ALTER DE FEY: Under a Waxing Moon CD

San Francisco has always had a complicated relationship with the dark side of things, and Altar De Fey are proof the city's deathrock lineage runs deep. Drawing from the same poisoned well as early Christian Death and UK post-punk, they make music that sounds like fog rolling off the Bay at 2am, gothic and urgent and genuinely unnerving.

Under a Waxing Moon is a record that understands atmosphere as architecture. Icy guitars, propulsive rhythm sections, and vocals that hover somewhere between devotion and dread. This is deathrock done with real conviction, not nostalgia tourism, and it sits comfortably alongside the best of what the alternative underground has produced in recent years. The kind of CD that earns permanent shelf space.

Format: CD. Genre: Deathrock / Gothic Rock / Post-Punk. Origin: San Francisco, California.

Fans of: Christian Death, Cinema Strange, Kommunity FK, Valor Kand