The Wind That Shakes The Barley – DEAD CAN DANCE
Weep Not – LUX INTERNA
L’appel Des Espirits – ARTESIA
Track 1 – PREDELLA AVANT
Love Eternal – ARCANA
Will To War – 6 <OMM
Pangaean Hymn – PHRAGMENTS
Strife – THE PROTAGONIST
Dance Of Taurus – HEKATE
Madikeiyla – DUNKELSCHOEN
The March Of Brian Boru – BLOOD AXIS
Her Steps Lay Hold – HEILIGE LANCE
Eostre – SEVENTH HARMONIC
Death In Avalon – WHILE ANGELS WATCH
Little Black Angel – DOWN IN JUNE
My Black Faith – OF THE WAND & THE MOON
The Enemy Within – DEATH IN JUNE
A Burden Of Flowers – ROME
Angels Fall – SOL INVICTUS
The Boys Of The Old Brigade – THE WOLFE TONES
Twa Corbiez – OMNIA
A Song 4 Hate & Devotion – ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO
The Foggy Dew – SINEAD O’CONNOR & THE CHIEFTAINS
Omnes Qvi Descendvn – ROSA CRVX
Europa Nazione – LEGIONARII
Mother Of Pain – TRIARII
Sacrement Of Penance – WILL
Destroy She Said – DEATH IN ROME
Multi Piu Onore – VON THRONSTAHL
Mausernacht – PARZIVAL
Totentanz – GAE BOLG
Mon Meilleur Ennemi – DERNIERE VOLONTE
Geburt Einer Nation – LAIBACH
Ashes To Ashes – NOX ARCANA
Night Of The Krampus – MIDNIGHT SYNDICATE
Terribilis – ROSA CRVX
Ready For Rebellion – SIEBEN
Metamorph – EUZEN
Marching Orders – EDITORS
The Burning Season – FAITH & THE MUSE
Burning Car – JOHN FOXX
There Is Some Great Evil Out There – SOFT RIOT
Yanimda – SHE PAST AWAY
Happiness – IAMX
Endless Nights – DIARY OF DREAMS
I Dream In Black & White – MOTH
Nite Rite – ASH CODE
Never Go – GIRLS UNDER GLASS
Halogen – WHITE WATER
The World In Devotion – NOVEMBER NOVELET
Silver Veins – SCHONWALD
Stupid Girl – GARBAGE
New Cold War – KILLING JOKE
Trigger Inside – THERAPY?
Children Of The Sun – DEAD CAN DANCE
Come Wander With Me / Deliverance – ANNA VON HAUSWOLFF
Ready For Rebellion – SIEBEN
Fall Apart – NIC HAMMERSLY
A Forest – PEELING GREY
Looking For A Life To Loose – THE BOLSHOI
Bez Konca – SIEKIERA
Autonomous Zone – KILLING JOKE
Masacara Osiris II – STILL PATIENT?
Chrome (SITD mix) – VNV NATION
Velocity – NEUROTICFISH
DJ Batastrophe
CULTURE KULTURE – Drum Machine JAN DOYLE BAND – Fighters SHE WANTS REVENGE – Save Your Soul ZERO LE CRECHE – Falling BAUHAUS – Passion of Lovers CHRISTIAN DEATH – Romeo’s Distress SHE PAST AWAY – Rituel MONO INC – Heile Heile Segen DESTROID – Lucretia METHOD CELL – Call It Cutting COVENANT – Like Tears In The Rain E-NOMINE – Deine Welt EYCROMON – Spiel Mit Mir THE MARCH VIOLETS – Walk Into The Sun *R SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES – Cities In Dust *R
DJ De’Ath
Year Zero – GHOST BC
Mein Land – RAMMSTEIN *R
Soilbleed V.3 – GRENDEL
Killing An Arab – JUSTIN SYMBOL
Endless Nights – DIARY OF DREAMS
F*ck You Alice – SUICIDE COMMANDO vs SISTERS OF MERCY
Tempus Et Locundem – HEIMATAERDE
Wreath Of Barbs (destroys mix) – WUMPSCUT
Papillon – EDITORS
Feel – THE SOFT MOON
Soluk – SHE PAST AWAY
Sanctuary (long) – THE CULT
A Person Isn’t Safe Anywhere These Days – THE CHAMELEONS
Christopher Lee Is Dead – DOORS IN THE LABYRINTH
Veni Veni (filthy floor mix) – QNTAL
Over & Done – DEINE LAKAIEN *R
She Wore Shadows – ASP
DJ War
PSYDOLL – Kanashi music
Euphoria – KILLING JOKE GARY NUMAN – Cars
Vengeance – NEW MODEL ARMY FAITH & THE MUSE – Battle Hymn
Logic – BELLA MORTE *R CINEMA STRANGE – Nightfalls
Sparrows & The Nightingales – WOLFSHEIM LONDON AFTER MIDNIGHT – Feeling Fascist
Nightmares (corvus corax mix) – THE LAST DANCE ROSA CRVX – Terrabilis
Thanks to everyone who came along and made it a great night. Darklands returns next on Saturday 12th December. There is also a Darklands live special on 25th Nov with PSYDOLL – Japanese cyberpunk + Yokai Demon Drummers – Dark Taiko + Jan Doyle Band – Darkwave/Electropunk – full details here https://www.facebook.com/events/1499214353711809/
The Devil & The Universe have just released their second album “Haunted Summer” The follow up to their exceptional debut album :IMPRINT DAATH: was inspired by the summer of 1816, when poet and author Lord Byron, sent out an invitation for friends to enjoy the summer air at his villa on Lake Geneva. The invited party partially consisted of the novelist-couple Percy und Mary Shelley, Mary Shelley’s half-sister Claire Clairmont and the author and physician John W. Polidori. The host and the guests combated boredom at the Villa “Diodati” by consuming drugs, and partaking in sex and séance sessions. The decadent time-filling got increasingly radical and culminated in a frenzy of physical and moral transgressions. More than a few of the guests and the household staff left the Villa psychologically rattled after that summer holiday. Mary Shelley, deeply affected by the experience, went on to write her world-famous book ‚Frankenstein’.
The Goats assembled in a small chapel in a forest in Styria. Four weeks were spent to evoke the ghost of that ‚Haunted Summer of 1816’. Tools of the occult such as automatic writing (as demonstrated during Tarot card reading) and necromancy were used to help form the musical ambition.
So what type of monster did The Devil & The Universe manage to conjure up? The album opens with the title track Haunted Summer an interesting choice of samples mixed with a ritualistic drums and then hell is let loose with a hell fired blistering guitar against the omnipresent invocation. Be very afraid if you listen to this track in the dark! Next comes Stygian with an even more bombastic ritual feel to invoke a frenzy on the dancefloor with great use of samples and dulcimer. Love it! Cloak Of Dispersion opens with a haunting brass refrain from darker times which blends perfectly with the keyboards and instrumentation. A very eastern satanic feel. Wow! Danaus Plexippus is possible the most powerful song The Devil & The Universe have made with strong nod to John Carpenter meets Blade Runner descending into the abyss. Again this will work very well on a darkwave dancefloor. Exceptional!
The Goat Head – opens with another satanic sample and this time a full own devlishly danced up assault on the dancefloor which I can’t wait to play in my next live DJ set. Hellbound ! The Curse Of Byron – is a sinisterly sexy track, great use of the dulcimer and sparse electronic soundscapes. A ritual opus. Great track! Calling Of The Shadows – has a pseudo arabian mephisto mittelalter feel with great uptempo eletronic drums and sprinkling of John Carpenter’s The Thing. Nice sample. This will burn a hole in the dancefloor. Love it! Phantasmagoria – Opens like the evil offspring of Dead Can Dance a very malevolent musical track. Great use of fallen angelic vocals with maybe a splash of Killing Joke’s Communion in the keyboards – Epic ! Gipfelrausch has an almost Wagnerian feel mixed with goat bells. Towards the end it reminds me a bit of Rosa Crvx. Elisa Fields – was also on the last single and is hauntingly disturbing. Womb Of The Night – one of the stand out tracks on the last Ep and a good choice to include it on the album. A great track for the devilish darkwave dancefloor. Love it! Haunted Meadows – a mix of lost spirits swirling through the haze of neofolk. Great! Diodati 1816 brings the album to a close by casting an atmosphere of pure dread. Don’t listen alone late at night or you may feel a hand on your shoulder!
What a great follow up! Love it!
