17.08.2008
The so-called “Anti-box” featuring “ Whispers from the Gothic Gloom. And a Fiend...”, " Buried Lithanies. Undead ?”, “As Fragile As an Uncanny Cobweb” and “ Où Les Phalènes Sombrent”, released in September 2007, gained everywhere good reviews, sometimes very positive, with one isolated yet notable exception. Both the former and the latter revealed, once again, how much challenging and demanding any Gothic release is and how much controversial it could be to those who are not acquainted with Gothic’s weird way “to make art”.

James M. Jason, David Bosch and John Ruin’s work on the next Gothic Multimedia Project opus increased in the last months. Particularly GMP’s efforts have being focused on the lyrical and multimedia sides of the whole opus whereas the work on the musical and graphic parts is at an advanced stage. Jason, Bosch and Ruin are fully conscious this opus will stand as the highest point in GMP’s artistic course, unlikely to be matched again. The painstaking attention to every particular detail of this work is the logical consequence of this awareness.

30.09.2007
After more than 3 years of hard work, the four Gothic brother-albums forming the-so-long-waited “Anti-box” have finally seen the light of the day, emerging from Time’s fog.

Here are the tracklists:

Whispers from the Gothic Gloom. And a Fiend... (Audio CD – Théâtre de la Mort 08):

01. Tempus Caliginis (cut version) [from “Into the Gothic Gloom”, 1989]
02. Door of Death [from “Into the Gothic Gloom”, 1989]
03. Inferno of Carnage [from “Into the Gothic Gloom”, 1989]
04. The Alley of Darkness [from “Into the Gothic Gloom”, 1989]
05. A Church in Hell [from “Into the Deep Tartarus”, 1990]
06. Infernal Sabbath [from “Into the Deep Tartarus”, 1990]
07. Apocalyptic Massacres in the Name of Blasphemy [from “Into the Deep Tartarus”, 1990]
08. Sepulchral Obsession [from “Into the Cave”, 1991]
09. Necronomicon [from “Into the Cave”, 1991]
10. Slaves of Doom’s Descend [from “Into the Cave”, 1991]
11. Necrolust [from “Whispers from the Grave”, 1992]
12. Sacrilege Rites of Immolation [from “Whispers from the Grave”, 1992]
13. Slaves of Doom’s Return [from “Whispers from the Grave”, 1992]
14. Schizophrenic Coma [from “... and from Hell Came the Revenge”, 1993]
15. Evoked Prophecies of Pestilence [from “... and from Hell Came the Revenge”, 1993]
16. Gates to Beyond [from “... and from Hell Came the Revenge”, 1993]

Buried Lithanies. Undead? (Audio CD – Théâtre de la Mort 08):

01. Oblivion (cut version) [from “The Pestilence... Post Contagium”, 1993]
02. The Symphony of Madness [from “The Pestilence... Post Contagium”, 1993]
03. Shadows in Me (original version) [from “Dreaming the Apocalypse, 1994]
04. Shadows in Me [from “Dreaming the Apocalypse, 1994]
05. Warlock’s Stare [from “Dreaming the Apocalypse, 1994]
06. Life is Our Hell [from “Dark Dimension”, 1995]
07. The Final Deception [from “Dark Dimension”, 1995]
08. Agony of a Butterfly [from “Cold Winds of Suicide”, 1997]
09. Withered, At Last [from “Cold Winds of Suicide”, 1997]
10. L’Ultimo Sogno [from “Cold Winds of Suicide”, 1997]
11. Through Your Disease, Out of My Pain [from “Fleeing the Rainland”, 2000]
12. Blind Swan, Wounded Crow [from “Fleeing the Rainland”, 2000]
13. Waiting for the Last Storm [from “Fleeing the Rainland”, 2000]
14. Over the Horizon [from “Fleeing the Rainland”, 2000]

As Fragile As an Uncanny Cobweb (Audio CD – Théâtre de la Mort 08):

01. The Path of a Tear [from “Fleeing the Rainland”, 2000]
02. Decadent [from “Fleeing the Rainland”, 2000]
03. From Oblivion to Illusion [from “Fleeing the Rainland”, 2000]

Où les Phalènes Sombrent (Audio CD – Théâtre de la Mort 08):

01. Mazes of Loneliness [originally unreleased]
02. Gleams of Unknown [originally unreleased]
03. Down in Your Shrine (John “Bulldozer” Remix) [originally featured in “Grim”, 2004]
04. Forlorn (James M. Jason cut version) [originally featured in “Grim”, 2004]

Gothic History Part I (Multimedia DVD – Théâtre de la Mort 08)

Detailed biography of the first Gothic incarnation (1989-1993)

Gothic History Part II (Multimedia DVD – Théâtre de la Mort 08)

Detailed biography of the second Gothic incarnation up to the rise of the Gothic Multimedia Project (1993-2004)

19.06.2007
On the occasion of the XIX anniversary of its own activity, the Gothic Multimedia Project is glad to announce the contemporaneous release of 4 separate albums. These albums, featuring the old, recently digitally reengineered and remastered Gothic stuff, from “Into the Gothic Gloom” (1989) up to “Fleeing the Rainland” (2000), will be conceptually bound by two multimedia dvds which will retrace Gothic’s history from the humble beginnings in September 1989 to the rise of the Gothic Multimedia Project in the first half of the current decade.

The first album, entitled “Whispers from the Gothic Gloom. And a Fiend...” will feature the most memorable songs from “Into the Gothic Gloom” (1989), “Into the Deep Tartarus” (1990), “Into the Cave” (1991), “Whispers from the Grave” (1992), “... and from Hell Came the Revenge” (1993) whereas the second one, “Buried Lithanies. Undead ?” will include the most important tracks from “The Pestilence... Post Contagium” (1993), “Dreaming the Apocalypse” (1994), “Dark Dimension” (1995), “Cold Winds of Suicide” (1997) and “Fleeing the Rainland” (2000).

The third album, entitled “As Fragile As an Uncanny Cobweb”, will feature the three most representative songs from “Fleeing the Rainland” and the fourth album, “Où les Phalènes Sombrent”, will include two previously unreleased tracks (2001) as well as two totally rearranged and remixed songs from “Grim” (2004).

These four albums, yet separate and distinct, will be released together in a box-set (4 CDs, 2 DVDs) which is not really a box-set in the truest sense of the word: hence the definition of “Anti-box set”, in order to stress the distinction of each album from the others and, at the same time, their logical connection in the overall Gothic history.

James Maximilian Jason and John Ruin have finally achieved the ultimate reengineering of “Fleeing the Rainland” and “The Pestilence... Post Contagium” and are currently working on the last details of the multimedia dvds.

The four albums above mentioned are officially due on 30 September of this year.
The tracklist of every single album won’t be announced until the albums will be released.

01.02.2007
The long and extremely hard recording process of next Gothic opus’ musical part has finally begun. It will last at least one year and a half and both the realization of the musical contents and the poetry writing will proceed at the same pace.

As far as the painstaking work for the so-called “Anti-box set” is concerned, “Dreaming the Apocalypse” (1994), “Dark Dimension” (1995) and “Cold Winds of Suicide” (1997) have been re-engineered, with good results, too, whereas a new reengineering of “The Pestilence... Post Contagium” (1993) turned out to be quite unavoidable since James M. Jason was not fully satisfied with former demo’s resulting overall sound.
Moreover John Ruin is actually working on the tricky reengineering of “Fleeing the Rainland” (2000).

13.10.2006
The deal with Rockdetector ceased to exist already some months ago because of Rockdetector cd store programme’s general failure. The Gothic Multimedia Project is still baffled by the lack of professionalism shown by Rockdetector and regards this unfortunate experience as a precious lesson for the future of the G.M.P.

On the contrary, a link to Gothic Dimension has been “approved” both in the impressive English pages of Wikipedia (Goth subculture’s page), the largest virtual encyclopaedia in the web and in its Italian version (Dark rock’s page).

The work in progress for the new Gothic opus is quite satisfying. Particularly the songwriting and the graphic part have achieved an advanced stage.

Finally (so far) “Whispers from the Grave” (1992) as well as “... and from Hell Came the Revenge” (1993) have been successfully reengineered.

10.07.2006
The Dutch ambient-metal band Triplesix, led by Wilmar Taal, has decided to support the "Théatre de la Mort 08" dark avant-garde art movement, joining Testing Vault (Italy) and Luke Hatton (England).

Brand new interview with James M. Jason, John Ruin and David Bosch released by Wilmar Taal himself (Rockportaal.nl – The Netherlands). The gothic trio dwells on Gothic Multimedia Project’s demanding projects and on Théatre de la Mort 08’s ambitious aims. Click here to read it!

Furthermore the Press Report section has been updated with two new reviews: check this out.

More to come in the near, darker future.

19.04.2006
It’s been a while since the last update, nevertheless Gothic Multimedia Project’s train never slackened its speed. Many things are brewing in Gothic’s dark dimension. First: the long work for the next challenging Gothic opus has been incessant since the very release of "Grim" and it’s currently proceeding well, although it’s turning out to be more and more hard and complex. The Gothic Multimedia Project will maintain a considerable reserve on this matter until we will be about to release this revolutionary multimedia opus, due not earlier than two years because of the huge and difficult work still to be done, even if many considerable results have been achieved in these two years. So keep the faith because it will be worth the wait!

In the meanwhile the G.M.P. has re-engineered the so-called “Satan’s Trilogy”, that is the first three Gothic albums: "Into the Gothic Gloom" (1989-90), "Into the Deep Tartarus" (1990) and "Into the Cave" (1991). These former demos lied in a deplorable status of utter inaccuracy but eventually, after a hard working, the resulting sound is fair or even good. Most likely, the "Anti-box Set", consisting of four cds, independent from each other still logically and chronologically connected, will be officially released next year.

While waiting for all these future Gothic works, exclusively here at Gothic Dimension, you can download three other songs from "Grim", Gothic’s last album (May 2004): "I Give Up (Defeat’s Dance)", "Between the Endless Tides" and "Noir (Czarny): Néant - Eloignement – Dévoilement – Torpeur – Effroi – Néant". Just click here and enjoy!

16.09.2005
The industrial one-man band Testing Vault (Italy) embodied by SainT dANi HA-HA-HA, alias dANi/Alvo Ov TV, has recently joined the "Théatre de la Mort 08" dark avant-garde art movement founded by James M. Jason, David Bosch and John Ruin in the late May, 2005.
The growing art and human fellowship between James M. Jason and dANi/Alvo could soon lead to some musical side collaboration, undoubtedly out of the respective main projects.

The Gothic project has officially agreed to a distribution deal with Rockdetector (United Kingdom), the Giant of the rock music databases on the net as well as the world’s biggest rock and metal website. This deal will allow Gothic to spread their "gloomy and weird art omen" throughout Europe at first, and afterwards worldwide, preserving Gothic’s full indipendence at the same time, essential to keep Gothic’s creativity and artistic identity absolutely uncontaminated by any "commercial temptation" coming from the so-called music biz.

29.05.2005
Welcome to Gothic Dimension 2.0! What’s new? First of all, more evidently, a new intro, a new layout as well as... new contents and many new ideas.

A new dark avant-garde art movement is born today: its name is “Théâtre de la Mort 08” (“Theatre of Death 08”) and it means to be also the new label of the Gothic project which will produce Gothic’s future albums.
This challenging and ghostly art movement/label founded by James M. Jason, John Ruin and David Bosch, as its name suggests, not only stands as a homage to Taudeusz Kantor (1915-1990), the late lamented Polish playwright who, better than any other artist of all times, was able to perform that comedy of Death turning out to be the dark veil under which Man looks for a shelter from the mean tragedies and the “Spleen” of life: this movement/label aims at bringing Kantor’s cultural heritage into the gloomy dimension of the contemporary multimedia avant-garde. A sparkle of genius (Kantor) as a vivid guide (Gothic) to interpret Future’s distressing signs. The darkness to survive.

You can read the “Théâtre de la Mort 08” movement’s Multimedia Manifesto written by James M. Jason, David Bosch and John Ruin, by clicking here!
This art movement is open to all interested artists and therefore anyone (single artist, band, art project and so on) who wishes to join the “Théâtre de la Mort 08” dark avant-garde art movement is welcome and can contact us by the contact-form you can find in the Contact page.

One year has passed since “Grim”, the last Gothic album, was released (May 2004)... and we guess some of you were wondering if the very essence of our work has been grasped or not... well, finally you’ll find the answer(s) to your question(s) in the Press Report page, where you can read all the reviews about “Grim” published worldwide by magazines, ezines, private individuals (critics or simply music/art lovers) from Europe, North America, Central-South America, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

Furthermore, you can see David Bosch’s new drawing in the updated Pictures page. This new drawing is a sort of partial visual anticipation of Gothic’s new art style and so... dig it!

25.04.2005
James M. Jason, John Ruin and David Bosch are going to launch that polymorphous entity which will be both Gothic's new label and a new artistic movement in the dark avant-garde multimedia field as well. The manifesto of this new, dusky and weird artistic entity is due to be officially published on Gothic Dimension next May 29th 2005, date when Gothic's new website, Gothic Dimension 2.0, will be launched at this same web-address. The new website will feature all the reviews about "Grim" published by mags and ezines worldwide until then, after 1 year has passed since Grim was officially released (05.29.2004).

Furthermore John Ruin and James M. Jason are currently re-engineering Gothic's past releases, from "Into the Gothic Gloom" (1989) to "Fleeing the Rainland" (2000) in order to release a sort of "Anti-Box Set" comprising 4 CD's which will be available only singly as well as in a limited edition, as a special gift to all Gothic fans worldwide.

More details later, so stay tuned! New, colder winds of suicide are coming...

15.02.2005
James Jason has been very recently subjected to a very sharp and original interview by Jussi of Nocturnal Hall (Germany-Austria). Click here to read it (only in English)!

Gothic have been fully included in Rockdetector’s famous bands database, the world’s biggest Rock Web Encyclopaedia. Check this out!

22.12.2004
New, deep interview, more focused on figurative arts, with James Jason, John Ruin and David Bosch by dANi/Alvo, NixZine (Italy). Click here to read it (only in Italian)!

As promised, here you can download the “Forlorn Radio Edit Version” broadcasted by Zaanradio (The Netherlands) on October 28, courtesy of Wilmar Taal, Triplesix ambient metal band’s leader (http://www.triplesix-rock.nl).

02.11.2004
Three new interviews (and much more)!
The first, mammoth one with James Jason by Julie Johnson, Grave Concerns Ezine (Albany, USA). Click here to read it (only in English).
The second one with James Jason only again by RaVeN.Moudjahid, MarockMAG (Morocco), where Gothic’s main member dwells upon the utterly sombre and disquieting essence of the Gothic project. Click here to read it (only in French).
In the third interview, carried by Giorgio Fogliata, Silent Scream Webzine (Italy) with James Jason, John Ruin and David Bosch, Gothic’s three lost souls explain the bold choice to be an "unsigned" and "UNeasy-listening" multimedia project. Click here to read it (only in Italian).

Some Gothic songs were, among others, the "soundtrack" of the Halloween Party promoted by "Shout! Magazine" in Moscow, Russia, while "Forlorn" was broadcasted by some local radio stations in The Netherlands, Morocco, Switzerland, Australia and New Zealand.
On October 28, particularly, "Forlorn" (Radio Edit Version) was broadcasted by Zaanradio (The Netherlands), by the courtesy of Wilmar Taal, Triplesix ambient metal band’s leader (you can visit Triplesix’ website at http://www.triplesix-rock.nl ) while about 10.000 people were tuned in!
In the next updates, you’ll be able to listen to the "Forlorn Radio Edit Version" broadcasted by Zaanradio here at Gothic Dimension.
"Forlorn" (Radio Edit Version) is currently played by Radio Marock (Morocco) on Friday from 20h until 23h GMT and on Sunday from 20h until 23h GMT: so everyone interested in hearing that can connect to http://radio-marockmag.no-ip.info/listen.pls.

31.08.2004
New interview with James Jason released by Beautevil (Gothtronic – The Netherlands). Gothic’s main member explains the meaning of “Gothic”, talking about the deep reasons of the radical musical/artistic change of style showed by “Grim” as well as about many other subjects... Click here to read it [English language].

30.07.2004
In the recent interview released by Gerard Bumanglag (Goth in Asia – Philippines), James Jason outlines past, present and future of the Gothic project, while John Ruin and David Bosch reveal something about their inner worlds. Click here to read it [English language]!

Barren Moors has been feautured in the “DJ Runeschadow's electronic playlist for July” (Goth in Asia) and some other tracks from “Grim” are currently broadcasted here and there in some countries all over the world, from Europe to Oceania.

Moreover, Gothic have been included in Metal Mania’s famous archives: check this out!

In the meanwhile, half the world is being shocked by the utterly avant-garde and gloomy elements of “Grim”... Is the world bold enough to grasp Gothic’s essence?
The answer will be given soon... so, stay tuned!

14.07.2004
Exclusively here at Gothic Dimension, you can download "Forlorn" and "Victim of Distress", two of the most representative black jewels featured in Grim, simply by clicking here. Enjoy!

12.06.2004
The "Forlorn Video", one of the darkest video in music's history, is now available for free here at GothicDimension! You can download it by clicking here. Check this out!
Not recommended to whom is too sensitive...

You can read Grim’s poetries in the lyrics page and you can have a look at Grim’s pictures in the pictures page.

29.05.2004
At last, Grim, the eleventh Gothic work, has been officially released!

Grim is really more than an evil crossover of darkwave, avant-garde, electro-goth, IDM, industrial and post-metal: it’s a complex multimedia work featuring ultra-dismal and queer music, poetries, pictures and video.

It has been delivered in every continent:
Europe (Italy, United Kingdom, Norway, Sweden, Finland, The Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia, Poland, Russia, Ukraine, Serbia & Montenegro, Macedonia and Greece), North America (USA and Canada), Central America (Mexico), South America (Brazil and Peru), Africa (Morocco and South Africa), Asia (Israel and Philippines) and Oceania (Australia and New Zealand).

15.05.2004
Welcome to the new Gothic website, oh you darkest minds of the web!

Four years after Fleeing the Rainland (October 2000), the new Gothic album will be finally out within a few days.

The title of this Gothic’s eleventh release is Grim...
Like Fleeing the Rainland, it’s a double-CD.
Unlike Fleeing the Rainland, it’s a self-release, the first one in Gothic’s history, after ten demos.

That’s the tracklist:

ACT I

1) In Wickedness
2) Forlorn
3) I give up (defeat’s dance)
4) Wintered Wings
5) Splinters Inside

Ghost track: Feed my frenzy

ACT II

1) Lurking Limbo
2) Between the Endless Tides
3) Integrationsstatus: Negativ (!?!) - beginne-entpersonalisierungsprozess einleiten (a) oder [dein] system anhalten (b) ??? [Die Entscheidung liegt bei Uns, danke]
4) Down in your Shrine
5) Noir (Czarny): Néant - Eloignement - Dévoilement - Torpeur - Effroi - Néant
6) Barren Moors
7) ... poiché... la Morte è sulle colline
8) Victim of Distress

Ghost track: Am I?

You’ll have more details very soon...