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Bristol-based singer, producer, and visual artist Tlya X An recently released her new single ‘Mi Mind Unknown.’ Her self-release celebrates resilience and self-discovery in the face of disappointment. It was inspired by a romantic counter that, though fleeting, did not result in regret. The single is accompanied by a music […]
The Danish heavy psych quintet Lucid Grave has shared the title track from their impending debut LP, “Cosmic Mountain”. The album will be out on 15 July 2022 via Electric Valley Records on vinyl (four editions) alongside the availability on the digital/streaming platforms. States Lucid Grave on the single:“‘Cosmic Mountain’ is Lucid Grave’s heaviest number to date. […]
Liverpool-based songwriter Duncan Patterson (formerly of Anathema, Antimatter) is now unveiling “Grace Road” after a five-year hiatus. The new Duncan Patterson lofi gothic opus album echoes the artist’s compositions of days gone by. With Palestinian singer Enas Al-Said, “Grace Road” plumbs melancholy and infinite sadness. The artist took his time on the new record, as he states “a five-year self-imposed […]
Everything about ARÐ and their critically acclaimed debut album “Take Up My Bones” has been diligently conceptual and revolving around the epic two-centuries-spanning journey of St. Cuthbert’s relics from the Lindisfarne monastery across the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria to their final resting place in Durham Cathedral. To add even more Northumbrian flavor to his dark monastic doom project, ARÐ mastermind Mark Deeks has teamed up […]
After the first singles ‘Ashes Indigo’ and ‘Realign and Reign’, Bedless Bones now finally released their second full album “Bending The Iron Bough”. Ranging over themes of courage, fear, rebirth, growth, and sanctity, “Bending The Iron Bough”, creates a realm of alternative myth and lore through nine unique songs where cool electronic […]
Romanian-based photographer Anca Șișu has shared with CVLTARTES a selection of her recent works. From dark, mysterious images to gloomy, and blurred depictions, Anca creates surreal, abstract photographs that seem to highlight the connection between the world around us and the one we can only dream of when sleeping. Her […]
NOÊTA has released an intensely melancholic video featuring vocalist Êlea for the track ‘Dawn Falls’. This song is also the first single taken from the Nordic dark ambient folk outfit’s forthcoming album ‘Elm’, which has been scheduled for release on April 23, 2021. “The song ‘Dawn Falls’ revolves around an inner struggle that tries to balance […]
Dark singer-songwriter act THE DEVIL’S TRADE has teamed up with industrial noise artist JOHN CONNOR (LLNN) to collaborate on a new creative approach for the track ‘Dead Sister’. With the incorporation of dark beats and other electronic additions, a new sonic version was born; ‘Dead Sister Merope’! You can now listen/watch the new offering, which […]
EMPYRIUM has released a magnificent video for ‘The Three Flames Sapphire’ as the second single taken from their forthcoming album “Über den Sternen”, which is scheduled for release on February 26, 2021. “Although our video single ‘The Three Flames Sapphire” features the first track of ‘Über den Sternen’, it was in fact the last song that we composed […]
Mountain vistas of sombre forests stretching towards the horizon, majestic ruins of medieval castles still standing proud on ragged cliffs, water spirits lurking in dark moorlands beckoning unwary wanderer to the depths – the very same motifs that inspired the painters and poets of German Romanticism have also given rise […]