Cube-X – Simulation (review)
Cube X is a Polish project from Katowice, founded in 2012 by Jakub Szczepański. After a longer hiatus, it has […]
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Castle Party 2026 – review »
I’ve been going to Castle Party since 2008, with one break when the festival happened to clash with my wedding, and of course the pandemic gap that affected everyone. Apart from ...
Sampler 11 compilation premieres during Castle Party Festival 2026 »
We are proud to announce the premiere of our Sampler 11 compilation during the upcoming Castle Party Festival (16th-19th July 2026). The physical CD has been manufactured by the ...
Arachne Demon – interview »
Dark independent culture has never been limited to music alone. The artists who laid its foundations in the late 1970s and early 1980s combined music with visual arts, as well as ...
Testing Short Video Creation Tool
We are testing a new experimental feature on our website: by clicking “create video” button next to a song in
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Diskonnekt – La Morte del Sole (review)
Following their successful show in Wrocław, we are reviewing the new EP by the Italian dark electro act Diskonnekt.. The
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H.EXE – Anthems of the Unseen Tide
The new album by Wrocław’s H.EXE is their first fully-fledged studio release in over a dozen years. In so-called popular
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New Website & Store Launched
In 2023 – having experienced again the great atmosphere of Castle Party Festival – we started working on Halotan Records’
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Debut album of Aries Musimon is out
On July 9th 2024 the debut album of the Polish old school dark electro project Aries Musimon was released. The
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Halotan Sounds 3 Compilation Released
Our first release after years of inactivity – Halotan Sounds 3 compilation – marks our return to the scene and
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Agonised Too, “Summer suffering” – review
Exactly on the 20th of June 2024, i.e. on the first day of the astronomical summer, the debut album of
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Gettner, “Introvert” – review
Gettner is a project that has been present on the Polish scene for a long time; his track was the
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CygnosiC – Demystify – review
CygnosiC is a Greek project that has been active for over seventeen years, delivering new albums every two to three
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Why Halotan Rec is Not Using Bandcamp, Spotify etc.?
We do not have Bandcamp account. We use free personal Spotify account to create playlists using songs already on Spotify.
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Uncarnate – Dead Dancers – review
It has to mean something when a seasoned hard bit and harsh electro fan like myself sits down to write
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A Review of nolongerhuman – Marionette
The “Marionette” album was released on May 5th, 2023 and can be listened to on bandcamp here: https://nolongerhuman.bandcamp.com/album/marionette You see
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Why (Not Only) Goths Should Block Ads
Independent scenes – like ours – usually has certain set of values it carries with it, along with some musical
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Facebook for Bands: Surviving Declining Fan Reach – Together
We need to quickly understand, that bands competing with one another is the most dumb thing we can do. Why?
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Uncreative Artists: Why All Bands Depend on Facebook & Bandcamp?
Thank you Adrian (a very nice guy I met thanks to Halotan Records) for this question. You made me see
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What 5 Years of Voluntary Facebook Exile Taught Me
I have to warn you – this is not a success story like in those inspirational posts. Quite the contrary,
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Paid Downloads: How to Stop Corpos from Feeding off Our Scene
In this post I am not saying you should stop buying downloads. I just share my opinion on why –
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