The Sanctuary Gazette

ZIO comes from Tessenderlo, Belgium, and combines dark wave, new wave and alternative rock. Its self-released album In the Shadow has twelve tracks built on dense synthesizer layers, strong guitars and driving rhythms.

Orkus, in a piece by Jan Schütz, notes a balance between melancholy and energy, as well as cinematic passages that regularly tip into raw emotion. The magazine also observes that the band draws on the roots of the genre.

The duo NER\OGRIS, made up of Kai Neugebauer on electronics and Tino Claus on vocals, released two records on Fakenoise Recordings on 2 October 2026: the album Fame Fatale and Song We Wish We Had Written, a covers album. The style falls under dark electro, industrial and experimental.

Fame Fatale follows I Am the Shadow - I Am the Light and the EP Silenci. According to ReGen Magazine, distorted sequences grind against precise percussion, and the vocals shift from accusation to sarcasm. Tracks include “Antithese”, “A View”, “Graves”, “Glowing in the Dark”, “Unter Menschen” and, to close, “Dulcimer”. The lyrics deal with manipulation, alienation and the attention economy.

Song We Wish We Had Written gathers seven covers: Calva Y Nada (“Der Sturm”), Project Pitchfork (“K.N.K.A.”), Borghesia (“No Hope, No Fear”), Skinny Puppy (“Smothered Hope”), Tribantura (“Lack of Sense”), X Marks the Pedwalk (“Abattoir”) and Nitzer Ebb (“Come Alive”).

Priest releases the single Zombie Night on 31 October 2026, on the label Blue Nine. The project's sound falls within the realms of dark synthpop, dark electro and industrial music.

The release brings together two songs, namely Zombie Night and The Goblin Song.

The duo Years Of Denial has released the official video for Zero Fucks Given. The song is taken from the album Suicide Disco Vol. 3.

The band belongs to coldwave. Its sound ranges across post-punk, goth, new beat, EBM and industrial.

Ministry has released the video for Crickets, the single that opens its album Hate To Go - Take Out Or Delivery, billed as its last studio record. It is the first video from the album made without artificial intelligence. In it, Al Jourgensen reuses words by Barack Obama, in a text urging everyone to take their share of responsibility in the face of inaction, lest dictatorship take hold.

The album came out on October 30, 2026 on Cleopatra. It has ten tracks and was made in a festive atmosphere. It closes with Jourgensen's reunion with Paul Barker, a longtime member of the band and now his neighbor.

The Ðevil & the Uñiverse released the single Spectral Evidence on October 30, 2026 on the label The Devil & The Universe.

The project was created by Ashley Dayour, formerly of Whispers In The Shadow and Coma Divine, and David Pfister, who comes from Neigungsgruppe and Sex, Gewalt und gute Laune. Its universe blends witch house, drone, dark ambient, minimal synth, early music, industrial rhythms and goth, with an occult bent. Its name comes from two tarot arcana.

Ultrviolence, a Canadian post-punk project, released the single He Falls on October 30, 2026 on the label Effigy Records.

The project is built around its founder and main songwriter, Nate Jespersen. Originally from Calgary, he has settled in the Okanagan region of British Columbia, a rural and mountainous area.

The Grab Society released the single Eternal (Halloween Mix) on Echozone on October 30, 2026. It includes the Halloween mix and its instrumental version, Eternal (Instrumental Halloween Mix).

The project brings together Ulf Müller and Manfred Thomaser, born from the idea of composing a song together. The two musicians explore electro, pop, wave and experimentation. Their first single, Outsider, came out on April 28, 2023.

The Seattle post-punk band Black Ferns unveils Failed Plans, the new single from its third album Di Lodus, which features eleven tracks.

The song takes an abandoned ship trapped in Arctic ice as its image and turns it into a mirror of an exhausted romance. Zoran Macesic plays the guitars, with long, heavily processed chords that Post-Punk.com compares to Echo & the Bunnymen. The bass and drums keep a steady, almost mechanical rhythm, while the synthesizers add a cold tension. The lyrics' imagery remains abstract, and the distant voice at times melts into the instrumental layers.

The production is by Lincoln Traveller, who leaves space for the instruments while keeping a sense of confinement.

The production company Story Kitchen is preparing a film adaptation of Madison, a horror video game released in 2022 by Bloodious Games, Écran Large reported on October 28, 2026. The studio, founded by Dmitri M. Johnson and Michael Lawrence Goldberg, specializes in game adaptations: it is behind the Sonic films, among others, and is working on House of the Dead, which Paul W.S. Anderson is set to direct.

In the game, Luca wakes up locked in a room, blood on his hands, his furious father on the other side of the door. He takes refuge in an abandoned part of the house. The instant camera he received for his 16th birthday lets him see what escapes the living, possible ghosts and demons, and he tries to carry out a ritual in order to survive.

According to Écran Large, the game recalls Project Zero, Layers of Fear, Insidious and Resident Evil 7, without standing out for its originality.

Scream Factory announces, in a post on social media, that an original negative of Sleepaway Camp (1983) has been found. The label is working on a 4K restoration of the film.

Written and directed by Robert Hiltzik, this cult slasher follows cousins Ricky (Jonathan Tiersten) and Angela (Felissa Rose) at a summer camp, where a series of deaths leads to one of the most talked-about endings in the genre.

Horror Obsessive points out that what is at stake goes beyond image sharpness. The film relies on what is left unsaid, and high-definition editions have already made the backlit silhouette, the film's most unsettling shot, less opaque. The site also notes that continuity errors, such as a policeman's visibly fake mustache, would become more noticeable. In its view, a good restoration must keep the grain and the flaws, and the negative makes it possible to recover what the crew filmed before successive generations of copies.

Pete Hirst (Fall to the Top) is preparing a new horror film titled The Thirteenth Hour. A trailer is available.

The cast brings together Adam Deacon (Rogue), Peter Hirst and Katie Holding.

The story follows a compulsive gambler who strikes a deal, one more in a string of bad arrangements. This time, the consequences are supernatural.