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WL//WH - JULY 2025 \\ Post-Punk/ Coldwave/ Darkwave/ Synth-Pop/

Unreleased track from the working sessions for the 'Loneliness ep', june 2012.
No mastering. This is a pretty raw version of this track.

Soon out ! 7" vinyl on Peripheral Minimal Records (2025)

Tristesse (feat. Xiu)

Tristesse

Calm In Violence

limited edition of cassettes is available to purchase at
novaguardia.bandcamp.com/album/live-2020

all played live and line recorded at Pattern event, July 2020

Красный Террор (Red Terror) live

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In his quest for peace,
the knight never ceased to fight for it.
But after countless battles,
a question pierced his armor:
Why am I here?
What is good?
What is evil?

Thus began his descent into a deep duality
and so he fell.
After striving so long to reach the light,
he found only shadow.

His battles led him to defeat many ennemies
in the name of peace,
and yet, to some,
he was nothing but a bloodthirsty monster.

So be it.
He surrendered his heart,
and abandoned his soul to the darkness.

But remember this:
where there is shadow,
there is always light.
And where there is light,
shadow is never far behind.

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En quête de paix,
le chevalier ne cessa jamais de livrer bataille pour l’atteindre.
Mais à force de combats,
une question finit par transpercer son armure :
Pourquoi suis-je arrivé là ?
Qu’est-ce que le bien ?
Qu’est-ce que le mal ?

Alors, il sombra dans une profonde dualité,
perdit pied,
et malgré tous ses efforts pour atteindre la lumière,
il ne trouva que l’ombre.

Ses luttes l’avaient conduit à vaincre d’innombrables ennemis
au nom de la paix.
Et pourtant, pour certains,
il n’était rien de plus qu’un monstre assoiffé de sang.

Ainsi soit-il.
Il abandonna son cœur,
et laissa son âme glisser dans les ténèbres.

Mais souvenez-vous :
là où réside l’ombre,
la lumière n’est jamais loin.
Et là où brille la lumière,
l’ombre veille toujours.

Cardinal & Nun - Vampire Celebration

Army Now (Futurisk)

Off the back of his 2024 EBM meets rockabilly greaser album Moto Zone. Cong Josie returns with a new partner in crime : the legendary Garry Gray, aka Garry Sacred of seminal Aussie swamp-rock outfit Sacred Cowboys. The two met in early 2025 when Cong fessed up to ripping off the Cowboys’ track ‘Nothing Grows in Texas’ on ‘1300 Scorpio’, the two recognise a kindred spirit, bonded over their love for Alan Vega and 70’s oz-boogie and next thing you know, we’ve got this scorchin’ EP.

The record kicks off with a re-recording mash-up of the aforementioned ‘1300 Scorpio’ & ‘Nothing Grows in Texas’ in ‘1300 Texico’. Like leather clad twins mysteriously separated by a decade or two, there is an undeniable synchronicity at play. If you know these two musicians, you can imagine the burning heat they produce together. It feels right, it feels inevitable. What follows just gets better. 

Sacred Money conjures the dread power and unrelenting pull of money-seduction. Next is a triplet of on-theme cover versions starting with the lead single from the record, a sleazy and sinister cover of the canonic Oz-boogie-era song, ‘I’ll Be Gone’ (originally by Spectrum 1971). Side two smacks you straight in the face with a blood pumpin’ rendition of Suicide’s ‘Fast Money Music’ followed by a deep cut from The Kinks underrated 1974 concept record Preservation Act 2 : ‘Money Talks’. The record closes with the title track ‘Sacred Money’ a tripped out ode to/ lament for/ rail against, you guessed it… money. 
Strap in for a one of a kind modern classic of uncompromising punk vision calling for action while demonstrating the heart and the power of community and creativity. Rise up, rob a bank and pull out those leathers, this one’s two punch banger.  


1300 TEXICO

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