New Music From Idles!!!

 

From the forthcoming record Tangk, out February 10th on Partisan Records. Pre-order HERE.

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True Detective Night Country episode one aired this past Sunday. I have high hopes for this season; Writer/Director Issa López is helming all six episodes, and I have the utmost faith in her. Tigers Are Not Afraid definitely employs the kind of dark, magical realism that could really help TD hit the high notes Season One and Season Three do. 

That said, I do not have a lot of faith in what I can only imagine is the HBO/True Detective Editorial Bullpen, so to speak. Season Three really floored me until the resolution, which absolutely robs that season's story of its magic. I'm hoping they don't do the same thing with this new season; however, after watching the first episode, I'm also hoping they don't overdo the extra-sensory stuff. We'll see. My Horror Vision cohost, Missi, and I are doing a weekly recap; I'll update this later today when it's posted. 

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Playlist:

David Bowie - Low

Various - Lost Highway OST

Frankie and the Witch Fingers - Data Doom

The Damned - Evil Spirits

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Dig, Lazarus, Dig!!!

Arab Strap - The Week Never Starts Around Here (Disk 2)

Arab Strap - The Red Thread

Malcolm Middleton - A Brighter Beat

Gnarls Barkley - St. Elsewhere

Arab Strap - As Days Get Dark

David Bowie - Buddha of Suburbia

Marilyn Manson - We Are Chaos

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

• Page of Cups

• Six of Cups

• I: The Magician

Emotional Earthly concerns reach a culmination through Will. That's a pretty crappy, surface-level reading, but it's all I have time for this morning. Working on-site is kicking my arse!!!

New Music from Idles!!!

 

From the forthcoming album TANGK, available February 16th on Partisan Records. Pre-order HERE. 

I really dig both this track and this video, which is a rarity all around. Idles has such a fantastic way of revving up the chaos but somehow keeping it streamlined and a touch poppy. 

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31 Days of Halloween:

1) When Evil Lurks/VHS 85/Adam Chaplin

2) Tales From the Crypt Ssn 1, Ep 6 "Collection Complete"

3) VHS

4) All You Need is Death

5) Slashers (2001)

6) The Beyond/Phenomena

7) The Convent

8) Evil Dead 2

9) The Autopsy of Jane Doe

10) Totally Killer

11) Ritual (Joko Anwar)/The Final Terror/Grave Robbers

12) Halloween 4: The Return of Michael Myers (w/Joe Bob)

13) Never Hike Alone/Never Hike in the Snow/Never Hike Alone 2

14) Puppetman

15) Creepshow Season 4 Episode 1

16) Return of the Living Dead

17) Don't Look Now

18) When Evil Lurks

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A trailer finally dropped for William Brent Bell's new film, Lord of Misrule. Check it out:  

I can't say I've seen Mr. Bell's other films - not out of any kind of boycott, more just a lackadaisical oversight - but when I saw this mentioned as a Folk Horror film a few months ago, I made a mental note to be on the lookout for more information. I watched about half the trailer, and I'm in, so the release date of December 8th can't come fast enough.

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Playlist:

The Damned - Evil Spirits

The Cramps - RockinnReelinInAucklandNewZealandXXX

The Misfits - Collection II

King Woman - Celestial Blues

My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult - Confessions of a Knife

Adam Egypt Mortimer - The Obelisk

Soul Blind - Feel It All Around

Bauhaus - Burning From the Inside

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Back to the old trusty Thoth deck for today's Pull:

Absolutely no time this morning to decipher this, so I'm merely posting for posterity's sake, but from a glance, looks to be another "lust of result will fuck you up" Pull.

Never Fight A Man With A Perm

 

Words of wisdom Lloyd. Words. Of. Wisdom.

I discovered Idles two days ago completely by accident. I think. Since setting up a work-from-home office in our new house, I've been using Spotify more than I ever have. I'll always prefer Apple Music for most things, but there's some great stuff about their competition, too, one of which is how bands will just show up in your 'feed' based on their algorithm. I know a lot of folks hate that word and practice, however, I have found that, while I would never want to solely rely on an AI to find me music, they sometimes come up with some good stuff I had otherwise missed.

 
Case in point, Idles appeared on my landing page yesterday and I have no idea why. But upon hearing "Never Fight a Man With a Perm" for the first time, I was in love. The album that song is on - Joy As An Act of Resistance - is start-to-finish fan-fucking-tastic! 

This video of them performing Never Fight A Man With A Perm literally gives me chills. This is a band that the architects of the BBC's Hyundai/ Mercury Prize in 2019 never would have dreamed would be performing on this stage; seriously, the incongruency of the elaborate look of the set with this snarling mess of a band brings tears to my eyes and joy to my heart. 

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New Lucky McKee? YES!

 

I'm betting money this will be announced next week along with the second half of Beyondfest's tenth-anniversary line-up.

 

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An unexpected surprise yesterday at the comic shop:

With allusions to the works of both Dickens and Dan Simmons, and probably the most refined interpretation of Occult Victorian England since Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s seminal work From Hell, I am totally in for the ride on El Torres and Joe Bacardo’s new comic Phantasmagoria! Also, the title is quite possibly my favorite word in the English language, so bonus points on that. This one is from Scout Comics' Black Caravan line, which is really starting to beef up their presence in the Horror Comic Continuum. 

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Playlist:

Idles - Joy As An Act of Resistance

Idles - Brutalism

Sleaford Mods - Spare Ribs

Pailhead - Trait

Misfits - Static Age

Misfits - American Psycho

Godflesh - Pure

Revolting Cocks - Linger Ficken' Good

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Back to Missi's Raven Deck for a single card signifier today:

Equilibrium for sure. Yesterday everything was out of whack, and I'm weary of bringing that with me into today. I'll take this as a reminder of yesterday's pull - even keel. Weight (wait?) and measure.