Ikuinen Kaamos As I struggled to keep this site going in the recent past, today’s email from Krishna gave me enough strength to muster up a new post at midnight. Although this isn’t the most original material in the world, this song caught my attention mainly because of the clean vocals. It certainly ...

The Daysleepers I’ve always been extremely skeptical about any band that tried to live up to the melodic dreampop/shoegaze title even if they weren’t gunning for the number 1 spot. Slowdive had that approach mastered and I’ve considered them to be in a league of their own ever since I started deeply ...

As is painfully obvious, Dark Dose has gone on somewhat of a hiatus. This isn’t indicative of a lack of incredible new dark music, it’s actually been pleasantly plentiful the past several months, but rather a lack of time on behalf of the contributors. Lately I’ve been struggling to keep up with my ...

David Sylvian The sun shines high above, the sounds of laughter. The birds swoop down upon, the crosses of old grey churches. We say that we’re in love, while secretly wishing for rain. Sipping coke and playing games. September’s here again… September’s here again. We’re not dead, life just beckons. ...

Ulrich Schnauss One of the greatest features of this site is that when one contributor (read: me) goes MIA, the other guys are there to pick up the slack. I haven’t shared anything for several months now, but I’m here to make it up to you by introducing you to your new favorite artist. In the past 2 ...

Shining There are so many levels of dynamism on this record that provoked a variety of feelings. I was overwhelmed. Upon more listens, I personally feel that the intelligent musical arrangements allow for this massive amount of sections and sound to flow naturally without being “too much” to cram on ...

Carnal Forge Back in January I wrote about how Sweden’s Carnal Forge perfectly compliments any bad attitude. Their aggressive music, violent lyrics and vocal style have earned them a cult following, including myself. I also noted how vocalist Jonas Kjellgren had left to join the quickly rising melodic ...

Shannon Wright It has always been hard for me to appreciate female vocals. I like broken voices, fragile ones, voices which can express a large palette of emotions. It seems I often found this in the voice of male singers. Female vocals are too often polished, sterilized on the altar of technical mastery. ...