Skeletal Family - Promised Land

It felt like we’d been here a thousand years before
When the door broke open, let in...  the light
So we ran to an empty space and felt so free
You know we’ve never felt like this...  before

Turn to face me
hold out you’re hand (hold out you’re hand)
Don’t you know that,  this is the promised land (this is the promised land)
With bright lights shining it seems so bright
Don’t you know that things go nice with spice

You now I think the time has come to open the box
and let in to the world what’s been hidden...  from inside
Not covering what the day brings, it seems so bright
Don’t you know that,   this is the promised land...  when alright

Turn to face me
hold out you’re hand (hold out you’re hand)
Don’t you know that,  this is the promised land (this is the promised land)
With bright lights shining it seems so bright
Don’t you know that,   things are rather inside

Skeletal Family was formed from the ashes of The Elements of Keighley, West Yorkshire, England in December 1982. The original line-up of the band was Anne-Marie Hurst (vocals), Stan Greenwood (guitar), Roger "Trotwood" Nowell (bass), Ian "Karl Heinz" Taylor (keyboard/sax), and Steve Crane (drums).

Taking their name from a David Bowie track off the Diamond Dogs album, the band quickly gained a sizeable local following, encouraged by this produced a self funded single “Trees”/”Just A Friend” released through the Leeds based Luggage label.

Skeletal Family's first album, Burning Oil, recorded in four days at a cost of £640, was released by Red Rhino in August 1984.[1] It topped the UK Independent Chart, staying in the top 10 until the end of the year.[1][4] The band began touring with The Sisters of Mercy during the Sisters' First and Last and Always tour. The group released "Futile Combat" in 1985, along with the "Promised Land" single.

Kommunity FK - Something Inside Me Has Died

I have crept
in your ugly world
I have slept
in every way
I have something
I swear nobody can steal
You have nothing
I'm for real
Because something inside me has

HAS...
DIED !!!!
DIED !!!!

I don't know
Where I'll be in a thousand years
It don't show
I've hid it well behind my other tears
In the shadow
of where you stand in my light
It's so shallow
No need to fight
because something inside me has

Has...
Has...
DIED !!!!
DIED !!!!

Patrik Mata formed the legendary American band Kommunity FK in Los Angeles in 1978. Mata is the sole founding visionary, composer, lyricist, musical arranger, vocalist/guitarist, and style chameleon. When Kommunity FK was first formed His vision was new and his creation was raw. First reviews of Kommunity FK were headlined with Patrik’s quotes such as “Any noise that fits…”. Kommunity FK’s music was so artistic, so strong, so dark. Mata also introduced his own influences, inspired by the 1916 Dada Movement, Anti Art, noise & musique concrète, plus the "cut up method" invented by Brion Gysin but executed by William Burroughs into his music.

Kirlian Camera - In The Endless Rain

Dead cities
Me inside me
Spring's coming far from you
in this solitude
Lost in the true of death....  Sands
Icy Miami Cyborgs
Icy Miami Cyborgs
Inside, inside...

These men without my eyes
they don't know, they don't know
The warm wind's calling from the sea
Waters in which I'm drifting
Golden desertical beachs
Eternal love, eternal cry

I see the windows
I see Uranie hotel from the inside
old chairs on the edge of the wall of shadows
and all that I love...
Dad is dead in my arms
and so, all each others..
Mother!

The trees rebirth around him
how can I explain it to myself..?
Lights of life, lights of life
so near to me
one step again, only one in your rain
laying on the sand
Rain's falling on his body...
There's a point in that immensity
in the obscure of there
And now Miami is dead
Wet sands... wet sands...

The band was founded in 1980 by Angelo Bergamini in Parma Italy. Bergamini was a pioneering act of the Italian synthpop scene, eventually being the first Italian group to be signed to Virgin Records.

During the second half of the Eighties, the sound of Kirlian Camera became gradually darker, moving away from the synth pop sound that marked some of their early releases. In 1993, they signed to German label Discordia, which licensed the self-produced album "Todesengel, The Fall of Life". 1995 came to see them collaborate with label mates Dive on the Obsession EP and :Wumpscut: .

The lineup stabilized in 1999 when singer Elena Alice Fossi joined Kirlian Camera, becoming their lead singer. She is also the leader of side-projects Alice Neve Fox, Spectra*paris and Siderartica, and co-leader in the Stalingrad project with Bergamini himself.

Android Lust - Refuse

I have been broken
Polluted
Destroyed
Ripped apart and crushed by a thousand lies
You may have wanted to see the changes
As the rage erupts and bleeds out of my eyes

The closer I come to end this frustration
My will dissolves
I'm left to lick my wounds
And did you ever realize
My strength that you devoured
Will rot your heart from inside out
Rot your heart from inside out..  rot your heart rot your heart (2)
Rot your heart from inside out

The closer I come to end this frustration
My will dissolves
I'm left to lick my wounds
And did you ever realize
My strength that you devoured
Will rot your heart from inside out
Rot your heart from inside out..  rot your heart rot your heart (2)
Rot your heart

Shikhee D’iordna was born in Bangladesh, but grew up in England and the U.S.A. In 1999, she moved to New York City. Her initial work was done entirely electronically, and attracted a goth/electro-industrial following. After two independent label releases Shikhee released The Dividing on her own in 2002

The Dividing is filled with intensely passionate lyrics delivered in low whispers and startling, penetrating screaming." That album involved more live instrumentation, on the album all performed by Shikhee. She felt that, while dark it was a more optimistic collection than her earlier work, and that her fanbase had become more diversified.

Shikhee's third full length album, Devour, Rise, and Take Flight, was released on February 21, 2006. The album featured more live instrumentation than The Dividing, but embraced a more aggressive electronic sound. Her fourth album, The Human Animal, was made available at androidlust.com on July 22, 2010, and Shikhee is now working on a new release.

Faith and the Muse - Boudiccea

It's the impossibility of Womanhood that vexes me
The child bride symbol
The ability to read eyes and minds
Curves more fluid than desert waves
The tiny bones of the wrist
The organic movement to paint the lips

But the heart
A woman's heart
A woman's heart much older than...  than the hollow'd trees

I am the Queen who fell upon her sword
My servants and descendants each... in her turn of glorious wave
But anger is such energy
But beautiful if controlled
A slower simmer, the sharpening in her teeth

But the heart
A woman's heart
A woman's heart has the patience of the black, black sea

Our hands are tied
Our voices mute
Such was our fate when they cut off off our head
Little sisters You seem so estranged
Some may dress and act the glamour'd part but they'll never have
A woman's heart...  Hang your head in shame Every time you break    (3)
A woman's heart Burns deadlier than the sleeping beast

Faith and the Muse, formed in 1993, are vocalist and songwriter Monica Richards (formerly of Strange Boutique and the mid-80s Washington DC punk band Madhouse) and William Faith (formerly of Christian Death and Shadow Project). The duo draws from a wide array of styles: gothic rock, ethereal, Celtic, post-punk, and even jazz. Neo-pagan and Celtic mythology influences much of their lyrical content. While their sound varies greatly from song to song, their music is always highly emotional and spiritual, with a cathartic and epic character.

Enigma- I Love You, I'll Kill You

I see love, I can see passion
I feel danger, I feel obsession
Don't play games with the ones who love you
Cause I hear a voice who says:
I love you... I'll kill you...

Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...  (3)

Look into the mirror of your soul
Love and hate are one in all
Sacrifice turns to revenge and believe me
You'll see the face who'll say:
I love you... I'll kill you...
But I'll love you forever

Loneliness, I feel loneliness in my room...  (2)

Enigma is a German new age band founded by Michael Cretu (Romanian musician), David Fairstein and Frank Peterson in 1990. Cretu, who based his recording studio A.R.T. Studios in Ibiza, Spain in the early 1990s is both the composer and the producer of the project. His former wife Sandra often provided vocals on Enigma tracks. Jens Gad co-produced and played guitar on three of the Enigma albums
 
  
With the 1990 hit “Sadeness Part I,” Enigma brought the new age fascination with Gregorian chants and old-world culture to the world and clubs; the resulting single was both unique and irresistible.

On his second album, 1993’s “Cross of Changes”, some of the old-world elements remained, but the new age angle came to the forefront in a set of slick, radio-friendly pop. The well-known “Return to Innocence” was born.



 

Hungry Lucy - Grave

Curved arrow hits me
Too late to kiss me
You bow to miss me
Cannot assist me

Life's blood leaving my veins
Now I lie in my grave

Blind palace wants me
All shadows haunt me
Devil's treasure flaunts me
Who else will taunt me

Life's blood leaving my veins
Now I lie in my grave

Black water drowning
Sad faces frowning
Knife's blood is burning
Bodies are turning

Hungry Lucy is a darkwave, trip-hop duo from Cincinnati, Ohio. Beginning in 1998, led by Christa Belle (lyrics, vocals, music) and Warren Harrison (music, programming and production), the two came together when Harrison was asked to contribute work on a Depeche Mode tribute album in 1998.

The name "Hungry Lucy" refers to a young woman named Lucy Ryan who died in 1792. According to the ghost story of Havoc House, Psychic Sybil Leek is claimed to have channeled Ryan, and reported that Ryan was constantly complaining about being hungry.

Lacuna Coil - Falling Again

I lay, looking my hands
Search in these lines
I've not the answer
Crying and I don't know
watching the sky
I search an answer
I'm free, free to be
I'm not another liar
I just want to be myself... myself

And now the beat inside me
is a sort of a cold breeze
and I've never any feeling inside
ruining me...
bring my body
carry it into another world
I know I live... but like a stone I'm falling down

I pray, looking to the sky
I can feel this rain
right now it's falling on me
fly, I just want to fly
life is all mine
some days I cry alone,
but I know I'm not the only one
I'm here and another day is gone
I don't want to die...
Please be there when I'll arrive, don't cry... please

And now the beat inside of me
is a sort of a cold breeze 
and I've never any feeling inside
around me...
bring my body
carry it into another world
I know I live... but like a stone I'm falling down

Lacuna Coil, formerly known as Sleep of Right and Ethereal, is a metal band formed in Milan, Italy in 1994. The group consists of Cristina Scabbia (vocals), Andrea Ferro (vocals and keyboards), Cristiano Migliore(guitars), Marco Biazzi (guitars), Marco Coti Zelati (bass and keyboards), and Cristiano Mozzati (drums and percussion).

In 1994 Andrea Ferro and Marco Coti Zelati formed Sleep of Right, but soon changed their name to Ethereal at the end of 1997. Finding that the name Ethereal was already taken by a Greek band, they changed their name to Lacuna Coil, which is half Italian, half English and translates to “empty spiral”.

The members of the band have been known, musically, for composing midtempo songs consisting of guitar lines overlaid with prominent keyboard work, and contrasting dual female/male vocal harmonies to help create a melodic detached sound.

The Gathering - Leaves

I close your eyes with my mouth
Now you don't see anything
But you feel my breath all over
I can feel you too

Although I don't really know you
I don't really care 

Cry with me make my day
Tomorrow all will be gone
All the sweetness and all the fun
No, I don't wanna know...

Although I don't really know you
I don't really care

now that you're gone I don't know
how to really feel inside
baring the hope to see you again
I guess I never will

now that I do really know you
yes, I really care!

The Gathering, the innovative band from Oss, the Netherlands, formed in 1989 and came to fame in the second half of 1990s with its unique blend of atmospheric sound, progressive elements and the compelling vocals of former singer Anneke van Giersbergen

The Gathering toured throughout the U.S. and Canada with Lacuna Coil in the spring of 2007. On 5 June 2007, it was then announced that Anneke was leaving The Gathering to spend more time with her family and her own band, Agua de Annique. The band scheduled a final tour stop on 4–5 August 2007 at the Ankkarock Festival, Finland. The Ankkarock Festival was announced as the final performance with Anneke as vocalist.

Era Nocturna - Inside the Dream

"In all the world I've seen nothing to hold on. To keep me safe from this. To keep me warm. While all the world goes to sleep, I'm here awake inside the dream. My will is like a candle's twinkling flame. The days of steady burning, gone. I have no drive to fight the winds. Removed from the board, like a feeble pawn."

"In all the world I've seen nothing to hold on. To keep me safe from this. To keep me warm. While all the world goes to sleep, I'm here awake inside the dream.

........

We're going back to a time where I should have been
And all along I would go where I should lead
Another way to find me inside this dream

........


"I stagnate alone in the cobwebs.  (Who are you?)
It doesn't mean a thing.                 (Who are you?)
It doesn't mean a thing."               (Who are you?.... Who are you?)


With everything, with nothing now
It doesn't mean a thing, without - within
When everything has broken down
Do you see yourself inside the dream?
The candles all, are burning out
And here we live inside the dream...
I give everything and get nothing back
Is this all I have inside the dream?

Of all the ways it could kill me       (4)
All the words I say...                      (4)
Be sure that this hasn't happened before and now we couldn't care less...    (1)

........


Of all the ways this could kill me
and of all the words I say...
there was nothing before and there were nothing this would stay

Era Nocturna started in Easthampton, Massachusetts in 1999 as a means of emotional exorcism for Dae Noctem. She uses both the real and digital in the creation of her music, from rough mix to final creation, mixing all of them seamlessly into a harrowing yet ethereal soundscape. Era Nocturena’s unique and emotional sound has become a mainstay, although obscure one, in the underground electro-goth genre. In 2014, Dae Noctern lauched her new project with the Name AnaDaenia which derived from the word "anhedonia" (a psychological condition characterized by inability to experience pleasure in normally pleasurable acts). Her new project holds the musical essence of Era Nocturna while creating a new emotional experience.