Manic Depression Records: The Spoiled – Ironshell EP

The Spoiled - Ironshell

The Spoiled is an Italian solo project founded in late 2015 by main producer, singer, songwriter and instrumentalist Giovanni Santolla. Its musical framework is a mosaic of darkwave, noise rock, dark ambient and industrial combined with a deep love for surrealist and horror movies and Decadent literature.

Glacial drum machines, tribal percussions, chorused basses, distorted synths and ethereal vocals portray a claustrophobic yet melancholic journey through the deepest and darkest feelings of human being.

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Posted on March 8th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Ascetic – Everything Is Becoming

Ascetic - Everything Is Becoming

Ascetic is the post-punk project of Saxon Jörgensen, August Skipper and Andrew Jigalin from Melbourne, Australia, now located in Berlin, Germany.

Second album ‘EVERYTHING IS BECOMING’ is the distillation of a slowly evolved sound stemming from the long writing collaboration between Jörgensen and Skipper, a carefully collated sonic vocabulary that along with the main instrumentation of guitar, bass, voice and electronic drums, includes found sounds, voice memos, field recordings, sampled synths and resampled guitars woven into the texture of the record, lyrics that embody a poetic restraint in exploring what it is to be human in a moment in history through both darkness and redemption.

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Posted on March 2nd, 2016 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Schonwald – Between Parallel Lights

Schonwald - Between Parallel Lights

Formed in 2009, the Italian duo crossed Europe in every way to deliver its ethereal and sensual post-punk, all in hypnotic, minimalist, strained atmospheres.

After 2 LPs sold out within months, Schonwald returns this fall with its third album “Between Parallel Lights”. We hear echoes of noisy Suicide, and synthetic melodies of the great 80s New Order. Beyond the darkwave, Schonwald invites us to dance dark.

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Posted on January 6th, 2016 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Luminance – Sans Visage

Luminance - Sans Visage

New Wave / Synthpop / Dark Electronics from Brussels, Belgium.

Echoing drums in the distance, vaporous winds bearing the Old Voices, here to guide us through the coldness of the city, towards the ancestral light.

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Posted on December 5th, 2015 under Releases, ,

Manic Depression Records: Geometric Vision – Dream LP

Geometric Vision - Dream LP

G.V. Is a band formed by A.Giordano. He starts composing songs and lyrics reflecting dark and nostalgic atmospheres typical of dark and cold wave, but with a modern attitude which draws inspiration from contemporaneous Berlin’s and British minimal synth experiments.

After a while he decides to create a real band which takes more substantial form after having experienced several line up changes… With Gennaro Campanile playing bass guitar and Roberto Amato on guitar everything seems to work out.

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Posted on November 1st, 2015 under Releases, ,