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It was a cold and wet night in Atlanta, Georgia. My flight had arrived in the early afternoon and nothing much had changed weather-wise; even my bones shivered from inside my leather jacket.
You wouldn’t know anything about that wintery weather from inside The Earl

A warning. We aren’t prepared for the journey through the electronic ages that is Zero Call’s Fears and Dreams of Living Machines. The electronic canvas revealed here is expressive and vastly layered, echoing into the far reaches of this ...
Read more: Without Borders: Zero Call’s Fears and Dreams of Living Machines - Music Review

The sparkling keyboards! The percolating rhythms! The neon! And the voice. Yeah, that smoky-toned voice. The 1980s are alive and well thanks to the nostalgic work of The Motion Epic. Their moody debut album, dropping from Business Casual ...
Read more: Promised You A Miracle: The Motion Epic’s Midnight - Music Review

Maybe it is the choral voices that makes the chill of the introductory track, “Themata Ex Mortuis” so effective or perhaps it is the slow burn of “Old Dust (The Crypt)” as an environment is unleashed for our imagination to prowl upon. Whatever it ...
Read more: Wake the Dead: Night Machine's Themes of the Dead - Music Review

Vocals! Vocals! Vocals! The new release from Oceanside85 is a wild ride through some pretty heavy dark synth and, my Goddess, those vocals of hers have NEVER sounded better. Yes, you read that correctly: Oceanside85 goes dark synth with her latest release: Absolution. ...
Read more: The Glitch is Back: Oceanside85's Absolution - Music review

Authenticity is sometimes a hard thing to spot. It is definitely a difficult thing to hear. The thing is, as is the case with this GENIUS work by Brighton’s 24:7, true works of authenticity can only speak for themselves and wait patiently – sometimes in the ...
Read more: Lasers in the Jungle Somewhere: 24:7's NAEON - Music Review

Dream Division returns with its analog experimentations! Using the Roland Juno-6, the Roland SH-101, the Roland RS-09, and the Korg Mono/poly synthesizer for its source of sounds, horror and dismay has never sounded as LIVE and DIRECT as it does ...
Read more: We Are The Hunted: Dream Division’s Vulture - Music Review

Do you always drive by night?" She said, looking at him with a worrying gaze. "Yes." He took a drag from his half burned cigarette while gazing the city lights below. "Isn't that dangerous? Especially in your line of work?" She turned her eyes to the city ...
Read more: Beneath A Blackened Moon: Spektor Baal’s Ancient Serpents and “Seed”

Sometimes in this life, we have to go back in order to find the right path forward. Roxi Drive, returning to the synthwave scene after her first release of Girl on the TV does EXACTLY that with her first full length LP. But there is something different this time out ...
Read more: More Than A Neon Paradise: Roxi Drive's Strangers Of The Night - Music Review

In the past week alone, the synthwave community has been inundated with quality releases hitting our ears just in time for the Halloween season. From Vampire Step-Dad’s EPIC Songs to a Haunt a House To to Gregorio Franco’s stunning Apocalypse Prime, the styles of the music might be ...
Read more: Silver Screen Stabbings: Cemetery Gates’ Welcome to Hell Part One - Music Review