Shawn C. Baker

  One of the records that's going to just miss hitting my top ten of the year is Marilyn Manson's One Assassination Under God Chapte...

2019's Hidden History of the Human Race put Blood Incantation on a lot of people's radar, mine included. I dug the record, but prob...

I have no idea how to process the new Ulver record, Liminal Animals. The haunting atmospherics and Black Metal asides are gone in favor of....

  Yesterday would have been Ennio Morricone's 95th birthday. Sadly, the legend left us back in 2020, but here at the onset of Noirvember...

All Thriller, No Filler by Dreamkid    Solid Maxi-single from Dreamkid.   Watch: It's November, and one of the films th...

Even though I'm pretty sure many of us in 2024 harbor suspicions that our world is winding down, I usually cut the temptation to give t...

  BIG thanks to Mr. Brown, who clued me into the fact that comic writer Patrick Kindlon's band Drug Church has a new record out! Kindlon...

New music from Chelsea Wolfe, and it reminds me that I sort of forgot about She Reaches Out to She Reaches Out to She , released a few month...

  The second single from the upcoming album I Want Blood , out next Friday, October 18th. Pre-order HERE .   31 Days of Halloween...

  The final song on Human Impact's new album Gone Dark , which dropped this past Friday, October 4th. Fantastic record and the final two...

  From Synthesizer , out digitally this Friday, 10/04, with the vinyl to follow on 10/27. You can pre-order the standard album HERE  or the ...

  New music from The Cure! From the album Songs Of A Lost World, out November 1st. Pre-order HERE . I definitely wasn't expecting to se...

 Wait... what? I don't love this, but it's definitely worth posting. "Comfortably Numb" was probably my favorite song wh...

  From their forthcoming debut full-length album Too Easy , out now. Order HERE . Really digging this band.    Watch: Wes ...

THIS RECORD IS BLOWING MY F**KING MIND!!!!!! From the new Zeal & Ardor album GREIF , out today. Order direct from the band HERE .   ...

  Chat Pile blows me away. I won't pretend to have clocked a lot of hours on their stuff, but the handful of rotations I've given th...