Gothic Music News - Releases of 2011

Well, I admit it's not easy to keep updated on all the goth and gothy bands of the world but I will try, at least with the most famous ones.

2011 has been a great year for goth bands. Bands like Blutengel, Leaves Eyes, Within Temptation, Inkubus Sukkubus, Sirenia, Gothminister, Clan Of Ximox, for example, have released new complete albums!

As fonts say also Skinny Puppy, The Birthday Massacre, Peter Murphy (Bauhaus) have very recently released or will be releasing new records! So if you are fans of the bands or just want to check out new music you should definitely keep in touch! :)

Same thing goes for Evanescence and Emilie Autumn.

Evanescence new album will be released in October, and the new single is already out! Check out "What You Want" at their official website www.evanescence.com ! :)

Also as written in the news on Emilie Autumn's site, she will too release a brand new album called "Fight Like A Girl", along with a new on-line shop (Asylum Emporium). 

If you know about other gothic music releases, please let me know ^_^

Blutengel

Genre: Electronic, Dark Electro, EBM, Futurepop.

Country: Germany.

Activity Period: 1999 - present.

Members: Chris Pohl: Voice, Lyrics, Programing.

Constance Rudert: Voice, Lyrics.

Ulrike Goldmann: Voice, Lyrics.

Discography: 1999 Child of Glass

2001 Seelenschmerz

2002 Angeldust

2004 Demon Kiss

2005 Live Lines (Live)

2005 The Oxidising Angel EP

2007 Labyrinth

2008 Moments Of Our life (Live)

2009 Schwarzes Eis

2009 Soultaker

Videography: 2005 Live Lines

2008 Moments Of Our Life

 

 

Blutengel is a gothic german electronic band of sounds mainly EMB, futurepop and a bit of dark electro led by Chris Pohl since 1999. Undergoing changes in members to female voices and dancers to performances, the band currently is formed by Chris Pohl in voice, lyric and programing, Constance Rudert and Ulrike Goldmann in female voices and lyrics.
Blutengel have always had the characteristic of mix female and male voices in most of their songs with lyrics in german and english, their lyrics are of very good quality and cover topics such as love, unlove, tragedy, vampirism, hope and all aspects of human desire.
With a wide discography, released more than ten disks everyone with their respective singles and two dvd: "Live Lines" a record of their tour Demon Kiss and "Moments Of Our Lives" with differents shows of their Labyrinth tour.
In 2004 together with Stendal Blast released an EP named "Mein Babylon".
Their live shows have the peculiarity to show a dark and theatrical atmosphere with performance according with the lyrics, performances has always characterized to Blutengel for their proposal gothic, bloody, vampiric andbondage unforgettable way played by Sonja Semmler (who left the band 2009) usually accompanied by someone else.
The Blutengel proven formula to use sounds of dark synthesizers, double vocals in the chorus, patterns after each chorus, electronic drum beats with spectacular or repetitive ending, eventually can become monotonous for some ones or for others may be to their liking.

Blutengel - Seelenschmerz

Download

www.blutengel.de
www.myspace.com/officialblutengel