Hardcore tinged post-punk and darkwave from France, with a healthy amount of fight in its gloomy outlook. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/02/03/t...

New music from so many cool acts, including Kontravoid, Ony Godfrey, Menticide, Alien Faktor, Produit Judiciaire ft Moravie, and Lucifer's Aid. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/02/02/t...

The return of our "if you like this, check this out" feature for 2026. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/30/a...

Records by Violet Arcana and Fostercare are up for discussion on an oddly trance-adjacent episode of We Have A Technical. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/29/w...

Hocico's Racso Agroyam resurrects his rhythmic noise project, with an expansive new LP. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/28/d...

The only good thing about that awful Silent Hill 2 adaptation is getting to revisit Akira Yamaoka's score. Hey remember when he remixed Interlace? Presumably in this case "Heather" is a reference to Heather Mason from Silent Hill 3. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGdT...

Swedish EBM act CK 37 bring a good-natured sense of fun and self-deprecation to the core sounds and concerns of the genre on their debut. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/27/c...

A friend referred to Bovino as "Smol Invictus" the other day and that's edged out "Boyd Ice" for us.

New music from Flesh Field , This Morn' Omina, Mortes, Ewiges Feuer, Group Rhoda, and Double Eyelid. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/26/t...

The re-recordings of Absolute Body Control's influential body of minimal synth work are up for discussion in this month's episode of We Have A Commentary.

We're picking records which are emblematic of the labels they were released upon on this week's We Have A Technical. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/22/w...

A brooding but well-paced release from Lycia's David Galas bridges goth's past and present.

Los Angeles darkwave act Grizz shows his range and his charisma on his new collection of songs. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/20/g...

New week, new songs from the likes of Covert Forces, Mecha Maiko, The Luna Sequence, Club Drugs, ESA and Body Beat Ritual. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/19/t...

Scary Valentine packing the floor in the year 2026 fuck yeah

Thoughts on new EPs by Autumns and Jimmy Svensson. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/16/o...

We're discussing records by Die Sektor and DSX this week. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/15/w...

The depressive futurepop project Lost Signal sticks close to melancholy on their latest album. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/14/l...

The first record in six years from Sarin brings a decidedly industrial focus to the TBM project.

New tunes and mixes by Das Ich, Scheitan, Mesh, Auger, D.A.F., and The Golden Age Of Wrestling. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/12/t...

Your occasional reminder of this killer jam from the forgotten era of synthpop youtu.be/HUXleKqv4Yo?...

Capsule reviews of releases by Nero\gris and Sintex Bortexx. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/09/o...

The last full Foetus LP of JG Thirlwell's lengthy career in extremity and experimentalism is discussed on this week's We Have A Technical.

An exercise in pure, classic synthpop feels like the culmination of T.O.Y.'s longstanding transformation.

Greece's Restive Plaggona is noisy and thoughtful in equal measure on their third LP of 2025. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/06/r...

We kick the new year off with new tunes and mixes from SRSQ, Ortrotasce, Fractal, Apoptygma Berzerk, Night Sister , and This Is Radio Silence. www.idieyoudie.com/2026/01/05/t...

Encyclopedia realized that the copy of the Merzbox Bugs Meany was selling was fake as soon as he saw that its 27th CD was titled "I Love Chicken Parm", something the staunchly vegan Masami Akita would never sanction.

T minus 1096 days.

HAPPY NEW YEAR ALL! Love, health and happiness 😍

2026 Scene Report: people sloppily making out to Rosetta Stone is IN

Happy Fuck Off 2025 from your friends at I Die: You Die

As selected by our Patreon backers, this year's off-topic musical commentary podcast has us reminiscing about one of the high water marks in that beloved formative influence on both of our lives, "Weird Al" Yankovic. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/31/w...

In 2011 @contrasoma.bsky.social wrote about goth band The Merry Thoughts. To this day there are people arguing in the comments about whether they were actually the Sisters of Mercy. This is the legacy we leave for the world when we shutter the site some day. www.idieyoudie.com/2011/08/08/t...

I made a playlist because I am a masochist tidal.com/playlist/ac1...

A special edition of our normally Patreon paywalled Bombers podcast is available to all, in which we choose songs we nominally like from a genre (as chosen by our backers) we appreciably hate. www.patreon.com/posts/bomber...

We don't make much mention of our Patreon podcast Bombers (basically an outlet for all of our non g/i interests, of which there are so many) but we'll be putting out one in the next couple of days and it will have opinions re a genre of music we don't like bit are trying to say nice things about

Someone make a slice of life movie about a night at the goth club with all the stock scene characters we all know on site even if we've never been to that particular club before

For those still on Spotify, a playlist of all our Year End LPs, honorable mentions, and tracks ("Fanal" by Das Ich "Jouissance" by Bedless Bones aren't uploaded). open.spotify.com/playlist/1oS...

We’re each picking five of our favourite tracks from 2025 on this week’s episode of the podcast!

IDUD Holiday party topic of conversation: Does Tracy Pew count as a leather daddy?

Closing out our Year End week, we look back at our favourite releases of the year as well as some honourable mentions! www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/19/w...

Incredible that Kraftwerk made an entire song just listing the things a pocket calculator could do and never got around to the "BOOBIES" feature.

Patreon backers! Two polls are up right now for December podcasts. Choose which Weird Al album will be the subject of our off-topic We Have A Commentary, & which genre we normally hate that we'll have to scour for tracks we kind of like for a Pick Five ep of Bombers. www.patreon.com/c/idieyoudie

We reveal and revisit our favourite records of the year. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/18/i...

Year End coverage rolls on with records 15-6 on our list. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/17/i...

A Model of Control has been at it longer than we have, and Adam's continued dedication and keen ear is an inspiration. Go check his best albums list!

We entirely neglected to include the lovely, personal write-up done by Barrett from Bootblacks in this post yesterday, an error we have now rectified. Go check it out!

The countdown of our favourite records of 2025 kicks off! www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/16/i...

As is tradition, we're kicking off our Year End coverage with picks from friends of the site! www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/15/f...

Year End list is finalized. Coverage kicks off Monday!