Friday, November 7, 2025

 

Daniel Ash's new project, Ashes and Diamonds, harkens back to his Coming Down and Foolish Thing Called Desire albums from the early 90s, only overlaid with new elements that really make this record shine. Ash has brought along Bruce Smith (Public Image Ltd/The Pop Group) and Paul Spencer Denman (Sade/Sweetback) for the ride, and the three hit on all cylinders. A great listen from start to finish, Are Forever is available from Cleopatra Records. You can order the album HERE

Coming out of October and the customary Bauhaus, Tones on Tail jag that always ensures, it feels great to have a new Ash project to get to know. 



Read:

I am proud to finally announce that my new novel, Black Gloves & Broken Hearts, is now on sale at Barnes and Noble, Indiebound, Bezos Utani, or anywhere else you buy your books. 


Here's my solicitation blurb, which really tells you all you need to know:

"When incoming High School Senior Lisa McCready's boyfriend and classmates are brutally murdered at a party in the woods, the quiet suburban community of Sundown Hills transforms into a paranoid nightmare. Betrayal, corruption and dark family secrets push Lisa dead center into a burgeoning class war, where rival millionaires plot to steer the town's future between reliance on big oil and the incoming age of legalized weed, electric cars and social conscience. As she struggles for answers, the killings continue and Lisa finds the world she knew is little more than a lie to placate the masses and keep a Satanic 1% in power."

I'm super proud of this one. Previously, I'd have told you Murder Virus was the best thing I'd ever written. This takes that crown and runs with it.



Watch:

limage/textsdd I was originally going to post about Predator: Badlands, however, I'd rather talk about something that inspired excitement as opposed to disdain. Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are back with a new film and it looks INSANE. Of course it does - that's what they do!


Coming December 5th to Shudder. This just looks like Mario Bava on ten gallons of LSD. 



Playlist:

Cristobal Tapia De Veer - Smile OST
Secret Chiefs 2 Traditionalists - La Mani Destre Recise Degli Ultimi Uomimi
Ritual Howls - Their Body E.P.
Ashes and Diamonds - Are Forever
Slow Crush - Aurora
The Damned - A Night of a Thousand Vampires
The Damned - Fiendish Shadows
Perturbator - Age of Aquarius
Sharon Tandy - The Best of Sharon Tandy
lords. - bleeding out (single)
Hangman's Chair - Saddiction




Card:

From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.


• Page of Swords
• Five of Cups
• Three of Cups

Disappointment leads to impetuousness. To find out way back to Harmony, I drew a fourth card and was told to take a journey. Anyone know where I can get some mushrooms?

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