The Sanctuary Gazette

Swedish synthpop duo Rymdverket released the single Numb on 23 October 2026, along with Enfant Adulte and its instrumental version, two tracks credited to Hamsch & Rymdverket. These releases open a collaboration with Swedish poet and artist Patric Hamsch Furudal.

Rymdverket brings together Henric Byström and Linda Ganters, who formed it in Karlstad in 2024. Their first album, Some Kind of Start, came out in August 2025. The band presents Numb as one of its most danceable songs, with a four-on-the-floor beat, acid-style synth lines and layered vocal harmonies. Linda Ganters leaves her usual low register for a higher one. The lyrics are about freeing oneself from the past and leaving old patterns behind.

Enfant Adulte is the first of four long pieces built around Furudal's autobiographical poetry, intended as the basis for a stage show. The track combines spoken poetry with electronic compositions, with no verse-chorus structure. Numb, like two other upcoming songs, serves as a musical bridge between the four parts, with English lyrics written by Furudal. “It required a completely different approach to composition, where the music had to serve the story rather than take center stage,” explains Henric Byström.

Damien Hearse has released the single SCARECROW, available since Friday, October 23, 2026. The song is dark electro.

The release comes out on a label that shares its name with the artist, Damien Hearse, making it a self-titled imprint release.

Blind Delon released House Of Self-Undoing on October 23, 2026, a coldwave single put out under the band's name.

The project was founded in 2016 by Mathis Kolkoz. It first released several works on Oráculo Records and Bordello A Parigi and played DJ sets across Europe, before becoming a three-piece live band.

BRANDENBURG releases Тромб В Мозгу Нации on October 23, 2026 on the label CTR. The release belongs to post-punk and brings together three tracks: Плоскоземельцу, Танец Маленьких Издят and Я Хочу Танцевать!.

The band came together in Moscow in the year 2010.

Vandal Moon released Don't Cry on October 23, 2026, a darkwave single out on Gothdammit Records.

The band, formed in 2010 in Santa Cruz, California, says it draws inspiration from the darkest groups of the early 1980s post-punk and darkwave scene. Its instrumentation combines synthesizers, guitars, vocals, tambourines and drum machines.

Grizz released the album Black Is Beautiful on October 23, 2026, a darkwave record put out by the label alternative peeps.

It features ten tracks: Pleasure Test, Exit Plan, Tears of Flame, Dead Disco Dancer, Dark Witch, Damnation, To Me You Are The Sun, 80s Dead, Vile Beyond Measure and Sioux So Pretty in a remix by Qual.

Grizz, also known as Grizz Collective, is the solo project of Malik Harris, based in Compton, California.

Deathrock band Aurat releases the album silhouette on October 23, 2026 on Get Better Records. The record has eight tracks: chaos fades, shadow سایہ, dreadful game, محبت, arzu, zuris lullaby, XIII and leadtothefire.

Based in Los Angeles, Aurat takes its name from the Urdu word for “women,” and part of the lyrics is written in that language. Azeka Kamal leads the band on vocals, with Gil Talbot on bass and production, nev ver on guitar, production and backing vocals, and Alex Lichtenauer on drums.

Megan McDuffee releases the single The Adder on October 23, 2026, retrowave out on Ghost Work Records. The release includes the song and its instrumental version, The Adder - Instrumental.

McDuffee lives in the woods north of Seattle and composes and sings for video games and film. Credits include the trailers for Annihilation and The Predator, as well as the game River City Girls, developed by WayForward and Arc System Works.

Darkwave project Public Memory releases the album 7he Visitor: Coup De Grâce on October 23, 2026 on the label Clocktower Corp. Seven tracks make up the record: Dusk '78, First Contact, The Dim Mirror, Collapse Of Days, Atlantic Crush, Dénouement and Three Years Left.

Public Memory is the solo project of Robert Toher, a Brooklyn-based musician who was previously a member of Eraas and Apse. The music is built on Korg synthesizers, primitive rhythms and samples of bells and chimes.

Vexagon releases the darkwave single Nothing After on October 23, 2026 on Cold Transmission Music, the label the project is tied to.

Vexagon is the project of Briar Moth, launched in January 2018 in Augusta, Georgia. The 2021 album Love Is Surrender appeared in the year-end lists of the show Dark Entries Goth Radio, broadcast on WUSC 90.5 FM.

Wesunia released the single Heel Bites! on October 23, 2026. On the label side, the release is credited to Post Bloom Records and Wesunia, which are listed together as the label for this single.

The song Heel Bites! is listed on Spotify with that release date, October 23, 2026.

The coldwave project A TRANSITION released Deep Flow Simple on October 22, 2026, on the label 3594550 Records DK.

The release comprises six tracks in total: Frustration, Casually, Glaring (edit), All these things, Simple Deep Flow and The End (Insomnia Edit).

Vilevo released the single Dios Errante on October 22, 2026. It comes out on the label Mining Records.

Mining Records is the only label credited for this release. The track Dios Errante is listed on Spotify with that release date, October 22, 2026.

Propter Hoc, whose music falls under coldwave, released the EP Starfire EP on October 22, 2026 on the label Cold Transmission Music.

The listed tracks are Starfire, Lovesong, Yves Klein on the Beach, Ursa Major, Ursa Minor and The Dignity of Truth. The EP is named after its first track, Starfire.

Zola Jesus put out the soundtrack to Saint Clare, a psychological thriller, on October 23, 2026. The record is available digitally on Bandcamp and streaming platforms.

Nika Roza Danilova composed the music in 2024, when the film first came out. She performed and produced it: two original songs and 29 pieces written for the film. Randall Dunn handled the mix and Will Smith the mastering.

Directed by Mitzi Peirone and co-written with Guinevere Turner, the film stars Bella Thorne as Clare, an outwardly virtuous but sociopathic woman with dissociative identity disorder, who hears voices urging her to kill. Ryan Phillippe, Rebecca De Mornay and Frank Whaley also appear in the cast.

It is Zola Jesus's first release since the single “Plyve Kacha” in September 2024.

Cigno releases the single Lotta Bertinotti!, available on digital platforms since Friday 23 October. The track sits between post-punk and new wave, with a tight rhythm section, distorted guitars and a filtered voice.

At the center of the song, the former politician and trade unionist Bertinotti becomes a symbolic name, suspended between nostalgia, farce and disenchantment. Amid union struggles, esodati and the ghosts of a radical chic left, he turns into a superhero of the absurd, an ideological fetish and a mythological creature born of the fears and unresolved desires of the Italian left.

Behind the irony, the song asks how to start over after a defeat, turning political memory into hallucinated, visionary sonic material. The single announces the album Kabarett Holocaust, expected on 22 January 2027.

Sébastien Pietrapiana of Corpus Delicti sings on “Sorry for laughing”, the new single from HMLTD. The London glam/afterpunk band cites Corpus Delicti as an influence.

Pietrapiana says he was surprised to learn that his band's music had mattered to HMLTD, and that some songs had even helped inspire their new record, FANGS. He calls it a “real honor” to have been invited to take part in one of its tracks.

Corpus Delicti, for its part, has released Liminal, its latest studio album.

Antwerp band ILA released their second album, Motherland, on October 9, 2026, following Ayna in 2024. They play alternative rock with post-punk leanings. Louder Than War gives it 4.5 out of 5.

Produced by Mikko Gordon, who has worked with The Smile, IDLES, Arcade Fire and Beck, it is the first record written as a four-piece: singer Ilayda Cicek, Sam Smeets on bass, Cas Kinnaer on drums and Stynen on guitar. Smeets and Stynen drove most of the music, which allowed Cicek to concentrate on the lyrics. She wrote about half of them during a stay in Turkey, and came back with a suitcase full of guitar demos that the band developed in the studio.

The eleven tracks alternate between abrasive passages and more atmospheric moods. The first single, “Sorry”, is the track the critic singles out above all others. “In Blue” blends 1980s electronics with trip-hop touches, while “Deniz” and the title track explore more experimental textures.

Lionsgate is set to release Beware Boiúna for digital purchase and rental on November 3, 2026. The film was screened at Fantastic Fest. It has also gone by the titles Titan and then Boiúna: Legend of the Amazon.

The plot follows a medical mission in the Amazon confronted by a huge ancient predator reclaiming its territory. Mike P. Nelson, who has worked on Wrong Turn and Silent Night, Deadly Night, directs.

Jessica Rothe (Happy Death Day) leads the cast, alongside Kiana Madeira (Fear Street) and Logan Marshall-Green (Upgrade).

20th Century Studios is developing a new Alien film. According to Deadline, Aaron Guzikowski, creator of the science-fiction series Raised by Wolves, produced by Scott Free for HBO Max, has been handed the script. The project is described as being at a very early stage of development.

Ridley Scott and Michael Pruss will produce for Scott Free, with J.R. Young overseeing the project for the studio. THR was first to break the news.

An American screenwriter and showrunner, Guzikowski created Raised by Wolves, which follows two androids raising human children after Earth is destroyed in a great war, and which ran for two seasons. He also wrote Prisoners, a 2013 thriller directed by Denis Villeneuve. The most recent film in the franchise, Alien: Romulus, directed by Fede Álvarez, dates from 2024.