{"id":16005,"date":"2025-09-12T15:31:58","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16005"},"modified":"2025-09-12T15:32:00","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T20:32:00","slug":"religion-of-heartbreak-reflects-on-nightclub-life-with-lunate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16005","title":{"rendered":"RELIGION OF HEARTBREAK\u00a0Reflects On Nightclub Life With\u00a0Lunate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RELIGION-OF-HEARTBREAK-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-16006\" style=\"width:773px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RELIGION-OF-HEARTBREAK-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RELIGION-OF-HEARTBREAK-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RELIGION-OF-HEARTBREAK-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RELIGION-OF-HEARTBREAK.jpg 1244w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&nbsp;<\/strong>Darkwave band,<strong>&nbsp;RELIGION OF HEARTBREAK<\/strong>&nbsp;delivers&nbsp;<strong><em>Lunate<\/em><\/strong>, a four-track EP blending detached romanticism with pounding EBM rhythms.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mikal Shapiro and Dedric Moore perfect their dark disco formula across tracks like &#8220;Love Tourniquet&#8221; and &#8220;100 Degrees,&#8221; creating ideal soundtracks for fog-drenched nightclubs. Desire becomes ritual and heartbreak transforms into dancefloor salvation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The EP moves from intense desire to late night reflections replicating a night on the town filled with highs and lows and back. It is an honest look at the thrill of our night club experiences that end in reflection of what could have been.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"nv-iframe-embed\"><iframe title=\"Religion of Heartbreak - Lunate visualizer\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aauw9vZV96A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Stream &amp; Support RELIGION OF HEARTBREAK:<\/strong><br>https:\/\/religionofheartbreak.bandcamp.com\/album\/lunate<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>RELIGION OF HEARTBREAK<\/strong>\u00a0formed out of a desire to make music with a darker dance floor focus. The combination of Mikal Shapiro\u2019s vocals battling against Dedric\u2019s icy synths, mechanized beats and dub-inflected electro-bass creates a juxtaposition that works in all the right ways.<br>\u00a0<br><strong>RELIGION OF HEARTBREAK<\/strong>\u00a0delves into the sounds of Darkwave, EBM, and the darker side of Synth Pop. The grooves are there. The songs are clever, and always filled with a sense of lost love as we follow our dark hearts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;Darkwave band,&nbsp;RELIGION OF HEARTBREAK&nbsp;delivers&nbsp;Lunate, a four-track EP blending detached romanticism with pounding EBM rhythms. Mikal Shapiro and Dedric Moore perfect their dark disco formula across tracks like &#8220;Love Tourniquet&#8221; and &#8220;100 Degrees,&#8221; creating ideal soundtracks for fog-drenched nightclubs. Desire becomes ritual and heartbreak transforms into dancefloor salvation. The EP moves from intense desire to late&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/?p=16005\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">RELIGION OF HEARTBREAK\u00a0Reflects On Nightclub Life With\u00a0Lunate<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16006,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16005"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16007,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16005\/revisions\/16007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mkultramagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}