Taking the Devil’s Part: Venom, Cronos, and the Language of Black Metal
Black Sabbath ran from the Devil. Cronos wanted to be him. On the Venom frontman, who died on October 1 at 63,...
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After the Misfits: Samhain’s Long Halloween
During his final year with New Jersey punk band the Misfits, singer and songwriter Glenn Danzig began Samhain. Their brief career reveals how he changed the music beneath his horror stories, and why these...
Glenn Danzig performing with Samhain at Riot Fest, 2014. Photo: Randy Blythe.
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At thirty, Type O Negative’s October Rust brings its forest fantasies back to a family dining room. The Green Man, an imagined priestess, and a disappointed invocation of Bacchus reveal...
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Hot and Hotter: Methuselian at Tmuna Theatre, Tel Aviv, July 31, 2026
At Tmuna Theatre, Methuselian turned stoner doom, throat singing, guest instruments, crowd surfing, and Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Holy Mountain into the same...
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The Yorkshire Gothic: Paradise Lost’s Gothic at Thirty-Five
Paradise Lost's Gothic turned 35 in 2026. The anniversary edition clarifies its documented origins in death-doom, Sisters of Mercy, Celtic Frost, Ken Russell,...
Through the GlassWhat the Flesh Remembers: The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Robert Wiene’s The Hands of Orlac (1924) turns a pianist’s hand transplant into a crisis of agency. Read beside postwar reconstructive surgery, Freud’s...
Doom CinemaReaching Into the Void: An Interview with Requiem in White
Requiem in White named themselves after the Catholic Mass for the Dead, played the New York underground in a former Episcopal church on...
InterviewReview: Litúrgia – I (2026)
Barcelona's Litúrgia turn Catalan legends, pilgrimage routes, Romanesque church imagery, and the Catalan language itself into the material of their debut album I....
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