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!

Re-sharing this for any new followers. Follow @idieyoudie.bsky.social NAO if you don't and love the dark spoopy or spompy musics. <3

For the final Observer of the year, we look at new releases by Statiqbloom, and dormnt. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/12/o...

We discuss new releases from Corpus Delicti and Forma Tadre on the podcast as Year End coverage approaches. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/11/w...

Look, if anyone's gonna be able to tell JLDM exactly what the horse on the shore is waiting for, it's a medieval peasant.

Seeming's fourth album of post-everything electronic songcraft is about the world, and how we move through it. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/10/s...

Das Ich's first album in nearly two decades holds to the dramatic and honest blend of darkwave, goth, and industrial which made them so sorely missed.

New music from Foetus, Buzz Kull, Portion Control, Mortal Realm Ancient My Enemy, and Logic Lost. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/08/t...

The new Qual LP is musically minimalist but still thematically bleak and garish.

We chat with Abelardo of The Invisible Orange about live events promotion within and without goth and industrial music in the modern day. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/04/w...

X Marks The Pedwalk's long-running second act firmly shifts into pure synthpop territory with the charming "Insomnia". www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/03/x...

Black Dahlia's weirdo artpop sound comes into its own on their excellent new LP. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/12/02/b...

An EBM forward clutch of tunes from Moon 17, Blokkontroll, DSTORTD SGNL + Talla 2XLC, Deadly Injection, Einhänder Aus Stahl (Chrome Corps), and CK 37.

You know you're playing the right shit at the right night when the three tracks people come up to the booth to get the names of are by Imminent Starvation, Pouppée Fabrikk, and Iszoloscope.

Rotersand's debut LP is the subject of this month's commentary podcast.

Debut LPs from House Of Harm and Multiple Man are up for discussion on this week's podcast. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/27/w...

Calgary's Wants has new wave charm to spare on their debut LP. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/26/w...

Streetpunk and synthpop blend into massive anthems on the latest from Edmonton’s Home Front. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/25/h...

RIP to the great Udo Kier. "You cannot hurt me you fool! I am not one of you!"

New jams from NTRSN, Absurd Minds, Alen Skanner, David Galas, Mellow Code, and Maris Anguis. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/24/t...

Capsule reviews of new records by Automelodi and SNAKEATSNAKE.

Shocked and saddened to learn of the passing of Mathias Knopp, founding member of Individual Totem. "S.E.T.I." is going to be on repeat in his honour.

We're each picking five side projects for discussion on this week's podcast. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/20/w...

@lanadelrabies.bsky.social's visceral and personal approach to death industrial continues to expand its sonic and thematic range.

Toronto duo Odonis Odonis take a turn towards lean, vocally-driven post-punk on their new LP. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/18/o...

New songs and remixes from Seeming, Restive Plagonna, Antoni Maiovvi, Absolute Body Control, Pig, and KiFotH. www.idieyoudie.com/2025/11/17/t...