Vanity Kills
Album: Chapter 2: Enemy
Category: Industrial / Alternative / Metal
Label: Self-released
Release Date: 2020-08-07

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Few rock & roll bands have had as expansive an influence as Long Island’s Blue Öyster Cult, with the group’s music often cited as being crucial to the development of heavy metal, hard rock, and even underground goth music with lyrics referencing the supernatural themes prevalent in classic sci-fi and horror. Now, the band has announced the release of the first new studio full-length album The Symbol Remains, marking Blue Öyster Cult’s first new material since 2001’s Curse of the Hidden Mirror; recorded by the current lineup of founding members Eric Bloom and Donald “Buck Dharma” Roeser [..]

 
10 years since the band made its debut, Chicago darkwave and post-punk trio Staring Problem has been making waves with a number of smaller cassette and EP releases; now, with a release date of September 23, the band will be unveiling its first full-length album, Eclipse. Blending elements of early goth and shoegaze with a raw production style, the album thematically explores a multitude of subjects [..]

 
Seemingly on an unending streak of archival releases since the 2014 Everyone, Everything, Everywhere album, Australian darkwave and goth/rock band IKON has issued three new digital items paying tribute to the group’s storied and extensive past. The first of these is a deluxe edition of the group’s 1998 album This Quiet Earth, the collection spanning four discs worth of material [..]

 
After nearly two decades out-of-print, the Cold Spring imprint under an official license from the Russian Feelee label has at last issued a new edition of the two COIL compilation albums A Guide For Beginners: The Voice of Silver and A Guide For Finishers: A Hair of Gold. Originally released in limited quantities of 1,000 each in 2001 to commemorate the esoteric experimental band’s first performance in Russia, this deluxe two-disc “Best Of” collection spans COIL’s entire career with selections from all of the group’s major albums [..]

 
Originally released in October 1988, Christian Death’s Sex and Drugs and Jesus Christ is an album whose history is adorned with great controversy; from its iconic cover art depicting Jesus Christ with a needle in his arm to its lyrical themes encouraging rebellion against oppression and corruption, resulting in banned and protest gigs, record companies changing the artwork, burned records, and even bomb threats, it ironically went on to become the band’s highest selling record of the decade. Now, with the original album long out-of-print, Season of Mist has announced a limited edition gatefold vinyl reissue of the death rock classic [..]

 
With the band’s members having a collective history in such groups as Christian Death, Shadow Project, Cricketbows, The Jackalopes, and more, the electropunk and death rock group New Way Vendetta offers up a sonic antidote to the dystopian reality of 2020. With the new two-track Cough/Cool / 1984 (On the Floor) single making its premiere here on ReGen Magazine, the band presents a dose of vitriolic escapism, stating that “We want NWV to be the soundtrack to a pro-mask, anti-fascist, equality-based revolution.” The A-side track, “Cough/Cool” offers up the band’s energetic yet faithful rendition of the prophetic Misfits song [..]