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Artist	Title	Format	Price	Description
AENIMA Find Similar	Sentient	CD Digipak	$12.00 Order	Available and shipping now! Middle Pillar Presents' first European signing is the Portuguese band Aenima. A powerful album of darkwave, ethereal, and gothic rock, with an epic layering of female siren song harmonies, "Sentient" is a haunting and beautiful example of emotional triumph. While mixing the strength of The Gathering with the delicate shimmering of the Cocteau Twins, this album is a perfect balance of sacramental grandeur and dreamlike whispers. "Sentient" is an hour of music that captures the essence of the band through luminous guitars, spirited and evocative rhythms, crystalline production and vocal harmonies that implore to the heavens while quaking the earth.
BRIDES, THE Find Similar	The Brides	CD Digipak	$12.00 Order	In stock now! Self-titled debut full-length from the Brides: Ultra melodic thumping fast deathrock with garage punk undertones; furious guitars and vocals backed up by an energetic rhythm section and sinister organ keyboards. "The Brides" is a collection of 16 perfect dark-pop triumphs; up-tempo songs that never overstay their welcome, and leave you humming. The disc includes a special guest performance on the track "Pleasure of My Company" by Melora Creager of the band Rasputina. From Hell's Hundred Records.
DEMONIX (GITANE DEMONE and MARC ICKX) Find Similar	Never Felt So Alive, The Lost Mixes	CD	$13.00 Order	Now back in stock! Featuring Mark from A Split Second with Gitane Demone (Christian Death) on vocals, this is a collection of lost mixes from the sessions that produced their well-known previous album. De-noised, cleaned and re-mastered in 1999, all the cuts are unreleased versions plus a bonus track ("Passion, Pleasure & Pain - Passionata Mix).
EMPIRE HIDEOUS Find Similar	Say Your Prayers	CD Digipak	$13.00 Order	Back in stock! The last copies of the first pressing of "Say Your Prayers" is available now, while supplies last. "Say Your Prayers" is an hour of gothic rock n' roll filled with emotional energy. A culmination of world tension and anxieties are exorcised through the hopeful lyrics, while guitars scream through the abyss. And as expected there is the legendary voice of Myke Hideous (ex-Misfits) projecting his lifeblood into each track such. "Say Your Prayers" melds many elements (rock, goth, dark ambient) into a cohesive artistic whole that reveals many surprises on multiple listens.
INCUS Find Similar	Burning Thread	CD	$12.00 Order	Boston band mixes powerful tribalism, delicate melodic moments and feverish kineticism. Expressed with percussion, piano, cello, male narrative vocal and heavenly female voices, plus an almost shamanic rhythmic undulation, Incus compels a heathen appreciation of movement.
LAST DAYS OF JESUS, THE Find Similar	Alien Road	CD	$12.00 Order	In stock now. The new album by The Last Days of Jesus, one of the most original and oldest European progressive deathrock bands. Famous and respected for their ironic lyrics, TLDOJ combine classic 80's atmospheres with new influences and technology in order to create an original spin to the classic Gothrock sound.
MACHINE IN THE GARDEN, THE Find Similar	Out of the Mists	Enhanced CD Digipak	$12.00 Order	An electronic/ethereal masterpiece from the duo of Summer Bowman and Roger Frace. Featuring intense, sorrowful, almost operatic yet ghostly female vocals, the band's fourth release explores a more European baroque, neo-classical sound yet still retains the darkwave aspects that defined the band's sound on their previous albums. "Out of the Mists" takes listeners on a journey through the many musical facets of the band with thirteen delightful and powerful tracks. As a bonus it also contains an enhanced multimedia portion for both Mac and PC users which features a video for the haunting and melodic song "The Unaware". Now distributed by World Serpent who had this to say: "Bowman has one of the most powerful and distinctive female voices of her generation".
MACHINE IN THE GARDEN, THE Find Similar	Shadow Puppets	CD	$12.00 Order	Latest album from the Machine in the Garden could easily be the band's defining moment. An seamless amalgam of electronics, ethereal melodies and sensuous rhythms; the album is often very dynamic and anthemic, yet equally convincing when quiet and introspective. One of the returning signatures of the band has been singer Summer Bowman's startling beautiful vocal performances. Summer brings an enchanting quality to her often haunting melodies which perfectly balances the strength of the guitars, the serenity of the open beats or the drama of a lone piano.
MACHINE IN THE GARDEN, THE Find Similar	XV	CD	$13.00 Order	In stock now! "XV" is a very special limited-edition album celebrating the Machine in the Garden's 15th anniversary. "XV" includes 15 tracks spanning the band's 15-year history, including demos, remixes, outtakes and two brand-new songs. All tracks are previously unreleased in this format and stunningly remastered for this CD. The album is filled with the powerful songwriting of both Roger Fracé and Summer Bowman, each sharing duties as composers and vocalists. The songs span the vast styles the band is known for, layering rich textures of synthesizers, guitars and vocals into a variety of tracks ranging from ethereal to darkwave to goth rock.
MIRROR REVEALS, THE Find Similar	This Infinite Eye	CD Digipak	$12.00 Order	In stock now from Middle Pillar Presents. For the second full length from The Mirror Reveals the ethereal trio expands their sound with electronic beats and an epic structure of multi-layered guitars and violin while still incorporating the acoustic feel of their previous releases. Kit Messick's voice enchants with somber harmony and heartfelt emotion. Joanna Dalin's violin sways in and about with fiery intensity adding distinct melodies as well as calm sentiment. The chilling lyrics by Babbo, juggle many facets of the heart and mind with ever-twisting metaphors and poetic direction. The album also features their fan favorite cover of Death in June's "Golden Wedding of Sorrow".
MISTER MONSTER Find Similar	Deep Dark	Ltd Ed. Enhanced CDEP	$7.00 Order	All NEW four song (plus video-track!) deathrock goth-punk EP from J~Sin Trioxin and crew. Mixing dragster trash guitars and blood-soaked melodic crooning this is the new music fans of boo-wop rock have been waiting for. This enhanced CD contains the tracks "Deep Dark" and "Torn Prince" plus two other exclusive music cuts and a Quicktime video for "Deep Dark". Limited to just 500 copies (!)
MISTER MONSTER Find Similar	Over Your Dead Body V2	CD	$12.00 Order	In stock now on the Middle Pillar subsidiary, Hell's Hundred Records. J~Sin Trioxin's (Empire Hideous, Spy Society 99) blood spattered, gore tattered deathrock debut finally back in print! Mister Monster has been devastating the deathrock /gothpunk scene for five years with their unique style combining punk rock with a dose of '50's doo-wop and horror camp. "Over Your Dead Body" is still old school styled sawboned guitars and bass, bone crunching drums and undead loungey crooning, but "Version 2" features additional bonus tracks and a full length video for "This Night I Call Bad Luck".
SINS, THE Find Similar	The Beginning	CD	$12.00 Order	Straight from the sordid depths of Seattle's gothic underground and featuring 3 former members of popular Seattle goth band 3SKS (Tri-State Killing Spree), The Sins deliver guitar based heavy gothic rock influenced by old school punk to epic style Mission tracks.
SUMERLAND Find Similar	Imaginary Ways	CD Ltd Ed.	$12.00 Order	Exclusive! Signed and numbered copies ONLY available from MiddlePillar.com! Shipping now! Middle Pillar Presents the long awaited follow-up to Sumerland's critically acclaimed debut album, "Sivo." Limited first pressing will be in a special signed and numbered edition. Dorien Campbell's alluring vocals bring to life compositions of romanticism with mythic overtones. Ethereal harmonies and heartfelt lyrics orchestrated with acoustic guitars, strings and rhythms. Limited to just 500 copies!
UNQUIET VOID, THE Find Similar	Scorpio	CD	$10.00 Order	Copies back in stock! Brilliant dark ambient malevolent upheaval into sonic crystals of brilliant light - images conjured from the subconscious. The Unquiet Void create soundscapes that sweep and spiral effortlessly, marking melodic movement and change with the pulsing beats, and occasional whisper. Evocative, lush. This CD is the soundtrack to an odd little cult film originally titled Scorpio but retitled Dark Night of the Soul
V/A Find Similar	A Dark Cabaret	CD	$5.00 Order	A stylish comp where the title says it all! Taking its cue from the decadence of 1920's Weimar Republic, this mixes Cabaret sensibilities with elements of Rock, Punk & Death Rock to create an exciting new underground. Tracks by: The Dresden Dolls, Revue Noir, Jill Tracy, Katzenjammer Kabaret, The Brides, Nicki Jane, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Rozz Williams, Audra, Pretty Balanced and ThouShaltNot.
V/A Find Similar	New Dark Age Vol. 2	2 CD	$6.66 Order	In stock now! Eagerly awaited second volume of 'New Dark Age', a series exclusively dedicated to the actual Goth, Deathrock and Minimal Electro-Goth scene with music by Cauda Pavonis, Funhouse, Skeletal Family, House Of Usher, Frank The Baptist, Radio Scarlett, Plastikstrom, Jacquy Bitch, The Vanishing, Bella Morte, Voodoo Church, Last Days Of Jesus, The Prids, Cold, Dr. Arthur Krause, Voices Of Masada and tons more.
V/A Find Similar	Trinity: Star Vox	CD	$12.00 Order	Copies now back in stock! This installment of Darkcell Digital Music's series was compiled by the lovely Blu's Starvox e-zine. The delightfully macabre version contains tracks by Bella Morte, the Brides, Ghoultown, the Empire Hideous, the Naked and the Dead, Murder at the Registry and egad-even more!
WALLENBERG Find Similar	Sea of Sin (SALE)	CD	$16.00 Order	An all new second start for one of the most important bands in the French cold-wave scene. Wallenberg revealed themselves from 1984 to 1988 through countless concerts and tours supporting Play Dead, Jad Wio, Neva and many more. Now back with a new line up creating a new standard of cold-wave, gothic rock and romantic pop.