Collide - Shifting

been down and underneath
I've been looking still looking
through, through me
been down and underneath
I've been looking still looking
through...through me

she is shifting in
logic was lost
concept within

I think and I am
what's your purpose
thinking again

been calling out to me
I've been looking
through the mirror
been calling out to me
I've been wondering through me

she is shifting in
logic was lost
concept within

I think and I am
what's your purpose
thinking again

try to connect and
thinking I am
turning directly moving on
trying to move closer
trying to move on
trying to get there moving far

loosing focus

she is shifting in
logic was lost
concept within

I think and I am
what's your purpose
thinking again

try to connect and thinking I am
turning directly moving on
trying to get close, try to move on
trying to get there moving far

Collide was founded in L.A. in 1992, by Karin and StatiK. Statik is responsible for the sound orchestrations and overall production while kaRIN holds the enchanted vocals and lyrics. They had incorporated elements of trip hop, synthpop, and darkwave. Collide's debut album, Beneath the Skin, was released in 1996, followed by a remix album, Distort. Then, dissatisfied with the music industry, Collide started their own record label, Noiseplus Music, and in 2000 they released their second studio album, Chasing the Ghost.

"We never thought of starting a band, we just wanted to make the kind of music we wanted to hear. After the first few songs were finished, we thought the collaboration sounded like something special. A few songs later, we realized that the music we were making was really important to us. It would need a name. We thought long and hard and then COLLIDE came to us. We knew it was right, as it described what we were doing and the feeling of the music perfectly."  - Collide -

Emilie Autumn - Across The Sky

What is your substance?
Whereof are you made,
That millions of strange shadows on you tend?
Since everyone, have everyone, one shade
And you, but one, can every shadow lend

See beyond the moment
Think beyond the day
Hear the word
My voice will not be cast away
Fatalistic fortune
Ever near the end
Love goes on
But time does not return again

Across the sky
I will come for you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come true

Fear no more the midnight
Fear no more the sea
Close your eyes, regret nothing
You're safe with me
Look into the shadows
Step into the mist
Search your land but doubt never
I still exist

Across the sky
I will come for you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come
Across the sky
I will come for you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come true

Ask yourself: is this all there is?
Take no answer but the one you find
I have put my faith in aberrations of your kind
But even if you're in my mind

Across the sky
I will come to you
If you ask me to
Demystify
Your uncommon dreams
Stranger things have come
(Across the sky)
Should we hear the silence?
Should we hear the noise?
(I will come for you)
I don't need this blind acceptance
I have made my choice
(If you ask me to)
(Demystify)
Light lives in the darkness
Beauty lives in pain
(Your uncommon dreams)
In destruction we may lose ourselves
But still I will remain
(Stranger things have come true)
Across the sky
Across the sky

See beyond the moment
Think beyond the day
Hear the word
Hear the word
Hear the word
Hear the word

Emilie Autumn Liddell was born in Malibu, California in 1979. She began learning the violin at the age of four and left regular school five years later with the goal of becoming a world-class violinist. Progressing to writing her own music, she studied under various teachers and went to Indiana University, which she left over issues regarding the relationship between classical music and her appearance. She eventually progressed on her own becoming an exceptional songwriter, poet, singer, and violinist.

Through her own independent label "Traitor Records", Emilie Autumn debuted with her classical album On a Day "Music for Violin & Continuo", followed by the release in 2003 of her supernaturally themed album "Enchant". As a sufferer of bipolar disorder, she uses her experiences as a source of inspiration for her work. She was admitted to a psychiatric ward at a Los Angeles hospital after attempting suicide in 2004. Upon her release, she had her cell block number tattooed on her right arm as a way of remembering what happened to her. in 2010 she penned her autobiographical novel, "The Asylum for Wayward Victorian Girls", which contains many of her real-life diary entries from that stage of her life.

Emilie Autumn draws influence for her music—the style of which she has alternatively labeled as "Victoriandustrial" and glam rock—from plays, novels, and history, particularly the Victorian era. Performing with her all-female backing band The Bloody Crumpets, Autumn incorporates elements of classical music, cabaret, electronica, and glam rock with theatrics, and burlesque.

Hannah Fury - Girls that glitter love the dark

Girls that glitter love the dark
We lace it through our bitter, black little hearts
And then we feign surprise when we see
That those we've loved to love
Have seeped into our poisoned blood

Girls that glitter deceive death
We thread ourselves through innocent flesh
And then we feign surprise when we see
That those we've loved to waste they seem to be erased

Knit it through, thread it, sew it to unsuspecting flesh
They won't regret it, or so they say
And those you have loved have snagged on your thorny veins
But they don't regret it, or so you say

Girls that glitter desecrate a kiss
We break the code of happiness
And then we feign surprise when we see
That those we've loved have loved to leave

Girls that glitter defile hope
We think that love is just tightening that sad little rope
And then we open our eyes and we see
Through the gash of a fluttering eyelash

We see love trying desperately to flee
But you don't ever have to fear
Just break its wings and it will never disappear
You don't ever have to fear
Just break its wings and it will never disappear

Knit it through, capture it and stitch it to
your brittle little heart
At least that way love can't tear it apart
Knit it through, sew it to
They won't regret you
...And if they do?

But the thing that girls know best
Is that glitter covers all the ugliness
And they know one thing above all the rest:
Sparkle covers evilness
Shimmer covers all the mess
Glitter covers darkness
And then came the moment when the swarm of bees drowned

Hannah Fury began her self-teaching process of mastering the piano at the age of 16 after finding inspiration in a song which she described as having coalesced in her mind—naming it "The Vampire Waltz." By the early 1990s she initiated the process of producing and releasing her own music, starting with a four-song demo tape. Eventually the songs from this tape were developed into the self-released EP "Soul Poison" in 1998.

Since then, Hannah’s has released two full-length albums as well as a handful of singles and EPs, all receiving high praise from the music press. "The Thing That Feels" featured several songs inspired by Gregory Maguire’s novel Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. (Pre-dating the Broadway musical by several years.) The Thing That Feels also included “The Vampire Waltz,” as well as other songs all linked by the theme revealed in the title.

Hannah Fury has been called a “parasol-wielding OutKast” and her music has been described as “unnerving yet simultaneously beautiful.” Hannah says she hopes her music sounds like “a carousel in deep, warped space or a carnival under water — something dense and ferocious with thin, shimmery tendrils shooting out from it in all directions.”

Switchblade Symphony - Wrecking Yard

Gather 'round to hear this tale
A story which has grown old
Torn of their pride
Stars crash and collide
The wrecking yards grown cold
They may laugh and they may say that
This doesn't happen, oh no
If you happen to see them just listen
Take away some of their pain tonight

These are saddened times today
This sickened place we live
We walk right through the wrecking yard It's
Nothing that we give

Listen now, To the songs they sing
They try to stay warm
But the cold it stays
Houses are worn, Absent of storm
They're burning out, tonight

Dancing in the night they're shining
Up above the sky
Laughing in their darkest times
You'll see them asleep in the rain tonight

These are saddened times today
This sickened place we live
We walk right through the wrecking yard
It's nothing that we give

These are saddened times today
This sickened place we live
We're walking right on through the wrecking yard It's
Nothing that we give we're going
uh uh oh
We're going uh uh oh whoa
We're walking right on through the wrecking yard
It's nothing that we give

Gather 'round to hear this tale
A story which has grown old

Switchblade Symphony was founded in San Francisco in 1989 by composer Susan Wallace and vocalist Tina Root. They released their first album "Serpentine Gallery" in 1995." At that time they were the heart of the San Francisco Goth Scene; and since then, they have inspired all upcoming generations.

Switchblade Symphony's music combined orchestral sounds with heavy synth sequences and ethereal vocals to create a highly original sound resembling The Flower Duet sung over a twisted union of classical music and Goth. Switchblade Symphony name refers to this union, the result of cutting up elements of classical music to mix them with harder sounds.

Sadly Switchblade Symphony disbanded in November 1999. Subsequently in 2006 Tina Root started a new band called "Tre Lux." Later in 2008, Tina Root and George Earth (Switchblade Symphony's guitarist) formed together Small Halo.

Sleep Slid iN - Sacrifice Season

It's sacrifice season I won't be there
give me a reason make me aware
I've suffered in silence I'll make you feel there
Covered in violence I'll make you breath air

what a show of indigo a thousand dreams revealed
in the flow of what you know a million thoughts still show

It's sacrifice season I won't be there
give me a reason make me aware
I've suffered in silence I'll make you feel there
Wrapped up in violence I'll make you breath air

How's your show of mind control is it what you fear
steering clear of things so near oh that's so sincere

Wish away (3)
Wish away my dying dreams
Wish away (3)
Wish away my dying dreams

It's sacrifice season I won't be there
give me a reason make me aware
I'll worship your demon to make you feel scared
It's sacrifice season I won't see you there

There is a combination of emotions that helps define and shape the music of Sleep Slid iN. Ted Newsom aka The Rose Phantom and Whitney Willow, together, wallow in feelings of life, death, time, space, fear and love to create a consistent musical thread that weaves in and out of the duo’s songs. This flood of emotions allows both to construct music that defines them. In the end, two moody hearts capture an atmosphere that will most certainly never be forgotten.

Sleep Slid iN was established in the beginning of 2008 in Salt Lake City, Utah, when The Rose Phantom began writing songs for the first time with lyrics. The Rose Phantom previously had started "Revideolized" an instrumental music project back in 2003. Then, in 2005, he became a founding member of the progressive rock band, Melodramus. But when the beginning of 2008 rolled around, it was time to start fresh with something that would be unusually different from his other two music projects, so Sleep Slid iN was born. This new vision wouldn’t just involve him; this time it would need the final ingredient, the voice of Whitney Willow.

The Frozen Autumn - Polar Plateau

What if the air suddenly solidifies?
Nothing to regret
Nothing more to plan

Alabaster limbs can outlive
The nitrogen dew
So touch me and I'll
Be the last thing you touch

Marble limbs hold sway on the
Polar Plateau
Where I detest you all
I wish you could disappear

Bury me in Sienna
Bury me in blue sand
Where useless things are thrown away and
Forgotten

Bury me in Sienna
Bury me in blue sand
On the Polar Plateau
My eyes turn electric blue

What if the air suddenly solidifies?
Evidence
Becomes eternal

Troughs and peaks
Streamlining limbs
To fit a perfect guise
A flawless disguise

Humdrum action
Blindfold reaction
Will that soften your heart?
Will that soften your heart?

Bury me in Sienna
Bury me in blue sand
On the Polar Plateau
Please leave me alone

Bury me in Sienna
Bury me in blue sand
For I detest you all
I detest you all

Bury me in Sienna
Bury me in blue sand
For I detest you all
I detest you all

The Frozen Autumn was originally founded as a solo project by Diego Merletto in Turin, Italy, in 1993. Diego who is a keyboardist and synth programmer, founded his band after several years of involvement with various darkwave groups. Guitarist Claudio Brosio joined him during early studio sessions and live performances. Diego released the first "TFA" album "Pale Awakening" in 1995. The album was well received by gothic-wave/dark-romantic fans across Europe, and in 1997 they released the follow-up album "Fragments of Memories."

In 1998 Diego co-founded a side-project called "Static Movement" with Arianna (a.k.a. Froxeanne), who provided guest vocals on the title-track from Fragments of Memories. The duo composed together for six months and then releasing the album "Visionary Landscapes" in March 1999. The musical style of "Static Movement" was very similar to "The Frozen Autumn"; however, "Static Movement" only used electronic instruments. Soon after Arianna became a permanent part of "The Frozen Autumn" line-up, and "Static Movement" stayed as their concept research project.

Clan of Xymox - A Day

Where are you, when I'm needing you
So far away, so far away
I think you are the most important,  to me, to me

Where are you?
so far away
it makes no sense
it makes no sense at all

Where are you!!! 

Where are you?
so far away
i think you are the most important, to me, to me
my sunken footsteps put theirselves on
through this gallery of deceased
I think their lives must be deceived like the sham nowadays

nowadays  (4)     
Where are you ?   (it makes no sense at all)
so far away
in just one day (2)
it makes no sense at all (2)
in just one day (8)
in just
in just one
one day




For almost 33 years, Clan of Xymox has been One of the greatest  band ever. The band was formed in Nijmegen, Netherlands, in 1981. Originally consisting of Ronny Moorings, Anka Wolbert, Frank Weyzig, and Pieter Nooten. They released a first record or mini-album with the name of "Subsequent Pleasures" in 1983. Their first two full length albums, “Clan of Xymox” and “Medusa”, comfortably settled Clan of Xymox into their own niche of blooming melodics and smooth grey lyrical originality.

In 1991 the band moved to England, and released their fourth album, Phoenix. After this album, Anka Wolbert and Pieter Nooten left the band due to disagreements about the band's musical direction. In 1995 Ronny Moorings toured under the banner of Xymox in the Netherlands, including girlfriend and future band member Mojca. In 1997 the band's name was reverted to Clan of Xymox; Moorings recruited new live members, besides Mojca, and started touring.

In 1998 Clan of Xymox got signed by Metropolis Records in the USA, at a time of increasing US interest in the band, and released Creatures. In October 2000 the band, with the addition of Nina Simic (keyboards), released Live, a double CD with nineteen tracks and two videos. In 2001, they released Notes from the Underground. In September 2004, Best Of Clan of Xymox was released, with re-recorded versions of early hits as well as later offerings. Their latest projects include LIVE AT THE CASTLE PARTY concert (CD/DVD) in 2010 and Kindred Spirits (2012).