Warning: The following interview contains graphic content. Frantic Amber are some of Stockholm, Sweden’s loudest ladies. Stomping their leathered boots in defiled soil since 2008. Three records in, they’re solidifying themselves as a true bludgeoning force to behold, leaving European audiences with ringing ears and bruised bodies. Though, a little pain and bruises never […]
A Child In Berlin tells the story of Heidi Posnien, a young lady that spent her childhood in WWII Berlin. Told in Heidi’s words during numerous audio interviews with biographer Rhonda Lauritzen. Through strong recollection the book is hard hitting, crushingly emotional, filled with pain, guilt, shame and often sinister and brutal but also stocked […]
A new, dark gospel has come from the nether regions of Finland, namely hell-raising Helsinki. The five-man cemetery plotted jam known as The 69 Eyes, have brought forth a new vision of gothic vibes, dark tales of human sickness and twisted psyche’s and inspiration from the bright lights of Hollywood and the Sunset Strip. A […]
The Wizard of Oz will stand as one of the greatest, beloved, and most iconic movies ever made. A movie watched by millions, loved by all ages and a necessary staple for all childhood and personal cinema histories. Telling one of the greatest, most beloved stories ever told on camera. A fantasy based battle of […]
Diane Franklin is known as a ‘80s scream queen, seductress, foreign exchange student, punker, and bodacious princess with a career spanning to current day. With her recent flick, she dives into the world of independent noir with the trippy, weird, stream of true crime consciousness Waking Nightmare. Waking Nightmare can be described as a half […]
Voraath (Vore-ath) could be considered, thinking man’s extreme metal incorporating long, strong detailed storylines involving humans, entities, deity’s and inter-dimensional creatures and beings. It’s as hardcore and mosh pit ready as death metal can be, if you can imagine a circle pit or wall of death on the Enterprise in Ten Forward. The new North […]
The following interview was conducted backstage Friday, May 12 at Legends Bar & Venue in Cincinnati with co-interviewer Jacqueline Perrin. Staying power for any band is important. It’s a historical statement showing drive, desire, determination and heart. The glue for Canadian veterans Anvil has always been passion. Passion for making heavy music and that’s what’s […]
The dark, ambient artist known as Julius Mitė has spent years creating some of the most unique and unsettling sounds accompanied by nature’s visual anatomy making sounds that might seem wrong in nature’s natural setting and audio pictorials that would make Bob Ross back away from the canvas. Vėlių Namai is the name of Mitės creation. […]
From humble South American beginnings in Chile to the great white north of Calgary Alberta Laura Vargas, AKA The Inferno Doll has repackaged and remade herself from her late teen early hardcore punk days and singing early Nightwish tunes to performing in crumbling ruins and creating a later alter-ego. After punk came symphonic metal, singing […]
Sin Quirin brings a multi-band, 20+ year resume to the table of any project he works on or stage he stands on. With names like Ministry, KMFDM, Revolting Cocks and Lords of Acid to name a few, he’s got more than a metal pedigree, it’s a dark, demented carnival ride of perpetual, heavy movement. From […]
The lunatics will once again run the Asylum, symbolically on Saturday, November 26 with just enough time for the turkey tryptophan to wear off and chaos from the blackest of Friday’s to be in the retail rearview and on YouTube. Downtown Dayton was once a multi-venue metropolis for the black clad /leathered outsider, metalhead, rebel, […]
The following interview was conducted backstage at Riverfront Live, Cincinnati, Ohio on 9-14 with assistance from guest contributor Jacqueline Perrin. Wednesday 13 is known for their ghoulish and grandiose songs, stage performances and overall, extreme zest for the dead, afterlife. Front man Wednesday has led the graveyard charge forward for two decades leaving a crypt […]
You could call them hells guitar chord choir, an unholy evolution evoking incantations and lyrical hymns or a five-way unholy resurrection with Denmark’s death metal necro-newcomers Defacing God at the helm. Led by the wicked hand of vocalist/lyricist and creative director Sandie Gjørtz, Her defiant desires and macabre mantras paint a burning portrait of Lilith […]
Formed in 1990, the Brazilian brothers of Krisiun have released 11 records in their blistering history, turning to 12, July 29th with the next savage offering, looming brighter than a thousand suns Mortem Solis. The three brothers from Sepultura country, specifically Rio Grande do Sul, have assembled another blunt, battering ram set of blistering audio […]
Any movie or horror fan in recent years knows the name Amityville. Depending on age, the very name conjures anything from eye-like windows, scary pigs to possessions, mirrors and murder. It’s probably the longest running move-franchise ever, challenging even 007 for sequel supremacy. That is if ‘every’ movie bearing the name is counted, and that’s […]