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(news – new single) Chicago’s THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE summon courage & resolve on ‘We All Rise’ single!

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It is release day for ‘We All Rise’ by Chicago-based alternative post-punk outfit THE BELLWETHER SYNDICATE, the third single from their ‘Vestige & Vigil’ album, slated for release on April 28 via Sett Records (North America) and Nexilis Records / Schubert Music Europe (rest of world). A tale of hope and struggle, of audacity, inner grit and rage for what could be…

Formed by WILLIAM FAITH (of seminal goth acts Christian Death, Mephisto Walz and Shadow Project and co-founder of Faith & The Muse) and SARAH ROSE FAITH a.k.a. SCARY LADY SARAH (one of the scene’s most eminent DJs and club promoters and host of Nocturna, the longest-running goth event in North America), they are joined in The Bellwether Syndicate by PHILLY PEROXIDE, STEVYN GREY and COREY GREY. Faith notes, “’We All Rise’ is both an acknowledgement of and a call to the inner courage we all possess, which gives us the resolve and the strength to go against the prevailing system and try to build the world that lives in all of our hearts and minds”. 

Order the single  https://withkoji.com/@thebellwethersyndicate
Bandcamp  https://thebellwethersyndicate.bandcamp.com
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/track/1ug1LGlsqtHnoNypxiF4v0
‘Beacons’  https://youtu.be/CRNdc-XJIMI
‘Dystopian Mirror’ (Official video)  https://youtu.be/c2MPiPgEHs4
‘Dystopian Mirror’ (Performance video)  https://youtu.be/XKTBCvkpNdc
‘Dystopian Mirror’ (Lyrics video)  https://youtu.be/IlpWwZ3jlbM
Spotify  https://open.spotify.com/artist/3B9I7zOlLeuj02Pft3B2nN
Tour tickets (with Clan of Xymox)  http://bit.ly/3lYoNYZ

Reviews

(review) NAUT – ‘Hunt’ (Season of Mist)

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I knew next to nothing about Bristol, UK’s NAUT. Well, they released their new opus with Season of Mist. What have we here? There are eight songs on this opus. To me, this band sounds like post punk, ethereal, almost spacy guitar passages and vibes, gothic influenced singing reminding me at times of Croatian band called Phantasmagoria and sometimes of Joy Division influenced playing at least this is how I heard it in ‘All The Days’. More straightforward gothic post punk is ‘Gold Death’, one of my personal favorites on this opus, I can almost hear it playing in some gothic club, yet retaining a bit of harshness beneath beautiful keyboard passages that spread throughout the opus, making it richer and more bombastic, so to say. I can not avoid hearing also pop sensitivity in songwriting gentler atmospheric passages, thus colliding them with punk legacy and hitting me as a listener straight to my heart with hits such as ‘8 In 3’ and also ‘Unity Of Opposites’. This is darkened, this is melodic, but also raw punk energy legacy lies underneath it all. Like it a lot.

8/10