Came across this while bouncing around the new feed on band camp the other day. Wasn’t an artist that I was familiar with. But obviously not a new artist either. As they were doing a massive dump. Basically putting all their work up on band camp, later checking YouTube as well.
Musically if you are familiar, this artist reminds me a lot of the merciful nuns or garden of delight. Absolutely solid goth Rock if it’s something you like. Definitely worth taking a look at.
https://youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy_nJ0HdGdPs-WowNOet1816nOANVAsJ1XF4
One of my favorite tracks is Weimar Vampire.
Thanks for the recommendation. I may have heard it earlier in my listing session. Though I was at work and not fully focused. Just kind of jamming as I worked. But I will definitely give it a solid listen here later
Holy fuck, they are prolific.
Yes I didn’t find a ton of information out there even the artists website was a bit sparse with details. Though it looks like it’s a personal project that’s been around since the late nineties? It’s not impossible for it to be a ruse and perhaps all AI generated. Though I doubt it. Either way it has a decent sound I thought it was worth sharing.
I’ve known about it for a while and I don’t hear AI in the music itself. The guitars and the singing are very legit. The lyrics are flawed enough to be human. Sometimes he credits other people for the drums, so I assume those are real too. Quite a number of the songs have alternative mixes or re-recorded versions. He does put out a lot of stuff, and it’s hit or miss as far as quality, but being a bit too active is still better than nothing!
Yes the writing is a bit weak and perhaps kind of stilted at times? But it doesn’t ever Veer into incoherent AI gibberish. It’s unfortunate this day and age that we feel the need to question whether something is or isn’t. Even then use of AI is not always a bad thing.
I recently posted a video from La bande-son imaginaire. Which actually made a good use of some of the AI slop generated video. Providing a dreamlike nightmare Lovecraft / cthulin theming. Overall it seems like most people enjoyed it. But some of the very early response was knee jerk overreacting to the use of AI .
Red Moon to me definitely comes off as genuine. And I genuinely enjoyed it which is why I shared it. 😃 As well as listening to it all evening on YouTube music. It’s just a bit of a wild surprise when something like that, that quality and volume just sort of pops up out of nowhere. You would have thought you would have heard something of it before. But not everyone can know every artist or group. Discovery is some of the most fun you can have. Right next to sharing.
To me, the use of Bandcamp itself was a discovery a year or two ago. In the mid to late 2000s, MySpace was where everyone shared their music, so the natural progression from that seemed to be all the other social media platforms, YouTube, and maybe the streaming services. I never would have thought to look for the music on a website that’s not any of those things, and yet Bandcamp is like the new MySpace for goth music these days!
Oh yeah I definitely remember the Myspace days back in the early 2000s. Shortly after I got out of college. Myspace was a good place for promotion and discoverability. Even got some artists signed to larger labels. Anyone remember porcelain and the tramps? Sadly it didn’t work out well for them in the end.
Bandcamp though really seems to have done a lot to democratize publication and sales. No need to get signed. A lot of the newer artists I’ve found all have solid band camp sites. Or are only on band camp. Definitely a good move for red moon macabre in my estimation at least. Hopefully getting him more attention. I’d say it’s well deserved. I know myself and a couple of my Elder goth acquaintances have been enjoying it since I ran across it.
