Morella Records In The Dark is the debut single from Vampire Valentine's forthcoming self-titled album, releasing August 28, 2026 on Morella Records. Gothic rock built from the ground up. No shortcuts, no compromises. Vampire Valentine is a gothic rock act signed to Morella Records, an independent label out of Albany, Georgia dedicated to gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. Traditional sounds. No compromises. Stream In The Dark on all platforms:
Vampire Valentine - In The Dark (Official Lyric Video)Morella Records2026-06-19 | Vampire Valentine "In The Dark"
Released June 19, 2026
Morella Records In The Dark is the debut single from Vampire Valentine's forthcoming self-titled album, releasing August 28, 2026 on Morella Records. Gothic rock built from the ground up. No shortcuts, no compromises. Vampire Valentine is a gothic rock act signed to Morella Records, an independent label out of Albany, Georgia dedicated to gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. Traditional sounds. No compromises. Stream In The Dark on all platforms:
morellarecords.comGIO MadelineMorella Records2026-09-15 | GIO has been watching for five hundred and sixty years. An immortal witness to five centuries of art, ruin, and grief, he sings what he's carried. Semprevive is his most personal record yet: the women of Edgar Allan Poe's fiction, seen and remembered rather than retold.
Madeline Usher claws her way out of a grave that was never supposed to open again, and the house comes down around her while she does it.
Shot through a haze of decay, grain, and flicker, like something pulled out of a house that has been sealed for a hundred years. GIO moves through it the way memory moves through an old house: present, uninvited, unable to leave.
The first single from Semprevive, out everywhere September 15.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsMid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone Episode 14 - PricingMorella Records2026-08-30 | Every price across Morella Records is coming down, digital and physical, starting now. Not because the work changed. Not because anyone was right about what it's worth. Because we'd rather this music actually reach people than keep having the same argument on a loop. Full explanation in the video.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsMid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone - Episode 13 - The Mission ArriveMorella Records2026-08-10 | Wayne Hussey and Craig Adams left the Sisters of Mercy in 1985 and formed The Mission. "Wasteland" hit number 11 on the UK Singles Chart in 1986. Blake talks about what happened when the second wave took the gothic rock template and ran with it in a completely different emotional direction.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsVampire Valentine - Another Day (Official Lyric Video)Morella Records2026-08-08 | Another Day, a track about the memories of a past lover haunting you when all you want to do is forget about them. Making your days slow, repetitive and depressing. Driven by the bass – it's a classic dark wave track. that the band are known for.
Another Day Lyrics
Sunrise through the window pane Another day another ache Thought I was fine all on my own Just me myself and my own thoughts
Another day some other place you went away without a trace I will not feel I will not lie Sometimes I fear that I could die Another day some other place you went away without a trace I will not feel I will not lie Sometimes I fear
I feel your hand moving in closer The ghost of you won’t set me free My memories are fading fast But I just can’t shake the thought of you.
Another day some other place you went away without a trace I will not feel I will not lie Sometimes I fear that i could die Another day some other place you went away without a trace I will not feel I will not lie Sometimes I fear that I could die
morellarecords.com vampirevalentine.morellarecords.comMid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone - Episode 12 - Sanctified Hunger / GIO Second AlbumMorella Records2026-08-03 | GIO's second album Sanctified Hunger is out now on Morella Records. 12 tracks. Three acts: The Observer, The Wound, The Reckoning. An anti-religion concept built on five centuries of observation. Blake talks about what it means to make a record that means what it says, all the way through.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
A weekly live show on YouTube and Twitch, hosted by Blake Carpenter, founder of Morella Records.
Real gothic rock, deathrock, darkwave, and post-punk. Classic tracks with the context they deserve, new bands keeping the tradition alive right now, and an open floor for you to bring your own finds. No dilution, no compromises, just the music and the conversation.
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Premiere: September 1, 2026. Live and simultaneous on YouTube and Twitch.
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#goth #gothrock #darkwave #deathrock #postpunk #morellarecords #thepitandtheplaylistGIO - In My Name (Official Video)Morella Records2026-08-03 | IN MY NAME GIO, from the album Sanctified Hunger
For eleven tracks, GIO carried the testimony: five centuries watched, documented, endured. Here, he steps aside. This is not his voice anymore.
"In My Name" is Christ speaking. Not the narrator. Not the witness. The one whose name was used to justify all of it, finally given the closing word.
"You carved my mouth into a trumpet, then chose which words survived. You stitched your fear to my name like it absolves the stain. You did this to me. Have you nothing to say on this your judgment day."
This is the verdict, not the grief. That belongs to "I Am Crying." Together they close Sanctified Hunger, a twelve track concept album told in three acts: The Byronic Observer, The Pattern and the Wound, and The Reckoning.
Sanctified Hunger is streaming everywhere now. https://morella.short.gy/GIO-Sanctified-Hunger
Dark, moody, melodic goth rock with atmosphere, weight, and something to say.
GIO / Morella RecordsMid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone - Episode 11 - IndustrialMorella Records2026-07-27 | Industrial music and gothic rock share a wardrobe and sometimes a dancefloor. They are not the same tradition. Blake breaks down what industrial is actually doing, and why being precise about the difference respects both genres rather than diminishing either one.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
Same face. Six centuries. Every era graded in sepia, watching one man refuse to change while everything around him burns and rebuilds.
I was once an old man. Now I'm just an older sin. Wandering through centuries where every god gives in.
Well Trained is the opening testimony from GIO's Sanctified Hunger. Born in Renaissance Florence, GIO has spent 568 years watching the same pattern repeat: institutions teaching people to distrust their own instincts, then to defer to authority, then to celebrate that surrender as virtue. He watched it happen across empires, revolutions, and reckonings, and he never learned to feel it as anything but training.
Time doesn't heal. It just learns how to wait. Faith doesn't fade. It just changes its name. Time doesn't heal. It sharpens the blade. I don't feel cursed. I feel well-trained.
GIO Well Trained From the album Sanctified Hunger Released July 17, 2026 Morella RecordsComing SoonMorella Records2026-07-15 | Something is coming from Morella Records.
More soon.
#goth #gothrock #darkwave #deathrock #postpunk #morellarecordsMid Dark Thought of the Grey Tombstone - Episode 10 - A ForestMorella Records2026-07-13 | "A Forest" by The Cure is where Robert Smith figured out what the band could become. From the Seventeen Seconds album, 1980. Repetitive, hypnotic, refuses to resolve. Blake talks about why restraint and repetition are emotional tools in gothic rock, and why The Cure remain one of the most important uncategorizable bands in the genre.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecords6 Day until Sanctified HungerMorella Records2026-07-11 | Sanctified Hunger from @giogoth1458 in 6 days. They told you to kneel. They told you to fear. And you called it salvation. LITANY OF DUST - Track 3. You were never free, you were told to obey. You were given a cross, not a say. Every prayer was a price to pay, and their god was just decay. July 17
#GIO #LitanyOfDust #6Days #CountdownVampire Valentine - Cutting Ties Official Lyric VideoMorella Records2026-07-09 | CUTTING TIES IS OUT NOW. The second single from the Vampire Valentine self-titled album.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsCutting Ties Releases TomorrowMorella Records2026-07-09 | Tomorrow. Cutting Ties arrives. The second single from the Vampire Valentine self-titled album. The story of letting go when letting go is the hardest thing.
Pre-save, check first commentSnactified Hunger Track List Part 2Morella Records2026-07-08 | ACT III: THE RECKONING. After exposing the wound and mapping the pattern, GIO offers both warning and hope. You Are,the East taught me what the West conceals. Holy War,wake up, make a stand. I Am Crying,Christ weeps. In My Name,you did this to me. The resolution of Sanctified Hunger. Warning. Hope. The path forward.
#VampireValentine #CuttingTies #DarkwaveGIO - Sanctified Hunger Track List Part 1Morella Records2026-07-05 | SANCTIFIED HUNGER - Tracklist Part 1 (Acts I & II): ACT I - THE BYRONIC OBSERVER: 1. Well Trained / 2. I Was Never Yours / 3. Litany of Dust / 4. The Fate We Let Arise. ACT II - THE PATTERN & THE WOUND: 5. Their Final Test / 6. I Am He / 7. Observed Devotion / 8. The Damned - CLIMAX. Part 2 tomorrow.
#VampireValentine #CuttingTies #DarkwaveCutting Ties- teaser 1Morella Records2026-07-01 | Cutting Ties, the second single from the Vampire Valentine self-titled album. The story of letting go when letting go is the hardest thing. Next Friday,
#VampireValentine #CuttingTies #NewMusicFriday #Darkwave #PostPunk #MorellaRecordsMid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone - Episode 9 - Emo Is Not GothMorella Records2026-06-22 | The Litmus Test: Welcome to the Black Parade by My Chemical Romance is one of the great rock songs of the 2000s. It is not goth. Blake explains exactly why, and what the precise difference is between emo's confessional darkness and goth's atmospheric tradition.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsMid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone Episode 8-1 A Warning - Theyre Paving the Road for YouMorella Records2026-06-19 | Mid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone Episode 8-1 A Warning - They're Paving the Road for You
A legacy act just put a manufactured, zero-history band on a major UK tour and called them the real deal. Blake talks about why this matters beyond one booking, and why scene credibility is being lent out one co-sign at a time by people who should know better.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsInTheDarkFinalDayMorella Records2026-06-18 | Tomorrow. In The Dark arrives. The first single from the Vampire Valentine self-titled album. Cold, brooding, and built to stay with you.
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#VampireValentine #InTheDark #NewMusicFriday #Darkwave #PostPunk #MorellaRecordsMid Dark Thought of the Grey Tombstone - Episode 8 - Vampire Valentine — In The DarkMorella Records2026-06-16 | Morella Records has a new single out from @VampireValentinencl a darkwave and post-punk duo from Newcastle upon Tyne. Blake mixed and mastered it. He talks about why the classic sound is not nostalgia and what it means to be fully invested in a band's record as the label. "In The Dark" is out now
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
#VampireValentine #InTheDark #Darkwave #NewMusicMid Dark Thought of the Grey Tombstone - Episode 7 - What Goth Actually IsMorella Records2026-06-08 | What is goth, actually? Not a wardrobe, not a mood, not a Halloween aesthetic. It is a lineage, and Blake breaks down where it comes from, what it sounds like in a room, and why the bands who defined it mostly refused the label that defined them
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsMid Dark Thoughts of the Grey Tombstone Episode 6 1 They Cant Handle the Truth EitherMorella Records2026-06-07 | Last weekend was a warning. This weekend is about what happens when someone tells the truth and gets attacked for it. @angelabenedict has been in this scene for a long time and she deserves to be defended. New episode, all platforms, right now.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsVampire Valentine - In The Dark Snippet01Morella Records2026-06-05 | A glimpse. In The Dark. June 19. New single from the Vampire Valentine self-titled album. New chapter begins.
#VampireValentine #InTheDark #NewSingle #Darkwave #MorellaRecordsLeeds, 1983The Sisters of Mercy - Temple of Love (1983, Merciful Release)Morella Records2026-06-01 | Andrew Eldritch always called the Sisters of Mercy an industrial groove machine, not a goth band. "Temple of Love" hit number one on the UK Indie Chart in 1983 and stayed for 36 weeks. Blake talks about what it means to own your sound so completely that the scene you build around you cannot contain you.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsA Warning - They Didnt Earn ThisMorella Records2026-05-31 | Something is happening in the goth scene right now that needs to be said out loud. New episode, this weekend, all platforms at the same time. No names. Just the truth.
Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a short-form video series from Morella Records, covering gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, and deathrock. New episodes every week.
Morella Records is an independent label dedicated to traditional gothic sounds. No compromises. No apologies.
morellarecords.com morella.short.gy/morellarecords twitch.tv/morellarecordsMid Dark Thoughts - THE LITMUS TEST Marilyn Manson Is Not Goth Episode 5Morella Records2026-05-25 | The Litmus Test: a name called goth that is not. This week, Marilyn Manson and Antichrist Superstar. Blake is not defending him as a person or an artist, make of that what you will. He is being precise about why industrial metal and shock rock, rooted in Nine Inch Nails and Alice Cooper, belongs to a different tradition from post-punk gothic rock, and why the aesthetic is not the same as the genre.
morellarecords.comSanctified-Mon May 25 2026Morella Records2026-05-25 | Every century births new crusades. Different banners. Same hunger for control. They dress it as salvation. They sanctify the violence. They sell submission as divine will. I have watched this pattern for 500 years. From Savonarola's bonfires to modern holy wars. It never changes. Only the costumes change. A new testimony is coming.
#GIO #PatternRecognition #HolyWar #500Years
@giogoth1458Fri, May 22, 2026Morella Records2026-05-22 | Track 4. Black Flowers. The one the EP is named for. 'Two black flowers on your grave. I hear your whisper in my head. Blackest days, darkest things. I'm so down without you.' Grief made into gothic rock. This is what QZ are.
Traccia 4. Black Flowers. Quella che dà il nome all'EP. 'Two black flowers on your grave. I hear your whisper in my head. Blackest days, darkest things. I'm so down without you.' Il dolore trasformato in gothic rock. Questo sono i QZ.
#QZ #BlackFlowers #GothicRock #MorellaRecords #TrackSpotlight #Dolore #Darkwave #TorinoGIO - The Geometry of Ruin TeaserMorella Records2026-05-21 | TOMORROW. THE GEOMETRY OF RUIN. 78 minutes. 12 tracks. Five centuries of observation. One testimony. @GIO speaks.
This is everything. The immortal's complete artistic statement. May 22.
#GIO #TheGeometryOfRuin #Tomorrow #WorldGothDay #ConceptAlbum #MorellaRecordsGEOMETRYCDcountdown - 720WebShareNameMorella Records2026-05-19 | 3 days until The Geometry of Ruin. GIO's complete testimony. An immortal's chronicle of modern collapse. 78 minutes that trace the architecture of ruin—then rebirth.
#GIO #TheGeometryOfRuin #3Days #AlmostHereMid Dark Thoughts World Goth Day / GIO, The Geometry of Ruin Episode 4Morella Records2026-05-18 | It's World Goth Day and Morella Records is releasing The Geometry of Ruin, the debut album from GIO. 78 minutes. One concept. An immortal consciousness born in 1458 watching modern civilization collapse. Blake talks about what the record is doing and what World Goth Day means for a label that lives inside this tradition year-round.
Follow Morella Records Everywhere https://morella.short.gy/morellarecordsGEOMETRYCD - 1080WebShareNameMorella Records2026-05-17 | 5 days. The Architect's Dream. Neon Dust. Crown of Wires. Static Saints. The Quiet Machine. Feast of Ghosts. Paper Kingdoms. The Orchard Sleeps. Black Sun Rising. Ashes of Tomorrow. Children of the Ember. 12 testimonies.
#GIO #TheGeometryOfRuinDanceofEndDayTeaser2 - 1080WebShareNameMorella Records2026-05-15 | It is out. Dance of the End Days by @Glass Coffin Club is streaming now on all platforms and available on Bandcamp. Louisville deathrock on Morella Records. This is what heavy sounds like.
#GlassCoffinClub #Deathrock #DanceOfEndDays #Tomorrow #Louisville #MorellaRecordsBehindGeometry - 1080WebShareNameMorella Records2026-05-12 | Creating THE GEOMETRY OF RUIN: 78 minutes. 12 tracks. Years of observation distilled into one testimony. GIO's voice carries centuries. The guitars channel Renaissance beauty meeting modern ruin. Every lyric traces patterns repeated across history. This album is what happens when you've witnessed enough collapses to recognize the architecture. The immortal speaks May 22.
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#GIO #BehindTheMusic #TheGeometryOfRuin #WorldGothDayTue, May 12, 2026Morella Records2026-05-12 | Track 3. Waste. The most defiant track on Black Flowers. 'That's me, a free man with all my desires. Another day in my life.' A song about survival, about standing your ground when the world wants to grind you down.
Traccia 3. Waste. La traccia più ribelle di Black Flowers. 'That's me, a free man with all my desires. Another day in my life.' Una canzone sulla sopravvivenza, sul tener duro quando il mondo vuole distruggerti.
#QZ #Waste #BlackFlowers #GothicRock #MorellaRecords #TrackSpotlight #TorinoMid Dark Thought Bauhaus — Bela Lugosis Dead (1979, Small Wonder Records) Episode 3Morella Records2026-05-11 | One take. Six weeks as a band. Nine minutes and thirty-six seconds. "Bela Lugosi's Dead" by Bauhaus was recorded on January 26, 1979 and is widely considered the first gothic rock record ever made. Blake talks about where it all began, and the irony that a band named after a school built on function and utility accidentally defined an entire genre.
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#Bauhaus #BelaLugosi #GothRock #MidDarkThoughts #MorellaRecords #GothicRock #PostPunkTears Another lone survivor Snippet - HD 1080pMorella Records2026-05-11 | If you have not heard the Vampire Valentine Pale Dawn EP yet, tonight is a good night to fix that. Seven tracks of post-punk and gothic rock that knows exactly what it wants to be. Start with Tears and go from there.
https://morella.short.gy/vampire-valentine
#VampireValentine #PaleDawn #Darkwave #PostPunk #GothicRock #MorellaRecordsMid Dark Thoughts On Gatekeeping. Sort Of. Episode 2Morella Records2026-05-10 | New Mid Dark Thoughts video. This one is about gatekeeping, and I want to be clear about where I stand before anyone gets the wrong idea.
I am not here to tell you what you are. Wear what you wear, listen to what you listen to, call yourself whatever feels right. That is genuinely none of my business and I have no interest in making it my business.
What I am doing is being precise about a music tradition and a lineage. Gothic rock, post-punk, darkwave, deathrock. That is the conversation here and that is what Morella Records releases. Not because industrial or EBM or cyber goth are lesser things. They are not. They are just different things, with different histories and different lineages, and I know what I am for.
There is a difference between telling someone they do not belong somewhere and knowing clearly what you are building. One of those is gatekeeping. The other is just having a point of view.
Follow Morella Records Everywhere https://morella.short.gy/morellarecordsDanceofEndDayTeaser01 - 1080WebShareNameMorella Records2026-05-10 | This is what it sounds like. Dance Of End Days - @xglasscoffinclubx . May 15. Morella Records.
https://morella.short.gy/vc51yv
#GlassCoffinClub #Deathrock #Louisville #MorellaRecords #DanceOfEndDays #NewMusicember - 1080WebShareNameMorella Records2026-05-07 | CHILDREN OF THE EMBER (Track 12). Rebirth from devastation. "We are the children of the ember / the ones the ashes still remember / from fractured hearts, the future grows / in molten streets, the daylight glows." GIO has witnessed collapse. But he's also witnessed what comes after—survivors building new worlds from fire's remains. Hope defiant. The Geometry of Ruin concludes with rebirth. May 22.
Pre-order: https://morella.short.gy/UkBOt5
#GIO #ChildrenOfTheEmber #Hope #TheGeometryOfRuinMid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone Episode 1Morella Records2026-05-06 | Mid Dark Thoughts of the Gray Tombstone is a weekly short-form series about gothic rock, where it came from, what it actually is, and what it is not. Blake has been in and out of the goth scene since the late eighties. He left twice. He built a label. Now he's not leaving again. One video a week. This is where it starts.
Follow Morella Records Everywhere https://morella.short.gy/morellarecordsOrchard - 1080WebShareNameMorella Records2026-05-05 | THE ORCHARD SLEEPS (Track 9). Nature falls silent beneath neglect. "The trees don't whisper anymore / their roots remember rain / The soil keeps secrets under stone / but no one asks again." GIO has seen humanity abandon the earth before. He's walked through orchards that thrived, then died from indifference. The pattern repeats. The Geometry of Ruin. May 22.
Pre-order: https://morella.short.gy/UkBOt5
#GIO #TheOrchardSleeps #Environmental #TheGeometryOfRuinMon, May 4, 2026Morella Records2026-05-04 | Track 1. When I Walk Alone. A song built on longing, on the voice that stays inside you when someone is gone. 'In my deeper soul, when I walk alone. Let me see your eyes again. I crave you for more.'
Traccia 1. When I Walk Alone. Una canzone costruita sul desiderio, sulla voce che rimane dentro quando qualcuno non c'è più. 'In my deeper soul, when I walk alone. Let me see your eyes again. I crave you for more.'