Hey friends, we’re taking some time here to plug a contest we’re doing in relation to our limited merch line with Second Tooth (now with women’s shirt styles). As you may have heard on the podcast last week, we’re giving away three pieces of apparel to folks who post something about I Die: You Die on Facebook, Instagram or Bluesky, and tag us. We’ll pick a post at random from each of those platforms and that person will get something of their choice from the collection. We’ll be buying these on our dime, so the money earmarked for Doctors Without Borders will still get sent. Get some cool merch, and help us get a leg on the pile as they say. On to Tracks!

This Chisme is very Dark, very Dark indeed

Dark Chisme, “Dominance of Truth”
We’re quite big on PNW darkwavers Dark Chisme on record, and especially live, arenas they’ve proven themselves exceptional in. While we wait for the follow-up to their debut album from 2024 we’ve had more than a few singles to tide us over, the latest of which is “Dominance of Truth”, a bouncy number that drives home the power of vocalist Christina Gutierrez who sings and yells with full throated conviction. Production sounds extra fat on this one as well, with a slow build from minimal to dancefloor stomper in short order.

Die Sexual, “In For the Kill”
Speaking of duos that have an insanely high batting average and keep coming up with clubbable singles, Die Sexual have a new one in “In For the Kill” that should be useful for us. Like a lot of their material, this jam crosses some is that mix of ebm and darkwave that can fit nicely in with synthpop, industrial or goth depending on what kind of DJ set you have going, but we really dig the more minimal, almost techno like structure on this one, making it a shoe-in for inclusion in mixed format club events where you might be working in some more mainstream sounds.

Requiem In White, “Reckless In Misery”
A Requiem In White reunion was nowhere to be found on our 2026 bingo card, and yet sometimes living in unprecedented times has its advantages. Before their work as Mors Syphilitica, Lisa and Eric Hammer tread the boards of high goth drama in the early 90s with a pair of clamorous LPs. On the other side of half a lifetime’s worth of film and television work, not to mention scads of other musical projects, the pair are picking back up exactly where they left off with this lulling and beguiling track from forthcoming The Visible Heaven LP. Get the crushed velvet and nag champa out of storage.

Autumns, “Spit On A DJ For Therapy”
Irish producer Autumns’ hardware driven style always means that his reads on classic club-focused body music have a sense of grit and heat matching the pitch black humour often threading through his work, but those sorts of lo-fi bangers aren’t the only thing in his arsenal. The B-side to a remix of a track from last year’s Through The Construction Of Grace EP is something else entirely, a clatter of acoustic drumming filtered in decidedly dubby fashion which has us imagining what a 23 Skidoo reunion might sound like in the present musical climate.

Twin Rattler, “Process Terminate (Ventenner Remix)”
Ah, the sweet feeling of hearing something novel entirely unexpectedly when you click play on a random track while trawling tags on Bandcamp. We know literally nothing about Twin Rattler or remixer Ventenner for that matter, but the idea here is taking one of those head-nodding slower tempo EBM jams, tossing in some heavy guitars and then a whole wack of atmospherics and extra instrumentation to give it some cinematic scope. Not entirely divorced from say, the most recent work from Flesh Field, but also not at all something we’ve heard anyone do either.

PreEmptive Strike 0.1, “Lament Of The Creeping Death”
Greek act PreEmptive Strike 0.1 were a rare bright spot for us in the dying days of aggrotech’s stranglehold on club sounds fifteen or so years ago. A combination of unique thematics, often inspired by Greek mythology, and left-field instrumentation choices gave their work a sense of variety and pep rarely found in the work of their sludgier peers. While the folk instrumentation of some of their early work can’t really be found on this new track, there is something oddly jiggy and charming in an old-fashioned way about its core melody.