Category: The Locked Tomb

• One Flesh, One End is now released!

  “One Flesh, One End” is an album that took thirty months to finish. It’s an album about a girl who loves bones, who loves another girl who IS bones, who is loved by another girl who has a thing for two handed greatswords. This is gothic necromance about friendship bracelets, cows watching sunsets (man), mustache…

  Nikoletta Winters

  April 30, 2025

  Gothic Metal, Gothwave, Music, The Locked Tomb, Visual Kei

  EDM, Gothic Rock, Gothwave, Lacrimorta, Metal, Nikoletta Winters, Trance, Visual Kei

• It is Done

  

  In March, I gave myself a hard deadline of May 1st to get the new album complete. Today, I am happy to report that by implementing a hard deadline for the album it helped me to finally cross the finish line. I started writing this in October 2022 shortly after the release of Lacrimorta’s self-titled…

  Nikoletta Winters

  April 27, 2025

  Gothic Metal, Gothwave, Music, The Locked Tomb, Visual Kei

  Gothic Metal, Gothic Rock, Gothwave, Lacrimorta, Music, Nikoletta Winters, Soup

• Pain

  One of the most painful parts of creating a new album is post-production. The creativity shifts to another mode which can be fun, but also feels extremely tedious in practice. My ears become my worst enemy in so many ways as the physical fatigue of listening over and over again begins to take hold. This…

  Nikoletta Winters

  March 17, 2025

  Gothic Metal, Gothwave, Music, The Locked Tomb

  Gothic, Gothic Metal, Gothic Rock, Gothwave, Lacrimorta, Nikoletta Winters

• Immanence, an Update on the New Album

  

  2024 was one of the most challenging years for me physically, geographically, and creatively. Moving to the other side of the planet is, in so many words, NOT something I want to do again soon. It takes a tremendous amount of emotional energy to completely upend every aspect of your life and move so very…

  Nikoletta Winters

  March 10, 2025

  Gothic Metal, Gothwave, Music, The Locked Tomb

  Gothic, Gothic Metal, Gothic Rock, Gothwave, Lacrimorta, Music, new-music, Nikoletta Winters, rock

• Studio Report 4

  

  I got another track in the bag today. I have seven tracks completed for the next LP. The music can be best described as uplifting, energetic, electronic, and different than my previous output. There are two metal tracks on the album but they may get dancified. We’ll see. From a sonic point of view this…

  Nikoletta Winters

  January 31, 2024

  Gothic Metal, Gothwave, Music, The Locked Tomb, Visual Kei

  Gothic, Gothic Lolita, Gothic Metal, Gothic Rock, Gothwave, Hyperpop, Lacrimorta, Malice Mizer, Nikoletta Winters, Ninth House, Synthwave, Trance, Vaporwave, Visual Kei

• Studio Journal II and the Crush of Change

  

  みなさん こんにちわ! I want to start posting here more regularly about the stuff happening on my end. Truthfully, life has been a crush lately but I am managing after a flurry of unexpected change. I left a snake cult, I moved our large apartment in the city by myself, and I am moving out of…

  Nikoletta Winters

  January 26, 2024

  Gothic Metal, Gothwave, Malazan, Music, The Locked Tomb, Visual Kei

  Gothwave, Lacrimorta, Malazan, Malice Mizer, Nikoletta Winters, Ninth House, Visual Kei