Since winning America’s first gold medal in the Winter Olympics’ women’s free skating event since 2002, Alysa Liu has been at the center of attention. It’s not just her skill that’s been the topic of discussion, but also her music taste. After skating to PinkPantheress and being thanked by the pop singer herself, the ice skater has been asked about what else she wants to skate to. Yesterday she mentioned “Fire In My Heart,” and during her appearance the Today Show misinterpreted it as Simple Plan’s 2013 pop punk anthem.
In January, Charlotte Cornfield announced her new record Hurts Like Hell. So far the Canadian singer-songwriter has released the title track and “Living With It” featuring Feist. Today, she’s back with “Lost Leader” with Christian Lee Hutson. “This is a hard song,” Cornfield says. “But I also think it’s a little bit funny. Tragicomic maybe? It’s…
Photographs won’t bring me back Lightness is a skill I lack Faces of names I used to know Years go fast, days go slow
Somewhere in Amsterdam, there’s a laptop glowing in the dark, and Raf Duran is staring straight into it, trying to figure out why the years feel like they’ve been quietly replaced behind his back. The man makes ‘synthpop for the Anthropocene,’ which sounds like a phrase cooked up in a think tank, but in practice it feels more like someone dancing in the kitchen while doing a light, traumatic doomscroll.
Duran calls it “music for dancing on the volcano,” and you get the idea quickly enough. The machines sparkle with that early-’80s electronic glow; the sort of clean lines you’d expect from someone raised on Depeche Mode, Fad Gadget, and the Pet Shop Boys, yet the mood belongs to this peculiar era where climate graphs rise like horror charts, and AI threatens to write your diary before you even live it.
The lead track, Mortified, co-produced with Sebastiaan Dutilh of the Dutch hyperpop duo CUT_, opens with this reality check: “I woke up halfway through the fall / In a body I don’t recall.” The lyric lands like a cold splash in the sink at three in the morning. Aging, memory, identity…the whole rattling parade of existential concerns, in fact, suddenly crowd the stage.
The video leans into that discomfort. A body stands in darkness, lit by a single beam, and Duran looks directly into the camera with a steadiness that calls up the stark intimacy of Sinéad O’Connor confronting the lens. There’s nowhere to hide in that frame. Just a face, a light, and the uneasy sense that time is quietly pushing everyone forward, whether they feel ready or not.
A 75-year-old friend appears in the video as well, dancing with a certain stiff grace that feels both funny and quietly heroic. The implication hangs there: this might be Duran decades down the line, still moving, still upright, still finding some way to keep rhythm in a world wobbling toward environmental collapse and geopolitical panic.
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Morrow, the EP that houses Mortified, follows last year’s Cassandra. Where that earlier record stared outward at democracy cracking and war clouds gathering, this one turns the lens inward. Mortality creeps in close. Cheerful? Hardly. Necessary? Maybe more than most pop records care to admit. Someone has to talk about the end of the road. Raf Duran just happens to bring a drum machine to the conversation.
Somewhere between a warehouse dance floor and the inside of a malfunctioning fax machine lives the kind of music that makes your shoulders jerk before your brain catches up. Dot Wall out of Albuquerque and Absolute Form from Indianapolis clearly understand that impulse. Their split cassette: four tracks total, two per side, issued on pink or yellow tape like a fluorescent artifact from some basement bunker, lands with the physical thump of classic Electronic Body Music, the kind that used to rattle concrete and keep bartenders wide-eyed until sunrise.
You can hear the old bloodline running through it: Portion Control, Clock DVA, Cabaret Voltaire, Front Line Assembly, Front 242, the early synthetic fever of Skinny Puppy. Those ghosts hover in the machinery here, though the record doesn’t feel like a museum exhibit. Vintage synths cough and groan, drum machines clatter with stiff-backed authority, and the basslines move with a loose-limbed funkiness that gives the tracks their hips. Industrial music sometimes forgets it once had rhythm; this tape remembers.
Dot Wall’s half carries the strange charisma of a lone operator who has spent too many nights staring into blinking equipment. The project, a solo mutant from Albuquerque, pushes minimal-wave instincts toward heavier terrain. You picture the live show while listening: masked anonymity, a body moving with mechanical glee, a dance floor coaxed into reckless motion. The lyrics circle around what the artist calls “Electronic Body Miscreation,” which sounds like something scribbled in a lab notebook after three sleepless days and a dangerous amount of caffeine. Pleather, silicon, chains – props that promise spectacle while the machines grind out their sly, crooked groove.
“I wanted to channel older funky industrial stuff, fusing both human aggression and machine groove,” they say.
Absolute Form approaches the form from another angle. This project leans into discipline and tension, channeling the muscular momentum of early EBM through modern industrial weight. The beats land with blunt certainty, the vocals bark with street-corner agitation, and the whole thing carries the feeling of a factory line suddenly deciding to dance.
The artists themselves are refreshingly plainspoken about what they’re chasing. “I wanted to have these tracks harken back to the golden age of EBM that felt primal and danceable, with lyrics that bring light to hypocrisies against humanity in a punk kind of way,” they say.
Even the visuals play along. Infinity Plus Two supplies imagery inspired by vintage video synths and analogue mixers, the kind of wobbling electronic colour fields that once filled late-night public-access broadcasts. It suits the record perfectly. This split tape feels like a transmission dragged out of some forgotten rack of gear: loud, strange, and oddly joyful. Get groovin’.
Listen to Split Tape below and order the album here.
Touché Amoré is marking a decade of their groundbreaking album Stage Four with a deluxe anniversary reissue arriving digitally on April 10. The expanded edition features eleven new tracks, including unreleased demos and remixes with artists Cody Votolato (The Blood Brothers), Youth Code and Kerry McCoy (Deafheaven). Lead single Rapture (Gloom Edition), a tender collaboration […]
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Swiss One-Man Melodic Gothic Metal Project Drops Fourth Album DEATH
Swiss melodic gothic metal visionary Black Reuss , the one-man project of Maurizio Dottore , has been featured in Metal Injection’s weekly injection of new releases , sharing space with heavyweights like Rob Zombie, Carpenter Brut, Blackwater Drowning, Cryptic Shift, Doomsday Astronaut, Necrofier, Nothing, Unverkalt, and A Wilhelm Scream . The spotlight comes as Black Reuss releases his fourth full-length album, Death , via Golden Robot Records .
“Death isn’t an ending—it’s a passage,” says Dottore. “This album dives into the currents beneath the surface, where identity dissolves and truth becomes quiet. I want listeners to connect with that flow and experience it live on stage.”
Death features drums by Diego Rapacchietti (Coroner) , with production, mixing, and mastering handled by Roberto Macis and Giovanni Versari , and vocals captured by Roberto De Luca . Dottore wrote, composed, performed, and produced the album, creating a fully immersive gothic metal journey.
The album follows Black Reuss’ previous releases:
Metamorphosis (2021) – the turbulent birth of transformation
Journey (2022) – navigating self-understanding
Arrival (2023) – clarity, acceptance, and inner strength
With Death , Black Reuss delivers music for fans of Type O Negative, Katatonia, and Black Sabbath , blending melancholic melodies, heavy riffs, and emotional depth.
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In 2024, Callahan & Witscher released their debut album Think Differently, which earned them a Band To Watch honor. Last month, the duo announced its followup called Sorry To Hear That. Today they’re sharing “Rather Be Alone” featuring LA-based musician F.G.S. Along with F.G.S., Sorry To Hear That features Shed Theory’s Marlon DuBois, Cloud Nothings’…
The self is rarely a steady flame; more often, it flickers between frost and fire. One moment, the heart retreats into a cool chamber of reason, protecting itself with distance, clarity, and restraint. The next, it surges forward, reckless with longing, warmth spilling through every guarded seam. Between these states lies the uneasy terrain of being human. Too much coldness calcifies the soul; too much passion consumes it. Yet it is precisely in the oscillation, this quiet pendulum between detachment and desire, that a person discovers their shape. Identity forms in the tension between the urge to withdraw and the need to feel everything.
Barcelona’s HUIR circle this same inner weather on their new single, succinctly titled You. Ana Of The Head and David Solazo, a pair who formed the group just a few years ago, approach darkwave with the attitude of people who know storms well enough to walk straight into them.
You is a visceral exploration of inner struggle and personal healing. Synths surge, guitar lines cut across the air, percussion cracks like thunder rolling between buildings. The melody travels through the track like lightning splitting a night sky open. With an immersive atmosphere and lyrics charged with determination and power, the song moves through silence, confronts the wounds that shape us, and transforms vulnerability into strength. Huir builds tension with patience, letting the track breathe before the next charge lands. Ana’s voice carries a calm authority, gliding through the electronic current while Solazo’s guitar sends sparks across the rhythm.
The band digs into the emotional complexity of the self, navigating between coldness and passion until the song begins to feel like a private reckoning staged at full volume. That friction becomes the engine. Pain meets persistence; distance collides with desire.
The video, directed by Alex Francitorra and filmed at Groove Sabadell, expands that idea through movement. A cast of artists from the international darkwave community appear as living extensions of the track: SIIE, Emmon, Aux Animaux, Dlina Volny, Carrellee, R.Missing, and Night In Athens. Each performer translates the song’s emotional push through gesture and motion, turning the screen into a gathering of kindred spirits who understand that healing often begins by stepping directly into the storm.
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Listen to You below and order the single here. You can pre-order States of Lighthere.
HUIR formed in June 2022 and quickly moved from rehearsal rooms to the studio. By April 2023 they had recorded their debut EP, Triumphal Arch Lovers, released through the German label Cold Transmission Music. The record was produced, mixed, and mastered by Maurizio Baggio (Boy Harsher, The Soft Moon) at La Distilleria in Italy.
In February 2025, the band followed with a remix EP featuring reinterpretations by The KVB, Buzz Kull, R. Missing, and Fragrance, once again mastered by Baggio. Two months later, HUIR returned to Italy to record their second EP, States of Light, which they will present live across Europe from October 2025 into 2026. Along the way, HUIR have shared the stage with influential acts such as Chameleons and Lebanon Hanover
Their growing live presence has taken them to festivals and venues including Primavera Sound, Ombra Festival, and several dates in Germany, such as Cold Transmission Label Night, Cold Temple Festival, Eastside Open Festival, and Cold Hearted Festival, alongside appearances at Barcelona’s Cruïlla Festival.
Touché Amoré is marking a decade of their groundbreaking album Stage Four with a deluxe anniversary reissue arriving digitally on April 10. The expanded edition features eleven new tracks, including unreleased demos and remixes with artists Cody Votolato (The Blood Brothers), Youth Code and Kerry McCoy (Deafheaven). Lead single Rapture (Gloom Edition), a tender collaboration […]
