up.

• the photostream of outfits link from above
• photos from the hearse parade
• a video of moments at WGT
• in case you missed it, the photostream from the Victorian Picnic posted on Friday

The following are in German but automated translators work pretty well:

• index of stories about WGT 2025
• blog about WGT 2025

໋ https://youtu.be/gINXWJXa9uE ໋ / song.link

… from the album Shadow Self by Cataphiles (Discogs)