Century Media – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com Stay Retro Tue, 14 Dec 2021 18:07:57 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.7 https://newretrowave.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/cropped-10906530_846941002018082_8508920941385779369_n-1-32x32.jpg Century Media – NewRetroWave – Stay Retro! | Live The 80's Dream! https://newretrowave.com 32 32 Top Ten Music Videos of 2021 https://newretrowave.com/2021/12/15/top-ten-music-videos-of-2021/ https://newretrowave.com/2021/12/15/top-ten-music-videos-of-2021/#respond Wed, 15 Dec 2021 11:00:04 +0000 https://newretrowave.com/?p=37932 Joy to the world, the time has once again come for our year-end lists.
Once again, the past year has seen some incredible music videos honouring the merits of indie filmmaking, pushing the boundaries of the medium and breathing new life into retro-futuristic nostalgia.

10. Dynatron – Origins

9. Hollywood Burns – Saturday Night Screamer

8. Eagle Eyed Tiger – Untether, Unravel

7. Starcadian – Culture

6. Waveshaper – Client

5. Gost – A fleeting Whisper

4. Kavinsky – Renegade

3. Quixotic – Highway violence

2. Sierra – All about love

1. Waveshaper – The Phantom Machine

Honorable Mentions

  • Perturbator – Death of the Soul

  • Danger – Haven Virtual concert

  • LAU – True

]]> https://newretrowave.com/2021/12/15/top-ten-music-videos-of-2021/feed/ 0 Gost – Rites of Love and Reverence https://newretrowave.com/2021/08/13/gost-rites-of-love-and-reverence/ https://newretrowave.com/2021/08/13/gost-rites-of-love-and-reverence/#respond Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:00:08 +0000 https://newretrowave.com/?p=36495 From the darkest depths, the behemoth of darksynth depravity emerges once more.

Rites of Love and Reverence marks the sixth full-length release by Michigan-based producer Gost. Having established his moniker amongst the most successful in Synthwave with Behemoth, Gost has since broken free from the stylistic confines of the genre, starting with Possessor, an album still unmatched in its sheer sonic brutality.

With this sixth album, Gost keeps the ball rolling with some hard-hitting, cavernous subterranean club bangers. After a spellbinding introductory sequence, the record blows up right in your face with a face-melting barrage of distortion and pummeling drums. The album keeps a great balance between dance-friendly, industrial post-punk sequences and blood-pumping thrillrides through the nine circles of hell. Listeners best be warned, however, for Rites of Love and Reverence offers very little respite for the uninitiated and locks you into its cavernous, club nocturnal decadence with a compressed, loud mix sustained nearly all throughout its 44-minute runtime. On tracks like ‘We are the Crypt’, ‘Coven’ and ‘Burning Thyme’, Gost delivers some of his best vocal performances to date. More than the mere add-ons you hear on all too many Darksynth album, the raspy, filtered vocal melodies complements the sonic aggression with a sensual yet harrowing edge. Bold as the album may be, Rites of Love and Reverence is an album built on a solid foundation of darksynth. What sets the album apart is how seamlessly it incorporates its coldwave and extreme metal influences… and how unapologetic it is about it.

Overwhelmed as some listeners will undoubtedly be after listening to this album, one can’t help but praise the sheer boldness of Gost’s output. Rites of Love and Reverence may not be the album some of you wanted to hear, but every second of it sounds like an album its creator was dying to make.

In an age where commodity trumps personality, Rites of Love and Reverence is an album that forces you to meet the artist on his own terms in order to deliver nothing short of a masterpiece.

Gost ‘Rites of Love and Reverence’ is out now via Century Media.

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