While we dig ourselves out from the glut of ales, sprouts and assorted confections, the farthest reaching eyes of anticipation are already looking towards spring, summer and beyond in 2012. So far 2012 is looking like one hell of a year with one hell of a set of headliners at Download alone, and as days go by more and more events are fleshing out their bills.
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Angelspit are offering the chance to grab a piece of rock history and at the same time get a little insight into the industrial punk recording process. Sold with the line “get a glimpse inside the mind of a highly caffeinated psychopath” every page of these unique items is taken from the original work in progress lyric sheets from the writing and recording of the recent album ‘Hello My Name Is’.[...]

The Death Notes album Splinter approaches goth from a rolling cloud of distortion and effects like a winter mist in the moors. Appropriately enough on ‘Cold Dawn’, a track with a downplayed bass guitar bottom line that occasionally regains teeth, this haunting distortion is used to brilliant effect. The band has been compared to dozens of other acts but the two that seem to have stuck are Siouxsie and the Horrors. [...]

Calling All Astronauts début single ‘Someone Like You’ is a 4 track kaleidoscope of variation. The skeleton for all these mixes, the singles lead track has a charming classic goth sound with a curious tinny pulsing effect wrapping this appropriately spacey song. Lyrically ‘Someone Like You’ is defiantly individual with its hook “I don’t wanna be. I will never be. I don’t wanna be someone like you” [...]

Ethereal guitar Goth traditionalists The Death Notes are just over one short week away from the pinnacle of the Goth touring calendar with a date on the Saturday of this Novembers Whitby Goth Weekend. The bands position on the bill at the festival sees the act in the company of such scene luminaries as Abney Park, Devilish Presley, Berlin Black, Rhombus and Voltaire. [...]

To celebrate the release of new album ‘Dystopia’ Anglo-German metal act Lahannya have released a video for lead single Save Me. The album released October 3rd is yet another high quality hardcover digibook package with 32 pages and 12 tracks: Dystopia, Out Of Time, Save Me, Not Innocent, Cocoon, Never Enough, What Kind Of World, Beautiful Wasteland, Scavenger, The Stand, Only Time Will Tell and [...]

Middlesbrough alternative event Contagion’s opening night was an immense success with dozens infected in the first few hours. Now the buzz has had time to incubate and mutate, organisers have announced that their next event on October 28th is to be a Zombie apocalypse special. Just in time for Halloween this event promises the same balanced mix of EBM, Industrial, Goth and Deathrock but with a whole new roster of guest DJs backing up host [...]

This September, right on cue to carve its own niche in the university crowd, infectious Goth, EBM and Industrial night Contagion lands in Teesside and is set to hit harder than freshers Flu.
The brainchild of long established local club DJ Evil Eye Bri, Contagion is set to take place in legendary, dark, dank Middlesbrough club Basement (formerly known as Blaises) which itself has a long standing reputation[...]