What’s new – WILTING FLESH

Where things stand

LiveReleases, player and streaming Release pages, the site-wide player, full-track streaming where artists allow it, pre-saves and smart links.
LiveShop and merch Music, physical editions and artist-designed merch.
LiveEvents Upcoming shows from our artists and the wider scene.
LiveFree Master Check Check a master's loudness, peaks and dynamics in your browser at /tools/master-check/. Nothing is uploaded.
LiveFan accounts, comments and messages Profiles, song comments, notifications and messages for members.
BetaArtist Hub and Studio (label artists) Dashboard, browser creative apps, Synth Rack, Mix Lab, Merch Studio and promo tools. New tools land here first.
Early alphaScene Hub and scene map A map of the witch house, wave and dark electronic scene. Early alpha: work in progress, still being checked and filled in, expect gaps and changes.
PlannedClaim your Scene Hub listing Artists and labels will be able to claim and update their own listing.
PlannedAdd your own events Claimed artists and labels will be able to add their shows.
PlannedNew releases from the scene A feed of new releases from across the Scene Hub.

Updates

November 7, 2026 A tab bar for phones · Polish from the site audit

New Scene Hub on phones: Find, Map, A–Z and Genre buttons just above the tab bar; on a label, artist or genre page they become Back, Map here, Similar and Share.
Improved What's new shows one card per day, with everything from that day together.
Improved Shop: product cards no longer draw a glowing outline on hover; the cover zoom stays.
Improved Play buttons, genre buttons and the A–Z letters are bigger on touch screens.
Fixed The "Get new releases first" band no longer touches the footer.
Fixed Events: the Beat Battles sections no longer open and then snap shut while the page loads, so the page doesn't jump.
Fixed What's new: the status badges are styled again.

November 6, 2026 Artists page picks up co-founders' own profiles

Fixed Artists page: a co-founder's card now uses their own profile (picture, name, artist page link) instead of a placeholder, and a new profile picture shows there within a minute.

November 3, 2026 A scene map that reads like real geography · Icons on the scene map · Faster pages, and the scene web on phones · and more

New Scene map: every label, collective and other listing with artwork now shows it as a small icon on its star (our own logo for Wilting Flesh). Icons grow as you zoom in.
New Releases can say when AI tools assisted the music, and the Send us music form now asks about AI use.
New Scene Hub: an Add an artist form on the All artists page. Send yourself or an artist you love; every request is reviewed before it goes live.
New Scene Hub: a new All artists page lists every artist in the hub from A to Z, with search by name, label or alias, genre and country filters, an Essential-only switch and a letter bar to jump around. Filtered lists can be shared by link. Open it from the All artists button next to the Scene map.
New Master Check now tells you when the bass is what's pushing your peaks into the limiter, and when a dark or loud mix leans too bright or too thin compared with the label's reference tracks.
New Comparing with a reference track now says when a difference is too big to fix in mastering and should be fixed in the mix.
New Downloads in the format you want: FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3 320, AAC or Opus, picked in your Library, the order email or the thank-you page. Files are made from lossless masters and tagged with artwork.
New Each release is now one shop listing: pick Digital album, CD, vinyl or cassette, like Bandcamp. Physical copies include the digital album.
New Play every song right in the shop: whole songs where streaming is public, 45-second previews otherwise.
New Releases can be bought as downloads right here (tracks plus cover art in one file, at the same price as on Bandcamp); Bandcamp stays available as 'Also on Bandcamp'.
New Faster first visits: the main pages, recent releases and shop items are prepared ahead of time after every site update and kept ready.
New Master check: finds peaks cut flat just under full scale (a clipper, or a clipped bounce that was turned down).
New Master check: flags bass that is wide but still in phase, which club systems and vinyl don't like.
New Master check: spots a brick-wall top end below 19.5 kHz, a sign that an MP3 or AAC file was used somewhere in the chain.
New Master check: warns when the file starts or ends mid-waveform, which can click in gapless playback.
New Scene Hub: Club Fallout, the dark electronic club night and collective from Ventura County and Los Angeles, with its Melting the Underground compilations.
New Homepage: Latest releases (play right there or buy), a Shop row and Upcoming shows, each with a See all link. On phones the release and shop rows swipe sideways.
New Product pages without a written description now show the release's details: artist, release date, formats and tracklist with durations; merch shows what it's made of.
New What's new: the News page is now a public changelog with every new feature, improvement, fix and removal, newest first, and a "Where things stand" list showing which parts of the site are live, in beta, in early alpha or planned.
New Scene Hub: an "Early alpha" notice on the Scene Hub, every scene page and the scene map. The hub is a work in progress: listings and links are still being checked and filled in.
Improved Scene map: genres that share the most artists now sit side by side, so neighbouring arms are related sounds.
Improved Scene map: a label or collective that mixes two neighbouring genres sits towards the border between them.
Improved Scene map: the legend explains what the positions mean.
Improved Pages stay ready to load instantly more of the time, and visiting a page makes fewer background requests.
Improved The All artists list draws faster on phones.
Improved Scene Hub: one short note at the top instead of three, the type filters on their own row, and the map, All artists and expand / collapse buttons together in a Tools row. Sections follow the filter order, with Genres after Resources.
Improved Scene Hub: the number on each filter now matches what you see when you tap it.
Improved Genre lists across the site are grouped by family (Witch house & wave, Goth & post-punk, Industrial & noise, Ambient & experimental, Dark electronic), A to Z inside each group: the Scene Hub, All artists, the scene map, events filters and forms, and the artists page.
Improved Country, city and region lists are in A to Z order everywhere.
Improved Dropdown menus now match the site's dark look, with purple highlights instead of the bright system blue.
Improved Digital albums are sold here once their lossless files are ready; until then they point to Bandcamp. "Also on Bandcamp" stays on every release we sell.
Improved The About section's artist photo downloads at the size it is shown, not five times larger.
Improved Homepage: About us comes first, followed by the latest releases. The shop and upcoming shows have their own pages.
Improved What's new only lists changes visitors can actually see.
Fixed Scene Hub web: on phones, the name of the artist you tap no longer hides behind the name in the middle.
Fixed Scene Hub: removed Bandcamp links for Fraunhofer Diffraction and Fostercare that belonged to different artists, and a wrong source on The Church of Synth.

November 2, 2026 Scene Hub pages for every label, artist, genre, free public Master Check · Phone-friendly scene map · Scene Hub: off-scene acts removed · and more

New Free Master Check for everyone at /tools/master-check/: no account needed, the same in-browser checks (loudness, true peak, dynamics, loudness graph, streaming, genre ranges), nothing uploaded, with a Send us music button at the end.
New Scene Hub: dark ambient, noise and vaporwave labels Cryo Chamber, Cyclic Law, Malignant Records, Hospital Productions, Hanson Records, Dream Catalogue, Business Casual and 100% Electronica.
New Scene Hub: industrial / EBM labels and festivals Aufnahme + Wiedergabe, Tympanik Audio, Ad Noiseam, Cleopatra Records, Infest, Terminus, Forms of Hands and Maschinenfest.
New Master Check: dynamics panel (loudness range, loudest moment, peak-to-loudness ratio, crest factor) in plain words; loud genres are not nagged.
New Master Check: encoding headroom estimate (how close the peaks get after MP3/AAC conversion) and how much Spotify's Loud setting would turn the track down or limit it.
New Scene Hub: post-punk and coldwave labels Sacred Bones, Felte, Night School, Desire, Unknown Pleasures, Funeral Party and Weyrd Son, and the Darker Waves and Dark Force Fest festivals.
New Scene Hub: festivals are their own type. Wave-Gotik-Treffen and Cold Waves move there, and Amphi Festival, Castle Party and E-tropolis join them.
New Scene Hub: new darkwave entries Manic Depression Records, Detriti Records, Dais Records and Peek-A-Boo Magazine.
New Scene Hub: trashwave. About 135 trashwave acts join the hub and the scene map with their SoundCloud, Bandcamp and other links, other names, and who they have worked with; 9 acts we already had gain the trashwave tag and the map's links.
New Scene Hub → Scene map: a 2D galaxy of the whole scene. Labels, collectives and agencies are star systems with their artists in orbit (roster innermost, then released, then members/DJs/booked, compilation-only acts on an outer dotted ring), genres are coloured spiral arms and Wilting Flesh sits at the core. Pan, pinch and zoom; it draws nothing while idle.
New Click any dot (in the galaxy and in label/artist orbs) to select it: a card shows its relations per label (On the roster / Released on / Compilation only), similar artists, links, Open web and Copy link. Search flies to a name; genre chips filter; "New to the hub" marks newly added acts; links can open the map on a dot.
New "Show compilation acts" toggle and a legend, in the galaxy and in label orbs.
New Scene Hub: about 160 more witch house, wave and dark electronic acts (e.g. Blvck Ceiling, CHVRN, Fraunhofer Diffraction, Glacci, Tokyo Tears, The Haxan Cloak, PASTEL GHOST), found as similar artists of hub artists and verified one by one; they join the scene map with their genres, links and their own similar artists. Acts that turned out not to be dark electronic were left out.
New Scene Hub: official links for about 180 witch house and wave artists (Bandcamp, Spotify, SoundCloud, Instagram, websites and more), each read on the act's own page or label roster, plus country and active years where known.
New Scene Hub → Playlists: "Untitled Burial / Dark Electronic / Witch House (2026)", a well-curated 1,200+ track Spotify playlist (suggested by Untitled Burial).
Improved Scene Hub cards link their names to the new pages; the site map for search engines includes them.
Improved Scene map: the music player, feedback and notification buttons no longer cover the map while it is open; genre names stay inside the screen; the Scene page loads faster and uses less memory.
Improved Search results are readable (light text on dark cards).
Improved Scene Hub: about 200 dark ambient, drone, noise, vaporwave, experimental, dark electronic, electroclash and hardwave artists checked, with links, similar artists and corrected genres (house, disco and indie acts that only came in through a label roster are retagged).
Improved Scene Hub: Chondritic Sound, Ultra Eczema, iDEAL Recordings, NOISEXTRA, Tigersushi, Clone, Turbo, Darkfloor Sound and 93.93 updated; Colour Out of Space is listed as a festival.
Improved Master Check: loudness ranges match how electronic music is mastered today. Around −8 LUFS no longer counts as loud for most electronic music or witch house; trashwave / hardwave can go to about −4.5 LUFS before a note. The flat-dynamics note is gentler too.
Improved Scene Hub: about 150 industrial and EBM artists checked, with links, similar artists and corrected genres; Wax Trax!, Ant-Zen, Hands, Doomstar and Gothic & Amazing updated (Ant-Zen and Hands with their rosters).
Improved Master Check: Amazon Music and Deezer targets are marked approximate, as they publish no spec.
Improved Scene Hub: about 200 post-punk, coldwave and minimal synth artists checked, with links, similar artists and corrected genres (house, techno and indie acts that only came in through a label are retagged).
Improved Scene Hub: witch-house.com is one entry covering the forum, its label, WITCH HOUSE TV, the Tales From The Crypt mixes and the timeline; vibe.digital includes its booking agency.
Improved Scene Hub: Phantasy, Optimo Music and Gomma Records are listed as electroclash / dark electronic rather than post-punk; Gomma is marked closed.
Improved Scene Hub: SubGoth's card notes that CROSS ☨ COFFIN, co-founder of Wilting Flesh, released on it; Digital Ritual is shown as Systematic Doses (the same artist).
Improved Scene Hub: about 140 darkwave, goth and industrial artists checked: genres corrected (synthpop, Italo disco and witch house acts that only appeared under darkwave because of a label or zine are retagged), official links and similar artists added.
Improved Scene Hub: 41 darkwave labels, zines, agencies and stations checked: missing links, roster acts from their own pages, countries, current status and clearer descriptions.
Improved Label and artist orbs lag much less: at most 40 dots at a time (24 on phones) with "+N more", no blur or glow effects on every dot, the spin stops after 15 seconds idle, and nothing draws while the orb is off-screen. Slow devices and "reduce motion" get a flat constellation view.
Improved Scene Hub: corrected genres for witch house and wave artists. Acts that only appeared under witch house because of a label's other releases (e.g. much of Tri Angle's roster) no longer show as witch house.
Improved Scene Hub: 25 directory entries updated: missing roster and compilation acts added (114 in all), better descriptions where ours were thin or wrong, and WITCHCORE and Tundra Dubs marked closed, Liquid Ritual quiet.
Improved Scene Hub: NIGH† †ERRORS is listed as a label and YouTube channel, and Disaro as a label again (the label's own Bandcamp catalogue, Wikipedia and witch-house.com).
Improved Scene Hub: look-alike spellings of the same act (e.g. AXIUS LINK / ΔXIUS LIИK, DIRTY PAWS / DIЯTY|PΔWS, Sidewalks & Skeletons / Sidewalks And Skeletons) are merged into one artist.
Fixed Events: the "Nothing booked yet" box no longer sits above a full list of upcoming shows.
Fixed Master Check: clean full-volume bass notes were reported as clipping; only real flat-topped clipping is flagged now.
Fixed Master Check: 5.0 surround files were measured about 1 LU too quiet.
Fixed Master Check: the play/pause button (and the A/B player's) works when clicked in the middle. The icon was being redrawn every frame, which swallowed clicks on it.
Removed Scene Hub: Lil Ugly Mane and Sunn O))) are no longer essential artists or listed (horrorcore rap and drone metal, not dark electronic).

October 29, 2026 Speed: a smaller homepage banner download · Fog, incense smoke, and glow on the homepage hero

Improved Fog moves as one soft body: nearby patches flow together and merge with smoky edges instead of overlapping as separate puffs, and it costs less to draw than before.
Improved Fog clings to the cursor: moving the mouse through the fog pulls soft puffs along behind it, in the cursor's direction and with some of its speed; they slow down and fade within about three seconds. Clear areas stay clear.
Improved The mouse-following edge glow now also lights the homepage hero banner, rounded panels, the footer newsletter card and the footer social buttons.
Fixed Fog: no more bright white streaks. The incense smoke and the fog the cursor drags along are now a liquid "dye" carried by the stirring, so they curl, stretch and fold like ink in water, stay soft grey (they can never turn white) and fade within a few seconds.
Fixed Fog was hidden behind the footer.

October 28, 2026 Expandable player, stricter event filter, fog, back-to-top · Lighter pages · Stage plots, lighting riders, venues by place, and a lighter Scene Hub · and more

New Music player: click the bar (anywhere except its buttons) or its arrow to open a details panel with big cover art, the artist (linked, with picture), the release, track N of M, tags, buy and stream links, lyrics and credits, a seekable waveform and the release's track list. Esc, clicking outside or swiping down closes it; music keeps playing.
New Scene Hub: 47 new darkwave, industrial, electroclash and noise labels, festivals and club nights; 683 artists now carry genre tags; Night Terrors is in Start here.
New Event Radar follows 57 more electroclash, darkwave, industrial and noise acts, and rotating genre keywords (darkwave, coldwave, electroclash, EBM, industrial night, harsh noise, power electronics) take turns, one per check, so they cost one search each time in all. "Noise" is a genre tag (the bare word never matches, so "Make Some Noise" nights stay out).
New Wilting Flesh card logo in the Scene Hub.
New Scene Hub: Phantasma Disques published; Night Terrors credited to Nightmares and 808s.
New Founders section on the roster: CROSS ☨ COFFIN and Systematic Doses.
New Song comments on release pages: logged-in members comment on a track, reply (one level), like comments and edit their own for 15 minutes. A comment can point at a moment in the track ("at 1:23"); tapping it plays from there. A small count under each track opens its thread, and the player bar has a comments button for the playing track.
New Profile pictures are re-made as small 256 × 256 WebP files (about 10–40 KB, location data removed) and used everywhere: header, comments, messages and notifications. People without one get a purple first-letter badge instead of Gravatar.
New Player: an animated visualizer (mirrored frequency bars behind the player bar) and a flowing waveform on the page of the release that's playing. Nothing moves for people who chose "reduce motion".
New A space background on every public page.
New Scene Hub: 13 booking agencies (Swamp Booking, Ground Control Touring, Persona Grata, Primary Talent, UTA and more) with region, HQ and focus on the public card; their emails, booking forms, agents and submission rules are shown only to logged-in Wilting Flesh artists.
New New entries VRBAN WITCH, CH1M3RA and NIGH† †ERRORS (Night Terrors); label rosters researched and official links checked.
New 3D hologram orbs: tap a card with artists and they float on a sphere around its artwork; names never overlap. Tap an artist to see the labels they're on and who they share them with; a Genres view and a Scene map (the whole directory as one orb, coloured by role).
Improved Header: the inverted cross after the site name is now the logo emblem, a bit bigger (42 px; 32 px on phones), and it shows on every phone.
Improved Scene Hub orbs: names on busy orbs no longer jump around. Fewer names show at once (16 on desktop, 7 on phones), each stays put next to its dot and fades in and out; the slow spin is calmer.
Improved Scene Hub: Essential artists folds open and closed like the other sections (closed at first; the page remembers your choice).
Improved Scene Hub: essential-artist cards open their web when you click anywhere on the card.
Improved Hologram orbs turn freely in any direction (drag up, down and around), not only sideways.
Improved "Tap to expand" / "Click to expand" hints and chevrons on every card and section that opens, site-wide.
Improved Roster: compilation credits, "A//B" duo names and Digital Ritual are now read correctly; SPØØK//STΔTIC is not shown as a roster artist.
Improved The /artists/ page loads its images faster.
Improved Scene Hub page is lighter: icons come from one shared sprite, and closed sections are only built when opened.
Improved Full-track public streaming: releases with stream files can play in full for everyone on the site, like Bandcamp (switch per release, or all at once on the Masters page).
Improved Our own Scene Hub card: Communion compilation contributors are shown as "Compilation collaborator", not as Wilting Flesh artists. Only real roster members read "On Wilting Flesh".
Improved Events page: more speed work.
Improved Particle background loads after the page and spreads slightly taller.
Fixed The edge glow that follows the mouse is back on front-page artist cards, release cards, release pages, /artists/ and event cards (the site's glass styling had taken the slot the glow draws in). Visitors who ask for reduced motion now get a still edge.
Fixed Scene Hub: "Systemantic Doses" on NIGH† †ERRORS is Systematic Doses (a Bandcamp misspelling).
Fixed Scene Hub: Fabrika's entry no longer lists album titles as artists.
Fixed Scene Hub filter bar: on phones the role chips sit in one swipeable row (no sideways page scroll); on wide screens the bar stays at the top while you scroll and search, genre and sections share one row.
Fixed Events page downloaded ~58 MB of Beat Battles audio/video on open; every audio/video player now waits for play (mobile speed 94 → 99, desktop 90 → 100).
Fixed The site player re-downloaded a whole paused track (up to 49 MB for WAVs) on every page change.

October 27, 2026 Wilting Flesh Events section, events grid rebuilt · Store-first buying, verified Scene Hub with artist webs, community features, shipping tracking · Charity tracking, subtle motion · and more

New Scene Hub: r/witch_house published; SubGoth renamed "SubGoth / El Cuco Recordings (ECR)" with the old names as aliases; Arcadia Online published as "IMMINENT (Arcadia Online)"; Living Tapes and Interval Audio removed.
New Online counter: "● N online now" in the footer (anonymous, no cookies).
New Event genre tags (from the artists on the bill, editable per artist and per show), genre filter chips on every events view, "On tour" cards that group a headliner's dates, and a Past shows tree (artist → year).
New Featured labels in the Scene Hub: Untitled Burial, SubGoth / El Cuco Recordings (ECR), Re:Mission Entertainment and Blvsphemy Records, with links from their own Bandcamp pages. "Scene" added to the main menu.
New Theme polish for My Account, cart/shop buttons and notices, and the Contact / Send us music forms (dark panels, purple buttons, rounded fields).
New Events browse: Highlights, Artists and All views, Scene or Everything scope, and a page per artist (/events/artist/{slug}/). Suggested artists to track.
New Email sign-up band ("Get new releases first") above the footer on the home page, Releases, release pages and Artists. A footer widget version is available too.
New Sign-up form with double opt-in (fans confirm by email) and a one-click unsubscribe.
New Scheduled releases get a public pre-save page with a countdown and "Notify me when it's out". lists upcoming releases.
New Click-to-load SoundCloud and YouTube players: each shows its artwork and a play button, and the real player (SoundCloud alone is about 5 MB) loads only when tapped. Applies automatically to new embeds.
New Smart links at /link/release-name/: one link per release for bios, with buy first, play in the site player, then every streaming service. QR codes (PNG/SVG) and click counts are on the release screen.
New A scene-wide events list on /events/ ("Upcoming Scene Events") with country/city filters and a badge for label artists.
Improved Upcoming shows now flow in a masonry layout (2 columns, 3 on wide screens) with month labels inside the flow, so a tall flyer next to a short tour card no longer opens a hole; "Load more" merges into the same flow.
Improved Scene Hub: all 74 entries verified against primary sources — 29 confirmed, 38 corrected (dead or hijacked links removed, unsupported claims softened, countries fixed), 7 left pending until confirmed.
Improved Events page: "Upcoming shows / Past shows" tabs with counts, clearer empty states ("See past shows", "Submit an event"), filters behind a button on phones. Past shows are a compact list grouped by year. Shows without a flyer get a short generated header instead of a big empty box.
Improved Events page headings: "Scene Events" (was "Upcoming Scene Events"); the hand-written past list is now "Wilting Flesh Beat Battles".
Improved Buy buttons all say "Buy"; buttons with no real link are hidden instead of pointing nowhere.
Improved Artists page: the artist cards are now in A–Z order (BerserkerCrux … Undead Evergreen).
Improved Phone and tablet menu redesigned: a rounded card in the top-right corner, only as tall as its links, instead of a full-height navy panel.
Improved Look: near-black, with a slow drifting purple glow, faint scanlines and links that slide in.
Improved Behaviour: the page dims behind it, and tapping outside closes it. No animation for people who turn on "reduce motion".
Improved Menu button: bigger tap area (44×44 px). It looks the same.
Improved Mobile PageSpeed went from 39–55 to 79. The page starts drawing at 1.6 s instead of 26.8 s and is fully drawn at 4.8 s instead of 34 s.
Improved The site player skips its in-place page swap on the event-submit and Master Check pages, so those forms always load fully.
Fixed Tour cards on /events/ stretched to the height of a neighbouring card, leaving a huge empty box.
Fixed Submit an event: date/time and city fields were squeezed by a CSS name clash with the past-shows list.
Fixed Soft page navigation left old page content on screen in some cases.
Fixed Accessibility: the player's seek bar reads the time aloud ("1:05 of 3:20"), play buttons say Play or Pause, and click-to-load embeds move keyboard focus into the player.
Fixed The biggest thing on the phone screen (the first YouTube thumbnail) was set to load late, so the page took 5.2 s to finish drawing. It now loads first, at 2.1 s.
Fixed SoundCloud click-to-load boxes showed no artwork. Fixed by asking SoundCloud with the track's numeric ID.
Fixed The Dark Nights release page kept reloading because the player had nothing to play. It now shows a "Listen on Bandcamp" button and never reloads on a missing source; a guard stops restore loops.
Fixed A background-animation error.

October 26, 2026 Speed pass 1, one stylesheet

Improved Background animation draws up to 4× fewer pixels on phones and stops for visitors who prefer reduced motion or when the tab is hidden.