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Tori Amos’ song ‘Stronger Together’ with daughter Tash offers a beacon of light in “dangerous times.”

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Sebastian Bach says he’s spoken to Dee Snider and they were both “kind of emotional”

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March 3rd, 2026 – Post-Punk band, SIREN SECTION has unveiled their long-awaited, full-length album, Separation Team.

Separation Team was born out of unfinished material dating back nearly a decade. Unexpectedly, the band found that the older compositions were in a similar stylistic “vein” as the newer ones. The songs began to reveal themselves as in a fully-realized concept album.

At the time, the band was effectively on hiatus. That changed when James was hospitalized and nearly died. A personal act of recovery became an imperative to create a record that confronted transformation, survival, and the cost of binding yourself to something larger than your own identity.

Separation Team opens with ritualistic, almost mythic language—phoenix imagery, summoning, the invocation of forces that the narrator doesn’t fully understand. It then takes that transformation earnestly, then follows it toward something more precarious and ultimately doomed. The title itself carries shifting meaning: it can be read as a break-up record, but that framing only captures part of the story. The record also explores dissociation, solidarity, and the dangerous comfort of shared escape—whether with another person or with a fractured version of the self.

Themes of metamorphosis and co-enabled destruction run throughout the album. The “separation team” becomes a vulnerable partnership that consolidates power at the expense of individuality—a tragic symbiosis that echoes a death-drive allegory. The record circles recurring images of cycles and return: the ouroboros, repetition, and the way identity erodes when something consumes you completely.

Musically, Separation Team is largely genre-agnostic, drawing from industrial, post-punk, shoegaze, and IDM without settling comfortably into any one lane. While theatrical at times, the album avoids melodrama, balancing emotional weight with bursts of noise, propulsion, and cinematic scale. Repeating motifs, lyrical callbacks, and electronic momentum thread the album together across its 80-minute runtime, resulting in a work that feels haunted, confrontational, and deeply personal—yet intentionally open-ended. Ultimately, Separation Team suggests that ruin often comes less from what happens to us than from how we come to understand it.

Separation Team is available on all major digital platforms worldwide.

Check out the lyric video for “Flinch” HERE:

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“I meant it as a joke, but it didn’t come across that way. I don’t know what he’s going through at the moment, but I wish him the best.”

The post Attila’s Chris Fronzak Apologizes To Beartooth’s Caleb Shomo For His Divisive Joke: “I Meant It As A Joke, Not A Jab At Gay People” appeared first on Theprp.com.

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.

The post Alysa Liu Wants To Skate To “Fire In My Heart” – No, Not The Simple Plan Song appeared first on Stereogum.

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…

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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.

Listen to Mortified below and order Morrow here.

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The post “Years Go Fast, Days Go Slow” — Dutch Synthpop Artist Raf Duran Dances Between the Ages in Video for “Mortified” appeared first on Post-Punk.com.

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.

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The post “Human Aggression and Machine Groove” — Dot Wall & Absolute Form Deliver Funky Old-school EBM on Split EP appeared first on Post-Punk.com.

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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BLACK REUSS FEATURED IN METAL INJECTION’S WEEKLY NEW RELEASES

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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