The Sanctuary Gazette

Night Nail, a Berlin dark wave project founded by Brandon Robert, unveils Passion Squad, taken from its album Infinite Fountain. The band combines catchy song structures, aggressive pads and dense production.

Pete Burns of Kill Shelter, a longtime mentor of Brandon Robert, contributed a bassline inspired by Mick Karn. Other musicians also took part in the song.

Infinite Fountain is released on Icy Cold Records digitally and on CD. The vinyl edition comes out on November 20, 2026.

Some Days Are Darker, an American trio, presents NDRI. The song takes a muted but dense direction, with a subdued darkwave influence over a backdrop of dark, elegant synthpop. Breaks and well-placed bridges cut the composition into chapters, and the clear, soft vocals sit above the synthesizers.

The lyrics deal with the desire for authenticity and the conflict between emotional numbness and the need to feel fully. Electrozombies, which reviews the track, calls it an atmospheric success.

Shadows Hold has now released Not Much To Say, a coldwave single that came out on 16 October 2026 on the label GP Records.

Shadows Hold is a solo project based in Los Angeles, California, which identifies with both darkwave and post-punk.

Girl As Wave releases Movies From The Nineties on October 16, 2026 on Cat's Eye Records. The release includes three tracks: Movies From The Nineties, Your Movie and Good Fiction.

Girl As Wave is the project of New York artist Marci Elizabeth. The songs pair ethereal, whispered vocals with textures rooted in dark synthpop, lo-fi indie rock and dream pop.

Paradox Obscur releases To The Top, a minimal wave single out on October 16, 2026. The duo puts it out on its own label, also called Paradox Obscur.

Formed in January 2014 by Toxic Razor and Kriistal Ann, the duo works exclusively with hardware synthesizers and sequencers, with no computer processing. The music is recorded in real time.

Varsovie releases the album Notes Pour Plus Tard on October 16, 2026 on Icy Cold Records. The record has eight tracks: Notes Pour Plus Tard, Treize Collines, Unica Zürn, Partout Les Chiens, Stress, 1988, La Battue and Présence.

A French coldwave band from Grenoble, Varsovie is built around Arnault Destal (lyrics, drums, arrangements) and Grégory Cathérina (music, vocals, guitar). The band cites Joy Division and Bauhaus among its influences.

The Lovecraft Sextet releases Penance on October 16, 2026 on Debemur Morti Productions. The album is dark ambient and has six tracks: Si Quaeris, Symbolom Apostolorum, Anima Christi, Requiem Aeternam, Confiteor and Te Deum.

Behind The Lovecraft Sextet is Dutch musician Jason Köhnen, who runs the project solo. Köhnen was previously part of The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble and The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation, two groups whose ideas are partly taken up again here. Each release of the project is presented as the screenplay and soundtrack of a different film.

Brooklyn post-punk band TVOD releases The Farm on October 16, 2026 on Mothland. The album has eleven tracks: Welcome To The Farm, Clorox, Wet Brain, Rerun, Bottomless Pit, Natalie Portman, Rotten, Pilots, Crab, Meetings and Counting Sheep (Bed).

The band's lyrics draw on nightlife, heartbreak, World War II and haunted dreams. The band describes itself as a DIY group from New York with raw, driving songs.

Craigycraig of Fatewell releases You’re Not So Human, a synthpop song about our relationship with technology. The lyrics blend human emotions with references to computer code: the artist sings lines such as “Oh I will # hash what you say” ahead of a chorus of layered vocals.

The song plays on the idea of technology that increasingly imitates humans, while defending what makes each person unique. The artist describes it as a song “about our strange relationship with technology” and states that artificial intelligence was not used to make it.

Musically, bright synthesizers accompany a driving rhythm, with a piano bridge. Obscure Sound notes a touch in the chorus that recalls Erasure.

Saban Films has released the trailer for Deadbolt, a home invasion thriller directed by Zac Coleman. The film runs 76 minutes and will be released on VOD and digital on November 13, 2026.

Anne Harrington, played by Callie Deering, is considering running for Congress. Coming home, she notices a door ajar that she was certain she had locked. A few minutes later, she finds herself trapped in the dark with two violent predators and must foil their plans to survive the night.

The fourth installment of La Momie will be titled The Mummy: The Book of the Dead, or La Momie : Le Livre des Morts in French. The title refers to the obsidian book at the center of the first films, the one that could raise the dead and had brought Imhotep back to life in the 1999 film.

The film is directed by Matt Bettinelli-Olpin and Tyler Gillett, the Radio Silence duo behind both Ready or Not films, Abigail, Scream 6 and Scream 7. The screenplay is by David Coggeshall. Universal did not entrust it to Stephen Sommers, director of the first two films.

Brendan Fraser and Rachel Weisz reprise their roles, along with John Hannah, Oded Fehr and Kevin J. O’Connor. Numan Acar and Michael Johnston join the cast. The theatrical release is scheduled for October 13, 2027.