Writer of the weird and macabre; columnist for The Intestinal Fortitude; film and music critic and historian/buff; musician; visual artist; photographer; bibliophile/book collector; student of the bizarre, the occult, cryptozoology (and related topics); liver of life and the necessity of experience; loather of ignorance; seeker of knowledge; believer that we need to work together to achieve our common goals.
Oh what did I accidentally stumble upon here? Before I even go into this review, I have to say that this album is absolutely amazing, and I say that with no exaggeration. Certainly as of late, I know read more...
WATAIN’S TRIDENT. WOLF. ECLIPSE is the first release of 2018, and the band’s first since 2013’s THE WILD HUNT *(and the subsequent suicide of guitarist/songwriter SELIM LEMOUCHI, a very read more...
A quick one, something I just came across while checking out SLIMY MEMBER the other night. Interestingly enough they’re from that wretched redbrick wasteland I often call home, Philadelphia. That, read more...
This is something that was passed onto me from an a friend online. Good thing, too, as I need stuff to review. I’d heard of the act before, and instantly recognized the SLIMY MEMBER moniker as read more...
OLD FEZZIWIG came to haunt me Christmas Eve! It sounds like the ravings of a lunatic, but it’s quite true. Not the lunatic part *(well, maybe that too). Let me explain. Amidst all the read more...
Every once in awhile, very infrequently, I come across something *(or it comes across me) so astonishingly unique, so completely original, that it actually takes me aback in the best possible of read more...
HELLRIPPER is a one-man old school blackened-thrash project from Aberdeen, Scotland. Now before I continue, this was something that was sent to me back in I think August, when I was in the middle of read more...
So I awake this morning, have my cigarette, and while checking my phone notice that the ANDROID VIRUS had texted me, bright and early. I open the text to find a picture of a band, being read more...
PART I: Conspiracy Theory, Flat Earths & Related Rhetoric I’ve always been a fan of what’s called Conspiracy Theory, from my earliest years before I was even aware there was a term for read more...
Before I continue further, some of you may be wondering Where the fukk did you go? Well, it’s been an odd year full of incredibly tumultuous ups and downs, and on top of burning the candle at both read more...