Manic Depression Records: Principe Valiente – Strangers In The Night

Principe Valiente - Strangers In The Night

After their outstanding self-titled debut album (2011) and the breathtaking subsequent album “Choirs of Blessed Youth” (2014), the Swedish post punk / shoegaze band lead by Fernando Honoratio, true to their vision, continues to carve out its own unique musical path.

As a first glimpse of their new album “Oceans”, to be released in early May, the new song and video “Strangers in The Night” was revealed on March 10th. The song is produced and mixed by the band themselves and the accompanying video is made by Swedish director Jacob Frössén, who among other things created the acclaimed documentary films “En film om Olle Ljungström” and “Henric De La Cour” in Sweden.

As B-sides to the single, there are two remixes made by the Swedish synth producer Mister Monell, and by the dark pop/electro band New Canyons Chicago who made the song ready for the dancefloor.

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Posted on February 23rd, 2017 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: The Doctors – Unterwelt

The Doctors - Unterwelt

THE DOCTORS is a bass / guitar / keyboard / drum machine duet that blends influences from post punk and cold wave. Producing a condensed sound of industrial, cold and hypnotic, drawing its energy in ultra-fast beats and a powerful bass combined to a saturated guitar.

After several tours in France, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany for their EP “dctrs2″ published in 2013 and now sold out, they shared the autumn 2016 Mini Cave Festival in Münster (Germany) with Frustration, then the Black Bass Festival (Gironde, France) with Mondo Generator (QOTSA side project), Inspector Cluzo, JC Satan…

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Posted on December 9th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Box And The Twins – Everywhere I Go Is Silence

Box And The Twins - Everywhere I Go Is Silence

Cologne based band, Box and and the Twins are indeed an odd thing – together with her ex-lover Marc, and her fiancé Mike, artist and trained psychologist Box creates sublime, fallen, out of time Music – equally enchanting, disturbing, sparkling songs.

A wistful search for meaning, for significance with patterns in this universal voidness.

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Posted on December 5th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Dear Deer – Oh My…

Dear Deer - Oh My

Dear Deer is a band formed in 2015, consisting of Federico Iovino (Popoi Sdioh) and Sabatel (Cheshire Cat).

This duo mixing post-punk, industrial and nowave appears live for the first time in Lille at “Des Jeunes Gens Mödernes II” event in April 2015. After the release of a few demo tracks recorded in 2015, the band performed live in France, Belgium and Poland with such bands as The Kvb, Savage Republic or Guerre Froide.

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Posted on November 7th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Christine Plays Viola – Spooky Obsessions

Christine Plays Viola - Spooky Obsessions

Christine Plays Viola is a band Abruzzo dedicated to a darkwave / post punk articulated and nuanced. After appearing on several compilations and after scoring three self-produced EP, in 2011 the band reached an agreement with the German label Af Music for the release of their first full length Innocent Awareness. The album gets a good response in the darkwave scene, with many songs played by DJs in european darkclubs. In the polls is considered one of the best productions of the year from radio, websites and magazines: even the guru Mick Mercer includes it in its top 30 of 2011. For The song Witch Of Silence, is made a video clip directed by Loreto Valente.

In June 2012 the band released a new EP of four songs including Keep My Scorn Warm in collaboration with vocalist Rosetta Garri of The Spiritual Bat.

In January 2013, the CPV were the band of the year for the German site “Static Magazin Germany”.

In recent years they have gained a good experience live mainly abroad (Germany, France, Spain, Portugal, England, Austria, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Poland) sharing the stage with bands like Clan Of Xymox, And Also The Trees, Pink Turns Blue, The Mary onettes, Modern English, Chameleons Vox, She Past Away, 1919, Motorama, Frank The Baptist, NFD, The Exploding Boy, The Beauty Of Gemina, Twisted Nerve, Whispers In The Shadow, Vendemmian etc. To report their presence to the world’s first great festival organized with crowdfunding, the ALT FEST.

In May 2014, the German label Cold Insanity Music, was released the second full length of Christine Plays Viola entitled “Vacua”, an ambitious concept album inspired by the series of “Black Paintings” by the great Spanish artist Francisco Goya. For the song Slaughter Of The Black Sun, a new video clip is shot by director Mauro John Capece.

In March 2015 the band released a 7” Vinyl EP named “The Stars Can’t Frighten” for the French label Manic Depression and a new European Tour is started in Autumn. The band has performed at Semana Gotica 2015 in Madrid and at La Nef Fantasmagothic 2015 in Angouleme and in more other countries like : Czech Republic, Poland, Portugal, Austria and Germany.

Worthy of note is the participation at the prestigious Wave Gotik Treffen in May 2016 in Leipzig where the band plays in front of a huge crowd!

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Posted on November 3rd, 2016 under Releases, ,