The group first gauged their fans reaction to an alternate mix on Reddit.
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Ottawa Darkwave Duo Violentene Unveil “Victims Of Light” EP — Includes Two New Songs “Overcome” and “Beginnings”
Violentene’s new EP, Victims Of Light, has the pale glamour of a city seen through a rain-streaked cab window at 2 a.m., all angles, reflections, and private wreckage dressed up for public display. The Ottawa synthpop duo knows how to hold a mood in place: across these five tracks, the duo sounds newly focused. The genre tags still hover nearby: synthpop, darkwave, retrowave, dreampop, synthwave, yet the record feels less concerned with scene allegiance than with emotional temperature.
Roland M. arranges the synth lines and drum programming with a sleek severity, as Mvrijo steps through the center of it all with a voice that carries cool distance and bruised longing in the same breath, giving these songs a soft, dangerous glow.
Savage City sets the tone with a sharp sense of modern alienation, full of pressure, suspicion, and the craving for something real in a world that keeps offering chrome substitutes. The hook has a sly persistence, and the production gives the track a taut frame that keeps its emotion from spilling over into melodrama. Other Side of Eternity goes deeper. The synths rise in long, gleaming waves, and Roland’s Moogs and Korgs lend the track a stately ache, as if some old cathedral had been rebuilt in glass and wired for electricity. Mvrijo’s performance carries the song with grave composure, turning its imagery of pain, peace, and passage into something felt rather than merely stated.
The title track is the EP’s finest argument for Violentene’s growth. Victims Of Light holds density and delicacy in an almost unnerving balance, letting the arrangement stretch and tighten with superb discipline. There’s a calm surface, although beneath that poise, you can feel all kinds of psychic wear and tear grinding away. Lyrically, the song is preoccupied with endurance, with sanity slipping by degrees, with survival becoming habit.
The two unreleased songs, Overcome and Beginnings, complete the EP by deepening the mood and broadening the emotional scope, showing that this release was sequenced with real thought rather than assembled for convenience or chronology.
“Creating these songs feels like a slow drift between beauty, tension, and emotional freefall,” says Mvrijo.
Roland adds, “We’re always stoked to get our music out to the world – in our heads the songs already exist in a space where beauty and collapse touch, but felt so inspiring to create!”
That tension between beauty and collapse is exactly where Victims Of Light lives, and Violentene handle it with rare poise. This EP feels cold to the touch, but there’s a live wire tingling under the skin.
Listen to Victims of Light below and order the EP here.
Roland Marckwort launched Violentene in 2017 as a way to reconnect with the ambient and dream pop ideas he first explored in the late 1990s with Venus Swirls. That project later evolved into the electro outfit Liquified, which released two acclaimed CDs, earned significant chart success, and secured a deal with World Domination Records.
After a brief stint as a DJ, Roland went on to join the indie/new wave four-piece Politique, who released two albums, played many sold-out shows, and completed a Canadian mini-tour between 2008 and 2012. In 2017, he also collaborated with New York singer Dani Mari (Primitive Heart), producing and releasing the EPs Denial and Phantom Youth, both of which found a strong following within underground shoegaze and dream pop circles.
Mvrijo has been singing since her teens and has fronted several popular Canadian indie rock and pop acts. She and Roland connected in Ottawa in late 2019, united by a shared desire to finally bring the project to the stage and work together locally. They quickly began work on the Otherworld EP, and her arrival in Violentene proved to be the missing piece, helping bring the duo’s vision fully into focus.
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Skrillex – “Duro” (Feat. Young Miko)
Last time we checked in with Puerto Rican rapper Young Miko, she was interpolating Lil Wayne and Lil Jon on her single “WASSUP.” That was almost a year ago, and since then Miko has continued her ascent, including an appearance in Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show. Today she’s shifted into hyperpop mode on “Duro,”…
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Paradise Lost’s “Gothic” Set For Newly Remastered 35th Anniversary Reissue
A bonus 1991 live performance is included.
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Watch: Arch Enemy Played Their First Show with New Vocalist Lauren Hart
Last month, Arch Enemy announced to the world that their new vocalist was now ex-Once Human frontwoman Lauren Hart. She was coming in to fill the void left by Alyssa White-Gluz’s departure last November and right away they released a new track with Hart’s vocals, “To The Last Breath”.
Of course people online were a mixed bag of reactions to Hart’s inclusion, but a lot of what people were going to judge her on was always going to be her live performances with the group. Now, with the band touring through China, we finally have some live footage of her fronting the band at Dongsan Live in Beijing.
According to setlist.fm, the Arch Enemy setlist for the show was:
- Yesterday Is Dead and Gone (First time since 2016)
- The World Is Yours
- Ravenous
- War Eternal
- My Apocalypse
- To the Last Breath (Live debut)
- Blood Dynasty
- Bury Me an Angel (First time since 2015)
- Silverwing (First time since 2015)
- The Eagle Flies Alone
- No Gods, No Masters
- I Am Legend / Out for Blood
- Dead Bury Their Dead
- Blood on Your Hands
- Enemy Within
- Liars & Thieves
- Snow Bound
- Nemesis
- Fields of Desolation
The fan filmed footage shared below gives the world its first real glimpse at how Hart will handle the role that featured other incredibly talented female vocalists like White-Gluz and Angela Gossow, who called her “Angela incarnate.”
So check out the clip and let us know in the comments what you think about Hart’s inclusion in Arch Enemy. I’m sure I didn’t have to tell you to do that since MetalSucks readers are… opinionated, to say the least.
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Nevermore Reveal Work Permit Delays Are Hampering Their U.S. Touring Plans
The band have also been forced to drop from this year’s ‘ProgPower USA’ festival.
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Madeline Goldstein Radiates Defiant Unity in Video for Luminous Synthpop Single “One Star One Body”
The mind is not a ghost riding inside the body, but a movement of the whole being, like a wave that cannot be separated from the sea. To be fully alive is to stop treating thought and flesh as adversaries and to feel them as one unfolding process. In that recognition, the body ceases to be merely a personal vessel; it becomes part of the great human current, joined to every hand, every breath, every sorrow, every joy. What we call self is not sealed off, but woven continuously into the living fabric of humankind.
Madeline Goldstein’s lovely new track One Star One Body arrives with the cool blaze of a private revelation beamed through a busted public world. As the final single before her new album Speaking To The Body drops on April 10th, it carries a sense of gathering consequence, as though Goldstein has been building a small altar out of dread, desire, discipline, and steel-lit beauty, then finally decided to set the whole thing ablaze. The song reaches toward the spiritual without going soft in the knees about it. It is tense, elegant, and full of pressure.
Those precise melodic turns and clear, glassy textures bring to mind Berlin, Eurythmics, and Til Tuesday, though Goldstein handles those touchstones like tools rather than trophies. The effect is theatrical, sleek, and a little severe, with a living-room intimacy pulled through chrome and voltage. There is anxiety in it, modern and intimate, bound up in the blur between the digital self and the physical one, in the daily business of watching the world deform people while trying to keep your own face from cracking in the mirror.
That emotional and political current runs straight through her lyrics. “This song is a protest song in a sense, trying to protest against the feelings of being paralyzed in the face of the inhumanities we visualize everyday,” says Goldstein. “It’s about fighting to become human again before we’ve lost our world. Our one star is our planet, our sun, our universe. And we have one body, our own with which we choose either to unite with the human body or to isolate.” That statement lifts the track beyond style and places it squarely in the realm of spiritual emergency.
The video, directed by Molly Dario and shot by Antonio Zapiain Luna, places Goldstein in a realm that feels suspended between ritual, simulation, and pop martyrdom. She appears transformed, heightened, almost transmitted from somewhere just beyond ordinary flesh, with a visual presence that calls to mind Enya meets early-90s Madonna by way of some celestial public-access fever dream. Every frame has a clean, stylized force to it. Goldstein moves through these synthetic environments like someone searching for communion in a world built from projection, code, memory, and want.
“I wanted to make a video where the universe it lived in was synthetic and created from nothingness,” says Goldstein. “It seemed the most fitting to represent the worlds we create for ourselves now online, both a source of creative freedom and of imprisonment and torture. Molly Dario is an amazing VFX artist who creates limitless retro-futuristic landscapes. This was our creative homecoming, as we both worked together in the infancy of our projects, and now have grown our distinct creative voices.”
One Star One Body feels like a transmission from somebody trying to pull spirit back through the machine before the machine swallows the signal whole.
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Listen to One Star One Body below and pre-order Madeline Goldstein’s forthcoming new album, Speaking to the Body, here.
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Hardcore Torchbearers PRO-PAIN Drop 2nd Single “March Of The Giants” + video!
Hardcore torchbearers PRO-PAIN share “March Of The Giants”, the second single off their long-awaited album Stone Cold Anger, out May 15, 2026 via Napalm Records. With their first album in 11 years, the New York legends—rising alongside Madball, Agnostic Front, and Sick Of It All—prove that they stayed on top of their heavy game throughout the years. “March Of The […] -
Bruce Soord announces new solo album ‘Ghosts in the Park’ and new single “Pillars”
As founding member and principal songwriter of The Pineapple Thief, Bruce Soord has spent the last decade steadily refining a voice that balances emotional directness with musical restraint. Set for release on May 15th, Ghosts In The Park, his latest solo album, is his most personal and unguarded work to date: a record shaped by loss, memory, and the quiet spaces that reveal themselves when life continues to move while everything else appears to stop. Bruce has shared the first single from the album, titled ‘Pillars’ alongside a new video produced by George Laycock.
Excessive, damaging introspection, I guess is the theme of the song. I remember the day in my life when I was liberated from my god-fearing introspection. Only then could I see the damage it had done to me and was still doing to the people around me. The song is about that: the damage I have witnessed. It’s framed around religion and penance, but it’s not anti-religion, it’s about balance. Oh and the line about pillars. It’s a bit of a playful reference to Saint Simeon Stylites, a Christian ascetic from around 400 AD. Legend has it he perched on top of a pillar for 37 years, taking himself away from the world in order to dedicate his life entirely to prayer, fasting, and repentance. I thought it was quite apt.
I’ve been working with George Laycock from Blacktide Productions for years now, it’s incredible what he can do with his imagination and camera. – Bruce Soord
Written over a two-year period while Soord was touring extensively with The Pineapple Thief, the album emerged in hotel rooms, unfamiliar cities, and moments of enforced solitude. Against this backdrop, Soord was navigating the drawn-out decline and eventual death of his father, alongside the continued progression of his mother’s Alzheimer’s. These experiences form the emotional spine of Ghosts In The Park – grief in motion, memory surfacing unpredictably, and the quiet determination to keep moving forward.
Bruce Soord – Ghosts In The Park
https://brucesoord.lnk.to/Ghosts_In_The_Park
Concepcion [01:25]
Pillars [03:10]
Meet Me On The Downs [03:05]
Kept Me Thinking [06:34]
Day Of Wrath [04:21]
Our Predicament [03:43]
Stared Down [04:33]
You Made A Promise [02:56]
Ghosts In The Park [12:52]
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UNVERKALT’s darkest vision, peformed live in studio
Héréditaire out now on Season of Mist “A band worthy of the ‘Rising of 2026’ list” — Metal Hammer DE Over the past decade, UNVERKALT have drawn closer and closer to the edge. On their new album, the post-metal luminaries pull the veil from our cursed existence in search for an answer to one pervasive questions: What do we […]