By: Chris Stead Ex-Voto is a group that is legendary with the Goth and Deathrock crowd. Their legacy reaches back to the late eighties and into the current year. Their career has spanned decades where they have made memorable and lasting songs, considered classics in the Goth culture. Their latest album, released in 2006, Doloroso, [...]

By: Chris Stead A hush falls across the crowd and the screens set at the back of the stage light up white. Little cheers go up here and there as the crew make the last preparations to the stage. VNV Nation makes a regular pass through Southern California on any given tour. The last time, [...]

By: Amy McCain, intro by Chris Stead Voltaire is a name that is known well in two specific communities. One, the literary community, with regard to the French political satirist and the other, the Goth community with regard to the satirical songwriter from New York. The thing they both have in common is the satire, [...]

By: Chris Stead Standing on the corner of Sunset Boulevard and Lemoyn, I see three women walk toward me from the club half a block down. The one in front introduces herself to me as Aimee and then gestures behind her and says “This is my mom and our drummer, Chelsea.” This is how I [...]

By: Chris Stead Type O Negative is a band that has quite a history and is a name known by many in the goth and metal scenes. Known most distinctly for their early nineties hits “Black No. 1″ and “Christian Woman,” they have grown far from those quirky 10-minute songs. Over the past 14 post-Bloody-Kisses-release [...]

By: Chris Stead Welcome to Alice’s musical incarnation. The Divine Madness is what it would sound like if one had visited Wonderland and then made music about it: dark, intriguing and addictive. They have been around for just about a year now and in that time they have created quite a buzz. Currently they are [...]

By: Chris Stead Ostia, an ethereal group out of the late nineties, produced and released a masterful ethereal album, “From the Aether” in 1997. Onced released, the group returned to that self-same “Aether.” Moving to different parts of Australia, Ostia lost the ability to persue anything more together for 10 years. For most groups, this [...]

By: Chris Stead Noir Project From the dark streets of San Diego at night comes Noir Project. A project started by William Wall in 2006, the sound and vision of the band has gone through some growing pains and a few revisions. Now William has set his sights more clearly on the target and is [...]

By: Chris Stead Starting as the brainchild of Jon Siren and Natasha Cox at LA’s Musician’s Institute, Mankind is Obsolete is clearly a synergistic project that reaches beyond any formal training than any Yngwie Malmsteen seminar could provide. All of their formal training was simply a stepping stone for their true vision which is a [...]

By: Chris Stead The Horrors A New “Old” Sound There is a new sound emerging in the music world and it sounds like a little piece of vintage goth/punk heaven. This sound is being produced by a group called The Horrors. A little bit punk, a little bit electro, dressed in black and made up [...]