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 ...

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 ...

Depeche Mode has always been there when I needed them. When I had a lonely and uncomfortable transition to high school, I sought comfort in the song "Policy of Truth." Five years later, I was ...

The band rose to the occasion with their best work at a time when the public was most prepared to hear it. For those who think that the electronics-driven British artists of the 80s and 90s were more ...

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 ...

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", ...

When Depeche Mode titled their 1990 album Violator, it was supposed to be taken ironically. The previous year had seen smarmy hair-mongers like Bon Jovi, Bad English and Poison scoring Number Ones ...

When the band wasn’t in Milan, they recorded in New York, London and Gjerlev, Denmark, with co-producer Flood. “When we were in Denmark, it was kind of in the middle of nowhere,” Gore says. “The ...

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”, ...