Blutengels Vampir-Pop ist erwachsen geworden. Die verzaubernde Fantasiewelt der unwiderstehlichen Berliner Düster-Dandys wird auf „Tränenherz“ ein gutes Stück persönlicher. Mit dieser zusätzlichen Erdung werden die mitreißenden, eingängig-pompösen Electro-Pop-Dramen der Gruppe um Chris Pohl, dem dunklen Charmeur mit der unverkennbar sonoren, tiefen Stimme, zu echten Erlebnissen, die auf Anhieb unter die Haut gehen. Mit einer bombastischen Produktion von José Alvarez-Brill (u.a. Wolfsheim) besinnen sich Blutengel auf alte Tugenden, um gleichzeitig mit ihrem wohl vielschichtigsten Werk um Lichtjahre nach vorne zu stürmen. Selten war Club-taugliche Pop-Musik Made in Germany derartig intensiv. „Tränenherz“ erscheint als reguläre Album-CD, als deluxe Doppel-CD mit 24 Stücken, sowie als streng limitierte Fan Box in edler Aufmachung, welche die Doppel-CD, ein weiteres Album mit Instrumentalstücken zum Sternzeichenzyklus, sowie ein dazugehöriges Fotobuch enthält.

The darkest hour is over. Leipzig-based Goth pioneer Ronny Moorings has lead CLAN OF XYMOX through the valley of tears and braced himself for new deeds after his last, downright elegiac and hopeless Dark Wave manifesto “Darkest Hour”. It still is not exactly a lot of light looming at the distant end of the tunnel – but it is proof enough after this bleak album that every night, however dark it may be, is eventually followed by a new dawn.
This dawn has now arrived – and drags along “Kindred Spirits”, an exceptional new work from the realms of the Dutch scene founder and passionate artist. True to its title, Moorings did not exorcize a new CLAN OF XYMOX studio album, but assembled an intimate, strongly biographic collection of cover songs that has been compiled, recorded and visualized as passionate as was formerly only done with the legendary mixtapes of old. After a trip into the own musical past on “Darkest Hour”, now is the time for a travel back to the artists’ musical idols, influences and soul mates – and there is a lot to discover on the way!
“Kindred Spirits” assembles eleven cover versions, entirely played, sung and recorded by Ronny Moorings. And what a selection it is: “Blue Monday” by NEW ORDER, “Question Of Time” by DEPECHE MODE, “Decades” by JOY DIVISION, “A Forest” by THE CURE or “Alice” by THE SISTERS OF MERCY may be songs one would have expected on Ronny Mooring’s perennial playlist anyway; the manner in which he reawakens these tracks to a new CLAN OF XYMOX life, however, astounds and enthuses more than was deemed possible. Warm, organic, somewhere between wavy Electro and fog-clouded Goth Rock… these honorary tributes show a completely new side of CLAN OF XYMOX – and revive immortal classics as a pleasant side effect. More surprising is a song like RADIOHEAD’s “Creep” that even after the first listen sounds like a well-known CLAN OF XYMOX track and was most skillfully interpreted. Pieces from DAVID BOWIE (“Heroes”, of course), SHOCKING BLUE, DEPARTMENT S, NINE INCH NAILS as well as SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES (sung by Mojca Zunga) complete an extraordinary release brimful with emotion and nostalgia.
Not only the song selection proves that “Kindred Spirits” is far from a profane cover album – also the almost sacred character with which Ronny Moorings worked on this record stands for its special worth. The songs chosen are of great value to him, influenced him and doubtlessly helped him through the one or the other dark hour – in the same manner as the music of CLAN OF XYMOX did this for countless other people. “Kindred Spirits” is an album, as personal as an evening with Ronny Moorings and his record collection. A lesson in soulful music – seen through the eyes of a hopeless music lover.

This 12" Vinyl edition is limited to 693 copies and includes:
Black 12" vinyl
Printed inner sleeve
2 fold-out posters (600 x 900 mm approx)
Alternative layout by Anna-Varney Cantodea
Hand packaged in a special jute-bag with black logo printed on backside
Autographed, hand-numbered and sealed with black sealing wax by Anna-Varney Cantodea
This shirt is an another than the shirt from the CD-set.
Infos about the album: Ghosts are walking balefully through the blood-red cornfield, where our black Goddess - the fabulous, transgendered Saint-Varney-of-the-Dead - is celebrating the third chapter of her magical sexorcism in a dark ritual of ultimate neutralisation. Her gentle, claw-like hands are brandishing a rusty, old castration-sickle, while she herself, as the purest incarnation of loveliest maidenhood, intones childlike phantasies of innocent masturbation with the voice of a broken angel.
In this gothic-pagan masterpiece of delicate perversion, a whole array of stringed instruments, bells and music-boxes are skilfully combining fragile moments of calm and security with powerful eruptions of dynamic insanity in that typical, unique Sopor manner.
As this crowning finale of the trilogy 'A Triptychon O Ghosts' unfolds, the artful expulsion of demons that is 'Children of the Corn' once again proves that Anna-Varney Cantodea is indeed the most important Death-artist the gothic underground scene has ever brought forth.
Harvest is coming...

Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble Of Shadows - A Strange Thing 2 Say (Collector's Edition)
Label:Apocalyptic Vision
Catalog#:none
Format:CD, EP
DVD, DVD-Video
All Media, Limited Edition, Digibook, 1999 copies
Country:Germany
Released:08 Nov 2010
Genre:Electronic
Style:Modern Classical, Synth-pop, Ambient

The fifth studio album from one of the most respected medieval-electronic fusion acts in the world. This CD includes a gorgeous 24 page booklet with exclusive all new art from Brian Froud. Brian Froud, the world famous fantasy/faerie artist (Labyrinth, Dark Crystal, Lady Cottington's Pressed Fairy book) designed all new artwork for both the regular and limited editions of this album. A must have for Froud fans!

The twelfth studio album by Swiss/German gothic band LACRIMOSA. Work on the album has began in January 2015.
The album will contain 10 songs, including «Mondfeuer» - the longest song in the history of the group, which exceeds the duration of a song «Die Strasse der Zeit», from «Stille» album.