The ninth issue of Nocturnazine, titled Silencio, shows why this magazine has become such an important part of the underground. It feels alive, both in its design and in its writing, carrying the same intensity and atmosphere that defines the…

Released July 11, 2025

Piqued is the final solo album from Jeffrey Runnings, best known as the singer, bassist, and lyricist of Lincoln, Nebraska post-punk band For Against. After decades of influential work spanning multiple projects, Runnings recorded Piqued…

Some albums don’t try to reinvent anything. They just get it exactly right.

Left to Our Own Devices by Le Cassette was originally released in 2014 and recently reissued on vinyl by TimeSlave Recordings. It captures a version of the…

Zucchero’s Spirito DiVino turned 30 this year. It came out on May 27, 1995, and it’s one of the first albums I can remember hearing. My dad used to play it on CD during car rides, and over time it…

Whispers of the Divided Moon

“The beginning of the storm. A dance of memory, blood, and silence.”

Whispers of the Divided Moon marks the climactic rupture of the Tendril Path series. It was once the origin point but now, in…

The Wound Remains

“What does a shape become after it breaks? A wound. A trace. A memory.”

The Wound Remains is the quiet before the collapse. Following the gestural energy of Hands Beyond Shape, this piece brings the series into…

Hands Beyond Shape

“Form does not need a body to reach.”

In Hands Beyond Shape, the tendrils begin to mimic us, but they are not us. They rise in mirrored red and white, twisted into gestures that recall arms, hands,…

Crimson Overflow

“It didn’t burst. It broke. And from that break, something bled upward.”

In Crimson Overflow, the rupture is no longer fluid. It is violent, almost vertical. Gone are the curling tendrils, replaced by jagged red and…

The Rise

"This is not just motion—it’s selection. Desire forming a spine."

In The Rise, the tendrils are no longer dormant. They climb and flare - not upward, but outward - drawn not by instinct but by a pulling…

The Opening

“This is the beginning. Not of time, but of presence.”

The Opening is the first pull into presence. The void hasn’t been shattered, but it has been stirred. A glowing white sphere appears, not as a sun or…

Two episodes in, Emerging Echoes has begun to crystalize: not just as a show, but as a living document of what the underground feels like right now—where post-punk, shoegaze, dream pop, and darkwave don’t just revive the past, but speak…

Emerging Echoes: A New Monthly YouTube Radio Show

There’s a certain kind of music that exists just outside the spotlight. Sounds that linger in the dark corners, shaping their own world outside the mainstream. That’s the music I want to…

“Running through this maze - cry at what I see
A civilization with values alien to me” 
 

-Killing Joke - Labyrinth 

-Art by Antonio G

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It’s your sonic curator at ZADAR diving deep into the realm of gritty riffs and haunting melodies. Today, I’m dropping three monumental bands that are resonating through my speakers and are sure to echo in your world. 

Semantix - Caustic…

Hey! As a musician, my instruments are critical to my sound. They aren't just tools of the trade; they're extensions of my creative self. Today, I'd like to share with you three of my favorite pieces of gear: the Fender…

This week I have a fresh playlist for you with 20 of my favorite new(ish) songs on my YouTube channel. Check it out here: Link to YouTube Playlist

I'll be regularly updating this playlist, so make sure to bookmark it…

Welcome back to our newly titled blog, Pulse & Shadows: The ZADAR Blog where we'll talk about new music, merch, news, and anything and everything relevant to post-punk, gothic rock, and ‘dark music’ in general. 

This week, I wanted to…

I start the new year in what feels like an exciting place having just spoken with someone from Bat-Cave Productions about the funding and production of physical CD copies of the album. Costs to manufacture the CDs are less in…

Hey gang, 

I started work on a new batch of songs and decided to do things a little differently as far as how/when new music comes out, so going forward I'm just going to release new songs as they're completed…