Shawn C. Baker

I originally set out looking for a video of "Lord of This World" from the 70s, but only found video of Sabbath performing it duri...

I had zero idea such a thing as this existed until a few minutes ago. I can tell by the set that this is during Dave's CBS years, of w...

NOTE: There was originally a stream version of this posted to YouTube, but a copyright claim by Mercury Records ultimately resulted in its r...

  Discovered this randomly yesterday. Badass - to hear Layne do Ozzy's introductory, "All right now!" just puts a Horror-movie...

'Nuff said.   NCBD: I've spent a bunch of time tightening up my Pull list for the coming months, and I'm happy to ...

I know it's summer now, as one of the rituals that eased in last year during my first full summer in Tennessee was Black Sabbath's...

  One of the best covers I know and perfect for this rainy lead-up to Halloween. 31 Days of Halloween: 1) When Evil Lurks/VHS 85/Ada...

  From 1973's Master of Reality , a perfect record. I leaned heavily into this one last weekend while in Chicago, so when I walked into ...

Just because it fucking rules!!! Watch: Andrei Tarkovsky has only ever barely been on my peripheral, but thanks to Criterion C...

  Quite possibly, my favorite Black Sabbath song. Although that is probably as difficult to stick by as a mother picking a favorite child. ...

For my fellow Sabbath Lads. Ozzy has never sounded so serene. Watch: The season opener of John Favre's The Mandalorian...

Last Friday, seminal LA punk rock group X released their first album with the all-original line-up in, well, I don't really know ...

Despite the holes in my memory that surround my viewing of Andy Muschietti's first chapter of IT,  I'm excited as hell for the seq...

If you read the notes available in the description panel for this on youtube (or just go HERE and read it in full), the ideology, methodo...

With Al Cisneros from Shrinebuilder/Sleep! I talked a bit previously about my friend John being in town. This is John of Jonathan Grimm ...

No music in my head this morning and I'm enjoying the quiet by sprinting through a couple chapters from this very enjoyable romp through...

3:20 AM Thursday, May 18, 2017: I wake up sweating as the last of this damnable sickness that has stopped up K and my lives for the last wee...

Coming back home to my native environment in the Midwest during August is a toss up, however it's one that's worked pretty much t...