So … I haven’t done one of these in ages. Cthulhu’s Closet is a “what I wore” alt. fashion column, since I am still a girl and have a thing about clothes. These photos were taken awhile ago, when I got my first shipment of corpsepaint kitty tees. If you haven’t heard of corpsepaint kitty, [...]
“Illumination through Satanic Gnosticism!” proclaims Ptahil’s marketing material. “Lyrically manuscripted from Satanic introspection and musically composed from dissonant flagellation.” I cannot make this stuff up. Described as Satanic black/punk/doom, Ptahil seem to have way too many “slashes” through their genre to be any good. (It’s usually my experience that the number of descriptive genre words [...]
I had an article all planned for today, but then a friend at work introduced me to Wardruna, and I cannot get the music out of my head. You could describe Wardruna as “Viking elevator music”, if you weren’t fussed about your head remaining attached to your body. Wardruna is a musical project from Kvitrafn [...]
I was going to do a Linking Horn today, but this article from the NZ Herald came across my desk today, and I thought I’d comment on it. For folk outside of New Zealand and Australia unfamiliar with the term “bogan”, it means different things in both countries. As I understand it, in Australia it [...]
Remember the other week I mentioned that I’m a judge in this years “Keep it Live and Loud” competition, run by Blackout – The Flat FM. Well, the entries have been received, and here’s the list of semi-finalists culled from over 200 entries nationwide. It’s up to YOU to vote for the top 5 bands to [...]
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