Dune Altar

11/27/2025

Everything at dunealtar.com is 25% off through Sunday

11/14/2025

OUT NOW! 🩸 ‘Dripping With Divinity’ — the new single from RIVAL CULTS — is streaming everywhere now!

🔗 https://bit.ly/rcdripping

Santa Barbara dark-rockers Rival Cults unleash “Dripping With Divinity,” their first new music since their 2023 debut album ‘Indoctrination’. Fresh off a run of western tour dates that further hardened their already muscular sound, the band return with a baritone-driven, riff-charged hymn to oblivion and eternity, and the first page of the band’s next chapter.

Ominous and triumphant in equal measure, “Dripping With Divinity” channels the band’s live-forged fire into something both ecstatic and ceremonial. The track revels in the collision of death, desire, and transcendence, a ritual invocation carried by vocalist Cole Barrington’s commanding baritone and the band’s signature dual-guitar-driven power. The performance feels sharpened by time and touring: tighter, heavier, and more intent on capturing the hedonistic charge at the heart of their sound.

Music by Casey Shropshire
Lyrics by Cole Barrington
Engineered & mixed by Adi Tejada
Drums recorded by Armand John Anthony at Captains Quarters
Mastered by Brad Boatright at Audiosiege
Artwork by Cole Barrington
📸 by Simona Del Occulto

Dripping With Divinity by Rival Cults

10/02/2025

Iress vinyl is back in stock and shipping now!

☂️ purple rain variant (purple w/ black splatter) (ltd to 150)
⚫️ black variant (ltd to 150)

CDs and cassette are also available. Head over to dunealtar.com to get yours!

10/01/2025

Watch KØCAZE perform their haunting single “Cîmes et Souvenirs” live at Creed Bar in Namur, Belgium.

Check out the full performance on YouTube now!
🔗 https://bit.ly/kocazelive

Born from the collision of two contrasting creative worlds, KØCAZE blends dark pop and neoclassical elements into something intimate, intense, and uniquely their own. Singing in French, they strip things down to guitar, piano, and samples, creating an atmosphere that’s both shadowy and expansive.

Køcaze - Cîmes et SouvenirsRecorded live at Creed Bar in Namur, BelgiumVIDEO CREDITSFilming : Pierre TimEditing / Mixing: Elsa Verhoeven & Olivier JacqminPer...

08/13/2025

Ask and you shall receive (at least this time) — In Covert cassettes are available now! They come in two variants, each limited to 32 copies:

• “deep wound red” cassette w/ white cover
• “silver machine” cassette w/ black cover

Limited edition vinyl copies are still available as well!

IN COVERT Bleak Machinery "deep wound red" cassette w/ white cover  (ltd to 32) "silver machine" cassette w/ black...

07/11/2025

OUT NOW! 🍃 ‘D’Or & de Sang’ — the new EP from Kocaze — is streaming everywhere now!

🔗 https://viewmusic.lnk.to/DOrdeSang

Across six intricately layered tracks, the band dives into themes of grief, transformation, and ancestral memory, weaving neoclassical instrumentation, electronic textures, and brooding darkpop sensibilities into a deeply affecting body of work.

“This is not simply dream pop or dark pop, nor is it doom gaze or dark wave, but something utterly unique. This is Chant Noir, and it will leave you spellbound.” - Echoes And Dust

Vocals & Piano by Elsa Verhoeven
Guitars by Olivier Jacqmin
Strings by Damien Chierici
Sound Design by Dropthedyle (except L’imposteur by Baudouin Le Clercq)
Produced & Mixed by Ben Chisholm
Mastered by Alan Douches at West West Side Music
Artwork by Luc Lamy

Listen to content by Kocaze.

07/10/2025

Belgian downtempo darkpop duo Kocaze have a new EP out tomorrow called "D'or & de Sang" but thanks to Echoes And Dust you can catch a peak one day early! 🩸

🔗 https://bit.ly/kocazepremiere

"Chanson, strings and dour Scandi-sounding guitar create a maelstrom of emotions in the great French tradition of the three P’s: poetry, passion and pessimism. Like a moth circling a candle, we spiral from one track to another, wings singed and smouldering, but somehow surviving to escape into the dawn... This is not simply dream pop or dark pop, nor is it doom gaze or dark wave, but something utterly unique. This is 𝘊𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘵 𝘕𝘰𝘪𝘳, and it will leave you spellbound." - Echoes and Dust

06/20/2025

OUT NOW! 🪩 ‘We’ve Met Before, Haven’t We?’ — the new EP from Deformr — is streaming everywhere today! Cassettes & bundles also start shipping today.⚡️

🔗 https://bit.ly/wmbhw

Four ghostly transmissions from the edge of sleep and static — where haunted memories unravel in modular pulses, decayed signals, and droning fragments of what once was. Detach and jump in!

Written & performed by Deformr
Recorded at Channel 83 Cable 12
Mixed by Joseph Holiday at his place
Mastered by Gregg Cash at Vibe Tech Industries
Photography by Ben Zucker
Layout by Kronendrome

We've Met Before, Haven't We? by Deformr

06/13/2025

OUT NOW! Osnova’s latest sonic statement is a six track journey blending shimmering shoegaze textures with punchy post‑punk energy. Anchored by the epic title track which surges from quiet reflection to a cathartic climax, setting the tone for the rest of the record. It’s also the band’s final transmission with vocalist Caroline McLaughlin, whom we all wish well in her future endeavors!

🔗 https://bit.ly/risethesun

“Though the guitars occasionally shimmer and glide in the style of classic shoegaze, they’re also possessed of a dark, almost gothic, power that lets the arrangement lean into a 4AD-style soundscape.” - AnalogueTrash

Written by Jean-Claude Vorgeack, Sam Ribeyro & Caroline McLaughlin
Lyrics by Caroline McLaughlin
Recorded & mixed by Jean-Claude Vorgeack
Caroline McLaughlin - Vocals
Jean-Claude Vorgeack - Guitar, Bass & Synth
Sam Ribeyro - Drums

Rise the Sun by Osnova

06/06/2025

OUT NOW! “Cîmes et Souvenirs,” the new single and Dune Altar debut from is streaming everywhere now!

🔗 https://bit.ly/4dFaaAM

“An ethereal and uncanny choral canopy cloaks a visceral and solemn aura, drawing emphasis and intensity from the abysses of impenetrable darkness and gashes of blinding light seamlessly interpenetrating each other, with powerful evocative transport, built by a fiery concoction of droning guitar textures, sparse, muted clopping beats, dire, tinkling piano keys and shivering, poignant orchestral swathes, to rise and fall alongside deeply haunted trembling vocal layers, releasing fear before rising into vulnerable pain-filled cries against sweeping spasms of tumultuous emotional instrumentation.” - Catt Gilette, White Light//White Heat

Vocals & Piano by Elsa Verhoeven
Guitars by Olivier Jacqmin
Strings by Damien Chierici
Sound Design by Dropthedyle
Produced & mixed by Ben Chisholm
Mastered by Alan Douches

Listen to content by KØCAZE.

06/05/2025

PREMIERE! Belgian darkpop duo Kocaze will officially unveil “Cîmes et Souvenirs,” the lead single from their forthcoming EP ‘D’Or et de Sang’ tomorrow, but our friends at WhiteLight/WhiteHeat are premiering the music video today!

🔗 https://bit.ly/4411aCt

“The Official Music Video by Eléonore Coyette creates a ghostly, metaphysical realm around KØCAZE using an imaginative blend of blurry trace overlays and transformative lights and shadows.” - White Light//White Heat

WL//WH Premiere   KØCAZE Based in Liège, Belgium, KØCAZE is the result of an unexpected collision between two creatively opposite artists, vocalist and pianist Elsa Verhoeven and self-tau…

05/30/2025

OUT NOW! 🪩 “Bury Me Under the Cherry Blossoms,” the new single from Deformr is streaming everywhere now!

🔗 https://bit.ly/chblossoms

A haunting new instrumental elegy that unfolds in waves of fractured modular synth rhythms, ghostly vocal samples, and ambient metallic textures. Equal parts sorrow and signal decay, the track evokes a sense of haunted stillness—an unresolved transmission from somewhere between grief and memory.

Written & performed by Deformr
Recorded at Channel 83 Cable 12
Mixed by Joseph Holiday at his place
Mastered by Gregg Cash at Vibe Tech Industries
Photography by Ben Zucker
Artwork by Kronendrome

Bury Me Under the Cherry Blossoms by Deformr