Track Listing: My Velvet Little Darkness, Again It’s Over, Not To Stay, No Dear Hearts, Short Glance, Filthy Notes, Sweet Caroline, An Irresistible Fault, To Love Her On Knees, Sad Theme For A Marriage, Should, My Mescaline.

This German band that has been around since the early 90s and has that Vision Thing-era Sisters/69 Eyes feel without sounding dated. From track one, Filthy Notes flows from one song immediately into the next.

I think Lacrimas Profundere can be best described as metal influenced with an infusion of classical elements. The vocals and guitar are very clean sounding, unlike other metal I’ve heard where distortion covers a multitude of sins. A tight album for fans of goth rock/metal.

For more information, check out www.lacrimas.com

Track Listing: Les Chiens, The Haunted Palace, Amazing, Make It Stop Now Please, The Troll Mother, The Final Dawn, Les Coeurs Tendres, Martyrdom Of The Chaos Whore Virgin, The Moon Song, Oceans, In Heaven (Everything Is Fine), Ghost House, Dies Irae, Wolf Saxon, Silencio, In The Birdcage, Hungarian Prolapse, The End.

This new album is not like past MSG albums; this is Miranda Sex Garden and then some. There are 18 collaborators on this album, including Mediaeval Babes and Queen Adreena.

There is some familiar ground, but this album takes you to a very unusual place. It’s as if each song has a quirky tragedy to tell. Ethereal and creepy, Stories From The Moon is a darkly whimsical nod back to vaudeville and a very enjoyable listen.

For more information, check out www.mirandasexgarden.com

Track Listing: Suffocation, World of Decay, Manipulate, Don’t Believe, Life Through Death, Deja Vu, Coagulation, Process of Dehumanization, Broken, Victim/Aggressor, Maggots.

This is most certainly a metal-industrial album that comes in like a lion and out like a lamb. There is some seriously heavy tracks with throbbing guitar, but then you catch tracks like “Deja Vu”, which sounds undoubtedly inspired and influenced by the likes of Skinny Puppy and “Process of Dehumanization” brings Snog to mind. Decay ends on a quiet note with the sparse and bleak “Maggots”.

Decay could fit in with the latest Ministry album, Rio Grande Blood, but it feels a little over-processed and distorted. I came away feeling like each track had to be beaten into me. Too grating for my tastes.

For more information, check out www.destinationoblivion.net

Track Listing: Facing The Dream (Opening Credits), Away, Ancient Shadows, But If I Go, I Steal The Leaves, The Willow’s Lullaby, The Call Of The Nymph, Nothing, Haunted, Nightmare, Fairytale, The Realms Of Twilight, The Voice Of The Night, Lament, Ahora Que Te Has Ido, The Prince And The Fairy, I’m Right Here, Sueño Muerto, Facing The Dream (Closing Credits). .

Ancient Shadows is ethereal bliss with floaty female vocals that reminds me of Australian songstress Louisa John-Krol. This concept album devoted to dark fairies and ghostly tales would fit in very well on the French Prikosnovenie label.

Although it runs at exactly one hour, the album feels a little long; it could have been a tighter album if cut down. Flows beautifully, but no one track particularly stands out for me, with the exception of the guitar at the beginning of “Nightmare”. Beautiful and a very promising artist to look out for from Barcelona.

For more information, check out www.yidneth.com