Tiamat - The Scarred People

Tiamat - The Scarred People
(2012) Napalm

The new Tiamat album is, thankfully, a step back in style and sound. It's gothic rock again! Ok, I can hear boring guitar solos in some songs, but otherwise this sounds exactly like I want it to sound. If you hurry up and buy it you'll get the limited edition Digipak with four bonus tracks!

Grooving In Green - Stranglehold

Grooving In Green - Stranglehold DD
2012 afmusic

Album number two from Grooving In Green. The production is great on this record, the only thing I have to remark upon is the vocals. Don't get me wrong, the vocals are mostly great, but sometimes they can get kind of annoying. All in all a worthy follow up to the 2010 "Post Traumatic Stress" album. Goth is grooving again!

SoundSequence ‎– Climbing The Mountain (1997-2007)

SoundSequence ‎– Climbing The Mountain (1997-2007) DD
(2011) Progress

This is a compilation of Martin Rudefelt's work prior to Cryo. The songs may sound a bit more primitive than the Cryo releases, but they are just as good. In fact I think this album is a must have if you're into Cryo! The only bad thing with this digital release is that the Russian label Razgrom is releasing a superior version on CD, with many more songs. I've ordered it, but god knows how long I will have to wait until I can put my hands (and ears?) on it?

Grooving In Green ‎– Post Traumatic Stress

Grooving In Green ‎– Post Traumatic Stress
(2010) Inquisition

More goth this week, and I'm glad to say this is fairly new and very good. Grooving In Green is basically the classical UK goth band Children On Stun with a new name and improved sound. There's still hope of a goth revival! This is excellent stuff - get it now!

Rosetta Stone - The Tyranny Of Inaction.Revised Edition 1.1

Rosetta Stone ‎– The Tyranny Of Inaction.Revised Edition 1.1
(1995) Cleopatra

Continuing with my obsession of everything related to Porl King, this is an album I seriously don't know what to think about. Is it genious or is it just a badly produced and recorded demo that never should've been made available to the public? The latter might just be a more valid thought about the original album, which I don't like as much as this revised edition. The album contains remixes and re-recordings of the songs from the original album. There's also a companion album, called gENDER cONFUSION, available. It contains even more remixes and exclusives. Check this out if you think (American) industrial and gothic rock sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Otherwise avoid it!

Pride And Fall - Border DDEP

Pride And Fall - Border DDEP
(2005)  Dependent

This is not a particularly good release. It contains three really bland remixes of the title track plus the album version, which is good - but you already own the album, don't you? The two songs on this EP that makes it worth a mention here is the Club Edit of "Border" and the exclusive "Dissent". Both these tracks are worth going an extra mile for. I've been looking for this EP in decent quality since it was released in 2005. Last weekend I finally found it on Juno Download in wav. Yey!

Miserylab ‎– Documentary 2008 / 2012

Miserylab-Documentary 2008 / 2012 CD+7" (2012)
D-Monic

I briefly mentioned that this album was about to be released in this post. And now it's finally here. I don't necessarly find all the stuff Porl King is releasing to be of great quality, but I do like the sound of all his projects. And there's always some great songs worth checking out on all releases. On this album the stand-out tracks are "Making A Bomb" and "Five One One". I think the album is worth getting for the "Five One One" song alone! But hurry up, the album is limited to 500 copies.