United Kingdom
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Fen Returns to Roots on ‘Elemental Part One: Mourning Earth’
Fen’s eighth album opens a two-album cycle rooted in East Anglia’s drained fens, carrying atmospheric black metal beyond its native…
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Infest Tests Its Manchester Foothold for a Second Year
The UK’s longest-running dark-electronic festival returns to Manchester Academy, with IAMX headlining and Utah Saints in an Infest debut.
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Bruul Break Yorkshire’s Silence With Their Debut ‘Bruul’
Bruul’s self-titled debut EP reaches Bandcamp on July 31st, carrying Yorkshire’s atmospheric black metal into a wider underground audience.
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The Blood Divine and the Migration They Could Not Survive
Two records apart, a Colchester band tried to cross from gothic doom into progressive rock in a single leap, then…
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Reading the Bandaged Figure on Anathema’s ‘Serenades’
Penprase’s sepia tableau turns a horse skull and wrapped body into a study of concealment that fronts a debut caught…
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Gothla UK Returns to Leicester for a Twentieth Year
Gothla UK opens its twentieth Leicester edition on July 10th, 2026, arguing gothic fusion belly dance has matured into a…
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Witchsorrow Keep the Faith on ‘The Devil And All His Works’
British doom trio Witchsorrow return after eight years with a record of total devotion, carrying Hampshire’s occult inheritance to a…
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Paradise Lost Remaster the Album That Named ‘Gothic’ Doom
Thirty-five years after ‘Gothic’ gave gothic doom its name, Peaceville returns the record remastered — by an engineer born in…
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‘The Devils’ Director’s Cut Screened at Cannes Classics
Ken Russell’s most suppressed film screened in its complete form at the Cannes Classics section of the 79th Cannes Film…
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Hellebore #15 Gives the Green Man Back His History
Issue 15 of Maria J. Pérez Cuervo’s folk horror magazine assembles scholars and novelists to examine Britain’s contested green mythology…
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‘Dark Secrets’ Has the Hammer, While ‘Witches’ Has the Victims
‘Dark Secrets’ in London and ‘Witches’ in Nantes engage the book that authorized mass executions. The framing is irreconcilable.
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Gothic Performance and the Historic Cemetery’s Return to the Living
From Brooklyn’s catacomb stages to London’s Victorian courtyards, documented practitioners are returning the cemetery to its original function as a…
