The Sanctuary Gazette

German-Brazilian artist Gloria de Oliveira, who is based in Berlin, releases the album “The Lying Swans” on La Double Vie and Cargo Records. The record blends dream pop, dark folk and atmospheric ambient.

Warm strings, harp and floating pads carry the nine tracks, which deal with loss, trust and new beginnings. Randall Dunn produced the album. According to Orkus, the artist’s voice remains the emotional center of the album, which seeks to draw the listener in rather than overwhelm them.

Alas De Liona, now based in Scotland, releases her new album Noble Rot. The record is a fast-paced, cinematic drama, fed by 1980s pop and post-punk, with dense lyrics and strong vampire symbolism. Gothic rock is her register.

For Halloween, she compiled for God Is In The TV a playlist of gothic songs she loves: “Cry Little Sister” by Gerard McMann, “I Put a Spell on You” by Screamin' Jay Hawkins, “Laymelli” by Agnes Obel, “Lobo-hombre en Paris” by La Unión, “The Marble Eye” by Anna von Hausswolff or “Season of the Witch” by Donovan.

The list closes with her own single “Hunter I”, which she describes as dark, ethereal and danceable. In it she uses vampire imagery to speak of the alienation and confinement of a woman who cannot manage to tell those around her about her turmoil.

Forever Grey released the single Candy Knife on 31 October 2026, putting it out on its own label, Forever Grey.

The project, which comes from Michigan in the United States, falls under minimal wave. It claims the goth and post-punk of the 1980s as its influences.

DECEITS, a darkwave band from Los Angeles, releases Mi Amor, Mi Vampira PT. II on 31 October 2026 on Get Better Records. The release also includes The First Day Of Fall and One Day You’ll Hurt As Much As Me.

The band brings together Kevin “Puppy” Moreno on vocals and instruments, and Sisco Saenz on drums and percussion.

NIGHTSISTER releases Confession Chamber on 31 October 2026 on the label Isolation Club. The album is coldwave.

It has fifteen tracks, including communion, Spirit, In Your Eyes, Baptized in Gasoline, Linger, Polaroid and Crystal Tears (to Numb the Pain). The list continues with Cold Sweats, After Me, Timber, All Things Must End, That Kiss, Nothing Lasts Forever, one more and Candy.

Ladytron released Metaphysica on 30 October 2026 on Nettwerk Music Group. The release has four tracks: Metaphysica, Discotraxx, True Mathematics and Mirage. The band is synthpop.

Formed in Liverpool in 1999, Ladytron brings together Helen Marnie, Mira Aroyo and Daniel Hunt. Reuben Wu was a member of the lineup until 2023, the year of the album Time's Arrow. The band's name refers to a Roxy Music song.

VELATINE released the single Tonight I am a Vampire on 30 October 2026, on the label Spooky Records.

The track is darkwave. It is a release that is actually out as of that date, and not merely the announcement of an upcoming record.

Ascii.Disko released Moshpit Poetry (Remixes 6) on 30 October 2026 on the label Icon Series. The music is synthpop.

The release brings together five tracks: I Am Silence, Moshpit Poetry in a remix by Dark Vektor, I Am Silence remixed by Adriano Canzian, and two versions of Diagrams remixed by Cpx.

Ascii.Disko is the project of producer and DJ Daniel Holc, from Hamburg, Germany. His first album came out in 2003.

Cokasian released the single DIY on 30 October 2026.

The record is released under the label WHORRORPOP / Cokasian, which also carries the artist's name.

It was actually released on that date, and is not merely an announcement of an upcoming record.

R. Missing released Halo Jelly on 30 October 2026 on the label Terminal Echo. The release also includes the track Unbenighted. It is darkwave.

R. Missing is a New York duo formed in 2017 by Sharon Shy and Henry Frost.

Plastikstrom released die Rückkehr der Schlächter on 30 October 2026 on 2124814 Records DK. The release also includes Kapitulation, in a demo version from 2002. The band is an EBM act.

The project comes from Reutlingen, Germany. Matthias Günzler and Schips, who founded the gothic rock band Darc Entries in 1992, began experimenting with this electronic project in 1995. Plastikstrom became their main activity after Darc Entries disbanded.

Dan Mangan is releasing a new single, Goodbye, America, as the election season gets under way in the United States.

The Canadian artist explains it as a Canadian: watching the United States come apart from the inside reminds him of caring for a loved one at the end of their life. He compares it to the decline of someone dear who is drinking themselves to death. The song may sound scathing, he points out, but he describes it as a love letter.

For Mangan, the country has not disappeared and he is not turning his back on it. It is the dominant American myth that no longer holds up. He borrows the image of “the sunken place” from the film Get Out: many sensible Americans, he suggests, have retreated there, and millions of people are screaming in it, wondering how this was allowed to happen.

Belgian EBM project Implant releases The Kinematics Of Doubt, its fifteenth studio album, on Alfa Matrix. Len Lemeire launched the project thirty years ago. The record has fourteen tracks and comes out on CD and digitally. It is also offered in a bundle of three with the new albums by Llumen and C-Lekktor.

The title borrows its term from physics: kinematics describes motion without concern for the forces that cause it. According to the label, the record treats doubt as a movement rather than a hesitation, through songs about control, surveillance, obsession and identity.

The single “Underneath The Neon Lights” carries the album's danceable side, while “I'm Only Happy When You Bleed” rests on a three-beat rhythm. “Pills”, “Framed” and “Sanity” are more direct EBM tracks, set against the slower “Civilization”, “Talking In Your Sleep” and the closing “Wounds”.

This record follows the trilogy The Chaos Machines, which closed in February 2025 with “Judging Sinners”.

Dark Line Spectrum releases the single “Born to Wait” on Syn-Drone Production, accompanied by a video. The track is dark electro industrial and relies on a strong beat designed for dancing.

The lyrics see human existence as a chain of waiting. A dark male voice is complemented by ethereal female vocals, which soften sustained rhythms and a bleaker reflection on the self. The text is by Maria Vain of Orkus magazine.

CK 37 releases its first album on Audite Records, Inget Hat (“no hate”), out on January 9, 2026, followed by Inget Hat (Remixer), available since July 9, 2026. The band falls under EBM, electro and industrial.

According to ReGen Magazine, the album runs under half an hour, with punchy bass sequences, tight percussion and a touch of Swedish humor. The tracks include “Gymsadist”, “Svett”, “Vaken” and “8 Bitars Ren Extas”. “800°” reworks a punk classic by Ebba Grön as EBM, and “Motorväg (Fan Fan Fan)” twists Kraftwerk's “Autobahn”.

The remix record gathers 27 interpretations drawn from seven original tracks. Autodafeh, Majestoluxe, Diskodiktator, Coralis Rouge and Nature of Wire appear on it. “Svett” has seven versions and “Gammal Är Äldst” eight, including Krynoid's extended Brain Fog Dub. The reviewer finds the album direct and effective for dancing, and the remix collection too long.

The 1980s slasher Bloodnight, also known as Intruder, returns on video in 4K, in its uncut version. The German label Wicked Vision gave it the world’s first 4K edition in 2025. The 2025 editions are sold out in many shops, and a very limited 4K mediabook has just been released by Medienversand.at.

In Germany, the film was first released straight to videocassette, cut by seven minutes. Rated FSK 18, it was indexed, then removed from the index in 2014. The Wicked Vision edition includes the 4K disc and a Blu-ray, with two audio commentaries, a workprint version, a making-of and several short films.

The film follows the staff of a supermarket slated to close: during an inventory, a killer prowls the aisles. Scott Spiegel directed it and conceived it with Lawrence Bender, later a collaborator of Quentin Tarantino. The cast includes Elizabeth Cox, David Byrnes, Renée Estevez, Dan Hicks and Greg Nicotero, with appearances by Sam Raimi, Ted Raimi and Bruce Campbell.

Strange: Junji Ito's Tales for Sleepless Nights is a TV Tokyo series that adapts 13 Junji Ito stories in live action, built around Lovesickness, including The Bully and Used Records. Broadcast in Japan, it is available on HBO Max with a new episode every week.

Daily Dead met Junji Ito, director Yûta Shimotsu and TV Tokyo producer Mayu Nobe in Japan. She explains that the network chose the stories with their feasibility in live action in mind. Three directors share the series. Yûta Shimotsu chose The Face Thief and The Bully, which he directed. He kept the manga next to the monitors to reproduce the final image of The Bully.

Junji Ito praises the choice of Yôko Maki for that role. For The Face Thief, the episode changes the ending and adds the theme of two friendships. According to the author, the story gains depth compared to the original, in which relationships are ice cold.