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 ...

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  ...

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. ...

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  ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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  ...

“Darkest. Not much is known about his early life. In 1980, in the ruins of a deserted monastery, a nun's testimony was discovered. This anonymous scripture reveals that Darkest was a ritual composer of the Middle Ages who became a knight, then a crusader  ...

“I got a rock.”  Dressed as the bride of Frankenstein, Cindy never expected that her friends would ditch her on Halloween night.  She also never expected to be going through her trick or treat bag on the corner of the street.  But that’s exactly what she was doing. She pulled ...