The Sanctuary Gazette

The Canadian synthpop duo Psyche is reissuing Unveiling the Secret for its 40th anniversary. The release is announced for October 23, 2026 on Vuz Records. The album originally came out in 1986 on New Rose Records.

This edition, remastered and lightly re-edited compared with the original, adds “The Crawler”, a track previously found on the 12-inch maxi “Unveiling the Secret + Screaming Machine”. It comes as two limited 180-gram vinyl records with a lyric insert: a white version limited to 100 copies and a red galaxy version limited to 200 copies.

According to Side-Line, this is the album's fourth reissue, after the Synthetic Symphony/SPV CDs in 1997 and 2003, and the Artoffact Records CD and vinyl edition in 2016.

Psyche formed in 1982 in Edmonton (Alberta) around brothers Darrin and Stephen Huss. Unveiling the Secret led to a deal with the Paris label New Rose and to the band's international breakthrough. Darrin Huss remains its constant member, and the band is now based in Germany.

The Mannheim band Anenzephalia, veterans of industrial and power electronics, released Lurking in the Shadows of the Broadcast Empire on August 14, 2026 on Tesco Organisation, also based in Mannheim. Ten tracks, about 42 minutes.

After the album Kaltwelt (2012), the following releases, Instrumentalities (2014), Programmatika (2017) and Magenta (2018), were only compilations, and the band seemed finished. It has returned with the daughter of vocalist Brigant Moloch on vocals, in place of W. Herich (Genocide Organ), who usually assists. A cassette of new tracks came out on De/TAINMENT TAPES, with an early version of “Moloch”.

The Dark Entries review describes continuity rather than a break. “From the same people” opens with a robotic voice sample speaking of torture and ritual abuse. “Citizens of Neglect” brings the pulsing bass of the “Tesco sound”, with a first verse by Moloch's daughter. The review also notes voices more present than ever, and more nuanced in the daughter than in the father.

The English label Futurismo is releasing “American Grave - Gothic Punk/Deathrock USA:1978-1988”, a 24-track compilation devoted to the deathrock scene that emerged in the late 70s on the West Coast of the United States. It opens with “Spiritual Cramp” by Christian Death.

It also features The Cramps, The Lords Of The New Church, Super Heroines, The Gun Club, Red Temple Spirits, 45 Grave, Altar de Fey, Mighty Sphincter and Kommunity FK, as well as The Flesh Eaters, Theatre Of Ice, Shadow Of Fear, Of A Mesh and The Naked And The Dead. The panorama ranges from the punk of T.S.O.L. (“Code Blue”) or 45 Grave (“Violent World”) to darker pieces such as “Human Condition” by Psi Com, or ones closer to post-punk and cold wave, such as “I Want To Be You” by Your Funeral. Gothabilly and the garage rock of Dead Moon (“Graveyard”) are also represented.

Dark Entries notes the absence of Mephisto Walz, whose self-titled EP was released in Europe. At the time of the review, the “heart worm” vinyl edition was sold out, while the “splintered tomb” and “bat corpse” versions and the digipak CD remained available. The outlet sees it as a passionate collection that pays tribute to the bands of a scene that arrived later in Europe, where it moved closer to gothic rock.