In 2022 Thorsten Sudler-Mainz made the decision to produce a dark wave album and take over the lead vocals. The collaboration from 2020 with old friend and guitarist Achim von Raesfeld was successfully continued. Since then, he has performed on all tracks and in the videos, while Ann Kareen Mainz sings backing vocals. 2023 saw the release of perhaps the most successful and authentic album "The Children of the Moon", for which a total of four video clips were released. At the release party, DEEP IMAGINATION presented parts of the album live in front of enthusiastic friends, which is to be continued. New material including a video clip will be released in 2024 with "Realm of the Raven" (release date: 27.09.2024).

When the two old friends make music together again in 2020 after more than 30 years, it rekindles an old fire. Thorsten Sudler-Mainz decides to produce an atmospheric dark wave gothic album. Achim von Raesfeld acts on the guitar and fits into the arrangements as a natural musical partner. The joint guitar playing of the two is merged again, as are the passionate vocals of Thorsten Sudler-Mainz and his partner Ann Kareen Mainz.

The dark romantic songs on "The Children Of The Moon" form a genre album of the New Dark Wave. It seems as if everything is there, but nothing is too much on this authentic work. (BSC Music/Prudence)

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"This album is like a black diamond throwing off improbable flashes of Selenite light. A great success to be savoured without moderation." (Prog Censor)

"Dark Wave kisses Goth Ambient... In the course of the album, sound-painting wide canyons full of fantasy, subtlety and dreams open up.... "The Children of the Moon" is a true caress for the ears and soul". (Orkus Music Magazine)

"One has taken the path to New Dark Wave even more clearly.... "Catching the Shadow" brings back memories of The Mission, Killing Joke or even darker gothic rock of the 80s... "Beyond the Rising Sun" is again a very maelstrom-like midnight seance... Hypnotic incantations.(Eclipsed Rock Magazin)

"Dark wave and gothic wistfulness and positive melancholy has a new name: DEEP IMAGINATION." (Saitenkult.de)

"Deep Imagination's "The Children Of The Moon" is great dark wave cinema." (Rocktimes.info)

"DEEP IMAGINATION sets his own mark of atmospheric darkwave." (Terrarelicta)

"On the sixth album of his solo project Deep Imagination, Thorsten Sudler-Mainz has managed to perfectly combine dark wave, gothic and ambient electronic music with western sound and also psychedelic rock." (Musikzirkus Magazin)

"An atmospheric variation of gothic rock with plenty of ambient elements ..." (The Viking in the Wilderness)

"The step to the very greats of the genre is not far or even already taken." (Northern Art Music)

"It's like going back to the days of the British alternative scene and the so-called Batcave scene in London! This deep and dark rock could well serve as meditation, as philosophical or metaphysical music." (Music in Belgium)

"In fact, deep, dark and almost dank as they are, “The Magic Moon” and the aforementioned “The Silence Of Winterland” really do plant themselves in the mind and become unexpected sing alongs in their own enigmatic fashion." (Sea of Tranquility)

"German artist Thorsten Sudler-Mainz strikes back with the sixth full length album of Deep Imagination." (Side-Line Reviews)

"Between The Cure, The Chameleons and Cocteau Twins Deep Imagination once again reactivate the dark colored eighties." (Betreutes Proggen)

"Also sonically, the new CD is once again a feast for the ears.... "The Children of the Moon" is a fine atmospheric release that creates a symbiosis of ambient and darkwave." (Empire Music Magazine)