The Sanctuary Gazette

EMMON released ICONMIXED on October 23, 2026, a remix record accompanying the album ICON, which came out on October 17, 2025. It is released by Icons Creating Evil Art, digitally on Bandcamp and on streaming platforms.

The remixers include Rhys Fulber (Front Line Assembly, Delerium), Kris Baha, Agent Side Grinder, The Foreign Resort, Bestial Mouths, Beborn Beton, XOTOX, Randolph & Mortimer, SIIE and Zweite Jugend. The versions range from techno to alternative rock, from EBM to darkwave and noisy industrial.

Emma Nylén, founder of EMMON, compares each remix to opening a gift and says she is honored to see her songs reinterpreted. ICON has 15 tracks and is available digitally, on CD and on vinyl, with collaborations from Majestoluxe and Jukka Rintamäki (Silverbullit, The Northern East). In May, EMMON also reworked the single Salz by Zweite Jugend, a German electro-industrial duo.

Dutch composer and producer Andert Tysma releases Parallels on Apollo Records. His work blends post-classical, electro-acoustic and electronic music. In 2022 he released Children Of Trinoom, his first record for the label, inspired by the journey of the musician, doctor and resistance fighter Boy Edgar, followed by the more folk-leaning Hana.

Parallels turns the focus on himself. Tysma presents it as a “personal snapshot of where I am now, shaped by everything that came before”. The pieces answer one another through motifs that return from one piece to the next. Maarten Hogenhuis’s saxophone opens the record, the piano, clarinets and strings of the title track blend with a synthesizer loop, and Costa, Costa lets a techno motif in.

The album ends with Simeon 3 and Simeon 5, composed during a residency in the house of minimalist composer Simeon ten Holt, with Nicky Hustinx on drums. Backseat Mafia gives it 90/100.

Seattle band Dual Analog released Walk On Water on October 23, 2026, the first single from its upcoming album, Primal Grill. The band calls its music “turbowave”, a term it coined for its mix of darkwave, electropop, alternative and industrial.

The track rests on world-inspired percussion, machines, clean guitars and seven-string guitar riffs, between groove and weight. The lyrics state desire and ambition plainly: “If I need to become a God, then I’ll walk on water”.

Dual Analog presents the song as a return to the sensuality and groove of its first album, Lust, Worship, and Desire (2022), combined with the identity developed since the second, The Wheel, released in October 2024.

Misery Mile has released the official video for Pierce My Skin, directed by Joshua Carrasco. The band belongs to coldwave.

The chorus, “I love the way you pierce my skin”, returns throughout the song, which is about desire and the fear of being left marked if the other person pulls away.

Shireen released False Gods on October 23, 2026. The release is gothic rock and comes out on the label HAGSTONE HARMONY, powered by Copyright Power International.

A Dutch band from Rotterdam, active since 2010, Shireen features Annicke Shireen on vocals. The group also includes Sophie Zaaijer on violin and cello, Thomas Biesmeijer on guitar, Hein Bles on bass, Marijn Sies on drums and Guido Bergman on electronics.