Playlist + Podcast - April, 2016

Hey everyone, soon we will be uploading the LAST EVER edition of Shadowplay ... it's been 20 YEARS!! As far as we're aware, it's the longest-running Goth radio show in the world, starting as Blood & Black Dahlias in 1996 at Three D Radio 93.7fm, then moving to Cathedral 13 internet radio in 2011, and exclusively on Mixcloud since late 2015.

Thanks to everyone who has listened over the years, and the bands and artists we have supported!!

Anita + Michelle xx

- 'Decalogue' by Raison D'Etre (Collective Archives)
- 'Lady In Flight' by Ostia (Gothic Rock Vol. 2)
- 'Glass Baby' by Gothic Girls (Glass Baby 12")
- 'Instinct' by Siiiii (Modern)
- 'Mask' by Bauhaus (Mask)
- 'Incinerate' by Lycia (Wake)
- 'Wing Of Separation' by Judith (Föhn)
- 'The Boneman' by Sounds Like Winter (Initiate)
- 'I Need You' by This Cold (Hollow)
- 'Disincanto' by Avant-Garde (Antitesi)
- 'As Evening Falls' by Christian Death (Catastrophe Ballet)
- 'Mouthful' by Rule Of Thirds (Rule Of Thirds 7")
- 'Shakespeare' by Bunkerstrasse (Bunkerstrasse / Modele Martial split demo)
- 'Fugitive Dawn' by Plastique Noir (Affects)
- 'Silver' by Solemn Novena (Kiss The Girls)
- 'Celestial Sin' by Intra-Venus (Pray Silence!)
- 'Dead Orphans' by Belle Of Chaos (Belle Of Chaos)
- 'Reflection?' by The Cemetary Girlz (Smoke My Brain)
- 'Santa Violetta' by Le Vene Di Lucretia (Le Vene Di Lucretia)
- 'Anemia (Da Qui All' Eternità)' by Bohémien (La Parata Del Circo EP)
- 'Slipping Away' by Chiron (Distorted)

Playlist + Podcast - March, 2016

-  'Nomad' by Xorcist (Nomad)
-  'Cocoon (Rosetta Stone Mix)' by Switchblade Symphony (Sinister Nostalgia)
-  'Suffer The Wild Dogs' by Autumn (The Hating Tree)
-  'Scented Visions' by Dead Souls Rising (Scented Garden)
-  'Dive' by A Sordid Poppy (A Room Where Trees Dance All Night)
-  'Past Lives' by Lung Overcoat (Past Lives 7")
-  'Night Of The Reaper' by Noir For Rachel (Fog Museum)
-  'Spectral Bliss' by Night Sins (New Grave)
-  'Lost The Battle' by Monica's Last Prayer (The Buried Life)
-  'The Mannequins' by The Witch Will Die Tomorrow (Violet Of Twilight)
-  'Cut The Flesh Wires!' by Violet Stigmata (Décompositions & Reliques)
-  'Bare Your Claws' by Eat Your Make-Up (Things As They Should Be)
-  'Living Flesh Is Burned' by Eerie (Eerie EP)
-  'Orpelia' by Gethsemane (New Alternatives II comp.)
-  'The Wait' by Burning Gates (Aurora Borealis)
-  'Fly Away' by Sanguis Et Cinis (Th1rte3n)
-  'Hidden' by Masses (Moloch)
-  'Justice' by Cemetery (Wind And Shadows)
-  'Shrapnel' by Moth (First Second)
-  'In The Inside' by Walk Onto Sun (In The Inside EP)

Playlist + Podcast - February, 2016

-  'Skilled Workers' by Out Of Sight (Gloria Victis Vae Victis)
-  'Without You' by Bel Canto (White-Out Conditions)
-  'Cut' by Miranda Sex Garden (Fairytales Of Slavery)
-  'A Dream Of Deception' by Dead Souls Rising (Clepsydre)
-  'Summer Speaks' by Tortures
-  'Pure Form' by Second Sight (Second Sight EP)
-  'Buried' by Wives (Devoted To You)
-  'Kämpfen' by Stimmen der Stille (Morgenstern)
-  'Masquerade' by Vendemmian (Hide Your Fires! comp.)
-  'Panic Paranoia' by Masquerade
-  'Sullen Look' by Come With Reverse (Composing Serenity)
-  'In The Room That Love Exists' by Mephisto Walz (Terra Regina)
-  'Dead Embryos' by The Evil Speaks (Resounding)
-  'Garden Of Delight' by The Mission (Gods Own Medicine)
-  'Nightlife' by Wild Roses For The Exit (Wild Roses For The Exit)
-  'Vodou' by Sleepmask (Zoundbies Vol. 1)
-  'Young Recruits' by Chants Of Maldoror (Bats From Europe comp.)
-  'Bodies That Devour' by Escarlatina Obsessiva (Drusba)
-  'Seduction' by Virgin In Veil (The Glory Hole)
-  'Die Hand Die Verletzt' by The Spoiled (Ironshell)

Shadowplay - February, 2016 by Shadowplay on Mixcloud

Playlist + Podcast - April, 2015

-  'Dahlia Noir' by Excès Nocturne (86-06)
-  'Mother/Oh Mein Papa' by Siouxsie And The Banshees (Join Hands)
-  'Black Sea, Black Fish' by Trance To The Sun (Urchin Tear Soda)
-  'Space' by Mira (Apart)
-  'The Grave' by Message (L'Appel de la Muse Vol. 1)
-  'Still Born/Still Life' by Christian Death (The Whip comp.)
-  'Dancing On My Grave' by Miazma (Miazma)
-  'Lights' by The Sisters Of Mercy (Some Girls Wander By Mistake)
-  'Goth' by Baterz (Goth EP)
-  'Serpent's Kiss' by The Mission (Serpent's Kiss single)
-  'Pen Of Blood' by The Cemetary Girlz (Opus Vitae)
-  'Sadist Sagittarius' by Cinema Strange (Cinema Strange)
-  'Veil Of Death' by Altar De Fey (1986 Demos)
-  'Venus (Initiation)' by Stark (Brave New Desire)
-  'The Breach' by Ego Likeness (Water To The Dead)
-  'Girlstickboy' by Nekromantik (Fairy Catcher)
-  'Higher Forms' by Rule Of Thirds (Rule Of Thirds and here)
-  'Drown In Flesh' by Virgin In Veil (Demo)
-  'Worms' by Cemetery (Wind And Shadows)
-  'Testure (12" Mix)' by Skinny Puppy (12 Inch Anthology)

Shadowplay - April 2015 by Shadowplay :: Cannibalroses on Mixcloud

New Video - Rule Of Thirds, 'Fingerprints'

Brand new clip from Rule Of Thirds, just ahead of their US/Canada tour!

We featured a demo version of this song (which was untitled at the time) on the July show - listen HERE ;)

Playlist + Podcast - July, 2014

-  'Our Winter Infinite' by Tears Ov Blood (May He Rest ...)
-  'The Toad Curse And How It Perished In Flames' by Cinema Strange (Quatorze Exemples Authentiques Du Triomphe De La Musique Décorative)
-  'Without You' by Bel Canto (White-Out Conditions)
-  'Obscured Passion' by Dead Souls Rising (Scented Garden)
-  'Burn' by Arts And Decay (Trail Of Tears)
-  'Death Mask' by Bat Nouveau (Death Mask 7")
-  'Lonely Psalm' by Shadowhouse (Haunted 7")
-  'Sleepwalk' by Gitane Demone & Rozz Williams (With Love And Dementia)
-  'New Church' by Lords Of The New Church (The Lords Of The New Church)
-  'Wasteland' by The Mission (God's Own Medicine)
-  'The Covenant' by Yabanci (Grimorium)
-  'Locomotive Age' by The Wake (Masked)
-  'Eleven Eleven' by Screams For Tina (Screams For Tina)
-  'The Rain Within Her Hands' by Bella Morte (Where Shadows Lie)
-  'Fear' by Red Crayon Aristocrat Club (Red Crayon Aristocrat Club EP)
-  'Sterilised' by Nekromantik (Fairy Catcher)
-  '(untitled)' by Rule Of Thirds (upcoming album) *
-  'Carousel' by The Naked And The Dead (The Naked And The Dead)
-  'Dentist' by Catholic Spit (Eterna Obscuridad Vol. 2)
-  'Shattersea' by Ghost Painted Sky (Ghost Painted Sky EP)

*  Thanks to Rule Of Thirds for giving us a sneak peek of their upcoming first full-length album - we will let you know when it is available!

Shadowplay - July, 2014 by Shadowplay :: Cannibalroses on Mixcloud

Hysteric Helen

Hysteric Helen has just released their first full-length self titled album!  (try saying that 10 times fast)

Order HERE!

And listen to Shadowplay during October ('To The Cage' will be the closing track of the show), as well as Dark Obsessions with dj13 - both on Cathedral 13 radio ;)

Rule Of Thirds New 7" - Pre-Order Now!

We have been looking forward to new material from Adelaide band Rule Of Thirds, so it was with great excitement that we heard that the new 7" was coming out in April!

You can pre-order their self titled 7" on purple vinyl the No Patience Records for only AUD $12, or together with Brisbane's Occults 7" for only $20.  From the website:

After last years well received demo RULE OF THIRDS have continued on their path of batcave-esque deathrock on this excellent debut EP. Haunting keyboards and chilling vocals meet pounding bass lines and eerie guitars. For fans of SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES, XMAL DEUTSCHLAND, and SKELETAL FAMILY. 3 tracks. 200 copies on limited purple vinyl.

We're looking forward to playing new material on the show!

A Bouquet Of Barbed Wire compilation

One of Michelle's favourite compilations of Australian goth music from the 90s has been re-released, and is now avaiable at Heartland Records and Strobelight Records!

This compilation includes Disjecta Membra, Neuropaque, Subterfuge, Meridian, amongst others. Heartland also have available Dark Eyed And Starry They Were Vol. 2, which is a 3 CD box set.

Heartland Records has been a mainstay of Australian goth/darkwave music since the 90s. Michelle remembers getting huge mail-order catalogues in the post in the mid 1990s, buying a lot of music which she still listens to and plays on Shadowplay ;)

Heartland Records has always had their shop at 61 Peel Street West Melbourne (which we visited a few years ago, coming back to Adelaide with armfuls of CDs :P), but we've just noticed their website has had a revamp, and is now an online Webshop - check them out!

PS - Shadowplay have no affiliation with Heartland Records ... we just think they're awesome ;)

Awesome New Band - Rule Of Thirds

Rule Of Thirds are an awesome new band from Adelaide, South Australia (which also happens to be the home of Shadowplay ... but we're not biased or anything :P)

They are a mix of goth and post-punk, and we think are in a similar vein to Joy Division, Skeletal Family, early Christian Death, etc. Nice!

You can purchase their cassette by emailing majorcrimesrecords@gmail.com, or you can download their demo from the Systems Of Romance blog. And if you're in Adelaide, make sure you catch them playing live - we did, and they were fantastic!

Guilty Strangers - 'Oracle'

Our friends Guilty Strangers from San Antonio, Texas have just released their new album 'Oracle' for free download on Zorch Factory Records - get it HERE! 

I describe them as post-punk with a goth/deathrock tinge ;) 

Their other releases on Zorch can be found HERE - check them out!

Bipolar Sounds Compilation - free download!

Thanks to the wonderful people at Manic Depression Records, you can download yourself the Bipolar Sounds Compilation!

This compilation features Shadowplay favourites The Cemetary Girlz, Elvira And The Bats, Date At Midnight, and more!  

Manic Depression Records is an awesome music label - check out their catalogue while you're there, and buy yourself some music (it's one of Michelle's favourite places to shop) ;)

Compilation For A Cat

Please head over HERE to buy 'Compilation For A Cat' - not only will you be helping with a kitteh's operation, but you get 37 dark ambient songs - 37! Bands such as Arcana, Raison d'Etre, Madame B and Desiderii Marginis contributed their work to this project - name your price, as it all helps ;)

Cabaret Grey - 'Stirring' EP

This is a great EP ... we've played 'Grey Lights' on the show previously, and 'Sarah' will be appearing on a Cannibal Roses show very soon.

Cabaret Grey are from Poland, and their work is dark post-punk with a dash of coldwave and goth thrown in for good measure.

Head over HERE to buy the EP for next to nothing!

Angels Of Liberty - The Black Madonna EP

Oh yes, it's here!  The new Angels Of Liberty EP has just been released ... and we think it's even better than their previous release.  Pure, unadulterated GOTH ROCK!

Head over here to purchase the EP for a measley £6.66 (of course!) + postage - and stay tuned to Shadowplay (and Cathedral 13 in general).

Tot Licht - Blood On The Bats

Another brilliant Zorch Factory Records free (and legal) download - get it here!

This is Tot Licht's second album on the label, released earlier this year. The title track, 'Blood On The Bats' (which we played on last week's show) is a standout, one to get stuck in you head ;) The album's an unusual combination of electro, deathrock and darkwave. Download it, and let us know what you think!

Angels Of Liberty - Monster In Me EP

Angels Of Liberty are an awesome Goth Rock band from the UK. We played 'Monster In Me' on our last show, and it fit in perfectly with Second Skin and Solemn Novena (Anita thinks it's one of the best Goth Rock sets she's programmed!) Their aim is "to create Gothic Rock for the elite few left who are still proud to call themselves Goths" - we like their attitude!

Their debut "Monster In Me"EP can be purchased from their website. For real Goths only, naturally ;)

Vedova Virgo - Ectras Anemos

Another new Zorch release! Download here - you may have caught 'Nemesi' on the show tonight :)

Guilty Strangers - Hotel Limbo EP

Download from here right now!

Madame B Meets Guilty Strangers

New music from friends of Shadowplay, Guilty Strangers - this time they're teaming up with experimental, electronic French artist Madame B.


The album is a fragmented, surreal and beautiful soundscape. We especially love the deep and bass-y (is that a word?) 'Waiting For The Black Wave'.

Get it here!