The months leading up to Depeche Mode's seventh album were marked by a growing interest from outside the core goth audience that had been loyal to the English synth-pop band since a string of mid-'80s ...

The post How Depeche Mode’s Violator Turned a Joke Into a Prophecy appeared first on Consequence of Sound. When Depeche Mode decided to title their sixth album Music for the Masses, it was meant to be ...

Michael Christopher's upcoming book Depeche Mode: All That's Left to Know About the World's Finest Synth-Pop Band digs into the history of Depeche Mode and their rise from New Wave outliers to kings ...

Ben Kaplan of dark synth-pop band NoNight told us about his love for a bonafide classic from some likeminded souls. The title really says it all for me. This is a record that oozes sexuality and ...

Twenty-four years ago this week, on March 19, 1990, British synth-pop titans Depeche Mode released the most successful and acclaimed album of their career: Violator. Depeche Mode had been scoring Top ...

In the latest episode of The Vinyl Vault, Ozarks First's Parker Padgett and Tony Nguyen discuss Depeche Mode's 1990 album "Violator". The album, which features singles such as "Personal Jesus", ...

The last time Depeche Mode came to the US they caused a riot. A real riot—bottles thrown, windows shaken, lots of pressing, pushing and punching. Some 20,000 fans, many of them teenaged girls, had ...

Some songs take a while to find their perfect form. In the case of “Enjoy the Silence,” one of the major hits from Depeche Mode‘s standout 1990 album Violator, it transformed from a quiet piece into a ...

Depeche Mode’s 1990 album “Violator” was the band’s first to chart in the top 10 of the Billboard 200, and featured singles such as “Personal Jesus”, ...