It hit me today (writing this on Sunday) that Ritual Howls' Into the Water will be ten years old next year. That, in retrospect, made me reflect on how it's now been a decade since everything in my life got rewritten for the better. Not many folks get to start over again and improve their existence exponentially. I did, and these guys were one of the first bands I found waking up in that new life, this record in particular. So it will always be special.
Listening to this, the closing track, in the early night, winding home on the country road that takes me out of Clarksville proper where I sometimes write and into the unincorporated area where we live looked very much like this video. It was just kind of a perfect moment for October.
Oh yeah, Ritual Howls have a new album dropping on Halloween this year. You can hear the singles and pre-order the Neon Green Vinyl over on their Bandcamp HERE.
31 Days of Halloween:
1) Incident On and Off a Mountain Road///The Funhouse
2) Tales From the Crypt Ssn 1 Ep 4, "Dig That Cat... He's Real Gone"///Cabin in the Woods
3) Satanic Hispanics
4) Creature From the Black Lagoon 3D///May
5) The Strangers
6) [REC]
7) The Autopsy - GDT Cabinet of Curiosities///[REC]2
8) Where the Devil Roams
9) The Roost
10) Good Boy/The Viewing - GDT Cabinet of Curiosities
11) Blood Moon (aka Wolf Girl)/All Hallows' Eve (The Last Drive-In Helloween)
12) The Shining/The Simpsons Ssn 6 Treehouse of Horror V
Playlist:
Slaughterhouse - Sick and Tired EP
Gylt - I Will Commit A Holy Crime Tandem
Perturbator - Age of Aquarius
Perturbator - I Am the Night
Deftones - private music
White Lung - Eponymous
White Lung - Sorry
Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven
Mark Ronson and RAYE - Suzanne (single)
RAYE - My 21st Century Blues
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Ministry - Psalm 69
Ritual Howls - Into the Water
Ritual Howls - Ruin (pre-release singles)
Card:
From Jonathan Grimm's Hand of Doom Tarot, which you can buy HERE.
And Grimm's Kickstarter for The Eldritch Lace Tarot deck is now live! You can go check it out and support it HERE.
• Page of Wands
• IV: The Emperor
• XXI: The World
Completion. To get there, though, I need the person holding the 'keys' to have an epiphany. Or maybe I'm the person holding the keys? If that's the case, I had the epiphany today. This is all vague, but I'll just say, working really hard on getting Black Gloves & Broken Hearts published by the end of the month. One big roadblock, and it's not me, it's the Emperor.
